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.
Port of Heraklion opens new cruise terminal
Heraklion, Greece (PortSEurope) November 19, 2017 – The Port of Heraklion has celebrated the official opening of the upgraded cruise terminal. In...
Portuguese Minister of Economy visits Leixões port
Leixões, Portugal (PortSEurope) November 17, 2017 – The Portuguese Minister of Economy visited the Leixões port on November 15 and praised the...
A Coruña port to handle 180,000 cruise passengers in 2017
A Coruña, Spain (PortSEurope) November 16, 2017 – A Coruña port has handled 168,000 passengers so far this year, an unprecedented figure that less than two...
Global Ports Holding opens new cruise terminal at Lisbon port
Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) November 16, 2017 – Global Ports Holding’s new cruise terminal building in Lisbon has been officially opened at a...
Marseille welcomes MSC Orchestra vessel
Marseille, France (PortSEurope) November 16, 2017 – The Port of Marseille Fos and the MSC (Mediterranean Shipping Company) have held a press event to...
Koper port cruise season ends
Koper, Slovenia (PortSEurope) November 15, 2017 – In 2017, 61 cruise ships carrying almost 72,000 passengers docked in the Koper Passenger Terminal. In...
Andalusia government to promote cruise offer at CruiseWorld fair in Florida
Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) November 14, 2017 – Andalusia’s regional government and Andalusia Cruises, an association that includes the seven...
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...