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.
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,...
Global Ports Holding Plc – financial results for 2018
March 12, 2019 Global Ports Holding Plc (GPH), the world’s largest independent cruise port operator, has reported its unaudited results for the twelve...
Cartagena port to double luxury cruise calls in 2019
Cartagena, Spain (Ports Europe) March 13, 2019 – Cartagena port expects to double the number of luxury cruise ships handled in 2019, exceeding the number of...
Portoferraio opens 2019 cruise season
Portoferraio, Elba, Italy (Ports Europe) March 12, 2019 – Portoferraio port has launched the cruise season with the M/N Arethusa ship that brought its 49...
Pula port launches preparatory work for cruise terminal construction
Pula, Croatia (Ports Europe) March 11, 2019 – Croatia’s Pula port authority has launched a tender for geomechanical explorations of the marine...
Tenerife is Spain’s only large cruise port with traffic decline in January
Tenerife, Spain (Ports Europe) March 11, 2019 – In the first month of 2019, of the seven port authorities with the highest traffic of cruise passengers, in...
Melilla, Ceuta ports to develop joint projects
Melilla, Spain (Ports Europe) March 7, 2019 – The president of Melilla port authority, Miguel MarÃn, has met Ceuta counterpart, Juan Manuel Doncel to...
MSC considers construction of own luxury cruises terminal at Genoa port
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) March 5, 2019 – MSC Cruises is interested in the construction of its own terminal for luxury cruises at Genoa port, the president...
Cádiz port to handle 280 cruise calls in 2019
Cádiz, Spain (Ports Europe) March 4, 2019 – Cádiz port expects to handle 280 cruise calls in 2019, with May being the month with the highest number of...
Fincantieri-built Costa Venezia comes into service
Monfalcone, February 28, 2019 – Today, at the Fincantieri shipyard in Monfalcone, in the presence of Matteo Salvini, Interior Minister and Deputy Prime...