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.
Motril port presents plan to promote tourism via ferry lines with Morocco
Motril, Spain (Ports Europe) January 18, 2017 – Motril port has presented at the International Tourism Fair (Fitur) a Plan of Action of Tourism for...
Cagliari port to handle 400,000 cruise passengers in 2017
Cagliari, Italy (Ports Europe) January 18, 2017 – Cagliari port expects to handle 400,000 cruise passengers in 2017, versus 260,000 last year. The...
Malaga port has 289 confirmed cruise calls in 2017
Malaga, Spain (Ports Europe) January 16, 2017 – Malaga port has already confirmed 289 cruise calls for the current season. Of these calls, seven correspond...
Spanish ports service around 8.7 million cruise passengers in 2016
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) January 16, 2017 – Spanish Public Works Minister Inigo de la Serna has announced that Spanish ports closed 2016 with about...
MedCruise names Lisbon “Port of the Week”
Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) January 13, 2017 – Ocidenave, an integrated shipping agency in the Garland Group, has regained the agency of the calls at the...
Malaga port handles three ships with destination Melilla
Malaga, Spain (Ports Europe) January 10, 2017 – Three ships with destination Melilla port coincided for the first time at Malaga port on January 8. Between...
Cartagena port to handle 145 cruise ships in 2017
Cartagena, Spain (Ports Europe) January 9, 2017 – Cartagena port expects to receive a total of 145 cruise ships in 2017, of which ten will enter the harbour...
Madeira port to consolidate number of calls in 2017
Funchal, Portugal (Ports Europe) January 6, 2017 – Madeira port authority (Administração dos Portos da Região Autónoma da Madeira) plans to consolidate...
Lisbon port close to half million cruise passengers in Jan-Nov 2016
Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) January 6, 2017 – At the end of November, Lisbon port was close to half a million cruise passengers, 498,792, which was the...
MedCruise to hold next annual assembly in Gibraltar
Gibraltar (Ports Europe) January 2, 2017 – MedCruise, the association of Mediterranean cruise ports, plans to hold its next general assembly in Gibraltar....