In the first half of 2026, passenger traffic in the cruise terminal of Global Ports Holding (GPH), which is the world's leading independent terminal operator in the sector, is state of 9.5 million people, a total that represents a increase of +10.1% over the first half of 2025 and is the second highest ever, being only 6 thousand lower passengers at the all-time record of the second half of last year. In the first six months of 2026, cruise ships that docked at the The Group's terminals were 3,431 (+7.8%).

A slight decline in activity was recorded only the group's terminals in the Western Mediterranean and in the Atlantic, where traffic was 2.2 million passengers (-1.1%). On the other hand, traffic in terminals is growing in the Americas (5.6 million pax, +15.0%), in the Mediterranean Northern Europe and North Africa (1.0 million pax, +8.2%) and in the Eastern Mediterranean and in the Adriatic (567 thousand pax, +8.5%).

In the second quarter of 2026 alone, traffic was of 4.5 million cruise passengers, a total that represents an increase of +2.8% on the same period last year and is the most high for this time of year. In the Americas, the quarterly traffic was 2.1 million passengers (+8.0%), in the Central Mediterranean, Northern Europe and North Africa 846 thousand passengers (+8.1%), in the Eastern Mediterranean and in Adriatic of 532 thousand passengers (+7.4%) and in the Mediterranean Western and Atlantic of 943 thousand passengers (-15.2%).