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.
EU-sponsored Sirocco cruise project ends with Civitavecchia port meeting
Civitavecchia, Italy (PortSEurope) June 25, 2018 – The scheduled final conference of Interreg Med Project “Sirocco-Sustainable Interregional Coastal...
Serafin Blazquez appointed Port Services Director, Global Ports Holding
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) June 23, 2018 – Global Ports Holding PLC (GPH), a cruise port operator, has announced the appointment of Serafin Blazquez...
La Spezia port approves feasibility study for cruise project
La Spezia, Italy (PortSEurope) June 22, 2018 – La Spezia port has given the green light to the feasibility study of a project financing proposal by Royal...
Palermo port to develop Vittorio Veneto quay into new terminal facility
Palermo, Italy (PortSEurope) June 22, 2018 –Â After seven years of clashes and administrative disputes, future works have been agreed to develop Palermo...
La Spezia port set for waterfront development
La Spezia, Italy (PortSEurope) June 19, 2018 – The President of the Liguria Region Giovanni Toti, The Mayor of La Spezia, Pierluigi Peracchini, the...
Elstat reports goods and passenger traffic at Greek ports in Q4 2017
Piraeus, Greece (PortSEurope) June 18, 2018 –Â The Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT) has announced data on traffic of passengers, goods and mobile...
Tarragona port to receive ‘Spirit’ cruise ship on June 13
Tarragona, Spain (PortSEurope) June 12, 2018 – Tarragona port said it will receive on June 13 the ‘Spirit’ cruise ship of the Marella Cruises...
Cádiz port handles 133 cruise ships year-to-date
Cádiz, Spain (PortSEurope) June 11, 2018 – Cádiz port has handled 133 cruise ship calls in its docks so far in 2018. April and May, with 44 calls, were the...
Black Sea ports sign action plan for the revival of local cruise shipping industry
Odessa, Ukraine (PortSEurope) June 11, 2018 – At the recent 52nd General Assembly of the association of Mediterranean cruise ports (MedCruise), in...
Las Palmas port expects smaller number of cruise calls next season
Las Palmas, Spain (PortSEurope) June 6, 2018 – Las Palmas port is no stranger to the global trend in the cruise market and expects next season the number of...
MSC Cruises new flagship to use Barcelona as home port
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) June 5, 2018 – MSC Cruises has officially received, its new flagship, the “MSC Seaview”, in the Fincantieri de...
More passengers and ships at Lisbon port in April 2018
Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) June 5, 2018 – During the month of April, Lisbon port handled 65,846 cruise passengers, compared to 51,339 in the same...
Málaga port to hold trade mission in Miami in June
Málaga, Spain (Ukraine) June 4, 2018 – Málaga port plans to participate in a commercial mission in Miami (United States) between June 4 and the 7, as a...
Málaga promotes its port and destination to U.S. cruise companies
Málaga, Spain (PortSEurope) June 3, 2018 – A delegation from Malaga, composed of representatives of Autoridad Portuaria de Málaga (Port Authority of...
Alti Fondali quay is now operational in Porto Torres, Sardinia
Porto Torres, Sardinia, Italy (PortSEurope) June 3, 2018 – The Alti Fondali quay is now operational and is the largest pier in the port. The...
Port 2000 in Malta for the General Assembly of MedCruise
Valletta, Malta (PortSEurope) June 3, 2018 – Port of Livorno 2000, which manages Livorno passenger traffic, has attended the 52nd General Assembly...
AdSP (Cagliari) presents LNG report at Medcruise event in Malta
Valletta, Malta (PortSEurope) June 1, 2018 –Â The 52nd MedCruise General Assembly took place between May 23-26, 2018, in Malta. MedCruise is the...
New cruise line between Burgas and Istanbul
Varna, Bulgaria (PortSEurope) May 31, 2018 – Port of Burgas is advancing a project for a new cruise line between Burgas and Turkish port city of Istanbul,...
Environmental sustainability becomes latest trend in cruise industry
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) May 30, 2018 – The concern for environmental sustainability has become the latest trend in the cruise industry. Regardless of...
Manfredonia ports plans to increase boutique cruise ship handling
Bari, Italy (PortSEurope) May 30, 2018 – The Apulia port of Manfredonia is increasing its cruise ship business with luxury cruise vessels expected during...