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.
General merchandise grows in Puertos de Las Palmas above 20% in H1 of 2017
Las Palmas, Spain (Ports Europe) July 26, 2017 – General merchandise traffic, container movement, liquid bulk and total port traffic show double-digit...
Barcelona port to attend Passenger Ship Pollution 2017 event
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) July 25, 2017 – The first Passenger Ship Pollution 2017 event will take place November 14-15, 2017, in Southampton, UK....
Leixões port books best ever cruise traffic in May
Leixões, Portugal (Ports Europe) July 20, 2017 – Leixões port continues to book records surpassing the 29,000 passengers in 31 ship stopovers in the first...
Barcelona port to improve access to cruise terminals
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) July 18, 2017 – Barcelona port has begun the rearrangement of the access zone to the cruise terminals located at the Adossat...
Málaga port visits Germany to present harbour’s cruise offer
Málaga, Spain (Ports Europe) July 18, 2017 – Representatives of Málaga port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Málaga) visited Germany to present the...
Cagliari port completes project for improvement of Dogane dock
Cagliari, Italy (PortSEurope) July 17, 2017 – Cagliari port has completed a project for the improvement of the look of its water front by installing street...
BlueConnect is now online, and includes ports in France and Italy
Nice, France (PortSEurope) July 15, 2017 – BlueConnect, the port observation platform, is now online, and includes 295 ports in Var, Alpes Maritimes,...
Zadar port to receive cruise investment
Zadar, Croatia (PortSEurope) July 14, 2017 – The port of Zadar is to the site of a new cruise port on the Croatian Adriatic coastline. Other ports in the...
Cádiz port to handle four cruise ships of 300 m in length for first time on July 26
Cádiz, Spain (PortSEurope) July 7, 2017 – Cádiz port will receive for the first time on July 26 four cruise ships of almost 300 metres of length in a...
A Coruña port cruise traffic rises 57% y/y in H1 2017
A Coruña, Spain (PortSEurope) July 6, 2017 – A Coruña port handled 74,762 cruise passengers in the first half of 2017, up 57% on the year. The port expects...
Kuşadası and Bodrum Cruise Port receive Green Port certification
Istanbul, Turkey (PortSEurope) July 6, 2017 – The Turkish port of Kuşadası and Bodrum Cruise Port have been awarded ‘Green Port’ certification in...
Cádiz port to reduce cruise ship fees in 2018
Cádiz, Spain (PortSEurope) July 5, 2017 – Cádiz port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Cádiz) plans to maintain in 2018 its rates and bonuses on the...
Ceuta port cruise passenger traffic declines 87% y/y in Jan-May 2017
Ceuta, Spain (PortSEurope) July 5, 2017 – Ceuta port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Ceuta) has closed the first five months of the year...
Las Palmas port publishes rules regarding safety during cruise ship handling
Las Palmas, Spain (PortSEurope) July 4, 2017 – Las Palmas official gazette Boletín Oficial de la Provincia de Las Palmas (BOP) published yesterday the new...
Porto Torres port opens Alti Fondali basin
Porto Torres, Italy (PortSEurope) July 3, 2017 – Italian transport minister Graziano Delrio has officially opened the Alti Fondali basin for the handling...
Ceuta government to hire staff to assist cruise passengers
Ceuta, Spain (PortSEurope) June 28, 2017 – The government of the autonomous city of Ceuta announced the hiring of a personnel service that will be in charge...
Valletta Cruise Port signs up for tourism code
Valletta, Malta (PortSEurope) June 29, 2017 – Valletta Cruise Port in Malta has signed the UNWTO Private Sector Commitment to the Global Code of Ethics...
Barcelona residents concerned about ever increased tourism
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) June 27, 2017 – Residents of Barcelona are opposing local tourism development, with one of the issues being cruise ships....
Event – MedCruise General Assembly, Toulon, October 11-14, 2017
Toulon, France (PortSEurope) June 25, 2017 – Following the 50th MedCruise General Assembly in Gibraltar (June 14-17), the organisation has announced that...
Meeting of the management committee of the Port Authority of the Eastern Ligurian Sea
La Spezia, Italy (PortSEurope) June 24, 2017 – The Management Committee of the Port Authority System of the Eastern Ligurian Sea (Autorita’ di Sistema...