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.
Huelva port receives seventh cruise ship for 2018
Huelva, Spain (PortSEurope) May 29, 2018 – Huelva port has received this morning at the Levante dock the Harmony G cruise ship which came from Portimao...
Valencia port foundation organises cruise promotion event
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) May 29, 2018 – The “Valencia, sustainable cruise destination” event was organized by the Valenciaport...
Civitavecchia inaugurates new Amerigo Vespucci terminal
Civitavecchia, Italy (PortSEurope) May 24, 2018 – The Roma Cruise Terminal (RCT), designed to handle the largest cruise ships, has been inaugurated in...
Puglia ports see start of cruise season
Manfredonia, Italy (PortSEurope) May 23, 2018 – The cruise season has started in the ports of the southern Adriatic. In recent days, in Manfredonia, new...
TUI Cruises ship visits Ravenna port for first time
Ravenna, Italy (PortSEurope) May 22, 2018 – The Ravenna Cruise Terminal has welcomed the first vessel from TUI Cruises to have visited the port. The...
Málaga port handles “Island Sky” cruise ship for first time
Málaga, Spain (PortSEurope) May 22, 2017 – Málaga port received on May 18, for the first time, the call of the cruise ship “Island Sky”, from...
Vigo port handles inaugural call of “Marella Discovery” cruise ship
Vigo, Spain (PortSEurope) May 18, 2018 – A few days ago Vigo port received the inaugural visit of the cruise ship “Marella Discovery”, one of the...
Ancona port to launch project for construction of new cruise dock
Ancona, Italy (PortSEurope) May 17, 2018 – Ancona port plans to launch a project for the construction of a new dock for cruise ships and to relocate the...
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....