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.
A Coruña port receives 168,000 cruise passengers since start of 2017
A Coruña, Spain (PortSEurope) November 10, 2017 – A Coruña port has already received 168,000 passengers since the beginning of the year. And there will...
Event: 52nd MedCruise General Assembly, May 23-26, 2018, Valletta
Valletta, Malta (PortSEurope) November 10, 2017 – The 52nd MedCruise General Assembly will take place May 23-26, 2018, in Valletta, Malta. During the...
Miami – Marseille: a win-win deal for the ports
Marseille, France (PortSEurope) November 8, 2017 – The economic mission taking place this week in Miami is full of promise for the 12 sectors of...
Tenerife to record best November in terms of cruise traffic since 2012
Tenerife, Spain (PortSEurope) November 9, 2017 – Tenerife port expects to handle in November the largest number of cruise passengers registered in the...
Ceuta port handles 12,500 cruise passengers in Jan-Sep 2017
Ceuta, Spain (PortSEurope) November 8, 2017 – Ceuta port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Ceuta) has closed the first nine months of 2017 with a traffic...
Venice issues cruise ships restrictions
Venice, Italy (PortSEurope) November 8, 2017 – An Italian government committee has ruled that ships weighing 100,000 tonnes or more will no longer be...
Port of Sète sees improved traffic in first 10 months of 2017
Sète, France (PortSEurope) November 8, 2017 – The port of Sète ended the first ten months of 2017 with traffic up 3%, with most sectors showing gains....
Marella Cruises to keep Málaga as base port in 2018
Málaga, Spain (PortSEurope) November 6, 2017 – UK company Marella Cruises – formerly Thomson Cruises – belonging to the TUI Group, has...
City of Marseille sends business delegation to Miami
Marseille, France (PortSEurope) November 5, 2017 – An official mission of the City of Marseille, led by Jean-Claude Gaudin, mayor and president of the...
Call for protest day against cruise ships in Venice
Venice, Italy (PortSEurope) November 5, 2017 – Huge cruise ships deliver thousands day tourists to Venice, but many local citizens do not want visitors...
PwC says Cádiz port has potential to become cruise home port
Cádiz, Spain (PortSEurope) November 3, 2017 – Cádiz port has the opportunity to become a home port for cruises. This is the main conclusion of the...
Global Ports Holding to open new state-of-the-art terminal in Lisbon Cruise Port
Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) November 2, 2017 – Global Ports Holding, the operator of Lisbon Cruise Terminal, will soon open it new terminal at the...
Costa Cruises to increase traffic at Bari port in next two years
Bari, Italy (PortSEurope) November 1, 2017 – Bari local government and representatives of Costa Cruises have discussed the potential launch of a partnership...
CCI managing multiple tasks in Nice port
Nice, France (PortSEurope) November 1, 2017 – In January 2017, CCI Nice-Côte d’Azur (Chambre de Commerce et d’Industrie Nice Côte d’Azur)...
Málaga port studies cruise cooperation deal with Tangier, Tenerife
Málaga, Spain (PortSEurope) October 31, 2017 – The president of Málaga port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Málaga), Paulino Plata, has said that the...
Some 15 cruise ships set to visit Durrës during 2018-2019 tourist season
Durrës, Albania (PortSEurope) October 31, 2017 – Leading cruise companies have booked 15 stopovers at Durrës port for the 2018-2019 season. Autoriteti...
Barcelona port’s Adossat dock tender attracts criticism
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) October 30, 2017 – Barcelona port decided last week to tender the extension of the Adossat dock in the eastern part of...
Málaga port to handle 20,000 passengers this week
Málaga, Spain (PortSEurope) October 30, 2017 – Málaga port expects to receive the visit of nearly 20,000 passengers aboard 16 cruise ships, mostly...
Venezia Terminal Passeggeri cleared of ICI tax charge
Venice, Italy (PortSEurope) October 29, 2017 – With a judgment published on 3 October, Venezia Terminal Passeggeri SpA, assisted by GBA’s law and...
Málaga port set to receive 16 cruise ships in seven days
Málaga, Spain (PortSEurope) October 29, 2017 – From October 30-November 5, the port in Málaga, a port city on southern Spain’s Costa del Sol, will...