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.
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...
AlmerÃa port expects ferry traffic to rise by 16% in 2017
AlmerÃa, Spain (PortSEurope) January 2, 2018 – AlmerÃa port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de AlmerÃa) expects the number of ferry passengers handled in...
Spanish ports handle 8.5 million cruise passengers in Jan-Nov 2018
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) January 2, 2018 – Spanish ports handled a total of 8.5 million passengers in the first eleven months of 2017, up 4.31% on the...
Azerbaijan and Russia to cooperate in cruise shipping
Baku, Azerbaijan (PortSEurope) January 2, 2018 – Chairman of Azerbaijan Caspian Shipping Company (ACSC) Rauf Veliyev and Konstantin Anisimov, the General...
Málaga port’s cruise traffic to rise 15% in 2017
Málaga, Spain (PortSEurope) December 27, 2017 – Málaga port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Málaga) expects to close 2017 with 510,682 cruise...
Alicante port expects 3% cargo traffic rise in 2017
Alicante, Spain (PortSEurope) December 21, 2017 – Alicante port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Alicante) expects its cargo traffic to rise by 3% in 2017,...
Ceuta port handles ten cruise calls in Jan-Oct 2017
Ceuta, Spain (PortSEurope) December 21, 2017 – Ceuta port handled ten cruise calls in the first ten months of 2017, down from 16 in the like period of last...
Porto Cruise Terminal Welcomed 100 cruise calls in 2017
Porto, Portugal (PortSEurope) December 18, 2017 – Cruise activity at the Porto Cruise Terminal recorded a new high in 2017, receiving 100 cruise calls,...
Málaga port to handle 20 large cruise ships in 2018
Málaga, Spain (PortSEurope) December 18, 2017 – Málaga port expects to handle 20 calls of large cruise ships transporting more than 4,000 passengers next...
Cádiz port to break cruise traffic record in 2018
Cádiz, Spain (PortSEurope) December 18, 2017 – Cádiz port authority (Autoridad Portuaria BahÃa de Cádiz) expects to break its record of cruises next...
Bordeaux increases contact with China in 2017
Bordeaux, France (PortSEurope) December 16, 2017 – Firstly, in Canton (port twinned with Bordeaux Port Atlantique), the ports of Bordeaux and Nantes...
Cádiz port to handle more than 300 cruise calls in 2017
Cádiz, Spain (PortSEurope) December 14, 2017 – Cádiz port could end the year, for the first time, with more than 300 cruise calls. A total of 320,000...
Gijón port to handle 17 cruise calls next year
Gijón, Spain (PortSEurope) December 11, 2017 – Gijón port has scheduled for next year a total of 17 cruise calls for the period between April and...
Pasaia port joins Cruise Europe association
Pasaia, Spain (PortSEurope) December 11, 2017 – Pasaia port has become a member of association Cruise Europe, which brings together some 100 ports in the...
AlmerÃa port cruise traffic declines in 2017
AlmerÃa, Spain (PortSEurope) December 8, 2017 – AlmerÃa port saw the positive trend in the cruise segment, kept since 2014, broken this year. With the...