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.
Royal Caribbean presents its first ship for Asia in Málaga
Málaga, Spain (Ports Europe) April 17, 2019 – Royal Caribbean has chosen Málaga to present its first cruise designed for the Asian market and which is...
Motril port specialising in luxury cruise niche to attract more tourist spending
Motril, Spain (Ports Europe) April 17, 2019 – Motril port, far from wanting to attract the big cruise ships that visit large city ports, has specialised in...
Galataport Istanbul will host cruise ships in March 2020
Istanbul, Turkey (Ports Europe) April 13, 2019 – Galataport Istanbul Cruise Port plans to start receiving cruise ships in March 2020. The company...
A Coruña port to keep cruise sector leadership in northern Spain in 2020
A Coruña, Spain (Ports Europe) April 12, 2019 – A Coruña port will maintain its leadership in 2020 in the sector of cruises in northern Spain with more...
Bilbao port expects about 50 cruise calls this year
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) April 12, 2019 – The Hamburg cruise ship of the German company Phoenix Reisen opens on April 14 the cruise season...
Las Palmas port, Costa Cruises discuss 2019/2020 cruise season objectives
Las Palmas, Spain (Ports Europe) April 11, 2019 – Las Palmas port and Costa Cruises have discussed the objectives for the 2019/2020 cruise...
La Spezia port’s cruise traffic to soar 48% in 2019
La Spezia, Italy (Ports Europe) April 11, 2019 – La Spezia port expects to handle about 700,000 cruise passengers in 2019, up 48% compared to last year,...
Genoa, Savona ports to handle 2.1 million cruise passengers in 2019
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) April 10, 2019 – Genoa and Savona ports expect to handle a total of 2.1 million cruise passengers in 2019, up 13%, according to...
Messina port to issues cruise terminal contract worth almost €7 million
Messina, Italy (Ports Europe) April 9, 2019 – Messina Port Authority is set to issue a tender for a new cruise terminal worth €6.75 million ($7.61...
Italy’s cruise traffic to rise 7.13% in 2019
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) April 9, 2019 – Italy’s cruise traffic is expected to rise 7.13% to 11.9 million passengers in 2019, the president of Cemar...
Noatum Maritime creates the new division Marmedsa Cruise Services
Barcelona, Spain, April 8, 2019 – Noatum Maritime, the maritime, logistics and port services company, has announced the creation of Marmedsa Cruise...
Spain receives 10.1 million cruise passengers in 2018
Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) April 8, 2019 – Spain’s state-owned ports received 10,178,169 cruise ship passengers in 2018, an annual...
Contship responds to statements by Italian deputy transport minister
La Spezia, Italy (Ports Europe) April 8, 2019 – Contship Italia has intervened following a press release launched during the presentation of the project for...
Cartagena port to handle 16,000 cruise passengers in April
Cartagena, Spain (Ports Europe) April 8, 2019 – Cartagena port expects the arrival of 16,000 cruise passengers in April, Autoridad Portuaria de Cartagena...
Barcelona port to present cruise services at Seatrade Cruise Global
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) April 5, 2019 – Barcelona port plans to present its offer for the cruise industry in the 35th edition of the Seatrade Cruise...
Cruise companies sign “Venice Blue Flag 2019” agreement
Venice, Italy (Ports Europe) April 4, 2019 – Venice municipality, Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mare Adriatico Settentrionale (AdSP – Northern...
Deputy Minister of Tourism visits DP World Limassol
Limassol, Cyprus (Ports Europe) April 3, 2019 – Deputy Minister of Tourism, Savvas Perdios, visited DP World Limassol on March 19, 2019, to discuss...
Catania port to handle 205,000 cruise passengers in 2019
Catania, Italy (Ports Europe) April 3, 2019 – Catania port is expected to handle about 205,000 cruise passengers in 2019 and the city government is working...
Vigo port to record high cruise traffic in April
Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) April 3, 2019 – April starts strongly in terms of cruise traffic in the port of Vigo, with ten already confirmed calls that make...
Valencia port to take part in Seatrade Cruise Global
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) April 3, 2019 – Valencia port will be present at the Seatrade Cruise Global, the main cruise event in the world, which will be...