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.
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...
MSC to make 32 cruise calls in Livorno port in 2019
Livorno, Italy (PortSEurope) May 7, 2019 – The Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) has launched its 2019 cruise schedule at Livorno port, where as many as...
Livorno Terminals Srl assumes control of Porto di Livorno 2000
Livorno, Italy (Ports Europe) May 6, 2019 – Livorno Terminals Srl, the new company formed by Sinergest, LTM, Moby, and Marinvest, has signed the contract...
Onorato Armatori’s subsidiary acquires 66% stake in Livorno port’s cruise terminal operator
Livorno, Italy (Ports Europe) May 3, 2019 – Italian company Livorno Terminals, majority-owned by Onorato Armatori, has signed an agreement to acquire a 66%...
Cádiz port welcomes first cruise powered by liquefied natural gas
Cádiz, Spain (Ports Europe) May 1, 2019 – The port of Cádiz has received the first cruiser powered by liquefied natural gas (LNG), the AIDANova vessel,...
Ports of Madeira: cruise results for 2018
Funchal, Portugal (Ports Europe) April 29, 2019 – The number of stopovers of the cruise ships in the Madeira ports of Funchal and Porto Santo in 2018 was...
Gijón port to start cruise season in 2019
Gijón, Spain (Ports Europe) April 26, 2019 – Gijón port will start its 2019 cruise season, which is expected to have a total of 17 calls,...
Cádiz port impresses at Seatrade Cruise Global
Cádiz, Spain (Ports Europe) April 24, 2019 – Cádiz port authority has made a “very positive” impression with its participation in the Seatrade...
Livorno port attracts cruise companies at Seatrade Global
Livorno, Italy (Ports Europe) April 19, 2019 – Livorno port has attracted companies that are already booking cruise calls for 2020 at the...
Malta’s Valletta expects record-high cruise passenger numbers in 2019
Valletta, Malta (Ports Europe) April 18, 2019 – Malta’s Valletta Cruise Port is preparing for a record number of 800,000 cruise passengers...