In the third quarter of this year, cruise passenger traffic in the port terminals managed by Global Ports Holding (GPH), which is the world's leading independent operator in this traffic segment, reached a record share of over 5.1 million passengers, with an increase of +10.2% over the period July-September 2025. The new historical peak was recorded thanks to the new traffic record in the terminals located in the Central Mediterranean, Northern Europe and Northern Europe region Africa which amounted to almost 1.6 million passengers (+8,7%). Traffic in the Americas also grew sharply (2.0 million pax, +18.9%), in that of the western Mediterranean and Atlantic (1.0 million pax, +10.5%), while it was traffic in the Eastern Mediterranean region and of the Adriatic (874 thousand pax, -6.1%). In the remaining regions, the traffic was over 60 thousand passengers (+49.9%).