Africa-Press – Cape verde. The cruise season in Cape Verde begins Tuesday, and the country expects to receive more than one hundred port calls, putting into service the new terminal on the island of São Vicente, which receives more ships every year.
“Throughout the season, which runs until June 2026, national ports are expected to receive more than one hundred port calls and tens of thousands of visitors,” Enapor said in a statement today.
The start of this 2025-2026 season “is of particular importance, as it coincides with the official start of operations of the Mindelo cruise terminal,” it added.
The infrastructure was designed by Portuguese architect Luís Pedro Silva and construction began in 2022 by a Portuguese-Cape Verdean consortium formed by the companies Mota-Engil and Empreitel Figueiredo.
The terminal opened in June and can accommodate more port calls and larger vessels, as it has a 400-meter by 20-meter wide pier.
In practice, this tourism-focused port will have the capacity to handle two cruise ships simultaneously and up to 6,000 passengers.
The cruise sector has been growing in Cape Verde, and in the 2023/24 season, Cape Verdean ports received 220 ships and nearly 91,000 passengers, “with Porto Grande (Mindelo) receiving the largest number of calls,” thus benefiting from a new terminal, Enapor said.
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