Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) April 16, 2018 – Valenciaport Foundation is developing a training programme on fishing-tourism for the fishing sector of the Valencian region, as part of ... Read more
Avilés, Spain (PortSEurope) April 9, 2018 – Avilés port increased fishing between January and February by 5.3%, compared to the like period of last year, up to 1,519 landed tonnes, while Gij... Read more
Vilagarcía, Spain (PortSEurope) April 9, 2018 – Vilagarcía is submitting a public information request to extend the initial concession period requested by Cefrico SL in the port’s serv... Read more
Sassari, Sardinia, Italy (PortSEurope) April 6, 2018 – Sardinian companies operating in the nautical sector will be able to receive financial support under the form of vouchers as part of th... Read more
Las Palmas, Spain (PortSEurope) April 4, 2018 – The president of Las Palmas port authority, Luis Ibarra, along with the manager of the Port of Las Palmas Foundation, Sergio Galván, and the p... Read more
Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain (PortSEurope) March 27, 2018 – The director of Ports of Las Palmas, Salvador Capella, accompanied by commercial director, Juan Francisco Martín, have... Read more
Madrid, Spain (PortSEurope) March 25, 2018 – The state-owned authority for ports, Puertos del Estado, has reported fish landed by Spanish ports in January 2018. The total catch was 12,... Read more
Pescara, Italy (PortSEurope) March 21, 2018 – With the approval of Municipal Building Regulations, the project for the redevelopment of the docks of the Pescara port, with the support... Read more
Ancona, Italy (PortSEurope) March 13, 2018 – A total of 17 parties have responded to a tender by Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mare Adriatico (AdSP – Central Adriatic Sea Po... Read more
European Commission – Press Release – March 8, 2018 Brussels A multi-annual plan to bring more stability, transparency and sustainability to western Mediterranean fisheries. Toda... Read more
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) March 7, 2018 – The Secretary General of Fisheries, Alberto López-Asenjo, has signed a protocol in Barcelona with the employers’ Small and Medium E... Read more
Seville, Spain (PortSEurope) March 2, 2018 – The Ministry of Development and Housing, through Agencia Pública de Puertos de Andalucía (APPA – Public Ports Agency of Andalusia), h... Read more
Conference of Peripheral Maritime Regions, 26 February 2018 The Conference of Peripheral Maritime Regions’s (CPMR) member regions are being invited to provide input into the proposal f... Read more
Conference of Peripheral Maritime Regions, 26 February 2018 A CPMR meeting on the future of the post-2020 European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF) took place on 30-31 January in Brussels.... Read more
Conference of Peripheral Maritime Regions, 26 February 2018 The Conference of Peripheral Maritime Regions’ (CPMR) Atlantic Arc Commission (AAC) held its hub meetings for the second yea... Read more
The Conference of Peripheral Maritime Region, 26 February 2018 The Conference of Peripheral Maritime Region’s (CPMR) Balkan and Black Sea Commission (BBSC) will take part in the 9th In... Read more
Conference of Peripheral Maritime Regions (CPMR), 26 February 2018 The Conference of Peripheral Maritime Regions’ (CPMR) Intermediterranean Commission (IMC) held its latest Political B... Read more
European Commission – Fisheries – Press Release – 26 February 2018 The EU’s 2013-2020 Atlantic Action Plan has spurred over 1200 new maritime projects and nearly 6 bi... Read more
Málaga, Spain (PortSEurope) February 25, 2018 – The Ministry of Development and Housing, through Agencia Pública de Puertos de Andalucía (APPA – Public Ports of Andalusia Agency)... Read more
Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) February 25, 2018 – Biomarine is a business platform linked to biomarine resources and, to encourage the participation of national companies, the Ministr... Read more
Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) February 21, 2018 – The Blue School Program, the national ocean literacy project, has been launched this Tuesday in Matosinhos by Minister of the Sea, An... Read more
Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) February 14, 2018 – In the next 15 years, the maritime industry will have to double its number of professional employees in Portugal, in order to manage... Read more
European Commission Press Release February 8, 2018 When you look out over the ocean what do you see? If the answer is new sources of food security, new medical breakthroughs, clean blue ener... Read more
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) January 29, 2018 – The second TOURISMED project meeting is currently being held in Cyprus. The objective of TOURISMED is to deepen in the possible busines... Read more
TOURISMED – Fishing tourism for sustainable development in the Mediterranean area, January 2018 The project TOURISMED aims to develop a fishing tourism offer that is compatible with th... Read more
European Fisheries Control Agency Vigo, Spain, January 24, 2018 The General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM) has recently issued a recommendation regarding a multiannual man... Read more
Brussels, Belgium (PortSEurope) January 26, 2018 – Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) has signed to join the Malta MedFish4Ever Declaration, a multilateral strategy, proposed by the European... Read more
A Coruña, Spain (PortSEurope) January 19, 2018 – Fresh fish traffic in the port of A Coruña has reached the second highest figure of the century in 2017 with 51,102 tonnes and an increase of... Read more
Seville, Spain (PortSEurope) January 17, 2018 – The Andalusian ports owned by the central Spanish government handled 23,539 tonnes of fresh fish in the first eleven months of 2017, up 4.5% o... Read more
EU-Morocco Fisheries Partnership: launch of the negotiations for a new protocol – January 8, 2018 The European Commission has adopted a recommendation that aims at obtaining authorisat... Read more
London, United Kingdom (PortSEurope) January 9, 2018 – On December 31, 2017, the British Ports Association (BPA) published a detailed report on the post-Brexit challenges to the fishin... Read more
Vigo, Spain (PortSEurope) January 9, 2018 – The United Kingdom has joined measures taken by Ireland to lure the handling of fresh fish cargo from Spain’s Vigo port. The British Ports A... Read more
Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) January 4, 2018 – From 28 December 2017 to 26 February 2018, applications for measures to support the Increase of Potential of Aquaculture Sites (notice... Read more
Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) January 4, 2018 – PwC will present the 8th edition of the study “LEME – PwC Barometer of the Economy of the Sea (Portugal)” and the 3rd... Read more
31 December 2017 UK Fishing Ports Call for Bold Vision from Ministers Ahead of New Year Fisheries Bill British Ports Association publishes new research revealing post-Brexit challenges and o... Read more
Cádiz, Spain (PortSEurope) January 3, 2018 – Cádiz port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de la Bahía de Cádiz) has given the green light to the project for the modification of the rules of a c... Read more
A Coruña, Spain (PortSEurope) January 3, 2018 – A Coruña port posted the highest growth of fresh fish handled in the first eleven months of 2017 among the ports in Spain. In A Coruña, the to... Read more
Vigo, Spain (PortSEurope) January 3, 2018 – Ireland’s government has chosen Castletownbere to build a warehouse for the storage of fresh and frozen fish, in order to gain market share... Read more
Conference of Peripheral Maritime Regions, December 13, 2017 The CPMR took part in the BLUES project’s kick-off meeting on 13-14 December in Piraeus, Greece. The BLUES (BLUe growth connects ... Read more
Conference of Peripheral Maritime Regions, 14 December 2017 The Blue Growth Community, driven by the InnoBlueGrowth project (Interreg MED), held its second transnational event on Blue Energi... Read more
Huelva, Spain (PortSEurope) December 13, 2017 – The Minister of Development and Housing of the Junta de Andalucía, Felipe López, announced this Wednesday during his visit to the port o... Read more
Union for the Mediterranean – Naples, Italy, November 8, 2017 With 46,000km coastline and unique marine and fisheries resources, the Mediterranean Sea represents the fifth largest econ... Read more
Vigo, Spain (PortSEurope) November 24, 2017 – Vigo port cargo traffic grew by 16.6% on the year in October, the president of Vigo port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Vigo), Enrique López... Read more
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) November 23, 2017 – The 3rd Steering Committee of the CO-EVOLVE project (Promoting the co-evolution of human activities and natural systems for the develo... Read more
European Commission – 21 November 2017 Ahead of the December Fisheries Council, where EU Member States will agree fishing quotas for 2018, the Commission has tabled its proposal on cat... Read more
Paris, France (PortSEurope) November 21, 2017 – Edouard Philippe, Prime Minister, has detailed the government’s maritime policy to revive the French ports. “I want France t... Read more
Trapani, Italy (PortSEurope) November 16, 2017 – Sicily regional government has agreed on a €486,525 ($573,275) funding from the European Union (EU) for works at the Cornino Custonaci port,... Read more
Brussels, Belgium, November 9, 2017 In a rapid follow-up to the EU-hosted 2017 Our Ocean conference, and in the run-up to the COP23 Ocean Day in Bonn (11 November), the European Commission t... Read more
Sines, Portugal (PortSEurope) November 11, 2017 – The Portuguese Secretary of State for Fisheries has said in the port of Sines that Portugal is committed to ensuring the sustainabilit... Read more
Pasaia, Spain (PortSEurope) November 9, 2017 – The board of directors of Pasaia port authority (Autoridad Poruaria de Pasaia) approved a €5 million ($5.8 million) investment in the urb... Read more