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.
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...
Barcelona port approves tender for Adossat dock expansion
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) October 25, 2017 – Barcelona port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Barcelona) has approved the start of the tender for...
Bilbao port closes record-breaking cruise season
Bilbao, Spain (PortSEurope) October 25, 2017 – Bilbao port closes today, with the arrival of two ships, a “record” cruise season with 61...
Bordeaux port introduces new waste collection system
Bordeaux, France (PortSEurope) October 24, 2017 –Â Bordeaux Port Atlantique (port of Bordeaux) has introduced a new process for the disposal of waste...
Balearic ports oust Barcelona from leadership in cruise sector in August
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) October 19, 2017 – Although for a small margin, for the first time in its history the ports of the Balearic Islands have...
MSC Cruises upgrates Mediterranean offer with Venice itinerary
Venice, Italy (PortSEurope) October 20, 2017 – MSC Cruises has enriched its offer in the Eastern Mediterranean for the summer of 2018 with a new itinerary of...
Leixões port passenger traffic rises 42% y/y in Jan-Sep 2017
Leixões, Portugal (PortSEurope) October 20, 2017 – Leixões port handled 83,120 passengers in the first nine months of 2017, up 42% on the year, recording...
Italy’s Fincantieri starts building sixth cruise ship for Viking
Ancona, Italy (PortSEurope) October 20, 2017 – Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri S.p.A. has started the construction in Ancona of the sixth unit of a series of...
Tenerife port to handle six cruise vessels this weekend
Tenerife, Spain (PortSEurope) October 20, 2017 – Tenerife port will handle six cruise vessels this weekend, with a total of 13,000 passengers. On October 20,...
Alicante to lose status of home cruise port in 2018
Alicante, Spain (PortSEurope) October 20, 2017 – Alicante port will lose its status as a home cruise port in 2018, as Pullmantur, owner of the...
Port of Sète looks to new developments
Sète, France (PortSEurope) October 19, 2017 – The Port of Sète (Port de Sète Sud de France) board of directors of the port’s infrastructure have...
Valencia port’s passenger traffic reaches “historical record” in September
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) October 18, 2017 – Valencia port’s passenger traffic reached “an historical record” in year-on-year terms in...
AlmerÃa port prepares for end of cruise season
AlmerÃa, Spain (PortSEurope) October 18, 2017 – AlmerÃa port will see next week the arrival of six cruises in four days, which will mean the landing of...
Barcelona port records best Q3 in its history
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) October 16, 2017 – Barcelona port has registered its best third quarter of the year ever. Total traffic grew by 31.2% on...