The remembrances of the centenary of the Titanic’s wreck will take place in April, 2012.

Following her maiden World Voyage Queen Elizabeth, the newest liner owned by cruise line Cunard will be visiting Cherbourg for the first time ever. she will be embarking on four unique voyages in which she makes a maiden visit to a new region. The Queen Elizabeth venue is the last call for the season, which brings for Cherbourg passenger numbers to about 31600 and calls to 21.

Queen Elizabeth, inaugurated in Southampton at the beginning of October 2010, will succeed Queen Elizabeth 2.

A new cruise berth and terminal at Arendal in Gothenburg will be ready for use in April 2011.

Oceania Cruises’ newbuilding 66,000gt Marina will be calling Douglas, Isle of Man, on July 24 2011 during her inaugural year.

Dublin is developing a master plan for the port which will include new facilities for cruise passengers.

This Thursday, the AFCC organised a regional training for travel agents from Le Havre and surroundings. The AFCC workshop was held at Malraux Museum in partnership with Le Havre Tourist Office who is responsible for cruise development at Le Havre. What could be a better place than Le Havre Malraux Museum to host the AFCC regional workshop showing a Paul Signac “Ports of France” exhibition until January 31^st 2011?

During the double call of Celebrity Eclipse and P&O Arcadia at Le Havre this All Saint’s Monday many passengers enjoyed shopping at Docks Vauban, a recently refurbished shopping centre in old the port’s warehouses. As for Fine Arts lovers they had the great opportunity to visit Malraux Museum and its new temporary exhibition from the impressionist painter Signac. Next and last 2010 call at Le Havre will take place on Dec. 19^th with Queen Victoria.

Mariehamn has plans to dedicate one of its berths to cruiseships, either berth 1 or 2, and will begin extending berth 6 next year for completion in 2013, says Guy Dannstrom, port manager.

The works for the construction of the new Terminal for reception of cruise passengers have began last Monday 18^th October, and will be concluded by spring next year, before the beginning of the peak season for the cruise traffic in the port of A Coruña.

The objective of this project, requested for years by the operating companies, is to offer better services and attention to the travellers who arrive at the port.

Visby has plans to build a new 150m-long quay south of the port with a depth of 11.5m.

The cornerstone of the new terminal was laid this year with completion scheduled for 2012. Three vessels, each of 280m in length and 10m draught, will be accommodated simultaneously.

The Propeller Club of Le Havre held its 320^ème monthly meeting last week with a special focus on cruise development. Thierry Dhal, Chairman of the Le Havre Propeller Club, welcomed the day’s guest Valerie Dubuc, Cruise Project Director at the Le Havre Tourist Office. Dubuc emphasized the economic impact of cruise industry and the growing cruise traffic at Le Havre (+ 50 % within 2 years) pointing out that next year Le Havre will be a turnaround port for Costa. Those positive perspectives were cheered up by the attendees.

As Copenhagen’s cruise summer season came to an end on October 6 with the arrival of Marco Polo, the Danish port already had 50 more calls booked for 2011 than this year.

Invergordon’s season drew to a close with the arrival of Fred Olsen Cruise Lines’ 28,388gt Boudicca (ex Royal Viking Sky) in early October bringing call numbers to the Scottish port to a record 53.

Le Havre’s cruise authorities welcomed Captain Keith Dowds, on the occasion of the inaugural call of the Azura to Le Havre on Saturday (10.16.10). The cruise season will end with a call of Celebrity Eclipse on November 1^st, followed by Queen Victoria on December 19^th. The 2011 program will be exceptional with 91 calls (the biggest number ever reached at Le Havre). The Azura will come back and her sister-ship Ventura is also expected at “The gateway to Paris” next year.

Since August this year, air draught restrictions at the Riga Passenger Terminal have been eliminated due to the removal of a power cable over the River Daugava.

This year Spirit of Oceanus called Kalmar for the first time.

Together with Economics Senator Ian Karan, Altona’s District Mayor Jürgen Warmke-Rose opened the ceremony for the topping-out of the new cruise terminal in Altona. Special thanks were expressed to the project developer, the municipal company Fischereihafenentwicklungsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG [Fishing Port Development Co. Ltd.], and of course to the entire workforce involved in the project.

Port of Bergen and Cruise Destination Bergen can note a new record this year, 291.877 passengers visited Bergen, an increase of 3,2% from 2009 season. With this result, Bergen confirms it's role as the leading cruise port in Norway. The number of calls decreased by 19 to 241 compared to 260 in 2009.

Gijon has succeeded in bringing in four new companies this year.

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.

This year the French port of Rouen welcomed 36,200 passengers, up 30% on 2009 when 27,509 visited.

The cruise ships come in numbers to the port of Eidfjord.  What an increase in 2010!!

Zeebrugge’s E800,000 investment in a state of the art passenger covered gangway last year has benefited passengers in 2010.

Lerwick harbour has had a big finish to the cruise season, with the largest vessel yet to bring visitors to the Shetland Islands in port this week.

Hamburg. The Port of Hamburg celebrated a premiere on 26th September: the 100th call of a cruise liner at the Hamburg Cruise Center in one single season.

Santander has big plans for its Maritime Facade with the main reason for undertaking the reorganisation at the port being a brand new installation for passenger traffic.

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

Molde saw a 54% rise in both passenger and call numbers this year compared to 2009.