Medcruise 2011/12 Yearbook
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10/11/10 13:09:48 A Directory of Cruise Ports & Professionals & Professionals Ports A Directory of Cruise & Adjoining Seas in the Mediterranean Yearbook MedCruise 2011/12 MedCruise cover indd 1 MedCruise 2011/12 Yearbook MedCruise YB 11-12 Cover 11/11/2010 15:13 Page 1 IFC-01 Table of Contentsnew-fi 15/11/10 10:14 Page 1 MedCruise is the Association of Mediterranean Cruise Ports. MedCruise’s mission is to promote the cruise industry in the Mediterranean and its adjoining seas. The Association assists its members in benefiting from the growth of the cruise industry by providing networking, promotional and professional development opportunities. Today, the Association has grown to 64 regular members representing more than 90 ports around the Mediterranean region, including the Black Sea, the Red Sea and the Near Atlantic, plus 28 associate members, representing other associations, tourist boards and ship/port agents. IFC-01 Table of Contentsnew-fi 15/11/10 10:14 Page 2 Table of Contents Member ports map 2-3 Celebrating 15 years 7 Welcome messages 4-6 Statistics 8 MEDCRUISE PORT MEMBERS Alanya 9 Igoumenitsa 30 Ravenna 51 Alicante 10 Istanbul 31 Rijeka 52 Almeria 11 Koper 32 Rize 53 Azores 12 Kos 33 Sète 54 Balearic Islands 13 La Spezia 34 Sevastopol 55 Barcelona 14 Lattakia 35 Sibenik 56 Bari 15 Lisbon 36 Sinop 57 Batumi 16 Livorno 37 Sochi 58 Burgas 17 Madeira ports 38 Split 59 Cagliari 18 Malaga 39 Tarragona 60 Cartagena 19 Marseille 40 Toulon-Var-Provence 61 Castellon 20 Messina 41 Trieste 62 Ceuta 21 Monaco 42 Tunisian ports 63 Civitavecchia 22 Motril-Granada 43 Valencia 64 Constantza 23 Naples 44 Valletta 65 Cyprus ports 24 North Sardinian ports 45 Venice 66 Dubrovnik, Korcula 25 Odessa 46 Volos 67 French Riviera ports 26 Palamos 47 Yalta 68 Genoa 27 Palermo 48 Zadar 69 Gibraltar 28 Patras 49 Heraklion 29 Portoferraio 50 MEDCRUISE ASSOCIATE MEMBERS ASSOCIATIONS Donomis Cruise Services - Volos 72 Mirco Santi Srl - Venice 74 European Cruise Council 70 Hugo Trumpy Srl - Livorno 72 Navigator Travel & Tourist Idu Shipping & Services - Services - Volos 74 TOURIST BOARDS Constantza 72 Navlomar Maritime - Turisme de Barcelona Inflot World Wide Inc - Sochi 72 Constantza 75 - Barcelona 70 Intercruises Shoreside & P&B Agencies - Barcelona 75 Port Services - Barcelona 73 Plaisant & C. Ship Agency Srl - SHIP/PORT AGENTS Karavanmar Cruise Services - Cagliari 75 Afrimar Tunisia - Tunisia 70 Alanya 73 Samer & Co Shipping - Trieste 75 Agena Tramp - Sète 70 Karpaten Turism Srl - Select Black Sea Ltd - Aloschi & Bassani - Venice 71 Constantza 73 Sevastopol 76 BC Tours & Shipping Londonskaya - Odessa 73 Top Class - Monaco 76 - Barcelona 71 Mercantile Marine Shipping - Transcoma Cruise & Travel - Cambiaso & Risso - Genoa 71 Tunisia 74 Barcelona 76 Cemar - Genoa 71 MH Bland - Gibraltar 74 Tura Turizm - Sinop 76 1 02-03 Map-fi-NEW-2 no contents 15/11/10 12:01 Page 1 A T L A N T I C O C E A N SLOVENIA FRANCE Trieste French MONACO Koper C Riviera Ports Venice Genoa Rijeka Sete Ravenna A D R I A T I PORTUGAL Marseille La Spezia Zada Toulon Sibe Livorno ITALY Lisbon Tarragona Palamos Portoferraio SPAIN Barcelona Castellon Civitavecchia C Valencia North Balearic Island Ports Portimao Sardinian Ports Alicante SARDINIA Naples Ba Malaga BALEARIC ISLANDS GIBRALTAR Almeria Motril Cartagena Cagliari Ceuta Palermo Messina SICILY MOROCCO Tunisian Ports Valletta PORTUGAL MALTA Azores (top) TUNISIA Madeira (bottom) AZORES MADEIRA PORTS 2 02-03 Map-fi-NEW-2 no contents 15/11/10 12:54 Page 2 UKRAINE RUSSIA Odessa CROATIA ROMANIA Theodosia Sevastopol Yalta Sochi Constantza GEORGIA D Zadar R I A SibenikT I C S E A B L A C K S E A Batumi Split BULGARIA Dubrovnik/Korcula Burgas Sinop Rize hia Istanbul s Bari A E G E A N S E A GREECE TURKEY Igoumenitsa Volos sina Patras Alanya Kos Lattakia SYRIA Heraklion CYPRUS TA Cyprus Ports Egyptian Ports EGYPT R E D S E A 3 04-08 Presidents welcome v7.qxd 15/11/10 10:19 Page 4 Giovanni Spadoni, PRESIDENT OF MEDCRUISE 2009-2012 am currently two-thirds into my MedCruise itineraries in a timely manner. presidency and am glad to report the Through port benchmarking, training and IAssociation’s membership is standing at an workshops, members will be able to gauge their all time record of 64 port members and 28 present activities and by adopting best practices associate members representing more than 90 for services and facilities, they can aim to improve ports in 21 countries, spanning the entire where required. Expanding the high season to Mediterranean and adjoining seas. include winter months will also make room for Despite this success, we have to continue to more growth in our seas. expand the number of ports in the Eastern and Thanks to the efforts of our very professional Southern Med regions and in the Black Sea where Board directors and staff, present and past, we we still have potential to grow. have created a sort of new “culture” which is the To do this we work at offering new services and true value of our association, which we have to new opportunities, particularly to the smaller ports, maintain and promote. This culture is based on that through the Association they can grow their cruise business understanding our clients’ requirements, but also in a strong and at the same time offer alternative gateways to the cruise lines, consciousness about our strength as ports working together in the particularly to destinations in high demand. common interest and benefit of our countries. Challenges currently being addressed by the Association We at MedCruise are very proud of our trans-national and include managing congestion at MedCruise marquee ports, and multi-cultural roots and can be taken as an example for through the Unified Mediterranean Berth Booking Process developing and promoting these values for the advantage of the (UMBBP), we aim to at least detect the possible clashing of whole industry. Welcome Messages Carla Salvadó José Torrado SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT - BARCELONA, SPAIN VICE PRESIDENT - CEUTA, SPAIN PROMOTION/EXTERNAL RELATIONS/WESTERN MED-ATLANTIC FINANCE/PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT edCruise has always pushed its s vice president, I am responsible port members to invest in for the Association’s finances and Madequate infrastructure and Afor its ongoing efforts in facilities and to offer the necessary providing the membership with services to meet with this increasing professional development opportunities. demand with a quality offer. The port As director of finance, I ensure that members have done so and they keep on through our audit process we keep a doing so. tight control over our income and Nowadays MedCruise’s objective is expenditures and maintain our approved focused on promoting the new investments and services that annual budgets. our membership offers to the industry as well as the new Regarding professional development, in 2007, during my member ports that are joining the association adding last term, MedCruise established its first professional alternative itineraries and new destinations for our clients. development course entitled “ports and passenger shipping”, MedCruise, through its promotion efforts, offers its members and the Association prepares itself for the course’s third the ideal media platform to communicate with their clients and edition in 2011. The purpose of this four-day course is to industry stakeholders. enhance our port managers’ skills in developing first class Our association believes in the collaboration not only cruise ports. We bring the port managers to work together between ports but also with other players. That's the reason with cruise line managers and other industry experts on why we work on maintaining a close relationship with other cruise port development case studies using the industry’s best associations, such as the European Cruise Council, European practices. In 2011, MedCruise initiates a new programme of Sea Ports Organisation, Cruise Line International Association, day-long seminars with experts on specific topics of interest and many others. to cruise port managers, such as cruise port infrastructure, cruise port finance and management, and passenger port security, as examples. MedCruise continues offering professional development opportunities to its member ports with the clear intent of improving the efficiency of our cruise ports, the careers of our port managers, and our relations with cruise industry experts. 4 04-08 Presidents welcome v7.qxd 15/11/10 10:19 Page 5 Bojan Babic Yiannakis Kokkinos KOPER, SLOVENIA CYPRUS BENCHMARKING/MEMBERSHIP ECONOMIC STUDIES/PORT FINANCE enchmarking entails analysing and his is my third and final term on the sharing quantitative and Board of Directors. Having been Bqualitative measures that Tresponsible for socioeconomic and demonstrate the effective and efficient other studies, I feel that MedCruise has management of cruise ports. MedCruise done well in this sphere, not only by represents over 80 cruise ports, all of participating and/or collaborating with which benefit from shared information on other similar organisations but also by the latest best practices of cruise port endeavouring in its own exclusive work on management. While we gather related issues. benchmarking data, we are also collecting important I would like to make specific reference to seminars and information on the collection of port fees. studies organised and carried out jointly by ECC and ourselves, As director of membership, in addition to extending our as well as to particular studies financed by MedCruise, such as invitation to cruise ports to join the Association, I am the pending “Port Finance” which is expected to materialise in responsible for ensuring expanded services to the members and 2011. MedCruise’s role in the “Emissions Study” by Policy working with MedCruise associate members, which represent Research Corporation was also instrumental and mutually ship agents, tourist boards and industry associations.