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.
Traffic of Barcelona port exceeds 45 million tons, up 14%, in Jan-Aug 2018
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) October 7, 2018 – In the period January to August 2018 Barcelona port handled total traffic of 45.9 million tons, an...
Genoa port cruise business to gain from more passengers using the city’s Cristoforo Colombo
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) October 4, 2018 – Positive passenger numbers from Genoa’s Cristoforo Colombo can only benefit the port, with September...
Balearic Handling bids to operate cruise terminal in Vigo port
Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) October 3, 2018 –Â Vigo Atlantic Cruise Terminal, controlled by Mallorca-based Balearic Handling SL and Incargo Galicia,...
Italy maintains its leadership in Mediterranean’s cruise sector
Civitavecchia, Italy (Ports Europe) October 3, 2018 – Italy is again the first Mediterranean country for the number of passengers handled, with six ports in...
Alexandria port to appoint consultant for passenger terminal marketing
Alexandria, Egypt (Ports Europe) October 2, 2018 – Alexandria Port Authority is considering the appointment of a global consultant to carry out marketing...
Italy’s Piombino port handles Pullmantur’s Zenith cruise ship for the first time
Piombino, Italy (Ports Europe) September 27, 2018 – Spanish cruise company Pullmantur has operated the first call of its ship Zenith at Italy’s...
AdSP Naples attends Seatrade Cruise Med event in Lisbon
Naples, Italy (Ports Europe) September 26, 2018 – Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Tirreno Centro-Settentrionale (AdSP – Centre-North...
Naples and Salerno ports see growth in Jan-Aug 2018
Naples, Italy (Ports Europe) September 26, 2018 – Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Tirreno Centro-Settentrionale (AdSP – Centre-North...
Cruise project part of Antalya port development plan
Antalya, Turkey (Ports Europe) September 26, 2018 – Antalya Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Menderes Turel has a number of ambitious projects for...
Customs delegations from Lithuania and Moldavia visit Civitavecchia port
Civitavecchia, Italy (Ports Europe) September 26, 2018 – The Civitavecchia Customs Office (Ufficio delle Dogane) has received a second working visit by...
Genoa was most preferred cruise port by Italians in 2018
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) September 26, 2018 – Genoa was the most preferred port by Italians for cruises in the summer of 2018, according to a survey...
Valenciaport sees growth of 5.11% in first eight months of 2018
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) September 24, 2018 – Valenciaport has handled a total of 3,366,675 TEUÂ in the January-August period of this year, an...
Valenciaport presents its cruise offer in Lisbon under the slogan “Valencia dresses in green”
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) September 24, 2018 – Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia (APV – Valenciaport, Port Authority of Valencia) has attended...
Bari port to host initial meeting of THEMIS project
Bari, Italy (Ports Europe) September 24, 2018 – Bari port’s cruise terminal will host the kick-off meeting of the Territorial And Maritime Network...
Port Authority of Corfu participates in the INTER-PASS ports and airports program
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) September 24, 2018 –Â The Port Authority of Corfu (OLKE SA) has participated in the INTER-PASS Intermodal Passenger...
5.3 million cruise passengers passed through Spanish ports first 7 months of 2018
Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) September 21, 2018 – President Ornella Chacón of Puertos del Estado, the state agency for ports, is heading the...
Carnival Corporation delegation visits Izmir port
Izmir, Turkey (Ports Europe) September 23, 2018 – Carnival Corporation & PLC representatives have attended a meeting at the Izmir Chamber of...
Sinergest-led consortium wins tender for majority stake in Porto di Livorno 2000
Livorno, Italy (Ports Europe) September 21, 2018 – Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Tirreno Settentrionale (AdSP – North Tyrrhenian Sea Port...
Vigo port seeks second cruise terminal operator
Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) September 21, 2018 – Autoridad Portuaria de Vigo (APV – Port Authority of Vigo) met at the beginning of August to finalise...
La Spezia, Marina di Carrara ports’ passenger traffic to rise in 2019
La Spezia, Italy (Ports Europe) September 21, 2018 – Italy’s Autorita’di Sistema Portuale del Mar Ligure Orientale (AdSP – Eastern Ligurian...