Home Cybercruises.com | Links | Lines | Agencies | Specials | Forum | Articles | Ship List | Newsletter | Advertise | Cruise Ports | Orderbook | Retired Ships | About us / Privacy Stat
Dover Cruise will welcome Viking’s newest ocean ship, the Viking Vela for the first visit of its 2025 cruise season on Tuesday 25th March. She will be one of eight inaugural calls this year, with Ponant’s Le Bellot following on 5th May. (more…)
Posted in: News
SCH is delighted to announce the renewal of its Cruise Services contract with Portsmouth International Port, securing operations for up to the next 10 years. (more…)
Posted in: News
Dover Cruise’s action-packed 2025 season begins next month, with eight inaugural calls and seven cruise lines choosing the Port as their UK embarkation hub for adventures that bring together some of the world’s greatest landscapes. (more…)
Posted in: News
CruiseAberdeenshire, a partnership between Port of Aberdeen and VisitAberdeenshire, is preparing for a landmark year with nearly a 30% surge in cruise calls and the return of world-famous Tall Ships Races to the city for the first time in 28 years. (more…)
Posted in: News
The SEA Award, led by the Port of Dover, has been awarded to NYK’s Asuka II, with Seabourn Ovation and Viking Venus also scoring highly. (more…)
Posted in: News
Belfast Harbour has unveiled a bold new strategy which will see its cruise offering enhanced with the development of a new £90m deepwater quay to accommodate some of the world’s largest cruise vessels. (more…)
Posted in: News
2024 was another bumper year for cruise industry activity at Associated British Ports (ABP) Southampton, officially Northern Europe’s number one cruise turnaround port and the UK’s leading cruise port. (more…)
Posted in: News
Portland Port in Dorset is looking ahead to a bumper 2025 after it welcomed more than 117,000 passengers on a total of 52 cruise ships during 2024. (more…)
Posted in: News
Today (Thursday 9 January) Portsmouth International Port welcomed their first maiden call of the year, and a UK first, when Viking Cruises’s brand new Viking Vela sailed into the city. (more…)
Posted in: News
Portsmouth International Port has officially launched its cruise schedule for 2025. Announcing its highest number of calls to date, 94 cruise ships will sail into Portsmouth harbour during the next 12 months. (more…)
Posted in: News
Cruise Britain’s annual winter event in London closed the association’s year on a high note and was the perfect springboard to 2025. (more…)
Posted in: Event / Convention / Exhibition / News
CruiseAberdeenshire, a new partnership between VisitAberdeenshire and Port of Aberdeen, has been launched with the goal of promoting the region to the international cruise market and securing business for future years. (more…)
Posted in: News
AIDALuna kick-started and closed another successful year for Port of Dover Cruise, leaving earlier this month for Spain, before spending the winter in the Caribbean. (more…)
Posted in: News
Portsmouth International Port has been named Best Port for the second year in a row at the industry renowned Wave Awards – known internationally as the “Oscars for cruise”. (more…)
Posted in: News
Tilbury on the Thames Trust in Partnership with The Port of Tilbury is celebrating the achievement of securing an incredible £4.5m in funding from The National Lottery Heritage Fund to deliver its ambitious plans to fully refurbish Tilbury’s Grade II listed historic Riverside Railway Station to bring the historic landmark back to life as a vibrant community location. (more…)
Posted in: News
Five European port and destination cruise associations have announced a strategic alliance marking a significant step forward in regional and international collaboration focussed on developing sustainable solutions to tourism and environmental challenges. (more…)
Posted in: News
Virgin Voyages’ ‘Resilient Lady’ set sail from Portsmouth for the final time this year, marking the end of a spectacular summer season, with over 25,000 passengers travelling from the city. (more…)
Posted in: News
Celebrating 25 years of cruising, the Port of Tyne marks a milestone with record-breaking growth in 2023, welcoming 710,000 passengers via cruise and ferry and contributing significantly to the North East’s thriving economy. (more…)
Posted in: News
Portsmouth International Port has been named ‘Port of the Year’ at the 2024 Seatrade Cruise awards – one of the most prestigious awards in the industry. (more…)
Posted in: Event / Convention / Exhibition / News
Dover Cruise has said goodbye to Carnival Legend for this year, as she sailed away from her UK homeport on 18th August after seven turnaround calls throughout the summer. (more…)
Posted in: News
Port of Aberdeen set a new benchmark for its capability and capacity as it welcomed the spectacular 290-metre long Costa Favolosa cruise ship, the largest vessel to visit the port in its 888-year history. (more…)
Posted in: News
Posted in: News
Unscheduled cruise calls at Portland Port over the summer so far have boosted the local economy by a bumper £750,000. (more…)
Posted in: News
Last weekend saw Spirit of Discovery return to Dover for the first time in 2024, joining her sister Spirit of Adventure in operating their summer season of 20 cruises departing from the Port. (more…)
Posted in: News
Port of Aberdeen today (14 June 2024) celebrated a historic occasion as it welcomed the 245m-long cruise ship, Ambience, the longest vessel ever to visit the port. (more…)
Posted in: News
Forth Ports tugs welcomed Cunard’s new cruise ship, the Queen Anne, into the River Forth on 26 May with a spectacular water cannon salute led by local piper Louise Marshall to mark the ship’s maiden voyage into South Queensferry. (more…)
Posted in: News
Compagnie Française de Croisières (CFC) Renaissance, Seabourn Venture and TUI Mein Schiff 4 all sailed into Dover over the past week for inaugural port of call visits. (more…)
Posted in: News
The small port of Dartmouth, Devon, on the UK’s South West coast, experienced its busiest week on record during the first week of May. (more…)
Posted in: News
Portsmouth International Port has once again been recognised for their ground-breaking sustainability work, with the port shortlisted for a Sailawaze award. (more…)
Posted in: News
Cruise Ireland and The Port of Cork Company are proud to announce a landmark partnership between Cruise Ireland and Cruise Britain, aimed at fostering collaboration and driving growth in the cruise business sector. (more…)
Posted in: News
Global Ports Holding Plc (GPH), the world’s largest independent cruise port operator, has signed a 50-year agreement with Peel Ports Group’s subsidiary, The Mersey Docks and Harbour Company Ltd, to operate services at Liverpool Cruise Terminal. (more…)
Posted in: News
Port of Dover has won a third certification through the EcoPorts’ environmental management standard (PERS). (more…)
Posted in: News
The cruise sector successfully bounced back for ports and service providers around the UK in 2023 with record guest and call numbers from north to south, east to west. (more…)
Posted in: News
Since Portsmouth International Port’s terminal extension opened in August 2023, a report has shown 75,000 passengers have made use of the new facility, arriving and departing for their cruise. (more…)
Posted in: News
Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines is the first cruise operator to depart from Newcastle this year. Balmoral set sail on its first cruise of the season from the Port of Tyne, taking passengers on a nine-night ‘In Search of the Northern Lights’ voyage. (more…)
Posted in: News
The 2024 cruise season at the Port of Dover officially begins next month, with four consecutive weekly port of call visits from AIDA Cruises. (more…)
Posted in: News
ABB is appointed primary contractor as part of Portsmouth International Port’s Sea Change project. The Sea Change project will design, build and operate a shore power project across the port’s three busiest berths. (more…)
Posted in: News
The arrival of AIDAsol at Portland Port has heralded the start of the UK port’s cruise season. (more…)
Posted in: News
Kicking off 2024 as Cruise Critic’s Best UK Departure Port, Dover is ready for an exciting year ahead. (more…)
Posted in: News
The cruise sector has made a record contribution to the local economy in 2023. More than 460 cruise vessel calls and 2.6 million passengers visiting Southampton have generated more than £1 billion for the local and regional economy. (more…)
Posted in: News
