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.
Mediterranean ports handle 64% of Spanish cruise traffic in H1 2017
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) August 14, 2017 – Spanish ports have closed the first half of the year, recording the historic high in cruise traffic, with...
Most cruises in Europe start from Italy and Spain
Brussels, Belgium (Ports Europe) August 11, 2017 – In European Union (EU) countries, almost seven million passengers annually took a cruise in 2012 and in...
Italy is preferred destination for cruisers, Eurostat survey shows
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) August 10, 2017 – Italy is the preferred starting point for European cruise tourists. This is what emerges from a Eurostat...
Málaga port to receive 10,000 passengers during town festivities
Málaga, Spain (Ports Europe) August 10, 2017 – Málaga port will receive more than 10,000 passengers aboard six cruise ships during the fair of the town,...
Valencia port passenger traffic rises 23% y/y in H1 2017
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) August 10, 2017 – Valencia port has received a total of 415,401 passengers during the first half of the year, which is 23.33%...
Technologies driving CLIA cruise line members’ environmental protection efforts
Washington, United States, August 11, 2017 Technologies driving CLIA cruise line members’ environmental protection efforts August 22, 2017 – Cruise...
Tenerife port to handle 278 cruise ships in 2017
Tenerife, Spain (Ports Europe) August 9, 2017 – Tenerife port plans to carry out this year a handling of 278 cruise ship calls and 574,326 cruisers, 14,400...
Cartagena port keeps growing in cruise segment
Cartagena, Spain (Ports Europe) August 8, 2017 – Cartagena port continues to grow. During the first half of the year, it has added 50% more cruise tourists...
Costa Cruises to use Tarragona as home port next year
Tarragona, Spain (Ports Europe) August 7, 2017 – Costa Cruises has reaffirmed its commitment to Tarragona port which will become a home port for the...
Valletta port cruise a top five Mediterranean cruise location
Valletta, Malta (Ports Europe) August 7, 2017 – The port in Valletta has made the top-five list of Western Mediterranean cruise locations in CruiseCritic...
Lisbon port to handle 24 cruise calls in August
Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) August 3, 2017 – Lisbon port expects to receive 24 cruise calls in August, two more than in the same month last year,...
Hapag-Lloyd to carry out call of luxury cruise ship at Marín port
Marín, Spain (Ports Europe) August 7, 2017 – The decision of Hapag-Lloyd to make a call of a luxury cruise in Marín port “is without a doubt great...
Pontevedra businessmen hail Hapag-Lloyd’s cruise call at Marín port
Marín, Spain (Ports Europe) August 7, 2017 – The first call of a cruise ship in the port of Marín is “a positive news for the area, but what is...
Ferrol port to handle one of most ecological cruise ships globally
Ferrol, Spain (Ports Europe) August 3, 2017 – On November 9, Ferrol port will handle “Aida Prima”, one of the most ecological cruise ships in...
Cartagena port handles 91,000 cruise passengers in H1 2017
Cartagena, Spain (Ports Europe) August 2, 2017 – A total of 91,000 passengers have arrived in Cartagena port on the 59 cruise calls that have docked in the...
Kuşadası becomes top cruise ship destination in Turkey
Kuşadası, Turkey (Ports Europe) August 1, 2017 – Turkey’s cruise passenger traffic was 118,087 people in the first half of 2017 and most of the...
Cartagena port among top five cruise destinations in western Mediterranean
Cartagena, Spain (Ports Europe) July 31, 2017 – Cartagena port is among the top five cruise destinations in the Mediterranean for the second time, according...
MedCruise to join of European Ports Forum
Brussels, Belgium (Ports Europe) July 29, 2017 – In June 2017, the European Transport Commissioner Violeta Bulc announced the creation of a European...
A cruise ship pollutes as much as one million cars
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) July 26, 2017 – A cruise ship pollutes as much as one million cars, in terms of fine particles and nitrogen dioxide,...
Cruise traffic using Koper port increases
Koper, Slovenia (Ports Europe) July 26, 2017 – Koper port welcomed its 33rd cruise liner of the current season and around 40,500 cruise passengers have...