Day: 21 September 2017
Spanish government to introduce environmental sustainability criteria in ports law
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) September 20, 2017 – Spain’s government plans to start working on the amendment of the Ports Law in the country in...
Spain’s Puertos del Estado president says port mergers are not needed
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) September 20, 2017 – Spain does not need any mergers of port authorities as the current management structure allows the...
Valencia port books record-high container traffic in August
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) September 20, 2017 – Valencia port recorded the best month of August ever in terms of container traffic. The harbour’s...
Balearic ports cargo traffic rises 7% y/y in H1 2017
Palma de Mallorca, Spain (Ports Europe) September 20, 2017 – Balearic Islands ports handled 6.2 million tonnes of cargo in the first half of 2017, up 7% on...
Balearic port authority launches probe into Solvalgaray
Savina, Spain (Ports Europe) September 20, 2017 – Balearic Islands port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Baleares) has launched a probe into Spanish company...
US president’s protectionist strategy can cost dear to Italy
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) September 21, 2017 – The “America First” trade strategy of US president Donald Trump could cost dear to Italy...
Damen Shipyards plans to establish service hub in Novorossiysk
Novorossiysk, Russia (Ports Europe) September 21, 2017 – Damen Shipyards Group is to establish a service hub in the Russian port of Novorossiysk in a...
Filyos Industrial Zone in Western Black Sea to attract $2 billion investment
Istanbul, Turkey (Ports Europe) September 21, 2017 – The groundbreaking ceremony for Filyos Port, which is going to be third largest port in Turkey, took...
Burgas to host the next stop of the European Maritime Day cruise
Burgas, Bulgaria (Ports Europe) September 21, 2017 – The next stop of the European Maritime Day cruise is on May 31-June 1, 2018 in Burgas, on...
EU holds maritime event in Batumi, Georgia
Batumi, Georgia (Ports Europe) September 20, 2017 – On September 15 the EU held the “Connecting the region through marine and maritime...
Call for tenders to establish a Blue Bioeconomy Forum
Brussels, Belgium (Ports Europe) September 21, 2017 – The Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (EASME) has issued a tender to set up...