Piraeus, Greece (PortSEurope) August 16, 2018 – Greece’s South Aegean Region plans to invest €3.92 million ($4.47 million) in the construction of a dock at Syros port, backed by National Strategic Reference Framework (NSRF) 2014-2020 fundi... Read more
Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) August 17, 2018 – Genoa port will be able to operate at its full capacity and meet the demand of cargo and passenger traffic despite the Morandi bridge collapse, the Italian association of maritime agents, Federagenti,... Read more
Bilbao, Spain (PortSEurope) August 17, 2018 – Spanish company Haizea Wind has obtained five Lloyd’s certificates in just over two months from the start of its production activities at Bilbao port. In this way, Haizea Wind meets the highest... Read more
Tarragona, Spain (PortSEurope) August 17, 2018 – Tarragona port plans to invest €1.7 million ($1.9 million) in the construction of a building for the training of personnel. The building will be located in the Rioja dock and the project responds... Read more
Burgas, Bulgaria (PortSEurope) August 17, 2018 – The Black Sea is becoming an attractive destination for luxury cruise ships, Bulgaria’s Burgas port director, Diyan Dimov, has said. One of the famous companies in this sector, Crystal Cruis... Read more
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) August 17, 2018 – Valencia port has decided to extend the closing date of the auction for sale of land it acquired ten years ago in the Parc Sagunt logistics complex. The port aims to sell the plot, with an area of... Read more
Cádiz, Spain (PortSEurope) August 17, 2018 – Cádiz port has received support from Norwegian shipping company Fred Olsen in its goal of becoming a cruise port. The support will be in the form of a spectacular event on September 10. Cádiz port wil... Read more
Piraeus, Greece (PortSEurope) August 16, 2018 – Piraeus Container Terminal S.A., part of China’s COSCO Shipping Ports Limited, has reported July 2018 container terminal statistics. Monthly throughput in July 2018 was 414.9k TEU compared to 308.9... Read more
Port Said, Egypt (PortSEurope) August 16, 2018 – Suez Canal Container Terminal S.A.E., part of China’s COSCO Shipping Ports Limited, has reported July 2018 container terminal statistics. Monthly throughput in July 2018 was 237k TEU, compared to... Read more
Kumport Liman Hizmetleri ve Lojistik Sanayi ve Ticaret A.Ş – July 2018 container terminal statistics
Kumport, Turkey (PortSEurope) August 16, 2018 – Kumport Liman Hizmetleri ve Lojistik Sanayi ve Ticaret A.Ş, part of China’s COSCO Shipping Ports Limited, has reported July 2018 container terminal statistics. Monthly throughput in July 2018 was 1... Read more
Vado Ligure, Italy (PortSEurope) August 16, 2018 – Reefer Terminal S.p.A., operated by China’s COSCO Shipping Ports Limited, has reported July 2018 container terminal statistics. Monthly throughput in July 2018 was 4,800 TEU (3,800 in July 2017,... Read more
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) August 16, 2018 – Noatum Port Holdings, operated by China’s COSCO Shipping Ports Limited, has reported July 2018 container terminal statistics. Monthly throughput in July 2018 was 321.8 k TEU; year-to-date is... Read more
Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain (PortSEurope) August 16, 2018 – Las Palmas port has called a tender for the delivery of services of prevention and fight against water pollution in the harbour. The project has a budget of €1 million ($1.1... Read more
Alicante, Spain (PortSEurope) August 16, 2018 – Alicante port has provided a €170,000 ($193,500) financing to a research, development and innovation (RDI) project aimed at developing a system for solid bulk traffic management. The idea is to dev... Read more
Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) August 16, 2018 – Portuguese shipping company Transinsular (Transportes Maritimos Insulares SA) plans to launch a connection between Algeciras port and the west coast of Africa on August 23. The line will service t... Read more
Marín, Spain (PortSEurope) August 16, 2018 – The building of the former headquarters of Spanish shipping company Grupo Nogar in Marín port will not be demolished after the transfer of this company to its modern facilities in the expansion zone o... Read more
Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) August 16, 2018 – After the collapse of the Morandi bridge – crossed by about 2,000 lorries traveling to the port on a daily basis – the maritime cluster seeks solutions to avoid the collapse of the port th... Read more
Sagunto, Spain (PortSEurope) August 16, 2018 – Sagunto port’s car traffic grew by 50.58% in the first seven months of 2018 to 220,922 units. Container traffic also rose, up 4.37% to 31,551 TEUs. Discounting natural gas traffic, the port ha... Read more
Leixões, Portugal (PortSEurope) August 16, 2018 – Portuguese construction company Irmãos Cavaco SA, declared insolvent in 2017, said it was late in settling the damages due to its former workers, but announced that by the end of 2018 it will res... Read more
Cartagena, Spain (PortSEurope) August 15, 2018 – The president of Autoridad Portuaria de Cartagena (APC – Port Authority of Cartagena), Joaquín Segado, has met with the delegate of the government in the Region of Murcia, Diego Conesa... Read more
Cartagena, Spain (PortSEurope) August 15, 2018 – Autoridad Portuaria de Cartagena (APC – Port Authority of Cartagena) is committed to the citizens and their environment in the development of good environmental practices, and is propo... Read more
Marseille, France (PortSEurope) August 15, 2018 – Marseille Provence Cruise Club is expected to reach its target of 2 million passengers handled annually set for 2020 ahead of schedule, as the number of passengers serviced by the harbour since t... Read more
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) August 15, 2018 – Spanish shipping company Baleària Eurolínias Marítimas SA has acquired the vessel “Visemar One”, which has been sailing for the company for seven years, for €55 million ($62.3 million).... Read more
Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) August 15, 2018 – The “Zhen Hua 23” ship, specialised in the transport of project cargo and which has been consigned by Cosco, has arrived at the Algeciras port to unload three gantry cranes for APM Ter... Read more
Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) August 15, 2018 – Italian logistics industry association Federlogistica has asked for the immediate establishment of a crisis unit to cope with the danger that the collapse of the Morandi bridge represents to Genoa por... Read more
Rijeka, Croatia (PortSEurope) August 15, 2018 – Rijeka port operator Luka Rijeka d.d. has started a project for the overhaul of the railway line leading to the harbour. “This is a project to reconstruct the railway station of the Brajdica... Read more
Bar, Montenegro (PortSEurope) August 15, 2018 – Montenegrin port operator Luka Bar a.d. has denied adopting the financial report of the company for the first half of 2018, expressing doubts in the management of the firm, led by CEO Zarija Franov... Read more
Las Palmas, Canary Islands Spain (PortSEurope) August 15, 2018 – Spanish company La Luz Autoport Terminal SL plans to build a vehicle storage facility in Las Palmas port. The company has applied to Autoridad Portuaria de Las Palmas (APP –... Read more
Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) August 15, 2018 – Minimum service is operating at Portuguese ports during the labour strike organised for August 13 to September 10, 2018, by SEAL (Sindicato dos Estivadores e da Actividade Logística/Union of... Read more
Trieste, Italy (PortSEurope) August 15, 2018 – The Bavaria Express block train, which operates between Trieste port and Munich-Riem it set to increase its frequency from five to six circulations weekly. The new timetable will start Septemb... Read more
Trieste, Italy (PortSEurope) August 15, 2018 – In July 2018 Trieste Marine Terminal SpA handled over 62,000 TEU, the highest monthly performance recorded. Despite the empty container handlings remain lower than last year, direct full impor... Read more
Aktau, Kazakhstan (PortSEurope) August 14, 2018 – A ferry complex at Kuryk Port has been inaugurated and will function as a multimodal hub on the Kazak shore of Caspian Sea and act as a key link with regional transport corridors. Kazakhsta... Read more
Málaga, Spain (PortSEurope) August 14, 2018 – The Ministry of Development and Housing has issued a tender, worth €694,149, for the dredging of the mouth of the port of La Bajadilla, Málaga, to recover drafts and improve the conditions of a... Read more
Livorno, Italy (PortSEurope) August 14, 2018 – Livorno port has signed a cooperation agreement with Tuscany’s customs agency to increase the controls on the sulphur blend of fuels of ships calling at the harbour, in order to limit pollutio... Read more
Port Said, Egypt (PortSEurope) August 14, 2018 – German company Business Avenue Group GmbH (BAG) has signed an agreement with East Port Said Development Company to invest a total of €70 million ($79.8 million) in the area of Port Said. The inves... Read more
Bordeaux, France (PortSEurope) August 14, 2018 – Is Bordeaux port, offering some 8,000 jobs and generating an economic activity of about €3 billion ($3.4 billion) condemned to decline? The sixth largest French port a few years ago, has slipped t... Read more
Calais, France (PortSEurope) August 14, 2018 – France has deemed unacceptable the European Commission’s proposal to exclude French ports from a re-routing of a strategic commercial corridor between Ireland and continental Europe after Brex... Read more
Nador, Morocco (PortSEurope) August 14, 2018 – Moroccan entrepreneurs has praised the decision of the authorities of the country to close the customs processes with Melilla port. The president of the Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Services of... Read more
London, United Kingdom, August 13, 2018 Associated British Ports, the UK’s leading port operator, today announces that it has invited Rolls Royce and Svitzer, part of the Maersk Group, to develop the next generation of technologies which will ke... Read more
Piraeus, Greece (PortSEurope) August 13, 2018 – The negotiations on the master plan of Piraeus Port Authority SA (PPA) remain behind schedule, due to several controversies. The discussions are around the logistics centre to be constructed in the... Read more
Haifa, Israel (PortSEurope) August 13, 2018 – The interest of cruise shipping companies is turning towards the Eastern Mediterranean, with Spain’s Pullmantur Cruises SL introducing services to Israel. The Spanish company plans to launch cr... Read more