In the third quarter of this year, the cruise terminals managed by by Turkey's Global Ports Holding (GPH), which is the largest independent cruise industry, have recorded a traffic of over 4.6 million passengers, with a increase of +27.5% over the corresponding period of 2023, traffic that was generated by the calls of 1,369 ships (+25.5%). In in particular, the group's terminals in the Americas have landed at the 447 ships (+48.0%) for a total of almost 1.7 million passengers (+56.3%), in terminals in the western Mediterranean and on the coast Atlantic Ship of Europe and Africa, 300 ships docked (+6.8%) for a traffic of over 1.2 million passengers (+9.3%), terminals in the central Mediterranean recorded 301 calls ships (+44.0%) for a total of 888 thousand passengers (+17.6%) and terminals in the Mediterranean the calls of 314 ships (+9.0%) for 762 thousand passengers (+22.9%).

Parent company Global Investment Holdings (GIH) said In the first nine months of this year, port activities managed by GPH generated revenues of approximately 6.1 billion Turkish lira ($177 million), up +23% on the same period of 2023 net of the impact of IFRIC 12 relating to agreements for concession services that in the first nine months of 2024 amounted to 767.8 million Turkish lira and of 994.6 million in the corresponding period of last year. In the January-September period of this year port activities contributed to the Group's EBITDA GIH amounted to almost 3.8 billion Turkish lira (+22%).