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.
Valencia port breaks record of cruise traffic for single day
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) April 20, 2018 – Valencia port handled the simultaneous call of four cruises on April 19, breaking its historical record of...
Transcoma Cruises activity intensifies as cruise season starts
Tarragona, Spain (PortSEurope) April 20, 2018 – The arrival of the spring marks the start of the high season of cruises in the Mediterranean, a fact that...
“Crown Princess” arrives in Barcelona to start summer trips in Mediterranean
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) April 19, 2018 – The “Crown Princess” ship of the cruise ship Princess Cruises, arrived on April 16 at Barcelona...
Carnival invests €30 million in second terminal at Barcelona port
Santander, Spain (PortSEurope) April 19, 2018 – Carnival Corporation, the largest cruise company in the world, has invested €30 million ($37.1 million) in...
La Spezia port set for LNG cruise ships visits
La Spezia, Italy (Ports Europe) April 19, 2018 – The La Spezia Panigaglia regasification plant is moving towards a phase of work with the arrival of the...
Costa Cruises and Marseille port sign sustainable development agreement
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) April 19, 2018 – Costa Cruises and the Grand Port of Marseilles (GPMM) have signed a partnership agreement to pursue...
Spain’s Pullmantur expands in Latin America
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) April 18, 2018 – Spanish company Pullmantur, a leader in the country’s cruise market, registered in 2017 an increase of...
Costa Cruises traffic in Tarragona port to rise by 79% in 2018
Tarragona, Spain (Ports Europe) April 18, 2018 – Costa Cruises traffic in Tarragona port, where the Costa Victoria vessel will call 23 times from April 6 to...
Bilbao port works to attract cruise passengers from USA
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) April 17, 2018 – Bilbao port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Bilbao) is working to attract cruise passengers from the United...
Bilbao port’s Getxo cruise terminal handles 34 large leisure vessels in one year
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) April 17, 2018 – With the berthing of the cruise ship Queen Victoria, the Getxo cruise terminal of Bilbao port handled a total...
Genoa port needs more cruise docks
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) April 16, 2018 – Genoa port needs new docks dedicated to cruise ships, if it wants to continue to grow in this sector, the CEO of...
Castellón port increases number of cruise calls scheduled for 2019
Castellón, Spain (Ports Europe) April 13, 2018 – The strategy launched by Castellón port to boost cruise tourism is bearing fruit, as reported by the port...
Cádiz port to handle 85 cruise ship calls in April, May
Cádiz, Spain (Ports Europe) April 13, 2018 – Cádiz will handle 85 cruise ship calls in its docks during the months of April and May, being, next to...
Balearic Islands port authority asks environmentalists for cruise industry studies
Palma de Mallorca, Spain (Ports Europe) April 11, 2018 – Balearic Islands port authority has asked the environmental group GOB to provide studies on the...
Palma de Mallorca mayor in talks with port for cruise traffic limits
Palma de Mallorca, Spain (Ports Europe) April 11, 2018 – The mayor of Palma de Mallorca, Antoni Noguera, has said that the arrival of eight cruise ships to...
Costa Crociere starts managing cruise terminal in La Spezia port
La Spezia, Italy (Ports Europe) April 10, 2018 – In March 2018, Costa Crociere SpA was awarded a contract by Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar...
Ecologists protest against cruise tourism in Barcelona
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) April 10, 2018 – Ecologists and neighbourhood representatives saw off on April 7 the largest tourist cruise in the world, the...
Costa Crociere starts short-term management of La Spezia port cruise terminal
La Spezia, Italy (Ports Europe) April 10, 2018 –Â Costa Crociere has started its management of the cruise terminal of La Spezia for a bridge period of 10...
Gijón port opens 2018 cruise season
Gijón, Spain (Ports Europe) April 9, 2018 – The “Britannia” cruise ship of shipping company P&O Cruises, called on April 3 in the north...
Cruise industry invest $1 billion in new technologies, cleaner fuels
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) April 9, 2018 – The cruise industry has been betting for years on investing in technologies with a strong environmental...