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.
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...
Cagliari sees challenging cruise traffic figures
Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy (Ports Europe) February 1, 2018 – In 2017, Cagliari hosted 163 cruise ships in port, transited 430,000 passengers who arrived...
Lisbon port breaks cruise traffic record in 2017
Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) January 31, 2018 – The number of cruise ships that called in Lisbon port increased by 7.1% last year to 123, which is a new...
Malta: Cruise traffic increases in Oct-Dec 2017
Valletta, Malta (Ports Europe) January 24, 2018 Total cruise passenger traffic during the fourth quarter of 2017 amounted to 187,280, an increase of 5.5% over...
Spain handles 9 million cruise passengers in 2017
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) January 23, 2018 – Spanish national ports agency Puertos del Estado, emphasized with its presence in the Fitur fair in Madrid...
Puertos Canarios joins Medcruise association
Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain (PortSEurope) January 22, 2018 – Puertos Canarios has joined the Medcruise organisation. MedCruise is the Association...
Barcelona port to invest €140 million in cruise traffic reorganisation
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) January 22, 2018 – Barcelona port plans to invest €140 million ($171.5 million) in the reorganisation of its cruise...
Tarragona port receives recognition from Costa Cruises
Tarragona, Spain (PortSEurope) January 22, 2018 – Tarragona port and the members of Tarragona Cruise Port Costa Daurada last week received special...
Barcelona Port welcomed more than 2.7m cruise passengers in 2017
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) January 22, 2018 – Barcelona port welcomed 2.7 million passengers from cruise ships in 2017, slightly higher than the 2.68...