Oceania Cruises’ Insignia made her first full turnaround call in London this summer at Greenwich Ship Tier.

Aberdeen has 10 calls this year, compared to six (742 passengers) in 2010, says Brian Andrew, assistant harbour master Aberdeen Harbour Board.

Calls this year include Silversea Cruises’ Silver Explorer (ex Prince Albert II) and Silver Cloud, Hurtigruten’s Fram, Hapag-Lloyd’s Europa and Compagnie du Ponant’s Le Diamant.

During May, 26 cruiseships will be calling at Vigo’s new E18m facilities.

Helsingor/Elsinore reopens for cruiseships in May 2011 following a rebulding of the port.

Oostende is expecting 14 calls this year compared to six in 2010 while having six booked already into 2012.

Calls to Alesund in 2011 are significantly up on last year, being 97 calls compared with 74.

MSC Cruises is doing partial turnarounds in Bergen on June 13 and July 7 for the first time.

Iberocruceros began turnaround operations at the Port of Bilbao’s Getxo cruise terminal in May with 1,700-passenger Grand Mistral, a first for the port.

Calls to St Malo next year number 33, up from 24 this year and 21 in 2009.

Passengers to Stornoway increased to 9,346 this year compared to 5,683 in 2009, a rise of 64%.