Seven ships are visiting the River Mersey, UK, for the first time in 2012.

Three of these belong to Saga, Saga Pearl, Saga Sapphire and Quest for Adventure. The remaining four are Princess Cruises’ Caribbean Princess, AIDA Cruises’ AIDAcara, P&O Cruises’ Adonia and Phoenix Reisen’s Albatros. 

On July 19 Cork accommodated three ships in one day for the first time in its history, carrying about 7,000 passengers and crew.

Invergordon has achieved another first, with the greatest number of passengers ever to arrive in the town on one ship.

On July 13, 12,000 passengers from six ships visited Bergen.

 Guides from Venezuela, Brazil, Italy and Russia went through a 150-hour winter guide training programme in Aarhus, beginning work on Princess Cruises’ Emerald Princess when she visited on May 22.

Dover Harbour Board stated that an operational highlight for 2010 was 167 calls and more than 300,000 passengers.

Goteborg has seven turnaround and 52 transit calls this year carrying 4,000 and 65,000 passengers respectively.

Falmouth is awaiting the outcome of its application for a licence to dredge the port and build a new 400m-long quay.

Aarhus will be greeting Queen Mary 2 on August 12.

Cruise Hardangerfjord (CH), now permanently based in Eifjord, has joined Cruise Europe.