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.
Gibraltar port cruise traffic increases
Gibraltar (PortSEurope) May 16, 2018 – Gibraltar continues to establish itself as a benchmark in cruise tourism, following the ports of Málaga and Cádiz...
Fred Olsen, Naviera Armas complain of poor infrastructure at Canary ports
Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain (PortSEurope) May 16, 2018 – Fred Olsen and Naviera Armas SA, the two large shipping companies that operate in the Canary...
Bulgarian ports see little cruise business due to regional instability
Burgas, Bulgaria (PortSEurope) May 15, 2018 – The Black Sea ports of Varna and Bourgas will see no cruise ships dock in summer 2018, a result of...
Global Ports Holding reports increased passenger traffic in Q1 2018 for its cruise ports
Istanbul, Turkey (PortSEurope) May 15, 2018 –Â The three Turkish cruise ports operated by Global Ports Holding (GPH) saw tourist numbers for Q1 2018...
Valencia port cruise traffic declines in Q1 2018Â
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) May 14, 2018 – Valencia port is the only port in Spain that lost cruise passengers in the first quarter of 2018. At the end of...
APDL looks at private investment in Porto Cruise Terminal at Leixões port
Leixões, Portugal (PortSEurope) May 14, 2018 – APDL – Administração dos Portos do Douro, Leixões e Viana do Castelo (Port Administration of...
Funchal port sees increased cruise traffic in April 2018
Funchal, Madeira, Portugal (PortSEurope) May 14, 2018 – In April 2018, the port of Funchal registered an increase in cruise traffic compared to the same...
Lisbon port to host Seatrade Cruise Med event in September
Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) May 14, 2018 –Â The Minister of the Sea, Ana Paula Vitorino, presides tomorrow, at the new Cruise Terminal in Lisbon, the...
Pesaro port sees cruise ship development
Pesaro, Italy (PortSEurope) May 13, 2018 – The cruise ships “Arethusa” and “Artemis” of the Grand Circle Cruise Line have both...
Tenerife port records growth in 2017-2018 cruise season
Tenerife, Spain (PortSEurope) May 10, 2018 – Tenerife port received a total of 310 cruise ships, with 670,000 visitors on board, in the 2017-2018 season, 57...
Costa Cruises to officially launch new flagship in Savona port in Nov 2019
Savona, Italy (PortSEurope) May 10, 2018 – Costa Cruises plans to officially launch its new flagship, Costa Smeralda, in Savona, on November 3, 2019. The...
Cyprus Shipping Chamber welcomes new DP World Limassol port cruise terminal
Limassol, Cyprus (PortSEurope) May 8, 2018 – On May 3, 2018, DP World inaugurated its new passenger cruise ship terminal in the Cypriot port of Limassol....
Barcelona port handles 619,364 cruise passengers in low season
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) May 8, 2018 – Barcelona port has taken an important step towards the de-seasonalisation of cruise activity, which helps to...
Carnival Corporation opens Helix cruise center at Barcelona port
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) May 7, 2018 – Carnival Corporation & plc has opened its second cruise terminal at the port of Barcelona with an...
Porto Torres expected to benefit from investment project
Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy (PortSEurope) May 7, 2018 – Sales Spa has submitted plans for a €34 million ($40.56 million) project which would enable Porto...
Seadream I arrives in Huelva port for second time this season
Huelva, Spain (PortSEurope) May 7, 2018 – The luxury cruise vessel Seadream I, under the flag of the Bahamas and belonging to the company “Seadream...
Livorno port handles its longest container ship ever
Livorno, Italy (PortSEurope) May 4, 2018 – Less than a year ago, the prospect of hosting ships of a large size in Livorno would have been considered...
DP World Limassol inaugurates new cruise terminal in Cyprus
Limassol, Cyprus (PortSEurope) May 3, 2018 – DP World has opened its new cruise passenger terminal in Limassol. An inauguration event was attended by...
“Vision of the Seas” ship makes inaugural call at Alicante port
Alicante, Spain (PortSEurope) May 3, 2018 – Alicante port received on May 1 the inaugural call of the “Vision of the Seas” ship of the Royal...
Tarragona port completes emergency test aboard cruise ship
Tarragona, Spain (PortSEurope) May 3, 2018 – Tarragona port has successfully passed an emergency drill on a cruise ship. The stage was the “Costa...