MSC Cruises will be adding Cork to four new itineraries next summer giving passengers the opportunity to embark and disembark MSC Lirica in Cork for the first time.
Lorenzo Diamantini, director of sales for Ireland and Northern Ireland MSC Cruises, said: “The company is featuring the two ports [...
Guernsey (St Peter Port) has witnessed an increase in around-British-Isles cruising. About 45% of calls and 51% of passengers are on such an itinerary.
This year 63,134 passengers on 69 calls visited the Channel Islands’ port while, in 2012, the forecast is for 80,000 passengers on 57 calls. The...
Dover is expecting 156 calls in 2012 bringing more than 250,000 to the port. This represents a 14.7% increase on 2011.
Of the 136 calls in Dover this year, 84 were full turnarounds, 14 partial, one embarkation only and 37 transit calls. Turnaround passengers will reach 138,656 and transit 84,095....
Tyne is expecting 38,000 passengers next year, up 115% on the 17,658 this year.
Calls number 20 in 2011, of which 11 were turnarounds. In 2012 there will be 19 transit and 18 turnaround calls. It is only five years since the port had its first turnaround call.
The World visited for the first time...
Holland America Line’s Prinsendam berthed alongside Scrabster for the first time this year and to date is the largest vessel to do so.
This year there were nine transit calls bringing 3,846 passengers to the port which is four hours’ steaming time from Kirkwall in Scotland. Next year there will be...
Royal Caribbean International, P&O Cruises and TUI Cruises all called alongside Liverpool for the first time this year.
Ships on first calls included Albatross, Saga Pearl, Marco Polo and AIDAcara. About 27,000 passengers on 15 calls called the UK port with 30,000 on 20 calls forecast for 2012.
Saga is spending three days in Hardanger Fjord next year for the first time.
Saga Sapphire will be calling Eidfjord, Odda and Loftus. Passengers will be taking part in the Hardangerfjord music festival, both public and private performances.
Ingrid Maderni, shore excursion executive Saga, said: “...
Lisbon welcomed Iberocruceros on its first partial turnarounds this year.
Transit calls in 2011 numbered 266 and homeports 70 bringing 456,079 and 51,071 passengers respectively. Next year there are 282 transit and 69 homeport calls forecast, bringing 524,675 and 40,123 passengers respectively. In...
Pullmantur will use Trondheim as a turnaround port for Empress in 2012 and 2013.
The Spanish operator has decided to try out the operation on four calls both years. This will involve about 1,800 passengers each time.
The port says that if the operation is a success, Pulmmantur will expand the...
In 2002 Gothenburg received 5 calls and 2,400 passengers. Ten years later, in 2012, the Swedish port is expecting 62 calls and 70,000 passengers.
Jill Sodervall, head of cruise operations at the Gothenburg Port Authority, commented: “The increase is largely as a result of focused collaboration...
