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.
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...
New Algiers Port’s marine passenger terminal to be inaugurated next May
Algiers, Algeria (Ports Europe) April 8, 2018 –Â The new marine passenger terminal of Algiers port will be inaugurated in next May, Minister of Public...
Cartagena port to handle 30,000 cruise passengers in April
Cartagena, Spain (Ports Europe) April 6, 2018 – April is one of the most prosperous months for cruise traffic and this year, more than 30,000 tourists from...
Málaga port to handle 170,000 cruise passengers this spring
Málaga, Spain (Ports Europe) April 5, 2018 – Málaga port expects to handle 170,000 passengers aboard 108 cruise ships from March 20 to June 30,...
Assoporti ranks Sardinia as leading port for passenger numbers
Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy (Ports Europe) April 4, 2018 – Assoporti, the Italian ports association, has ranked Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mare...
Huelva port officially opens cruise season
Huelva, Spain (Ports Europe) April 3, 2018 – The cruise ship “Marella Celebration”, operated by Thomson Cruises, docked on March 28 in Huelva...
Fred Olsen cruise ships to visit Funchal, Madeira
Funchal, Madeira, Portugal (Ports Europe) April 3, 2018 – Administração dos Portos da Região Autónoma da Madeira, S. A. (APRAM – Port of...
Santander port posts highest cruise traffic growth in Spain in 2018
Santander, Spain (Ports Europe) April 2, 2018 – Spanish ports recorded 9.2 million cruise passengers in 2017, up 6.6% on the year, and a total of 4,248 ships...
Cruise traffic at Málaga port to rise in 2019
Málaga, Spain (Ports Europe) April 2, 2018 – The cruise sector is in full swing and this dynamism will bring a greater jump in the activity of Málaga port...