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.
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...
Bordeaux port increased cruise traffic in 2018
Bordeaux, France (PortSEurope) November 12, 2018 – Since the beginning of April 2018, there have been 44 cruise ship stopovers at Bordeaux port, and 58...
Cadiz port visits U.S. companies to promote cruise opportunities
Cádiz, Spain (PortSEurope) November 11, 2018 – Autoridad Portuaria de la BahÃa de Cádiz (APBC – Port Authority of Cadiz) will visit next week a...
Piombino port’s cruise traffic doubles in 2018
Piombino, Italy (PortSEurope) November 9, 2018 – Piombino port has managed to double the number of cruise passengers serviced this year to 12,759. ...
Croatia reports increased cruise ship traffic in Jan-Sep 2018
Zagreb, Croatia (PortSEurope) November 9, 2018 – In the first nine months of 2018, 64 cruise ships visited Croatian ports with a total of 554 visits...
Piombino and Portoferraio ports report successful cruise seasons
Piombino, Italy (PortSEurope) November 8, 2018 –Â The cruise season is coming to an end and cruise ship companies that have alternated in the ports of...
Ancona port closes cruise season with traffic increase
Ancona, Italy (PortSEurope) November 8, 2018 – Ancona port closed the cruise season on November 8, recording a total of 38 calls, 20 of them of the MSC...
Fincantieri: The Chinese cruise hub established
Trieste, Italy, November 5, 2018 In the presence of the Deputy Prime Minister of Italy and Minister of Economic development and Labour Luigi Di Maio and...
Bilbao port closes record cruise season in 2018
Bilbao, Spain (PortSEurope) November 5, 2018 – Bilbao port has closed a record cruise season with 86,500 passengers, with 3,000 of them using...
Italy’s Fincantieri establishes cruise hub in China
Shanghai, China (PortSEurope) November 5, 2018 – Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri SpA has signed a contract for the creation of an industrial hub for cruise,...
Bilbao port closes record cruise season
Bilbao, Spain (PortSEurope) November 4, 2018 – With the arrival of the Celebrity Silhouette of Celebrity Cruises (belonging to Royal Caribbean), the...
MSC Cruises to handle about 1.1 million passengers in Genoa port in 2019
Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) November 2, 2018 – MSC Cruises, the largest private cruise company in the world, is preparing to close 2018 and inaugurate 2019 by...