Ports

Sanary-sur-Mer, part of the Var Provence Cruise Club, has installed a mooring buoy. “This new environmentally friendly equipment helps protect the Posidonia seabed and will allow future cruise ships to be welcomed in the best safety and security conditions,” [Read more...]

Brittany Ferries has tested the facilities at the port of Bilbao ahead of the arrival of the LNG powered ropax ‘Salamanca’. She is due to start calling at the Spanish port in 2022 from the UK. She is a [Read more...]

The Port of San Diego is to double the shore power capability at its B Street and Broadway Pier cruise ship terminals. This move will improve air quality and reduce greenhouse gas emissions on and around San Diego [Read more...]

Shannon Foynes Port has joined Cruise Europe. The Irish port received its first cruise ship call in 2014 and since then, has had up to three calls per year until 2019. Despite the current pandemic, the port is [Read more...]

With the huge impact that the COVID pandemic has had on the global cruise industry, the UK’s Portland Port said that it joined cruise lines, other ports, businesses and industries in welcoming the news that UK domestic cruising [Read more...]

Gran Canaria’s main port of Las Palmas has unveiled plans for a new cruise terminal. The Port Authority recently issued a public tender for companies to invest and manage a cruise terminal, in addition to improving the current [Read more...]

‘Q-LNG 4000’, a ship-to-ship articulated tug and LNG bunker barge (ATB), has arrived at Port Canaveral. The purpose-built ATB was designed, engineered, and internationally and US certificated to provide ship-to-ship transfers of LNG as a fuel, especially to cruise [Read more...]

Vessels carrying crew and equipment arrived in Belize at the beginning of this month from China to build the Stake Bank Enterprise’s cruise ship docking facility. Called the Port Coral project, Chile and Panama-based Intercoastal Marine was awarded [Read more...]

Stena Line and Noord Natie Ventspils Terminals (NNVT) have signed a 20-year contract aimed at securing the continuous ferry operation from the Freeport of Ventspils in Latvia. This long-term agreement is an important part of Stena Lines expansion [Read more...]

Carnival Cruise Line and PortMiami held a groundbreaking ceremony for Terminal F’s expansion project at the end of January. This terminal will serve as the homeport for ‘Carnival Celebration’, the company’s next Excel-class ship. Currently under construction in [Read more...]