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.
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...
MSC Cruises presents expansion to Asia
Milan, Italy (Ports Europe) February 16, 2018 – MSC Cruises was present at the International Tourism Exchange (BIT) in Milan, carried out between February 11...
MSC Cruises foresees double-digit passenger traffic growth in 2018
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) February 16, 2018 – MSC Cruises expects 2018 to be a year with a strategic importance for its expansion, as it foresees a...
Cruise company executives visit Naples
Naples, Italy (Ports Europe) February 15, 2018 – Destination managers of cruise companies AIDA Cruise, Virgin Cruise Line and Silversea will spend...
Ceuta port to handle 30,000 cruise passengers in 2018
Ceuta, Spain (Ports Europe) February 15, 2018 – Ceuta port expects to receive more than 30,000 cruise passengers aboard 13 cruise ships this season, which...
Jordi Caballé Valls appointed MedCruise Secretary General
Piraeus, Greece, February 14, 2018 MedCruise is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Jordi Caballé Valls as new Secretary General. Jordi Caballé, a...
Port of Funchal sees good start to cruise season
Funchal, Portugal (Ports Europe) February 14, 2018 –Â The Port of Funchal has made a good start to the 2018 cruise season. the number of stopovers was...
Piraeus port set to receive 20,000-TEU Cosco Shipping Taurus vessel
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) February 12, 2018 –Â COSCOÂ Shipping Taurus, one of the largest container ships in the world, is scheduled to visit...
CroisiEurope announces four new Mediterranean coastal cruises
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) February 11, 2018 – Europe’s largest river cruise operator, CroisiEurope, has announced four brand new coastal cruises...
Portimão port cruise traffic increases in 2017
Portimão, Portugal (Ports Europe) February 8, 2018 – Nearly 30,000 passengers used Portimão Cruise Terminal in 2017, up 53% on 2016. The number of...
Marseille port plans for 1.75 million cruise passengers in 2018
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) February 3, 2018 –Â After a disappointing year 2017, marked by a decline of 7% in cruise trade, the President of the...
Costa Cruises, Renfe renew cooperation deal
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) February 2, 2018 – Costa Cruises and Spanish state-run railway operator Renfe signed a renewal of their of cooperation...
Erdogan visit to Rome raises issue of Turkish interests in Italian ports
Rome, Italy (Ports Europe) February 1, 2018 – A visit by the Turkish president to Rome next week raises a number of issues considering the involvement of...