THE Alliance excludes two Italian ports from 2019 schedule
Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) December 18, 2018 – Shipowning consortium THE Alliance, including Germany's Hapag-Lloyd, Japan's Ocean Network Express (ONE) and Taiwan's Yang Ming, has reduced…
Application filed against merger of Moby, Tirrenia
Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) December 18, 2018 – Italian company Onorato Armatori has said an application against the merger of ferry companies Moby and Tirrenia has…
MSC to handle 1 million cruise passengers in Genoa in 2019
Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) December 18, 2018 – MSC Cruises expects Genoa port to have an extraordinary role in its business next year, as it will…
Israel to call tender for strategic partner in Haifa port
Haifa, Israel (PortSEurope) December 18, 2018 – Israel's government has approved the a tender for a strategic partner in the operation of Haifa port, in…
Spain’s Davosa starts maintenance dredging at Huelva port
Huelva, Spain (PortSEurope) December 18, 2018 – Huelva port has started a dredging campaign, essential for maintaining drafts for navigation in inland waters. The works…
Spain’s Boluda receives concession for area at Las Palmas port
Las Palmas, Spain (PortSEurope) December 18, 2018 – Spanish company La Luz Terminal de Contenedores, a subsidiary of Boluda Corporation, has received a concession for…
Castellón port moves 20 million tonnes of cargo year-to-date
Castellón, Spain (PortSEurope) December 18, 2018 – Castellón port exceeded in December the barrier of 20 million tonnes of cargo moved in a year, which…
Labour conflict causes decline in container traffic at Setúbal port
Setúbal, Portugal (PortSEurope) December 18, 2018 – Labour instability has resulted in heavy losses in container handling in October in the ports of Lisbon, Setúbal…
Puertos del Estado to attend first meeting of new Digital Transport and Logistic Forum in January
Madrid, Spain (PortSEurope) December 18, 2018 - Puertos del Estado, the state-owned organisation for the Spanish port system, will attend the first meeting of the new…
Piombino port and municipality agree to develop Geodetica to Gagno highway
Piombino, Italy (PortSEurope) December 18, 2018 - Piombino port and the Municipality of Piombino have agreed to a feasibility study for the design of the Geodetica to…
Ukraine and Belarus agree to Dnipro river improvements
Odessa, Ukraine (PortSEurope) December 18, 2018 - CJSC "Beltopenerho" and Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority (USPA) have signed a cooperation agreement to develop logistics and freight transportation between…
Government approves corporatization of Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority
Odessa, Ukraine (PortSEurope) December 18, 2018 - The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has agreed to a proposal of the Ministry of Infrastructure to include state-owned Ukrainian Sea…
USPA announces tenders for dredging in Mariupol and Berdyansk seaports
Odessa, Ukraine (PortSEurope) December 18, 2018 - The Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority (USPA) has announced two tenders for dredging in the ports of the Azov Sea.…
China’s Guizhou province eyes Italy’s Calabria ports
Gioia Tauro, Italy (PortSEurope) December 17, 2018 – China's Guizhou province has expressed interest in using the ports in the southern Italian region of Calabria…
AdSP Palermo to invest in Termini Imerese port overhaul
Termini Imerese, Italy (PortSEurope) December 17, 2018 – Autorità di Sistema Portuale del Mare di Sicilia Occidentale (AdSP - Western Sicily Sea Port Authority) plans to carry…
Italy’s VGate Srl presents multipurpose terminal project at Chioggia port
Chioggia, Italy (PortSEurope) December 17, 2018 – Italian company VGate Srl has presented a project for the construction of a multipurpose terminal at Chioggia port for…
Transocean Drilling to dismantle ‘Transocean 706’ oil platform at Cartagena port
Cartagena, Spain (PortSEurope) December 17, 2018 – The 'Transocean 706' oil platform has arrived in Cartagena port, where it will be moored until the month of March for…
Cádiz port signs contract to operate Jerez freight rail terminal
Cádiz, Spain (PortSEurope) December 17, 2018 – Spanish state-owned railway operator Adif has signed a contract with Autoridad Portuaria de la Bahía de Cádiz (APBC -…
Bilbao port exports 5,300 tonnes of explosives to Saudi Arabia, UAE
Bilbao, Spain (PortSEurope) December 17, 2018 – Bilbao port exported 5,300 tonnes of explosives to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in the…
Kuehne + Nagel rents warehousing area at Barcelona port’s logistics zone
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) December 17, 2018 – Kuehne + Nagel International AG has signed a contract to rent an area of 2,998 m² in the logistics zone…