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.
Nicky Guerrero to join MedCruise Board of Directors
Gibraltar (Ports Europe) October 16, 2017 – Chief Executive of the Gibraltar Tourist Board Nicky Guerrero has been elected onto the Board of Directors of...
Valencia companies to attract container transhipment from Barcelona
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) October 12, 2017 – The tensions and instabilities that the Catalan independence process caused are not only causing changes...
Civitavecchia offers economic opportunity to Lazio region
Civitavecchia, Italy (Ports Europe) October 12, 2017 – Intesa Sanpaolo has organised “The Economy of the Sea” conference which took place...
MedCruise association meets in Toulon
Toulon, France (Ports Europe) October 12, 2017 – The 51st MedCruise General Assembly is taking place 11-14 October 2017 in Toulon, France. During...
Intesa Sanpaolo organises conference on Civitavecchia port growth
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) October 11, 2017 – Italian lender Intesa Sanpaolo has organised a conference on the economy of the sea, carried out at the...
Spanish ports cruise traffic rises 0.5% in Jan-Aug 2017
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) October 10, 2017 – The influx of cruise passengers to Spanish ports in the first eight months of the year remained at...
Italian ports’ cruise traffic to rise 6.4% in 2018
Civitavecchia, Italy (Ports Europe) October 9, 2017 – Italian tourism association Risposte Turismo expects the cruise traffic in Italy to rise by 6.4% in...
MSC Cruises to handle at least 3 million passengers in Italy in 2018
Palermo, Italy (Ports Europe) October 9, 2017 – MSC Cruises, a subsidiary of Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC), expects to handle more than 3 million...
Tenerife expects record-high cruise traffic in 2018
Tenerife, Spain (Ports Europe) October 9, 2017 – Tenerife port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Tenerife) expects to break records in cruise traffic during...
Puertos del Estado president shares Spanish cruise sector experience in Latin America
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) October 9, 2017 – The president of Spanish national ports agency Puertos del Estado, José Llorca, has recently given a...
Barcelona port expects 119 cruise ships by Nov 5
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) October 6, 2017 – A total of 119 cruise ships are scheduled to call at Barcelona port in the period between October 6 and...
Mayor of Dubrovnik meets cruise industry representatives
Dubrovnik, Croatia (Ports Europe) October 5, 2017 – The Mayor of the City of Dubrovnik, Mato Franković, has met with Cruise Lines International...
Málaga port to sell 20% stake in Cruceros Málaga
Málaga, Spain (Ports Europe) October 4, 2017 – Málaga port returns to the market by trying to sell a 20% stake in the capital of cruise company...
Cruise ships change routes to avoid calls in Barcelona
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) October 4, 2017 – Demonstrations and riots in Barcelona have had a side effect in Valencia. Two cruise ships, Mein Schiff 3...
Siracusa port to start operating cruise dock on October 4
Siracusa, Italy (Ports Europe) October 3, 2017 – Italy’s Siracusa port will start operating a new dock with a length of some 300 metres for the...
Málaga port forecasts 12.5% rise in cruise traffic this year
Málaga, Spain (Ports Europe) October 2, 2017 – Málaga port estimates to close 2017 with a 12.5% increase in the number of cruise passengers, which would...
Venezia Terminal Passeggeri financial statements approved by shareholders
Venice, Italy (Ports Europe) September 28, 2017 – At the end of August 2017, a shareholders’ meeting of Venezia Terminal Passeggeri S.p.A. approved the...
Tenerife port loses 2.76% of total port traffic in the first eight months of 2017
Tenerife, Spain (Ports Europe) September 28, 2017 –Â The Port of Santa Cruz de Tenerife has reported a drop in its total traffic of -2.76% in the first...
“Mediterranean Day of the Air” set to highlight pollution in Marseille
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) September 27, 2017 – Two regional observatories for air quality, Air Paca and Qualitair Corse, have organised a first...
Fincantieri to build ‘next-generation’ Cunard cruise ship
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) September 27, 2017 –Â Fincantieri, the Trieste-based shipbuilder including cruise vessels, has signed a memorandum of...