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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.

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 Bahía 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 – 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...

Cagliari port registers record-high cruise traffic in October

Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy (PortSEurope) November 1, 2018 – Cagliari port recorded a record-high October in terms of cruise traffic, which increased tenfold...

Valencia port handles nine cruise ships for just 48 hours

Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) November 1, 2018 – Valencia port handled this week a total of nine cruise ships for just 48 hours for the first time in its...

CLIA holds ‘Luxury Showcase’ cruise event in Málaga port

Málaga, Spain (PortSEurope) October 27, 2018 – The Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA) held ‘Luxury Showcase’ cruise event between...

La Spezia port authority plans temporary maritime station in Marina di Carrara

La Spezia, Italy (PortSEurope) October 28, 2018 – An investment of around €250,000 ($285,611) will be used to build a 400 m² temporary maritime...

DP World Limassol launches online platform to promote cruise tourism

Limassol, Cyprus, October 18, 2018 – DP World Limassol, the operator of the New Passenger Terminal at the Limassol port has introduced a new digital...

World’s largest cruise ship visits Valencia port

Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) October 27, 2018 – Last week, MS Symphony of the Seas, an Oasis-class cruise ship owned and operated by Royal Caribbean...

Marella Cruises to stop using Málaga as base port in 2019

Málaga, Spain (PortSEurope) October 25, 2018 – UK-based company Marella Cruises, former Thomson Cruises, will stop using Málaga as a base port next year,...

Genoa port set to benefit from extra Volotea flights from local airport

Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) October 25, 2018 – The low-cost Spanish airline Volotea has announced new routes from Cristoforo Colombo airport in Genoa to...

Ukraine and Medcruise to jointly promote local cruise industry

Odessa, Ukraine (PortSEurope) October 22, 2018 – MedCruise, an association of cruise business interests, to to work with the Ukrainian Sea Ports...

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