Kumport, Turkey (PortSEurope) June 19, 2018 – Kumport Liman Hizmetleri ve Lojistik Sanayi ve Ticaret A.Ş, part of China’s COSCO Shipping Ports Limited, has reported May 2018 container terminal statistics. Monthly throughput in May 2018 was 107.1... Read more
Port Said, Egypt (PortSEurope) June 19, 2018 – Suez Canal Container Terminal S.A.E., part of China’s COSCO Shipping Ports Limited, has reported May 2018 container terminal statistics. Monthly throughput in May 2018 was 217.5k TEU, compared to 19... Read more
Piraeus, Greece (PortSEurope) June 19, 2018 – Piraeus Container Terminal S.A., part of China’s COSCO Shipping Ports Limited, has reported May 2018 container terminal statistics. Monthly throughput in May 2018 was 360.5k TEU compared to 309k TEU... Read more
Vado Ligure, Italy (PortSEurope) June 19, 2018 – Reefer Terminal S.p.A., operated by China’s COSCO Shipping Ports Limited, has reported May 2018 container terminal statistics. Monthly throughput in May 2018 was 5,800 TEU (4,300 in April 2017); y... Read more
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) June 19, 2018 – Noatum Port Holdings, operated by China’s COSCO Shipping Ports Limited, has reported May 2018 container terminal statistics. Monthly throughput in May 2018 was 323.7 k TEU; year-to-date is 1,463.3 k.... Read more
Palermo, Italy (PortSEurope) June 18, 2018 – Strengthening the administrative anti-mafia prevention in work orders, services and suppliers of Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mare di Sicilia Occidentale (AdSP – Western Sicilian Sea... Read more
Naples, Italy (PortSEurope) June 18, 2018 – At a meeting in Naples port, Angopi (Associazione nazionale Gruppi Ormeggiatori e Barcaioli Porti Italiani – national association of groups of mooring and boatmen of Italian ports) said tha... Read more
Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) June 18, 2018 – The partnership between the Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Ligure Occidentale (AdSP – Western Ligurian Sea Port Authority) and Banca Carige SpA has been renewed for a further five yea... Read more
Milan, Italy, June 18, 2018 – Hannibal, the Contship Italia Group’s multimodal transport operator, is launching a second rail link to Switzerland on 2 July 2018. The new daily connection to Zurich (Niederglatt) complements the existi... Read more
Marseille, France (PortSEurope) June 18, 2018 – France Helvetia Express is the name of the cargo rail service linking the Grand Port of Marseille and Haropa Port de Le Havre. The port of Marseille Fos, Haropa (alliance of the ports of Le H... Read more
Gijón, Spain (PortSEurope) June 19, 2018 – Gijón port has tendered at €55,001 ($63,887) the refurbishment of the Candás lighthouse, to protect its entire structure and renew its electrical installation. The lighthouse, located in Cabo de San Ant... Read more
Las Palmas, Spain (PortSEurope) June 19, 2018 – Las Palmas port applied during 2017 bonuses on fees for a value of €10,051,000 ($11,673,000). This amount represents an increase of 35.26% on the year. The bonuses, agreed by the board of directors... Read more
Vigo, Spain (PortSEurope) June 19, 2018 – Comision Nacional de los Mercados y de la Competencia (CNMC – National Commission of Markets and Competition) has described as a very serious infringement agreements between trade unions and compan... Read more
Málaga, Spain (PortSEurope) June 19, 2018 – Noatum Terminals, which manages the facilities of Pier 9 of Málaga port, has decided to attract leading container traffic lines, after the two years after cranes available for this type of freight tran... Read more
Piraeus, Greece (PortSEurope) June 18, 2018 – The Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT) has announced data on traffic of passengers, goods and mobile units in the Greek ports for the 4th quarter 2017. Key points: • The total passenger tr... Read more
Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain (PortSEurope) June 18, 2018 – Granadilla port will become a logistics area for wind turbines in the Canary Islands, under a contract where logistics operatorsPérez Torres Marítima and Pérez Torres Marítima S... Read more
Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain (PortSEurope) June 18, 2018 – Autoridad Portuaria de Las Palmas (Port Authority of Las Palmas), under the presidency of Juan José Cardona, to discuss: approval of the project for the extension of the bert... Read more
Tarragona, Spain (PortSEurope) June 18, 2018 – Port de Tarragona has acquired 150,000 m² in Ciudad del Transporte-Puerta Centro to develop an intermodal logistics platform – Terminal Intermodal Port Centro. The president of the Port... Read more
Civitavecchia, Italy (PortSEurope) June 17, 2018 – Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Tirreno Centro-Settentrionale (AdSP – Centre-North Tyrrhenian Sea Port Authority) Francesco Maria di Majo and the President of the Port Company... Read more
Tangier, Morocco (PortSEurope) June 18, 2018 – In 2017, the port handled some 51 million tonnes of cargo. The Moroccan port offer on the Mediterranean will be enriched in 2021 with a second logistics platform, called Nador West Med. This n... Read more
Leixões, Portugal (PortSEurope) June 18, 2018 – Leixões port has started handling regular connections with ports in Italy, Greece, Turkey, Lebanon, Egypt and Morocco with the Great Pendulum service. Companies Tarros Spa of Italy and Arkas Holdin... Read more
Santander, Spain (PortSEurope) June 18, 2018 – Spanish company Coated Solutions has started investing the €45 million ($52.2 million) planned for the second phase of the construction its facilities in the port of Santander, a process that has be... Read more
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) June 18, 2018 – Román Ceballos, a former senior official of the Economy Council of Valencia’s regional government, has announced plans to resign from the position of president of Valencia port’s stowage company Seva... Read more
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) June 18, 2018 – Valencia port aims to increase the integration of cargo traffic between ships and trains, although there is still a long way to go. In tough competition with the port of Barcelona, Valencia maintains... Read more
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) June 17, 2018 – The Abel Matutes ferry belonging to Baleària Eurolínias Marítimas SA, which uses liquified natural gas a fuel, has started operating in Valencia port, representing another step in the port... Read more
Piraeus, Greece (PortSEurope) June 17, 2018 – The municipality of Piraeus is set to receive €1.977 million in the form of countervailing benefits from port and commercial activity by Piraeus Port Authority SA (PPA). PPA is operated by Chi... Read more
Livorno, Italy (PortSEurope) June 16, 2018 – DBA Group SpA, an Italian technology consultancy company, has announced the renewal of a contract for maintenance and assistance to users with a dedicated help-desk, corrective maintenance and... Read more
Huelva, Spain (PortSEurope) June 16, 2018 – The Ministry of Development and Housing, through Agencia Pública de Puertos de Andalucía (APPA – Public Ports Agency of Andalusia), has awarded a contract worth €3.65 million ($4.24 million... Read more
Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) June 16, 2018 – The Minister of Development and Housing, Felipe López, today informed the Governing Council of the Junta de Andalucía about the meeting he held with European representatives in Brussels to ask... Read more
Vigo, Spain (PortSEurope) June 15, 2018 – In the last 10 years, Galician shipyards have signed orders for around 30 vessels at a value of around €1.2 billion ($1.39 billion). However, the current problem is finding enough shipyard workers... Read more
Vigo, Spain (PortSEurope) June 15, 2018 – The European Fisheries Agency (EFA) has validated the new policy for the management and activities in fishing facilities in Vigo. Last May, the port approved a policy that tries to respond to the e... Read more
Vigo, Spain (PortSEurope) June 15, 2018 – The United Nations Organisation for Food and Agriculture (FAO) is to use Vigo port as the location for regional training against illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing. The port is considered... Read more
Savona, Italy (PortSEurope) June 15, 2018 – The Mondomarine SpA company of Savona has been provisionally assigned to Palumbo Shipyards of Naples for a four-year period. Monaco Marine, who offered to buy Mondomarine, has appealed the decisi... Read more
Trieste, Italy (PortSEurope) June 15, 2018 – An innovative system, Spata, based on laser scanner technology that detects the profiles of vehicles in transit in port areas has been created in the Italian Region of Friuli Venezia Giulia (FVG... Read more
Livorno, Italy (PortSEurope) June 16, 2018 – Three companies, Sharengo, Green Energy Storage and Materials Mates Italia, have set up Consorzio N.E.Mo (Nuova Energia Mobile – New Mobile Energy) to develop Interporto Vespucci as an ene... Read more
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) June 14, 2018 – Mar Chao, commercial and business development director of Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia (APV – Port Authority of Valencia), is participating in the Forum of International Cooperation of... Read more
Bar, Montenegro (PortSEurope) June 15, 2018 – The board of directors of Luka Bar a.d., the operator of Montenegro’s Bar port, chaired by Andjelko Lojpur, has criticised in the annual management report the work of the company’s managing dir... Read more
La Spezia, Italy (PortSEurope) June 15, 2018 – Italian multimodal transport company Tarros SpA has recently updated its “GPS – Great Pendulum Service”, which has been directly connecting some of the most important ports of the... Read more
Sagunto, Spain (PortSEurope) June 15, 2018 – Sagunto port has taken a new step forward in its strategy of diversification with the start of the “Short Sea Service A” service of Italian company Grimaldi, linking the Spanish harbour to... Read more
Port Said, Egypt (PortSEurope) June 15, 2018 – Suez Canal Authority has said that the projects for the construction of seven new tunnels between Sinai, Ismailia and Port Said are 90% complete. The head of the Suez Canal Authority, Mehab Mmeish,... Read more