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.
Cruise companies use larger ships for calls at Valencia port
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) March 7, 2018 – The shipping companies are positioning ships of greater capacity this year than in previous years in the port...
Ceuta port seeks attract cruise traffic at Seatrade fair
Ceuta, Spain (Ports Europe) March 6, 2018 – Ceuta port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Ceuta), is attending this week the Seatrade Cruise Global fair,...
AdSP del Mare Adriatico Meridionale to participate in Seatrade 2018 cruise event
Bari, Italy (Ports Europe) March 5, 2018 – Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mare Adriatico Meridionale (AdSP – Southern Adriatic Sea Port...
Puertos del Estado to promote VilagarcÃa as cruise destination at Seatrade fair Cruise Global
VilagarcÃa, Spain (Ports Europe) March 5, 2018 – The promotion of the VilagarcÃa port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de VilagarcÃa) as a cruise...
Palma de Mallorca port’s cruise traffic to reach record-high in 2018
Palma de Mallorca, Spain (Ports Europe) March 5, 2018 – This year the port of Palma de Mallorca will register a record-high number of cruise ships, as their...
MarÃn enters list of Spanish cruise ports
MarÃn, Spain (Ports Europe) March 5, 2018 – MarÃn port entered the ranking of cruise ports in Spain with a total of 143 passengers in 2017. They were the...
Puertos del Estado continues to invest in the local cruise industry
Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) March 5, 2018 – In 2017 Spanish ports exceed 9.2 million cruise passengers, a result of a long-standing commitment by the...
Livorno port to attend Seatrade Cruise Global event in Florida
Livorno, Italy (Ports Europe) March 3, 2018 – The port of Livorno, together with Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Tirreno Settentrionale (North...
Costa Cruises starts sales for inaugural cruise of Costa Venezia ship
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) March 2, 2018 – Costa Cruises has opened sales for the inaugural cruise of Costa Venezia, the new ship of the Italian company...
Barcelona port to participate in Seatrade Cruise Global 2018
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) March 2, 2018 – Barcelona port plans to participate next week in the Seatrade Cruise Global 2018, the main event of the...
Ceuta port cruise traffic declines in 2017
Ceuta, Spain (Ports Europe) March 2, 2018 – Ceuta port closed 2017 with figures below those of the previous year in terms of arrival of tourists aboard...
Costa Cruises orders third new generation ship
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) February 28, 2018 – Costa Cruises orders a third new generation ship for the German brand Aida Cruises. It will be built by Meyer...
Andalusia ports meet to plan 2018 cruise strategies
Motril Spain (Ports Europe) February 27, 2018 –Â The Minister of Tourism and Sports, Francisco Javier Fernandez, met today in Seville with the heads of...
Naples port to keep growing in 2018
Naples, Italy (Ports Europe) February 27, 2018 – Naples port will keep growing in 2018, backed by the cruise sector. These are the forecasts of the...
Valencia port to participate in Seatrade Cruise Global
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) February 27, 2018 – Valencia port will participate for one more year at the Seatrade Cruise Global fair, the main cruise ship...
Las Palmas port’s cruise, cargo traffic keeps rising in January
Las Palmas, Spain (Ports Europe) February 27, 2018 – Las Palmas port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Las Palmas) has started the year continuing the...
Bilbao port starts 2018 cruise season
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) February 27, 2018 – This coming Sunday, 25 February, the cruise vessel Saga Sapphire, belonging to Saga Cruises, and...
Italy’s cruise traffic to rise by 5.2% in 2018
Venice, Italy (Ports Europe) February 26, 2018 – A 8.6% increase in the number of passengers handled in Italian cruise ports (about 11 million compared to...
Portoferraio expects 30,000 cruise shop passengers in 2018 season
Portoferraio, Elba, Italy (Ports Europe) February 26, 2018 – The Portoferraio cruise season runs from March to November, and this year the port is...
VTP may help realisation of Pula port cruise terminal
Venice, Italy (Ports Europe) February 23, 2018 – The director of Pula Port Authority in Croatia has said that it intends to proceed with plans for a...