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.
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...
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...