Month: October 2017
Singapore’s Mainhardt company visits Aktau port
Aktau, Azerbaijan (Ports Europe) October 11, 2017 – On October 4, 2017, a delegation from Mainhardt (Singapore) visited the Azeri port of Aktau. The...
Event: First International Conference Money & Ports – Odessa, October 26, 2017
Odessa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) October 10, 2017 – The first International Conference Money & Ports will take place in Odessa on October 26, 2017. The...
Kukla España launches wine export service from Spain
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) October 10, 2017 – Kukla España, the Spanish subsidiary of German multimodal logistic operator Robert Kukla GmbH, has taken...
Spanish ports cruise traffic rises 0.5% in Jan-Aug 2017
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) October 10, 2017 – The influx of cruise passengers to Spanish ports in the first eight months of the year remained at...
Cádiz port participates in commercial mission to Morocco
Cádiz, Spain (Ports Europe) October 10, 2017 – Cádiz port authority (Autoridad Portuaria Bahía de Cádiz) participates this week in a commercial...
Huelva port presents intermodality strategy in Genoa
Huelva, Spain (Ports Europe) October 10, 2017 – Huelva port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Huelva) has presented its intermodality strategy and the...
Ferrol port cargo traffic rises 12.3% y/y in Jan-Sep 2017
Ferrol, Spain (Ports Europe) October 10, 2017 – Ferrol port handled a total of 10.2 million tonnes of cargo in the first nine months of 2017, up 12.27%...
Spain’s Lacisa expands facility at Barcelona port
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) October 10, 2017 – Spanish company Lavadero de Cisternas, SA (Lacisa) opened on October 6 the extension of its...
China’s Silk Road initiative offers great opportunities to Italian ports
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) October 10, 2017 – Italy has a great opportunity to take advantage of China’s New Silk Road initiative, as China...
Cargo Center Graz expands to handle Koper traffic
Koper, Slovenia (Ports Europe) October 10, 2017 – The Cargo Center Graz in Werndorf is being expanded as it has reached its capacity limit and the...
EBRD to fund Tirana-Durrës railway line
Durrës, Albania (Ports Europe) October 10, 2017 – Albanian Railways (Hekurudha Shqiptare – HSH) is to receive a loan from the European Bank for...
Gibraltar port represented at Monaco Yacht Show
Monaco (Ports Europe) October 10, 2017 – The Gibraltar Minister for Tourism, Gilbert Licudi, and the Port have attended the Monaco Yacht Show in order...
Gas Natural Fenosa to relocate head office from Barcelona
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) October 10, 2017 – Last Friday, Gas Natural Fenosa announced that is to move its registered office from Barcelona to...
Bulgarian Ports Infrastructure Company updates on Interreg Danube projects progress
Burgas, Bulgaria (Ports Europe) October 10, 2017 – The Bulgarian Ports Infrastructure Company (BIP Co.) has held a meeting to present progress on the...
EP Logistics starts Koper-Budapest block train service
Koper, Slovenia (Ports Europe) October 10, 2017 – In September the Czech railway operator EP Logistics started a new direct block train connection...
Sète affected by Saipol slowdown
Sète, France (Ports Europe) October 10, 2017 – Saipol has announced that starting in February 2018, all five of its biodiesel production...
Government meets Cosco about Syros and Elefsina shipyards
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) October 9, 2017 – In September 2017, Postlane Partners withdrew its bid for the Neorion shipyards on Greece’s Cyclades...
Thessaloniki port privatisation stalls
Thessaloniki, Greece (Ports Europe) October 9, 2017 – At the end of June, the consortium of Deutsche Invest Equity Partners, Belterra Investments and...
Italian ports’ cruise traffic to rise 6.4% in 2018
Civitavecchia, Italy (Ports Europe) October 9, 2017 – Italian tourism association Risposte Turismo expects the cruise traffic in Italy to rise by 6.4% in...
MSC Cruises to handle at least 3 million passengers in Italy in 2018
Palermo, Italy (Ports Europe) October 9, 2017 – MSC Cruises, a subsidiary of Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC), expects to handle more than 3 million...