Tagged: Cruise Scotland

Greenock Ocean Terminal has 91 cruise liners booked into the Inverclyde town’s new dedicated pontoon across 2023 – a rise of over 25 per cent on last year. (more…)

Cruise ship calls in 2023 for Forth Ports’ Capital Cruising business on Scotland’s east coast are set to jump by 50%, with around 150 (2022: 100) cruise ships, carrying an estimated 225,000 passengers, expected to visit Edinburgh, Fife and Dundee this year. (more…)

Aberdeen is set for a major tourist boost with its newly-expanded harbour due to welcome more than 25 cruise ship visits in the coming months. (more…)

A record number of cruise ships visited the Port of Cromarty Firth (PoCF), in the Scottish Highlands, this year, as the industry recovered rapidly in the wake of Covid-19. (more…)

Scrabster Harbour’s latest facilities for cruise liners welcomed their first vessel, with MS Hamburg berthing at the redeveloped St. Ola Pier on 3rd May. (more…)

Arriving from all corners of the globe to discover the islands, the first of around 100,000 visitors have arrived in Orkney as the cruise season kicks off. (more…)

The Port of Cromarty Firth is looking forward to another record-breaking year, as it brings more cruise ships and seaborne tourists to the north than ever before. (more…)

Cruise Scotland has welcomed the Scottish Government’s reduction of Covid-19 restrictions to Level 0 from today (19th July 2021) and the confirmation that domestic cruising at Scottish ports and harbours can resume once again. (more…)

In a blow to the recent restart of cruising in England, Scotland has banned cruise calls until COVID-19 cases fall in the country. The last-minute move means that MSC Virtuosa — which was due to call there in at Greenock today (June 9) — has been forced to cancel the stop and stay overnight in Liverpool. (cruisecritic.co.uk)

Highlands businesses have expressed concerns after confirmation that almost all cruise liners due to visit Invergordon this year have cancelled. More than 100 ships were due to dock at the port on the Cromarty Firth – a record high. The liners would have brought a total of more than 250,000 passengers and crew to the region. (bbc.com)

Aberdeen Harbour has announced increased activity levels in 2018 across vessel and cargo tonnage, arrivals and passengers. The growing port saw a 5% rise in vessel tonnage compared to 2017, whilst cargo tonnage and offshore supply vessel tonnage increased by 3% and 6% respectively. (more…)

A £350 million harbour expansion is under way at the Bay of Nigg, which will begin to welcome cruise ships when it opens in 2020. Yvonne Cook, head of tourism development at Visit Aberdeenshire, described the new Aberdeen South Harbour as a “game changer” for the cruise market in the north-east. (eveningexpress.co.uk)

The 2018 cruise season has come to a close at Aberdeen Harbour with more than 3,000 passengers visiting the city – representing a 61% increase since 2017, according to a statement. (cruiseindustrynews.com)

The organisation successfully marketing Scottish ports to the international cruise industry has a new management team in what is proving another record-breaking season. The appointments follow Cruise Scotland’s agm and come ahead of participation at Seatrade Cruise Med in Lisbon later this month. (more…)

Scottish ports are looking to build on record years for cruise traffic by again targeting operators at the international industry’s biggest annual event this week. Marketing organisation, Cruise Scotland, which represents ports around the country, is exhibiting at Seatrade Cruise Global in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, (6-8 March), where members are promoting facilities and attractions before future vessel itineraries are decided by cruise lines. (more…)

More than a million people are expected to disembark at Scottish ports this year because of an unprecedented rise in the number of cruise ships visiting the country. (thetimes.co.uk)