APM Terminals Barcelona increases reefer capacity and lessens CO2 emissions
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) February 22, 2019 - APM Terminals Barcelona has announced a 31% increase in reefer capacity and taken measures to reduce CO2 emissions…
Genoa hosts Italy Russia seminar
Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) February 22, 2019 - Genoa has hosted the third Italian-Russian seminar, "Italy-Russia: the art of innovation", organized by Associazione Conoscere Eurasia, Liguria…
Hyundai, CMA CGM may team up to manage Isla Verde zone of Algeciras port
Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) February 22, 2019 – South Korean business conglomerate Hyundai, which controls phase A of Isla Verde zone of Algeciras port, has teamed…
Koper port awards railway lines construction contract to Kolektor CPG
Koper, Slovenia (PortSEurope) February 22, 2019 – Luka Koper has selected the bid of Slovenian company Kolektor CPG in a tender for the construction of new…
Vilagarcía port supports Compostela 2M21 project
Vilagarcía, Spain (PortSEurope) February 22, 2019 – The president of Autoridad Portuaria de Vilagarcía (APV - Port Authority of Vilagarcía), Sagrario Franco, and members of…
Vigo port’s operators want board of directors’ seat
Vigo, Spain (PortSEurope) February 22, 2019 – The spokesman of the Federation of Operators (Federación de Usuarios) of Vigo port, Enrique Mallón, has announced this…
Bayonne port gain ground as multimodal platform in 2018
Bayonne, France (PortSEurope) February 22, 2019 – Bayonne port has developed its role as a multimodal platform and in 2018 recorded an overall growth in cargo traffic…
Valencia port records best January container traffic ever
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) February 22, 2019 – Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia (APV - Valenciaport, Port Authority of Valencia) closed the first month of 2019 with a traffic of…
Gioia Tauro port workers end blockade as MSC guarantees investments
Gioia Tauro, Italy (PortSEurope) February 22, 2019 – Workers at Gioia Tauro port have removed the blockade of the harbour they launched on February 13 after receiving guarantees…
Gijón port to launch concession of former Naval Gijón shipyard
Gijón, Spain (PortSEurope) February 22, 2019 – Autoridad Portuaria de Gijón (APG - Port Authority of Gijón) has approved the launch of a concession of…
COSCO’s Piraeus port development plan receives partial approval
Piraeus, Greece (PortSEurope) February 22, 2019 - Greece's Port Planning and Development Committee gave a partial approval of the master plan of Piraeus Port Authority…
Government works on business plan for shipbuilding group Uljanik
Pula, Croatia (PortSEurope) February 21, 2019 - Croatian Economy Minister Darko Horvat has said that any restructuring plan for the troubled shipbuilding group Uljanik d.d.,…
New deep water terminal to be built in the port of Poti
Poti, Georgia (PortSEurope) February 21, 2019 - A new deep water terminal will be built in the Georgian port of Poti, which will enable it…
EU to lend €250 million to Georgia for improvement of the highway between Caspian and Black Seas (Updated with details)
Originally published February 20, 2019 as "EU to lend €250 million to Georgia for local TEN-T transport development"; Updated with further details Tbilisi, Georgia (PortSEurope)…
Italian court dismisses appeal against Yilport’s concession at Taranto port
Taranto, Italy (PortSEurope) February 21, 2019 – The Lecce administrative court has rejected the appeal presented by the South Gate Europe Terminal Consortium against Autorita’ di…
Koper port’s tender for external hiring contractor fails
Koper, Slovenia (PortSEurope) February 21, 2019 – Koper port has selected no offers for a public contract for an external company hiring workers at the…
Agaete port’s extension project may fail over lack of funding
Agaete, Canary Islands, Spain (PortSEurope) February 21, 2019 – The extension of Spain's Agaete port, already awarded for €44.6 million ($50.7 million), does not yet…
Cepsa Gibraltar factory complies with Algeciras port’s environmental requirements
Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) February 21, 2019 – Cepsa's factory in Gibraltar-San Roque has received an environmental certification, verifying that the loading and unloading of crude oil and…
Livorno, Piombino host meetings of EasyLog project
Livorno, Italy (PortSEurope) February 21, 2019 – Livorno and Piombino ports have joined the list of port cities hosting EasyLog focus groups, a project financed by the…
Las Palmas ports regular passenger traffic rises 3% in 2018
Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain (PortSEurope) February 21, 2019 – Las Palmas ports registered a 3% increase in passenger traffic on regular lines during the…