Day: 13 September 2017
Cypriot Minister cites ports as examples of international investment opportunities
Limassol, Cyprus (Ports Europe) September 13, 2017 – Cypriot Minister of Transport Marios Demetriades has opened the 2nd Cyprus International Investors...
Yuzhny port starts coal imports
Yuzhny, Ukraine (Ports Europe) September 13, 2017 – The southern Black Sea port of Yuzhny has received .the first vessel carrying 62,000 tons of coal....
Volos Port Authority publishers works progress
Volos, Greece (Ports Europe) September 13, 2017 – Volos Port Authority, OLB S.A., has published an update on the local projects completed or being...
Ferrovie dello stato Italiane to takeover TrainOSE
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) September 13, 2017 – Italian state-owned railway company Ferrovie dello stato Italiane will sign a final agreement to take...
Event – LNG: The meeting point for marine, transport & energy sector in Cyprus, Limassol, September 29, 2017
Limassol, Cyprus (Ports Europe) September 13, 2017 – The Conference entitled “LNG: the meeting point for Marine, Transport & Energy sector in...
VARD awarded specialist cruise vessel contract
Tulcea, Romania (Ports Europe) September 13, 2017 – Shipbuilder Vard has been awarded a contract by Coral Expeditions of Australia to design and...
Kazakhstan promotes logistics capabilities in Odessa
Odessa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) September 13, 2017 – Kanat Alpysbaev, the head of Kazakhstan’s national railways company Kazakhstan Temir Zholy (KTZ),...
Valencia port’s trade with Cuba grows
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) September 13, 2017 – Valencia port boosted its cargo traffic with Cuba in 2016. It amounted to 235,000 tonnes last year,...
Cádiz port cargo traffic stays flat y/y in Jan-July 2017
Cádiz, Spain (Ports Europe) September 13, 2017 – Cádiz port handled 2.22 million tonnes of cargo in the first seven months of 2017, practically equal to...
Spain’s OHL starts container transhipment operations at Tenerife port
Tenerife, Spain (Ports Europe) September 13, 2017 – Spanish company Obrascon Huarte Lain S.A. (OHL) has started container transhipment operations at...
Bilbao port okays Progeco concession amendment
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) September 13, 2017 – Bilbao port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Bilbao) has given the green light to the modification of the...
Croatian government cuts stake in Luka Rijeka to 25%
Rijeka, Croatia (Ports Europe) September 13, 2017 – Croatia’s government saw its stake in the capital of Luka Rijeka d.d., the operator of Rijeka port,...
Italy’s Costa Cruises starts construction of its first LNG-fired ship
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) September 13, 2017 – Italian company Costa Cruises, a subsidiary of Carnival Corporation, has said it started the construction of...
Leixões port keeps breaking container traffic records
Leixões, Portugal (Ports Europe) September 13, 2017 – Leixões port keeps breaking records in the container traffic segment and managed to exceed 3,000...
Constanta port to host Silk Road forum
Constanta, Romania (Ports Europe) September 13, 2017 – The Silk Road Summit has been organized event by Compania Naţională Administraţia Porturilor...
Copelouzos group interested in Alexandroupolis port
Thessaloniki, Greece (Ports Europe) September 12, 2017 – The Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund (HRADF/TAIPED) has been attending the Thessaloniki...
Event – SmartCity Marseille Méditerranée Forum, September 14-17, 2017, Marseille
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) September 13, 2017 – The third edition of the SmartCity Marseille Méditerranée Forum will take place in Marseille...