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.
Saga Holidays’ “Saga Pearl II” cruise ship to arrive in Castellón port on June 24
Castellón, Spain (PortSEurope) June 22, 2017 – The “Saga Pearl II” cruise ship of UK company Saga Holidays will call again at Castellón port...
MedCruise welcomes new members
Gibraltar (PortSEurope) June 22, 2017 – At its 50th General Assembly, MedCruise announced the admission of Ashdod Port (Israel) and DP World Limassol...
MedCruise celebrates Gibraltar general assembly
Gibraltar (PortSEurope) June 22, 2017 – MedCruise has celebrated its 50th General Assembly in Gibraltar, one of the founder member ports of the...
Vigo seeks to attract cruise calls of UK-based companies
Vigo, Spain (PortSEurope) June 20, 2017 – Next year will be one of the poorest in the history of Vigo port in terms of cruise calls. To date, the list of...
Málaga port is fifth most important Spanish cruise port
Málaga, Spain (PortSEurope) June 19, 2017 – Málaga has been placed as the fifth most important Spanish destination of cruise ships with the arrival in the...
Brindisi looks at LNG opportunities
Brindisi, Italy (PortSEurope) June 19, 2017 –Â The association of Salento port operators (Operatori portuali salentini – OPS) has met with the...
The 50th MedCruise General Assembly will take place 14-17 June 2017 in Gibraltar
Gibraltar (PortSEurope) June 15, 2017 –Â The 50th MedCruise General Assembly is taking place this week in Gibraltar with around 120 representatives from...
Call for local employment at Civitavecchia port
Civitavecchia, Italy (PortSEurope) July 13, 2017 – Municipal Councilors, Mauro Guerrini and Mirko Mecozzi, have asked the president of the Centre-North...
Venice sees fewer cruise ship visits
Venice, Italy (PortSEurope) June 13, 2017 – Porto di Venezia (Venice port authority) is forecasting a 10% fall in the number of cruise ships visiting Venice...
AIDAperla visits Barcelona for passengers and LNG
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) June 11, 2017 – Arriving in Barcelona on June 7 on her inaugural introduction tour, the AIDAperla has launched its summer...
Tenerife says 20% of world cruise fleet passes through port every year
Tenerife, Spain (PortSEurope), June 2, 2017 – A total of 20% of the world’s cruise fleet, currently consisting of 458 vessels, passes through Tenerife...
Costa Crociere starts operating line from Tarragona
Tarragona, Spain (PortSEurope), June 3, 2017 – Italy-based Costa Crociere S.p.A. has started to operate from Tarragona port as a base port for a route that...
Portuguese Minister of the Sea says new Lisbon cruise terminal to have key economic importance
Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope), June 3, 2017 – Portuguese Minister of the Sea, Ana Paula Vittorino, has said that the new cruise terminal in Santa Apolónia,...
Costa Crociere has no plans to move headquarters away from Genoa
Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) June 1, 2017 – Italy’s Costa Crociere S.p.A. has no plans to move its headquarters away from Genoa, CEO Michael Thamm said....
Egypt and Greece agree to launch cruise services
Port Said, Egypt (PortSEurope) June 1, 2017 – Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism has been taking steps to revive the local tourism industry which has failed...
Bilbao port handles record-high number of cruise passengers for a single day
Bilbao, Spain (PortSEurope) May 31, 2017 – Bilbao port has received three cruises in its facilities in Getxo on May 31, with a total of 8,700 tourists, the...
Cartagena port officially launches Alfonso XII dock expansion
Cartagena, Spain (PortSEurope) May 30, 2017 – The expansion of the Alfonso XII dock, in Cartagena, permits the simultaneous docking of two large cruisers...
Italy’s Stazioni Marittime expects 2019 to be a year of record cruise traffic at Genoa port
Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) May 30, 2017 – Edoardo Monzani, who was appointed on the helm of Genoa harbour passenger stations management company Stazioni...
Russia’s Rosmorport starts test of Sochi cruise route
Sochi, Russia (PortSEurope) May 30, 2017 – Russian company FSUE Rosmorport’s cruise ship Prince Vladimir left on May 28 from Sochi for a six-day test...
NGO to carry out unofficial referendum on cruise ships in Venice lagoon
Venice, Italy (PortSEurope) May 30, 2017 – Italian non-governmental organisation No Grandi Navi (NGV), which seeks to ban the entry of big cruise ships in...