Month: December 2017
Ukraine joins the Danube Transnational Programme development and a joint EU initiative for the East of Ukraine
Odessa, Ukraine (PortSEurope) December 10, 2017 – Ukraine and the European Union have signed bilateral documents in the framework of the working visit...
Ukraine reports improved Jan-Nov sea ports traffic
Odessa, Ukraine (PortSEurope) December 10, 2017 – Cargo turnover at the sea ports of Ukraine during the first 11 months of 2017 remains positive....
Spanish government calls tender for construction of road link to Santander port
Santander, Spain (PortSEurope) December 8, 2017 – Spanish Public Works Ministry has called a tender for the construction of a road link between Santander...
Melilla port awards contract for installation of safety lighting
Melilla, Spain (PortSEurope) December 8, 2017 – Spanish government has awarded a €261,238 ($307,389) contract for the installation of safety lighting at...
Almería port cruise traffic declines in 2017
Almería, Spain (PortSEurope) December 8, 2017 – Almería port saw the positive trend in the cruise segment, kept since 2014, broken this year. With the...
Tenerife port to handle seven cruise ships in three days
Tenerife, Spain (PortSEurope) December 8, 2017 – Tenerife port will handle a total of seven cruise ships with 13,300 passengers and 3,760 crew members on...
Grimaldi acquires Savona port terminal operator
Savona, Italy (PortSEurope) December 8, 2017 – Italian shipping company Grimaldi has acquired local company Marittima Spedizioni, active at Savona port since...
Azorean government provides €1.7 million guarantee to port operator
Ponta Delgada, Portugal (PortSEurope) December 8, 2017 – The Azorean government has granted a guarantee of €1.7 million ($2 million) to the ports...
Andalusia region to promote ports at Paris Boat Show
Seville, Spain (PortSEurope) December 8, 2017 – The Andalusia regional government plans to promote the offer of 22,600 berths spread throughout its coast at...
Leixões Cruise Terminal awarded by “O Norte Somos Nós”
Leixões, Portugal (PortSEurope) December 8, 2017 – Terminal de Cruzeiros do Porto de Leixões (Leixões Cruise Port Terminal) has been awarded a...
Greece and China to develop cooperation under Belt and Road initiative
Piraeus, Greece (PortSEurope) December 8, 2017 – Chinese Vice Premier Ma Kai has visited Athens and held talks with Greek Deputy Prime Minister Yiannis...
Marseille makes further logistics space available
Marseille, France (PortSEurope) December 8, 2017 – The Port of Marseille Fos is to make an additional fifty hectares on the Feuillane area, in...
Port tech clusters part of Portugal’s ocean renewable energy strategy
Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) December 8, 2017 – The Portuguese government has announced its Industrial Strategy for Ocean Renewable Energies (EI-ERO),...
“Invest in Italy Roadshow” to take place in Zurich
Milan, Italy (PortSEurope) December 8, 2017 – On Monday 11 December, the “Invest in Italy Roadshow” will take place in Zurich, an initiative...
Gioia Tauro set for special economic zone (ZES)
Gioia Tauro, Italy (PortSEurope) December 8, 2017 – Gioia Tauro port, in the Reggio Calabria region, has received initial approval to set up a special...
Port discussions feature in Friuli Venezia Giulia trade mission to China
Trieste, Italy (PortSEurope) December 8, 2017 – A trade mission of Italy’s Friuli Venezia Giulia region has concluded an economic trade mission to...
Trieste port may start cooperation with Shanghai
Trieste, Italy (PortSEurope) December 7, 2017 – Italy’s Friuli Venezia Giulia regional government Debora Serracchiani has said that Trieste port...
Ferry traffic at Durrës port up 8% in Jan-Nov 2017
Durrës, Albania (PortSEurope) December 6, 2017 – The Durrës-Bari and Durrës-Ancona-Trieste ferry lines, during the period January-November of 2017,...
Spanish Minister of Public Works highlighted the ports’ contribution to territorial cohesion
Madrid, Spain, December 1, 2017 01-12-2017 (Ministry of Public Works). Iñigo de la Serna, Minister of Public Works, accompanied by José Llorca, President of...
Third Forum of Mediterranean Dialogues discusses China role in the Mediterranean
Rome, Italy, December 6, 2017 – The Third Forum of Mediterranean Dialogues, which took place in Rome a few days ago, gave politicians, bankers and...