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.
Cruises see a 31% drop in traffic to Madeira
Funchal, Madeira, Portugal (PortSEurope) December 19, 2018 – The number of cruise passengers in Madeira fell by 31% in October, reported Administração...
MSC to handle 1 million cruise passengers in Genoa in 2019
Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) December 18, 2018 – MSC Cruises expects Genoa port to have an extraordinary role in its business next year, as it will bring both...
Costa Cruises extends concession at Savona port to 2044
Savona, Italy (PortSEurope) December 14, 2018 – Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Ligure Occidentale (AdSP – Western Ligurian Sea Port...
Ege Port Kuşadası will hold the next MedCruise General Assembly
Kuşadası, Turkey (PortSEurope) December 16, 2018 – Ege Port Kuşadası will host the 54th MedCruise General Assembly. During the General Assembly,...
Carnival set to start operations at new Tenerife port cruise terminal
Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain (PortSEurope) December 13, 2018 – Autoridad Portuaria de Santa Cruz de Tenerife (Port Authority of...
Ancona port reports improved cruise traffic in 2018
Ancona, Italy (PortSEurope) December 12, 2018 – Ancona port has closed the cruise season of 2018 with a total of 67,000 passengers handled. The port closed a...
Costa Cruises launches 2020/21 itineraries
Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) December 11, 2018 – Costa Cruises has launched its itineraries for the period April 2020 to April 2021, which will now be...
Consorzio per lo Sviluppo Industriale del Sud Pontino signs contract for Gaeta port cruise development
Civitavecchia, Italy (PortSEurope) December 8, 2018 – A “Memorandum of Understanding” signed between Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar...
Cádiz port breaks cruise traffic record in 2018
Cádiz, Spain (PortSEurope) December 7, 2018 – Cádiz port handled 306 cruise ships and 399,823 passengers in the first eleven months of 2018. In this...
Carnival Corporation to operate Santa Cruz de Tenerife Cruise Terminal
Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain (PortSEurope) December 4, 2018 – Carnival Corporation & plc has announced an agreement with Autoridad...
Carnival Corporation to operate Tenerife port’s cruise terminal
Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain (PortSEurope) December 4, 2018 – Tenerife port has signed a contract with Carnival Corporation for the operation of the...
Costa Cruises to operate “slow cruises” from Toulon port
Toulon, France (PortSEurope) November 30, 2018 – Italy’s Costa Cruises will renew its “slow cruises” from Toulon port in 2019. Two...
Malaga port traffic grows by 7.2% between Jan-Oct 2018
Málaga, Spain (PortSEurope) November 28, 2018 – The Port of Malaga has reported traffic of 2.5 million tons between the months of January and October...
Tarragona port to handle 110,000 cruise passengers in 2019
Tarragona, Spain (PortSEurope) November 21, 2018 – Tarragona port plans to greatly exceed the barrier of 100,000 cruise passengers in 2019. The port...
Croatian seaports passenger traffic grows 3.8% in Q3
Rijeka, Croatia (PortSEurope) November 21, 2018 – Croatian seaports handled a total of 17.9 million passengers in the third quarter of 2018, up 3.8% on the...
Italian Coast Guard visits MSC Cruises in Naples port
Naples, Italy (PortSEurope) November 20, 2018 – A delegation of Captain of the Port Authority of Castellammare di Stabia Captain of Fregata Ivan...
Lisbon port breaks passenger traffic record in October
Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) November 20, 2018 – Lisbon port registered in October the best month in terms of number of passengers, with a total...
Italy’s Gruppo Onorato Armatori enters cruise market
Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) November 20, 2018 – Italian conglomerate Gruppo Onorato Armatori has entered the cruise sector through the launch of a small...
Italy’s Fincantieri signs fleet upgrade contract with Windstar Cruises
Palermo, Italy (PortSEurope) November 19, 2018 – Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri has signed a €200 million ($228.6 million) contract for the upgrade of...
Las Palmas port to overhaul Puerto del Rosario cruise dock
Las Palmas, Spain (PortSEurope) November 15, 2018 – Las Palmas port plans to invest €1.38 million ($1.56 million) to extend the esplanade of the...