Day: 5 September 2017
Cádiz port participates in Seatrade Europe to attract river cruise traffic
Cádiz, Spain (Ports Europe) September 5, 2017 – Cádiz port participates this week in the most important cruise event in Europe, the ‘Seatrade...
Castellón port to start drafting southern rail access project
Castellón, Spain (Ports Europe) September 5, 2017 – Castellón port plans to begin the drafting of the construction project of the southern access by...
European Parliament to host conference on new technologies in maritime transport sector
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) September 5, 2017 – The president of Bilbao port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Bilbao), Asier Atutxa, will participate in a...
Valencia port expects private investment in new cruise terminal
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) September 5, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) plans to announce the next approval of the...
Spain’s Sermaco Logistic launches repair workshops in Tarragona, Castellón, Sagunto
Tarragona, Spain (Ports Europe) September 5, 2017 – Spanish company Sermaco Logistic Integral S.L., a company specialised in integral services to the...
Greek government invests €2.481 million in overhaul of Patras port
Patras, Greece (Ports Europe) September 5, 2017 – Greece’s government has given the green light to two projects for the overhaul of Patras port’s...
Piraeus port is 38th largest in the world
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) September 5, 2017 – Piraeus port ranked 38th in the world classification of the largest, world-class ports, with a positive...
Cartagena port’s strategy of low fees pays off
Cartagena, Spain (Ports Europe) September 4, 2017 – Cartagena port has begun to recover from the drop in cargo traffic last year, which stood at 2.2%....
Las Palmas port awards contract for accounting services to Spanish consortium
Las Palmas, Spain (Ports Europe) September 4, 2017 – Las Palmas port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Las Palmas) has awarded a contract for the...
Motril port, BMN-Caja Granada sign cooperation deal
Motril, Spain (Ports Europe) September 4, 2017 – Spanish bank BMN-Caja Granada has signed a cooperation agreement with Motril port. During the signing of...
Wärtsilä successfully tests remote ship operation
San Diego, USA (Ports Europe) September 4, 2017 – Wärtsilä has said it successfully tested the remote control of ship operations, which involved...
NIBULON Continues Modernizing Its Shipbuilding and Repair Yard
Mykolayiv, Ukraine (Ports Europe) September 5, 2017 – NIBULON with the support of the European Investment Bank (EIB) continues implementing its...
Cosco announces express cargo shipping to Europe via Piraeus port
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) September 5, 2017 – A new service called “China-Europe Sea-Land Express Cargo” is being started by Cosco...
New environmental study for proposed Barreiro Container Terminal in Lisbon
Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) September 5, 2017 – The current environmental impact assessment of the Barreiro Container Terminal will be stopped and a...
Abruzzo to have special economic zone (ZES)
Pescara, Italy (Ports Europe) September 5, 2017 – Minister for the South of Italy Claudio De Vincenti has announced that the Abruzzo and Molise regions...
Cartagena port cargo traffic rises 11% y/y in Jan-July 2017
Cartagena, Spain (Ports Europe) September 4, 2017 – The unstoppable pace of growth of the port of Cartagena in recent years, which has made it the fourth...