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.
Cartagena port prepares for intensive cruise traffic in October
Cartagena, Spain (Ports Europe) September 18, 2107 – Cartagena port prepares for a very intensive month of October in terms of cruise traffic. Autumn is the...
MedCruise promotes Valencia port as cruise destination
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) September 18, 2107 – MedCruise, the association of Mediterranean cruise ports, has launched a campaign to promote Valencia...
Event: Italian Cruise Day – Palermo, October 6, 2017
Palermo, Italy (Ports Europe) September 17, 2017 – The 7th Italian Cruise Day will take place in the Sicilian port of Palermo, October 6, 2017. The vent...
Domestic and international passenger traffic in Greek ports: 1st Quarter 2015-2017
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) September 15, 2017 –Â The Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT) has published statistics for domestic and international...
Hellenic Statistical Authority releases Q1 2017 maritime traffic figures
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) September 15, 2017 –Â The Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT) has announced data on traffic of passengers, goods and...
Venice to protest against large cruise vessels in the lagoon
Venice, Italy (Ports Europe) September 15, 2017 – On September 23-24, Venice will host a two-day event dedicated to discussion and debate about defense...
Italy’s Costa Cruises starts construction of its first LNG-fired ship
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) September 13, 2017 – Italian company Costa Cruises, a subsidiary of Carnival Corporation, has said it started the construction of...
Tenerife port expects 38,300 cruise passengers in September
Tenerife, Spain (Ports Europe) September 12, 2017 – Tenerife port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Tenerife) expects the number of cruise passengers handled...
Thomson Cruises to handle 92,000 passengers at Málaga port in 2018
Málaga, Spain (Ports Europe) September 11, 2017 – Thomson Cruises plans to handle 92,000 passengers at Málaga port aboard the “Thomson...
Ceuta port cruise traffic declines 17% y/y in Jan-July 2017
Ceuta, Spain (Ports Europe) September 11, 2017 – Ceuta port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Ceuta) has closed the first seven months of the year with a 17%...
Following its IPO in London, Global Ports Holding comments on the future
London, United Kingdom (Ports Europe) September 11, 2017 –Â Global Ports Holding (GPH) CEO Emre Sayin has said the IPO in London will enable the company...
Silversea Cruises orders new vessel from Fincantieri
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) September 11, 2017 – Silversea Cruises and Fincantieri S.p.A. have signed a contract worth about 310 million euros, for the...
Dubrovnik wants to halve cruise visitors
Dubrovnik, Croatia (Ports Europe) September 10, 2017 – Dubrovnik Mayor Mato Franković has contacted the Cruise Line International Association (CLIA),...
Assoporti attends Seatrade Europe event in Hamburg
Rome, Italy (Ports Europe) September 8, 2017 –  Assoporti, the Italian Port Association, attended the Seatrade Europe event in Hamburg to promote...
Seatrade Europe continues to hold its position as a must-attend event for the industry
Hamburg, 8 September 2017 – Seatrade Europe, the leading trade event for the European cruise and river cruise industry – closed today (8 September...
Barcelona port receives award during Seatrade Europe
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) September 8, 2017 – Barcelona port has been recognised by the International German Cruise Awards as part of the Seatrade...
Event – 51st MedCruise General Assembly, Toulon, October 11-14
Toulon, France (Ports Europe) September 7, 2015 – The 51st MedCruise General Assembly is scheduled to take place October 11-14, 2017 in Toulon,...
Azores Islands’ ports to handle 54 cruise calls Sep-Dec 2017
Ponta Delgada, Azores, Portugal (Ports Europe) September 7, 2017 – The first week of September marks the return of cruise ships to the Azores. Portos dos...
Six Croatian ports to receive €41.2 million funding
Rijeka, Croatia (Ports Europe) September 7, 2017 – The six Croatian ports that handle international passenger traffic received a funding of a total of HRK...
Lisbon port to handle 55 cruise calls in September
Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) September 6, 2017 – Lisbon port expects to handle 55 calls of cruise ships in September, one-third of which will...