Month: February 2018
Intermediterranean Commission regions strengthen their alliance for sustainable development
Conference of Peripheral Maritime Regions (CPMR), 26 February 2018 The Conference of Peripheral Maritime Regions’ (CPMR) Intermediterranean Commission...
Interporto di Trieste agrees €14.5 million loan from UniCredit
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) February 27, 2018 – Dry port operator Interporto di Trieste and UniCredit have signed an agreement for a loan of €14.5...
Barcelona port starts work on new railway accesses project
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) February 27, 2018 – Barcelona port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Barcelona) has taken the first steps to promote rail...
Seago Line to launch direct service linking Genoa to Alexandria
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) February 27, 2018 – Seago Line, a shipping company belonging to the Maersk Group and specialised in marine feeder services and...
Naples port to keep growing in 2018
Naples, Italy (Ports Europe) February 27, 2018 – Naples port will keep growing in 2018, backed by the cruise sector. These are the forecasts of the...
Valencia port to participate in Seatrade Cruise Global
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) February 27, 2018 – Valencia port will participate for one more year at the Seatrade Cruise Global fair, the main cruise ship...
Seago Line to launch service linking Cartagena to Felixstowe
Cartagena, Spain (Ports Europe) February 27, 2018 – A new container transport line will be in operation between the port of Cartagena and England, operated...
GAINN projects presented at joint working group meeting on ports and multimodal terminals in Algeciras
Algeciras, Spain (Ports Europe) February 26, 2018 Last week Eva Pérez, the general coordinator of the GAINN4MOS and GAINN4SHIP Innovation projects,...
EBRD to loan €20 million to modernise privately-owned Bar port, Montenegro
Bar, Montenegro (Ports Europe) February 27, 2018 – The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is to provide a €20 million ($24.64...
AdSP del Mar Tirreno Centro Settentrionale joins ALIS association
Civitavecchia, Italy (Ports Europe) February 27, 2018 – Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mare Adriatico Settentrionale (AdSP – Northern...
Saudi Company Nesma visits Alexandria port
Alexandria, Egypt (Ports Europe) February 27, 2018 – A delegation from Saudi Arabia’s Nesma company has visited Alexandria port to...
Private companies invest €71 million in Bilbao port in 2017
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) February 27, 2018 – The Port of Bilbao has reached an occupancy rate of nearly 83% in 2017 and private enterprise is...
Bilbao port invests €61.5 million in 2017
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) February 27, 2018 – In 2017, the Port Authority of Bilbao invested €61.5 million ($75.87 million), with the sum set to...
Bilbao port starts 2018 cruise season
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) February 27, 2018 – This coming Sunday, 25 February, the cruise vessel Saga Sapphire, belonging to Saga Cruises, and...
Bilbao increase cargo traffic 7% on 2017
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) february 27, 2018 – The Port of Bilbao ended 2017 with a 7% traffic growth, a 2.2 million-tonne increase over 2016. This is...
Government reviews Cyprus Ports Authority activities
Limassol, Cyprus (Ports Europe) February 27, 2018 – The Cypriot Parliament’s House Finance Committee has met to discuss the 2018 budget of the...
Avilés port cargo traffic rises in January
Avilés, Spain (Ports Europe) February 26, 2018 – Avilés port handled in the first month of the year a total of 525,477 tonnes, up 33.61% on the year,...