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.
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...
AdSP del Mare di Sicilia Orientale (Augusta) to participate in Seatrade Cruise Global
Catania, Italy (Ports Europe) April 2, 2019 – Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mare di Sicilia Orientale (AdSP – Eastern Sicilian Sea Port...
Piombino port’s cruise season to start on June 12
Piombino, Italy (Ports Europe) April 2, 2019 – Piombino port’s cruise season will open on June 12, with a busy schedule of 15 ship arrivals until...
AdSP del Mare di Sicilia Occidentale launches restyling of passenger station at Trapani port
Trapani, Sicily, Italy (Ports Europe) March 28, 2019 – Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mare di Sicilia Occidentale (AdSP – Western Sicilian Sea...
Princess Cruises confirms order for construction of two cruise ships by Fincantieri
Monfalcone, Italy (Ports Europe) March 28, 2019 – Princess Cruises has confirmed the order for the construction of two cruise ships by Italian naval...
Málaga port establishes Seatrade Med fair organising committee
Málaga, Spain (Ports Europe) March 26, 2019 – Andalusia’s local institutions that work in the promotion of cruise traffic have established...
Bari port presents new passenger terminal project
Bari, Italy (Ports Europe) March 26, 2019 – The new passenger terminal of the port of Bari, which will be built on platform 10 at the Darsena di Ponente...
Costa Cruises to relaunch regular calls at Genoa port
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) March 26, 2019 – Costa Cruises plans to relaunch the regular calls of its ships in the port of Genoa. Andrea Doria...
Montenegrin ports cruise traffic declines 6.3% in 2018
Bar, Montenegro (Ports Europe) March 21, 2019 – Montenegrin ports handled 506,198 cruise passengers in 2018, down 6.3%. The number of cruise ship...
Malaga port expects 180,000 cruise passengers during the spring season
Málaga, Spain, March 20, 2019 – The Port of Malaga is forecasting 180,000 passengers and 113 stopovers from March 20 to June 30, thus consolidating...
Cruise ships avoiding the Black Sea due to Crimea annexation
Varna, Bulgaria (Ports Europe) March 19, 2019 – Major cruise companies are avoiding Black Sea ports due to the uncertain geopolitical situation after the...
The biennial Posidonia Sea Tourism Forum will take place in Athens, May 28-29, 2019
March 19, 2019 The biennial Posidonia Sea Tourism Forum has established itself as one of the most influential events for the international cruise industry,...