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.
Gibraltar Tourist Board & Port Authority attend Seatrade Convention
Hamburg, Germany (Ports Europe) September 6, 2017 –Â The Gibraltar Tourist Board and Port Authority are attending the Seatrade Europe Cruise Convention....
Izmir tourism visitors increases steadily
Izmir, Turkey (Ports Europe) September 5, 2017 – Aegean Touristic Hotels and Investors Associations – ETIK has published a report showing that Turkish...
NABU publishes its 7th cruise ship pollution rankings
Berlin, Germany (Ports Europe) September 5, 2017 – Even in the seventh edition of the cruise industry ranking, not a single cruise ship in Europe from...
A Coruña port expects record-high cruise traffic in September
A Coruña, Spain (Ports Europe) September 5, 2017 – With the double call of the vessels “Silver Muse” and “Sea Cloud II”, on...
Cádiz port participates in Seatrade Europe to attract river cruise traffic
Cádiz, Spain (Ports Europe) September 5, 2017 – Cádiz port participates this week in the most important cruise event in Europe, the ‘Seatrade...
Valencia port expects private investment in new cruise terminal
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) September 5, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) plans to announce the next approval of the...
Azores islands ports expect record-high number of cruise calls in 2017
Ponta Delgada, Azores, Portugal (Ports Europe) September 4, 2017 – The ports of the Azores islands in Portugal expects a record-high number of cruise...
Greece sees reduced cruise ship visitors
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) September 4, 2017 – Initial figures indicate that the local cruise ship industry will decrease in 2017. The Union of...
Portugal’s Funchal port to handle 20 cruise calls in September
Funchal, Portugal (Ports Europe) September 2, 2017 – The port of Funchal will handle a total of 20 calls of cruise ships in September, while in Porto...
Lisbon port welcomes another ultra-luxury cruise ship
Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) September 2, 2017 – Silver Muse is the latest ultra-luxury cruise ship has arrived in Lisbon August 30, where it ends an...
Cruise Shipping and Urban Development: The Case of Piraeus
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) September 2, 2017 – The International Transport Forum (ITF) has published a report which assesses the impacts of cruise...
Tenerife port to handle 300,000 cruise passengers this season
Tenerife, Spain (Ports Europe) September 1, 2017 – The cruise season begins in the port of Santa Cruz de Tenerife in September, when it is expected to...
Royal Caribbean names EMEA commercial development director
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) September 1, 2017 – US cruise group Royal Caribbean Cruises has appointed Ana Karina Santini as commercial development...
Málaga port to take part in Seatrade Europe
Málaga, Spain (Ports Europe) September 1, 2017 – Málaga port will participate in “Seatrade Europe”, an important international meeting of...
Friuli Venezia Giulia and Fincantieri to create cruise industry academy
Monfalcone, Italy (Ports Europe) September 1, 2017 – The region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia and Fincantieri S.p.A. plan to sign a Memorandum of...
Valencia, GandÃa ports passenger traffic rises 21.5% y/y in Jan-July 2017
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) August 31, 2017 – Valencia and GandÃa ports handled 533,115 passengers in the first seven months of 2017, up 21.47% on...
Mahon city council asks Tenerife port to change outlook of cruise area
Mahon, Spain (Ports Europe) August 30, 2017 – The Mahon City Council has asked the Balearic Islands Port Authority to withdraw all or part of the...
Agadir port to receive investment of MAD 700 million
Agadir, Morocco (Ports Europe) August 30, 2017 – A total investment of MAD 700 million (€62.68 million) is to finance several projects at the port...
Palma to measure pollution levels
Palma, Mallorca, Spain (Ports Europe) August 28, 2017 – Autoridad Portuaria de Baleares (APB) has an agreement with Universitat de les Illes Balears (UIB...
Record for cruise ships in the port of Palma
Palma, Mallorca, Spain (Ports Europe) August 27, 2017 –Â On August 26, five cruise liners with a total of about 20,000 passengers were docked in the port...