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.
Avilés port aspires to become cruise port of Camino de Santiago
Avilés, Spain (Ports Europe) August 9, 2018 – Avilés aspires to be a cruise port of the Camino de Santiago. The project involves several ports and...
AdSP Civitavecchia promotes port and regional cruise sector development
Civitavecchia, Italy (Ports Europe) August 8, 2018 – A working group was convened for the third time, by the president of Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale...
Huelva port cruise traffic rises 162% y/y in H1 2018
Huelva, Spain (Ports Europe) August 8, 2018 – The number of cruise passengers handled by Huelva port in the first half of 2018 increased by 162.34% on the...
Costa Crociere presents upgrade proposals for cruise buildings in Genoa port
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) August 7, 2018 – Functional improvements and a new restyling of the maritime station are part of the plans submitted by Costa...
Cádiz port to break cruise traffic record in 2018
Cádiz, Spain (Ports Europe) August 7, 2018 – Cádiz port aims to break its cruise record in 2018 with 325 calls. If the forecasts are met, the barrier of...
Spanish ports cruise traffic rises in H1 2018
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) August 3, 2018 – Spanish ports serviced 4.47 million cruise passengers in the first half of the year, which is 23.56% more...
Málaga port sees improved first half 2018 cruise ship numbers
Málaga, Spain (Ports Europe) August 2, 2018 – In the first semester of 2018, the port of Malaga handled 207,277 passengers and 127 cruise ships, up...
A Coruña port to handle six recently launched cruise ships in 2019
A Coruña, Spain (Ports Europe) August 2, 2018 – A Coruña port expects to handle a total of six recently launched cruise ships in 2019, Autoridad...
Assoporti and ENIT sign joint development agreement
Rome, Italy (Ports Europe) August 1, 2018 –Â Assoporti, the Italian port association, has signed a memorandum of understanding with Ente Nazionale...
Royal Caribbean applies to Barcelona port for cruise terminal concession
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) July 31, 2018 – Royal Caribbean has applied with Autoritat Portuà ria de Barcelona (APB – Port Authority of Barcelona)...
AlmerÃa port reports improved cargo and passenger traffic in first half of 2018
AlmerÃa, Spain (Ports Europe) July 30, 2018 – Mari Carmen Ortiz, president of Autoridad Portuaria de AlmerÃa (APA – Port Authority of AlmerÃa),...
Funchal port handles only one cruise ship in June
Funchal, Madeira, Portugal (Ports Europe) July 30, 2018 – Funchal port recorded the worst performance in June, since 2012, regarding cruise ship traffic,...
Spain’s Hamilton names CEO
Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain (Ports Europe) July 30, 2018 – Spanish maritime and shipping agent Hamilton y CompañÃa SA has appointed Juan Carlos...
Çamlıbel Cruise Port project approved by Mersin Metropolitan Municipality
Mersin, Turkey (Ports Europe) July 29, 2018 – The Mersin Metropolitan Municipality has approved the Çamlıbel Cruise Port Project. The Environmental...
Costa Cruises names managing director for Spain, Portugal
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) July 27, 2018 – Italy’s Costa Cruises has appointed Francesco Muglia as Managing Director for Spain and Portugal. Muglia...
Investors eye construction of second cruise terminal in Vigo
Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) July 27, 2018 – Vigo port plans to tender the authorisation and operation of a second cruise terminal, close to the current one,...
Valencia port launches pilot e-bike project for cruise passengers
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) July 26, 2018 – Valencia port has launched a pilot programme to implement a new service of electric bicycles for cruise...
Romania’s Constanta port looks for return of cruise business
Constanta, Romania (Ports Europe) July 24, 2018 – Recent geopolitical issues have seen the cruise industry in the Black Seas shrink. Nicolae Dan...
Leixões port sees increased cruise traffic in first half 2018
Leixões, Portugal (Ports Europe) July 24, 2018 – Between January and June of 2018, more than 50,000 tourists passed through Leixões port via cruise...
Palermo port attracts interest of ferry, cruise companies
Palermo, Italy (Ports Europe) July 23, 2018 – Cruise companies and groups that manage ferry lines and motorways of the sea are ready to invest in the port of...