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.
Alicante port intensifies efforts to promote cruise tourism
Alicante, Spain (Ports Europe) March 9, 2018 – Alicante port and Alicante Cruise Terminal, along with other institutions in the area, such as the city...
A Coruña port optimistic about this year’s cruise traffic
A Coruña, Spain (Ports Europe) March 9, 2018 – A Coruña port is optimistic regarding the forthcoming season of cruise traffic. The harbour managed to...
Naples, Salerno ports representatives participate in Seatrade Cruise Global
Naples, Italy (Ports Europe) March 9, 2018 – The 34th edition of the world’s leading international cruise market fair, Seatrade Cruise Global, has just...
Vard awarded contract to build two vessels for Ponant
Tulcea, Romania (Ports Europe) March 10, 2018 –Â Vard Holdings Limited, a Norwegian company active in the design and construction of special ships, has...
Montenegro’s Bar port sees increased cruise ship traffic
Bar, Montenegro (Ports Europe) March 10, 2018 –Â Cruise Activities Coordinator Tanja Novovic has commented on the forthcoming cruise season. In 2018, the...
Disney Cruise Line to launch calls in Cartagena in 2019
Cartagena, Spain (Ports Europe) March 8, 2018 – Only two shipping companies have resisted the port of Cartagena to date. But very soon, the managers of the...
Bilbao port aims to diversify cruise traffic
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) March 8, 2018 – Bilbao port has opted to be the destination of a wide range of shipping companies, diversifying the customers it...
Barcelona port relies on cruise sustainabilityÂ
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) March 7, 2018 – Barcelona port has accumulated years of leadership in cruise traffic. And now its main goal is not to...
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...