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.
Tenerife port to handle seven cruise ships in three days
Tenerife, Spain (PortSEurope) December 8, 2017 – Tenerife port will handle a total of seven cruise ships with 13,300 passengers and 3,760 crew members on...
Leixões Cruise Terminal awarded by “O Norte Somos Nós”
Leixões, Portugal (PortSEurope) December 8, 2017 – Terminal de Cruzeiros do Porto de Leixões (Leixões Cruise Port Terminal) has been awarded a...
La Spezia to become home port for Royal Carribean
La Spezia, Italy (PortSEurope) December 5, 2017 – Italy’s Authority of the Eastern Ligurian Sea Port System is expected to sign a contract with Royal...
Costa Group commits to Marseille port
Marseille, France (PortSEurope) December 5, 2017 –Â The Costa Group, the leading tourism group, the No. 1 cruiser in Europe has renewed its commitment to...
Tenerife port to handle 115,000 cruise passengers in December
Tenerife, Spain (PortSEurope) December 4, 2017 – Tenerife port expects to handle 115,000 cruise passengers in December, municipality councillor Alfonso...
DP World Limassol issues tender for the management of the duty free shops
Limassol, Cyprus (PortSEurope) December 3, 2017 – DP World Limassol (DPWL) has issued tender for the management of the duty-free shops at its new...
La Spezia set to be Royal Caribbean home port
La Spezia, Italy (PortSEurope) December 2, 2017 – Autorità portuale del Mar Ligure Orientale (Port Authority of the Ligurian Sea) is expected soon to...
Port of Venice publishes documents linked to cruise ship decision
Venice, Italy (PortSEurope) December 1, 2017 – Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mare Adriatico Settentrionale (Northern Adriatic Sea Port Authority)...
Ceuta port to handle tenth cruise call on December 2
 Ceuta, Spain (PortSEurope) December 1, 2017 – Ceuta port expects to expand to ten the number of cruise calls this season with the arrival of a ship...
700,000 cruise passenger movements celebrated at Valletta Cruise Port
Valletta, Malta (PortSEurope) November 30,2017 –Â Valletta Cruise Port, operator of the sea passenger terminals and Valletta Waterfront and a subsidiary...
MSC sets up cruise terminal operator for Barcelona port
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) November 28, 2017 – The Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) has a clear goal in Barcelona – its own terminal. And,...
MSC Cruises to operate 40 calls in Valencia in 2018
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) November 27, 2017 – Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) Cruises plans to carry out more than 40 calls in the port of Valencia...
Spanish ports cruise traffic rises 1.9% y/y in Jan-Sep 2017
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) November 27, 2017 – Spanish ports recorded 6.5 million cruise passengers in the first nine months of the year, up 1.9% on the...
AIDA Cruises to use LNG supply in Mediterranean ports
Hamburg, Germany (PortSEurope) November 25, 2017 – AIDA Cruises, part of Carnival Corporation, announced that it will gradually start regular operations...
Castellón port agrees on nine cruise calls for 2019
Castellón, Spain (PortSEurope) November 24, 2017 – Castellón port has agreed on the call of five cruise ships in 2019, which represents a...
Tarragona port closes 2017 with record-high cruise traffic
Tarragona, Spain (PortSEurope) November 21, 2017 – Tarragona port has closed the cruise season of 2017 exceeding all expectations and breaking its record...
Valenciaport publishes improved Jan-Oct 2017 traffic figures
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) November 20, 2017 –Â Valenciaport closed the month of October with 4,043,251 TEU, a figure that represents an increase of...
Castellón port agrees on five cruise calls in 2019
Castellón, Spain (PortSEurope) November 20, 2017 – Castellón port is preparing to take a great leap in cruise tourism. Castellón port authority (Autoridad...
Ceuta port handles ninth cruise ship in 2017
Ceuta, Spain (PortSEurope) November 20, 2017 – Ceuta port has extended to nine the number of cruise calls this season with the arrival of a ship that has...
Marseille – Mediterranean Air Day – the environmental question will prevail in port economics
Marseille, France (PortSEurope) November 20, 2017 – On November 14, 2017, Marseille hosted “Mediterranean Air Day” (Journée...