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.
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...
Water diverted from Palermo port residents to visiting cruise ships
Palermo, Italy (Ports Europe) August 27, 2017 – Residents of Palermo port have been suffering water shortages, and the reason would appear the diversion...
ADELTE strengthens its international presence delivering innovative boarding solutions to major ports globally
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) August 25, 2017 –Â Port cities like Miami or Barcelona are global benchmarks for cruise ship traffic. Their...
French Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs Jean-Yves Le Drian visits Marseille port
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) August 25, 2017 – The French Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs Jean-Yves Le Drian has visited Marseille port and...
Gijón port boosts cruise traffic in last ten years
Gijón, Spain (Ports Europe) August 24, 2017 – The cruise ship ‘Navigator of the Sea’ docked on August 23 at Gijón port with just over 3,000...
Málaga port to handle 200,000 cruise passengers in summer
Málaga, Spain (Ports Europe) August 24, 2017 – Málaga port expects to handle about 200,000 cruise passengers and 97 calls in the summer period, between...
Cruise ship pollution continues in the Mediterranean
Ajaccio, Corsica (Ports Europe) August 24, 2017 – The evidence is seen in the form of black streaks on the facades of the buildings and illnesses caused...
More arrivals than departures from Olbia port in July-August
Olbia, Italy (Ports Europe) August 23, 2017 – More arrivals than departures from the port of Olbia have been recorded since the start of 2017. This is one of...
Naturschutzbund Deutschland measures cruise ship pollution in Palma
Palma, Mallorca, Spain (Ports Europe) August 23, 2017 –Â The Naturschutzbund Deutschland (NABU), together with various Majorcan environmental protection...
Event – Seatrade Europe 2017 – Hamburg, September 6-8, 2017
Hamburg, Germany (Ports Europe) August 23, 2017 – Seatrade Europe is the most important international convention for the cruise and river cruise industry...
Andalusian ports join forces to launch regional cruise service
Cádiz, Spain (Ports Europe) August 22, 2017 – The Andalusian port authorities are working on the creation of a cruise line linking the main tourist...
Spanish ports to attend Seatrade Europe Hamburg Fair
Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) August 22, 2017 – Around 30 companies, including port authorities and service and product providers, will unite at...
Spain establishes a position among Europe’s elite
Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) August 22, 2017 – According to the latest data offered by the Cruise Line International Association (CLIA...
Spain: 3.6 million cruise passengers in the first six months of 2017
Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) August 22, 2017 – Cruise passenger traffic through Spanish ports has once again set a new historic record in the first...
Gijón port to book second best annual cruise traffic in 2017
Gijón, Spain (Ports Europe) August 18, 2017 – Gijón port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Gijón) expects to conclude 2017 with the second best record...
Dubrovnik seeks to reduce cruise traffic
Dubrovnik, Croatia (Ports Europe) August 17, 2017 – The Adriatic port city of Dubrovnik is the latest Mediterranean Sea port to react against increasing...