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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.

Event: 2nd European Forum – Shaping the Port of the Future – Civitavecchia, April 10, 2018

The 2nd European Forum – Shaping the Port of the Future – will take place in Civitavecchia, April 10, 2018, organised by The MediTelegraph and On...

Valencia port to handle 197 cruise calls in 2018

Valencia (Spain) January 18, 2018 – Valencia port will handle 197 cruise calls this year and expects the number of cruise passengers to increase by 3%....

Motril port officially opens passenger terminal

Motril (Spain) January 18, 2018 – Motril port has taken advantage of the launch of Fitur fair in Madrid on January 17 to deliver symbolically to the...

Cruise business could be key to Marina di Carrara

La Spezia, Italy (PortSEurope) January 18, 2018 – At a recent Porto Lab event in Carrara, the possible role of the cruise industry in the future of...

Cruise industry generates €15 million income in A Coruña

A Coruña, Spain (PortSEurope) January 17, 2018 – Cruise tourism in A Coruña experienced in 2017 a historic year that brought 250,000 people to the city,...

Las Palmas port leads for fourth consecutive years the Canary cruise sector ranking

Tenerife, Spain (PortSEurope) January 15, 2018 – For a long period of time, the ports of Tenerife and Arrecife were located above Las Palmas in the cruise...

Alicante port to handle 96,000 cruise passengers in 2018

Alicante, Spain (PortSEurope) January 15, 2018 – The relaunch of the cruise calls of the Britannia ship (part of P & O Cruises) starting in June will be...

Cruise passengers visiting Greece drops 11% in 2017

Piraeus, Greece (PortSEurope) January 10, 2018 – We are particularly pleased to present you this year, as in the last six years, the final list of Greek...

Cartagena port to handle 200,000 cruise passengers in 2018

Cartagena, Spain (PortSEurope) January 10, 2018 – Cartagena port is consolidating its position as a leading home port for cruise traffic in the Mediterranean...

Melilla port prepares cruise strategy 

Melilla, Spain (PortSEurope) January 10, 2018 – Melilla port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Melilla) president Miguel Marín has said he is preparing...

Duferco, DP Consulting file appeal against Venice port authority decision

Venice, Italy (PortSEurope) January 10, 2018 – Italian companies Duferco Italia Holding S.p.A. and DP Consulting s.r.l. have filed an appeal with the Veneto...

Nantes.St-Nazaire considers cruise port development

Nantes.Saint-Nazaire (PortSEurope) January 9, 2018 – Saint-Nazaire, the port city located at the mouth of the Loire estuary, is best known for its...

Las Palmas port cruise traffic rises 6.6% in Jan-Nov 2017

Las Palmas, Spain (PortSEurope) January 8, 2018 – Las Palmas port handled 985,662 cruise passengers in the eleven months through November, up 6.6% on the...

Costa Cruises starts world tour from Venice

Venice, Italy (PortSEurope) January 5, 2018 – The Costa Cruises world tour with the Costa Luminosa vessel starts from Venice on January 5. A total of 106...

Valencia port expects 197 cruise calls in 2018

Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) January 5, 2018 – Valencia port has already scheduled 197 cruise calls for 2018, a figure that falls slightly below the 203...

MSC Cruises to return to Funchal

Funchal, Madeira, Portugal (PortSEurope) January 4, 2018 – MSC’s regular cruise ships will return this year to the port of the Madeiran capital,...

MSC and Royal Caribbean interested in La Spezia port investment

La Spezia, Italy (PortSEurope) January 3, 2018 – Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Ligure Orientale (AdSP – Eastern Ligurian Sea Port...

Tenerife port cruise traffic rises 5% in Jan-Nov 2017

Tenerife, Spain (PortSEurope) January 3, 2018 – Tenerife port handled 769,176 cruise passengers in the first eleven months of 2017, up 5% on the year. The...

Las Palmas port posts largest cruise traffic growth in Spain

Las Palmas, Spain (PortSEurope) January 2, 2018 – Las Palmas port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Las Palmas) recorded a 12% increase in cruise traffic...

Almería port expects ferry traffic to rise by 16% in 2017

Almería, Spain (PortSEurope) January 2, 2018 – Almería port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Almería) expects the number of ferry passengers handled in...

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