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.
Adriatic Sea Tourism Project – 2017 edition – executive summary
Venice, Italy (PortSEurope) May 3, 2017 – The 5th edition of Adriatic Sea Tourism Report (ASTR) produces the annual analysis and description of maritime...
Kuşadası port receives first transatlantic cruise ship
Kuşadası, Turkey (PortSEurope) May 3, 2017 – The Mein Schiff 3 vessel, owned by TUI Cruises, has called at Ege Ports Liman in western Turkey’s...
Piraeus port welcomes newly-built “Mein Schiff 5” cruise ship
Piraeus, Greece (PortSEurope) May 3, 2017 – The management of Piraeus Port Authority S.A. (PPA) has welcomed one more newly-built and new generation...
Bastia sees reduced passenger traffic in 2016
Bastia, Corsica, France (Ports Europe) April 4, 2017 – The number of passengers passing through the four airports on the island rose in February to...
Malaga port president heads Suncruise Andalucía
Malaga, Spain (PortSEurope) April 28, 2017 – Andalusia region tourism promotion organisation Suncruise Andalucía has appointed Paulino Plata, the president...
Cadiz starts home port feasibility study
Cadiz, Spain (PortSEurope) April 24, 2017 – Cadiz port authority (Autoridad Portuaria Bahía de Cádiz) has reported that the start of the high season of...
Valencia port recovers cruise traffic in 2017
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) April 24, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) and the region’s tourist organisation said...
Cruise ship to service Sochi-Crimea route is almost ready for operation
Sochi, Russia (PortSEurope) April 23, 2017 – The cruise ship, which will carry service the regular Sochi-Crimea route, is almost ready to start operations....
Piraeus port welcomes first Chinese cruise visitors
Piraeus, Greece (PortSEurope) April 24, 2017 – Leading managers of Piraeus Port Authority S.A. (OLP), owned by China’s Cosco, have welcomed the...
MedCruise welcomes European Blue Growth report
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) April 20, 2017 – MedCruise, the Association of Mediterranean Cruise Ports, has welcomed yesterday’s announcement by...
Lanzarote mayor asks Las Palmas port to guarantee Arrecife cruise dock construction
Las Palmas, Spain (Ports Europe) April 20, 2017 – Lanzarote mayor has asked the president of the Las Palmas port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Las...
Sete port to handle 70 cruise calls in 2018
Sete, France (Ports Europe) April 19, 2017 – As a port of entry to the medieval city of Carcassonne, the port of Sete expects 100,000 cruise passengers...
Palermo port handles 10,000 cruise passengers in single day
Palermo, Italy (Ports Europe) April 19, 2017 – Palermo port handled around 10,000 cruise passengers in a single day on April 18. Costa Fascinosa and MSC...
Small French ports attract more and more cruise passengers
Sete, France (Ports Europe) April 19, 2017 – At Sète, Bordeaux, Honfleur, La Rochelle and Port-Vendres, the number of passenger ships is rising sharply....
Barcelona port starts information campaign on cruise industry emissions
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) April 19, 2017 – In order to strengthen transparency in relation to gas emissions of cruise ships, Barcelona port has...
Cartagena port will receive first triple cruise call for summer season
Cartagena, Spain (Ports Europe) April 17, 2017 – Cartagena port will receive the first triple cruise call for the summer season today. The...
Event – Adriatic Sea Forum – April 27,28, 2017 – Budva
Budva, Montenegro (Ports Europe) April 14, 2017 – The Adriatic Sea Forum, an international forum for marine tourism, will take place in Budva,...
Ceuta port to officially launch 2017 cruise season
Ceuta, Spain (Ports Europe) April 11, 2017 – Ceuta port will officially open the 2017 cruise season with the arrival of the vessel “Pacific...
Lisbon port to handle 17 turnaround cruise calls in April
Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) April 11, 2017 – Lisbon port expects to handle 44 cruise calls in April, with 17 of them being turnaround, where cruises...
Northern Sardinia ports passenger traffic rises 17% in 2016
Olbia, Italy (Ports Europe) April 7, 2017 – The ports in northern Sardinia, namely Olbia, Golfo Aranci and Porto Torres, handled a total of 4.5 million...