Cruises
All aspects of port business associated with the cruise ship industry. This includes announcements of home porting, contracts to build and operate cruise terminals and traffic figures for cruise ship and passenger per port/country. Leading cruise terminal operators include Global Ports Holding. Cruise ship operators in the Mediterranean include MSC Cruises, Costa Cruises and Carnival Cruises.
Málaga port’s cruise traffic keeps growing in Jan-Apr 2019
Málaga, Spain (PortSEurope) June 11, 2019 – Málaga port handled a total of 115,653 cruise passengers in the first four months of...
Luxury cruise giant emits 10 times more air pollution (SOx) than all of Europe’s cars – study
Brussels, Belgium (PortSEurope) June 9, 2019 – The European Federation for Transport and Environment has produced a study which claims that luxury cruise...
Cruise traffic puts Lisbon among most polluted cities in Europe
Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) June 7, 2019 – Cruise ships emissions on the Portuguese coast were 86 times higher than the emissions of the car...
First cruise ship in four years visits Istanbul port
Istanbul, Turkey (PortSEurope) June 7, 2019 – Istanbul received the first cruise ship in four years at the city’s Sarayburnu Port this week. The...
MedCruise signs agreement with Greek ports association
Piraeus, Greece (PortSEurope) June 5, 2019 – The Hellenic Port Association (ELIME) and MedCruise, the Association of Mediterranean and adjoining seas...
Balearic Islands government to divert cruises to decongest Palma
Palma de Mallorca, Spain (PortSEurope) June 4, 2019 – One of the priorities of the Balearic Islands government in the next term will be to streamline the...
Trapani port to have €15.5 million cruise terminal
Тrapani, Italy (PortSEurope) May 31, 2019 – Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mare di Sicilia Occidentale (AdSP – Western Sicilian Sea Port Authority)...
DP World Limassol: Driving Cyprus’s growth of cruise tourism
DP World Limassol: Driving Cyprus’s growth of cruise tourism – Establishing Limassol port as a major cruise hub in the Eastern Mediterranean region...
Greece’s cruising prospects positive despite of regional geopolitical challenges the key message at the 5th Posidonia Sea Tourism forum
News Release – Greece’s cruising prospects positive despite of regional geopolitical challenges the key message at the 5th Posidonia Sea Tourism forum...
Major cruise lines call for improved infrastructure and new destinations in East Med
News Release – The 5th Posidonia Sea Tourism Forum has been held in Athens 28-29 May 2019, and major cruise lines companies have called for improved...
UNESCO approves Marghera solution for cruise ships at Venice lagoon
Venice, Italy (PortSEurope) May 27, 2019 – UNESCO has approved the Marghera solution for cruise ships in the Venice lagoon and has given the Italian...
Tenerife, Málaga and Tangier plan all-season cruise business cooperation
Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain (PortSEurope) May 27, 2019 -Autoridad Portuaria de Santa Cruz de Tenerife (Port Authority of Tenerife) has...
GPH set to acquire La Goulette port’s cruise terminal in Tunisia
La Goulette, Tunisia (PortSEurope) May 24, 2019 – Global Ports Holding said it has been notified by the government of Tunisia that the...
Valencia port to handle 435,000 cruise passengers in 2019
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) May 21, 2019 – Valencia port has scheduled 199 cruises calls in 2019 and plans to handle 435,000 passengers, the...
Lisbon port’s passenger traffic declines in Q1
Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) May 21, 2019 – Lisbon port handled 49,985 passengers in the first quarter of 2019, down 4.9% on the year, with cruise...
MedCruise General Assembly in Kuşadası shaped the future of the cruise activities in the Med
May 15, 2019 Hosted by MedCruise members Ege Ports Kusadasi and Global Ports Holding, the 54th MedCruise General Assembly has established itself as a major...
Barcelona port’s cruise passengers decline 10.7% in Jan-Apr 2019
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) May 17, 2019 – Barcelona port recorded a 10.7% decline in the number of cruise passengers in the first four months of...
Global Ports Holding Plc reports stable Q1 2019
Istanbul, Turkey (PortSEurope) May 14, 2019 – Global Ports Holding Plc, a leading global independent cruise port operator, has issued a trading update...
Livorno Terminals to invest €100 million in Porto Livorno 2000
Livorno, Spain (PortSEurope) May 8, 2019 – Three years away from the winning the tender for the operation of Livorno port’s passenger station Porto...
Bari port’s cruise traffic set to grow 6.5% in 2019
Bari, Italy (PortSEurope) May 8, 2019 – Bari port’s traffic is expected to grow both in terms of passenger numbers and ships docked, according to the...