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.
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...
Siracusa port expects 75 cruise calls in April-November
Siracusa, Italy (PortSEurope) May 2, 2018 – Siracusa port expects 75 cruise calls in the period between April and November, with over 130,000 tourists in...
Ceuta port to launch cruise season on June 16
Ceuta, Spain (PortSEurope) May 1, 2018 – The cruise ship Thomson Spirit of the company Thomson Cruises will be in charge of giving the starting signal of the...
Pullmantur consolidates its choice of Vigo as port baseÂ
Vigo, Spain (PortSEurope) May 1, 2018 – After several consecutive years chartering an ocean liner with passenger boarding in the port of Vigo, the Spanish...
Alicante port expects 53 cruise calls in 2018
Alicante, Spain (PortSEurope) April 30, 2018 – A total of 53 cruise ships are scheduled to dock during 2018 in the port of Alicante, according to a statement...
MSC and Royal Caribbean submit documentation for La Spezia port development
La Spezia, Italy (PortSEurope) April 30, 2018 – Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Ligure Orientale (AdSP – Eastern Ligurian Sea Port...
DP World Limassol Celebrates Official Opening
Limassol, Cyprus (PortSEurope) April 16, 2018 –Â DP World Limassol will officially open its new cruise passenger terminal May 3, 2018. The terminal will...
Las Palmas port recovers leading position in winter season cruise traffic
Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain (PortSEurope) April 27, 2018 – Port traffic statistics for the month of March 2018 confirm the recovery of Las Palmas port...
Las Palmas port’s cargo, passenger traffic rises in Q1 2018
Las Palmas, Spain (PortSEurope) April 26, 2018 – Las Palmas port has maintained the dynamics of recent months and registered in March 2018 increases in...
Ecologists in Action urge the Spanish government to support an Emission Control Area in the Mediterranean
April 19, 2018 The German organisation, Control Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union (henceforth NABU), together with Ecologists in Action, have carried...
Assoporti reports cruise passenger figures for 2016-2017 for Italian ports
Rome, Italy April 23, 2018 – Assoporti, the Italian ports association, has published cruise passenger figures for 2016-2017 for the leading Italian...
28 cruise ships will pass in the ports of the Azores in last two weeks of April
Ponta Delgada, Azores, Portugal (PortSEurope) April 20, 2018 –Â In the last two weeks of April, the Azores will establish a new record of stopovers and...
Porto 2000 meets the Livorno Chamber of Commerce
Livorno, Italy (Ports Europe) April 20, 2018 –Â At the invitation of the president of Camera di Commercio della Maremma e del Tirreno (Chamber of...