Month: November 2017
Toulon port chosen for submarine support work
Toulon, France (PortSEurope) November 5, 2017 – Florence Parly, Minister of the Armed Forces, the military port of Toulon will be used for the major...
Call for protest day against cruise ships in Venice
Venice, Italy (PortSEurope) November 5, 2017 – Huge cruise ships deliver thousands day tourists to Venice, but many local citizens do not want visitors...
Thessaloniki Port Authority announces board of director appointment
Thessaloniki, Greece (PortSEurope) November 4, 2017 – Thessaloniki Port Authority S.A. (THPA) has announced that Konstantinos Christogiannis has...
PwC says Cádiz port has potential to become cruise home port
Cádiz, Spain (PortSEurope) November 3, 2017 – Cádiz port has the opportunity to become a home port for cruises. This is the main conclusion of the...
Huelva port’s new president enters office
Huelva, Spain (PortSEurope) November 3, 2017 – José Luis Ramos has officially stepped up as a president of Huelva port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de...
Panamanian government to study cargo inspection work at Valencia port
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) November 3, 2017 – Valencia port received this week a visit of a Panamanian governmental delegation, led by the Minister...
Transitex launches LCL service connecting Iberian peninsula to Latin America
Leixões, Portugal (PortSEurope) November 3, 2017 – Transitex, a subsidiary of the Turkish group Yilport, has announced the start of a “less than...
Boluda’s Las Palmas-Cape Verde line has positive start
Las Palmas, Spain (PortSEurope) November 3, 2017 – Boluda Corporación Marítimas has started its new freight transport line between the Canary Islands...
Ferrol port sees potential in development of horticultural products
Ferrol, Spain (PortSEurope) November 3, 2017 – The traffic of fruits, vegetables and legumes in the Spanish ports increased by 2.3% on the year in the...
Santander handles export of three tram units to Australia
Santander, Spain (PortSEurope) November 3, 2017 – Santander port this week was the location of a spectacular cargo operation that the port authority has...
Francis Vallat to resign chairmanship of the European Network of Maritime Clusters
Luxembourg (PortSEurope) November 3, 2017 – Francis Vallat, current Chairman of the European Network of Maritime Clusters (ENMC) since 2011, decided to...
Venice Maritime Cluster to be officially presented
Venice, Italy (PortSEurope) November 3, 2017 – The Venice Maritime Cluster will be officially presented today 3 November at 10.00 at l’Arsenale della...
Cantiere Navale Rossini signs concesson agreement with Pesaro port authority
Pesaro, Italy (PortSEurope) November 3, 2017 – Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mare Adriatico Centrale (Central Adriatic Sea Port Authority)...
Portuguese port authority signs agreement with Logink of China
Sines, Portugal (PortSEurope) November 3, 2017 – Administração dos Portos de Sines e do Algarve (APS – the Ports Authority of Sines and Algarve)...
Tangier Med to starting point to develop the MoS in the Mediterranean
Tangier, Morocco (PortSEurope) November 3, 2017 – Escola Europea has held a conference in Tangier “Motorways of the Sea: new tools towards...
First freight train on Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway departs Baku port
Baku, Azerbaijan (PortSEurope) November 3, 2017 – On October 30, the inauguration ceremony of the Baku–Tbilisi-Kars (BTK) railway was held at...
Cosco and Trans-IT step up cooperation in Piraeus port
Piraeus, Greece (PortSEurope) November 2, 2017 – Danish logistics company Trans-it A/S and Cosco, the Chinese shipping company which operates Piraeus...
Marseille Fos hires 70 dockers and innovates in the field of training
Marseille, France (PortSEurope) November 2, 2017 – The five handlers (Portsynergy-Eurofos, Seayard, Sosersid, Sea-Invest & Nicolas Frères)...
ABS Cyber holds seminars in Piraeus and Limassol
Piraeus, Greece (PortSEurope) November 2, 2017 – ABS Cyber has held seminars in Athens and Limassol October 17 and 18 respectively) which were attended...
APM Terminals Vado aims to be new gateway to central Europe’s 70 million consumer market
Vado Ligure, Italy, November 2, 2017 APM Terminals Vado, Italy Managing Director Paolo Cornetto addressed the 5th MedPorts 2017 conference in Barcelona, Spain...