Month: October 2017
Barcelona port records best Q3 in its history
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) October 16, 2017 – Barcelona port has registered its best third quarter of the year ever. Total traffic grew by 31.2% on...
Valencia port expands trade with the Netherlands
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) October 16, 2017 – Commercial relations between Valencia port and Dutch ports have increased by more than 50% in the last two...
Gijón port’s container traffic hike stems from project cargo rise
Gijón, Spain (Ports Europe) October 16, 2017 – The increase in containerised traffic at Gijón port seems to be a consequence of the fact that the harbour...
Spain’s Adif to overhaul railway link to Bilbao port
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) October 16, 2017 – Spanish state-run railway operator Adif plans to carry out works to improve the railway infrastructure in...
Constanta port signs agreement with Baku International Sea Trade Port
Constanta, Romania (Ports Europe) October 16, 2017 – On October 5, 2017, in the presence of the Romanian Minister of Transport, Alexandru Razvan CUC, a...
Nicky Guerrero to join MedCruise Board of Directors
Gibraltar (Ports Europe) October 16, 2017 – Chief Executive of the Gibraltar Tourist Board Nicky Guerrero has been elected onto the Board of Directors of...
La Gronda project set to benefit Genoa port.
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) October 16, 2017 – The “La Gronda” is an infrastructure project that aims to increase the logistics potential of...
France’s first marine wind turbine inaugurated in Saint-Nazaire
Nantes-St.Nazaire, France (Ports Europe) October 16, 2017 – “I wish Floatgen fair winds and following seas.” With these words Catherine Chabaud, the...
Marseille port to generate energy from seawater
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) October 16, 2017 – The port of Marseille is using technology called Massileo, a moderate-temperature water network to...
A Coruña see increased traffic in January-August 2017
A Coruña, Spain (Ports Europe) October 16, 2017 – In August 2017, the port of A Coruña saw an upward trend in volume of traffic, with a new increase...
Javier Climent to become president of Fedeport
Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain (Ports Europe) October 16, 2017 – Javier Climent, director of Boluda Corporación Marítima, is set to be appointed...
Bilbao port attends UK offshore Europe fair
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) October 16, 2017 – Autoridad Portuaria de Bilbao (Port Authority of Bilbao) and Foro Marítimo Vasco (The Basque Maritime...
ANFAC publishes report on automotive traffic at Spanish ports
Tarragona, Spain (Ports Europe) october 16, 2017 – According to the annual report on “Valuation of Maritime-Port Logistics” prepared by...
Turkey closes ports to vessels from Crimea
Istanbul, Turkey (Ports Europe) October 16, 2017 – The Turkish government is to prohibit its ports from taking ships arriving from Crimea and its ports....
Ecocean plans to restock French ports with marine life
Montpellier, France (Ports Europe) October 16, 2017 – Ecocean, a company which helps restore marine ecosystems, plans to replenish marine fish stocks...
Carlos del Corral joins iContainers in Barcelona
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) October 16, 2017 – iContainers, the online freight forwarder, has appointed Carlos del Corral as director of sales and...
Somagec takes over Tangier port cable car project
Tangier, Morocco (Ports Europe) October 16, 2017 – Casablanca-based Somagec is to take over the cable car project in Tangier port. The project is part of...