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.
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 –Â 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...
Western Sicily sees increased cruise passenger numbers in 2018
Palermo, Sicily, Italy (PortSEurope) October 21, 2018 – During the eighth edition of the Italian Cruise Day conference in Trieste, information released...
Tarragona port to develop Moll de Balears project for cruise expansion
Tarragona, Spain (PortSEurope) October 21, 2018 –Â The temporary cruise terminal is to stay in Tarragona and will not relocate south to La Pineda....
Italy’s cruise industry expects 12 million passengers in 2019
Trieste, Italy (PortSEurope) October 19, 2018 – Italy’s cruise industry expects a record year in 2019, with about 12 million passengers expected, up...
Italy should invest in port infrastructure, MSC Cruises executive chairman says
Trieste, Italy (PortSEurope) October 19, 2018 – Italy’s cruise industry has very interesting growth prospects, but the country has to invest...
MSC Cruises to bring 82 calls to Valencia ports in 2018, 2019
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) October 15, 2018 – MSC Cruises confirmed last Thursday during the ceremony of exchange of “metopes” with Autoridad...
Valencia port to host ESPO, MedPorts and Greenport events this week
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) October 14, 2018 – This coming week, Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia (APV – Valenciaport, Port Authority of...
“The sea routes as strategic assets for the development of the Lazio region” conference in Civitavecchia port
Civitavecchia, Italy (PortSEurope) October 12, 2018 – “The sea routes as strategic assets for the development of the Lazio region” –...
Ceuta port handles its largest cruise ship ever
Ceuta, Spain (PortSEurope) October 12, 2018 – Ceuta port has received the largest tourist cruise in its history with the call of the ship...
8th UNWTO International Meeting on Silk Road Tourism takes place in Thessaloniki
Thessaloniki, Greece (PortSEurope) October 12, 2018 – The United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), the Ministry of Tourism of Greece and the...
Cádiz port forecasts increased 2018 cruise income
Cádiz, Spain (Ports Europe) October 9, 2018 – The port of Cádiz has received 292,334 cruise passengers and 231 stopovers in January-September 2018,...
Gijón port increase cruise passenger visits in 2018
Gijón, Spain (Ports Europe) October 7, 2018 – The cruise season has ended at Gijón port with the number of passengers increased by 4,022 from 23,660...