Tagged: Québec City

The Port of Québec is proud to highlight having welcomed more than 92,000 cruise tourists during the 2022 season, after a two-year hiatus due to the pandemic. (more…)

The 2019 cruise ship season has come to a close and the Port of Québec and Québec City Tourism are sharing their year-end results, showing significant increases in embarkation and disembarkation operations. (more…)

In addition to being named the best Canadian port by Porthole Cruise magazine, the Port of Québec is continuing to grow and in 2018 experienced a major increase in the number of passengers it welcomed. (more…)

Québec City has commenced a project for the construction of a second cruise terminal at the Port at Berth 30. The terminal, to be completed by 2020, will allow the Port to accommodate ships with more than 4,000 passengers. (maritime-executive.com)

The cruise season for the Port of Quebec starts on May 4 as the Veendam from Holland America Line is scheduled to dock at the Ross Gaudreault Cruise Terminal. (cruiseindustrynews.com)

Québec City has reported that the cruise passenger count has reached an all time high of 201,000 for 2017, an increase of over 30% from 2016. The port welcomed a total of 132 ships that made 118 port calls and 14 turnarounds. Five maiden calls were made from Ponant, Norwegian Cruise Line, Silversea, and Viking. (cruiseindustrynews.com)

The Port of Québec officially launched operations at Quai Paquet on October 1 with the arrival of the Saga Saphire, the first ship to call at the wharf. With a record number of cruise ships calling at Québec City this season, the additional berthing options at the Quai Paquet will offer accommodation and a new option for vessels. (cruiseindustrynews.com)

Québec City has announced its first ever Cruise Month, which will kick off September 16, 2017 and run through October 16. Québec’s Cruise Month will celebrate a booming cruise industry in the region, according to a statement. (cruiseindustrynews.com)

They unpaved a parking lot and put up paradise. On June 11 in Quebec City, members of Parliament and local government, residents and passengers from Holland America’s Maasdam joined in inaugurating Place des Canotiers, a new public park (formerly a parking lot) in front of the Ross Gaudrault Cruise Terminal. (cruisecritic.com)

Citing a record season, Quebec City has announced an agreement to provide additional cruise berthing options at the Quai Paquet. The agreement with the Ville de Lévis for use of the Quai Paquet offers the opportunity to accommodate more vessels, giving cruise lines a variety of berthing options. (cruiseindustrynews.com)

The Port of Québec’s international cruise season officially began this week with the arrival of Holland America Line’s Veedam at the Ross Gaudreault Cruise Terminal. For the 2017 season, the 1,627-passenger ship will make 18 calls. (travelagentcentral.com)

The Port of Quebec is expecting to set an all-time record this year with some 200,000 cruise passengers, according to Caroline Tetu of Tourisme Quebec. (cruiseindustrynews.com)

The international cruise season officially begins at the Port of Québec on last Friday, with the arrival of this year’s very first cruise ship, the Holland America Lines (HAL) vessel Veendam from Boston, at the Ross Gaudreault Cruise Terminal. (more…)

The Port of Quebec has announced 2015 was a record year with 29 ships calling a total of 122 times with over 168,000 passengers and crew. (cruiseindustrynews.com)

About 7,500 litres of diesel fuel have leaked into the St. Lawrence River from a cruise ship docked in Quebec City. (montrealgazette.com)

Quebec City is promoting the 2015 cruises to and from the Canadian city. Altogether 38 cruises will start or end in Quebec this summer and fall. (cruiseindustrynews.com)

Quebec City handled six ships, in addition to the not-in-service Veendam, and more than 20,000 passengers in stride on October 3, highlighting what good communication between a port authority and a city can do. (cruiseindustrynews.com)