Month: February 2018
Spain’s Autoterminal, Abu Dhabi Ports set up JV to build car terminal in UAE
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) February 20, 2018 – Autoterminal, a subsidiary of the Noatum Maritime Group and Abu Dhabi Ports, have signed an agreement for...
Avilés port cargo traffic rises 33.6% y/y in Jan 2018
Avilés, Spain (Ports Europe) February 20, 2018 – Avilés port has started the year with a 33.6% cargo traffic increase on the year in January to 525,477...
Spanish company applies for hotel construction at Cádiz port
Cádiz, Spain (Ports Europe) February 20, 2018 – Cádiz port authority has received a request for an administrative concession for the construction and...
Ceuta port invests €900,000 to improve security
Ceuta, Spain (Ports Europe) February 20, 2018 – The constant demands of citizens in matters of security in Ceuta port area have been answered by the port...
ArcelorMittal starts using Gijón harbour for export of rails
Gijón, Spain (Ports Europe) February 20, 2018 – Luxembourg-based steel giant ArcelorMittal has started using Gijón port to export a 108-metre long rail...
Passengers using Pesaro port in 2017 up on previous year
Pesaro, Italy (Ports Europe) February 20, 2018 – A total of 8,643 passengers passed through the port of Pesaro in 2017. Of these, 8,169 (up 13% on...
Constanta port to benefit from EU Cohesion funding
Constanta, Romania (Ports Europe) February 20, 2018 – €1.3 billion ($1.61 billion) from the EU Cohesion Fund is to be invested in the modernisation of...
One bid received for Croatia’s Zadarski megaproject management
Zadar, Croatia (Ports Europe) February 18, 2018 – At the international public tender for Zadarski megaproject management, only one was received –...
Italy introduces new Nautical Code
Rome, Italy (Ports Europe) February 20, 2018 – After the publication in the Official Journal of last January 30, 2018, the new Nautical Code comes into...
Italy allocates €262 million for renewal of naval fleets for public transport
Rome, Italy (Ports Europe) February 20, 2018 – At the proposal of the Minister of Infrastructures and Transport (MIT), Graziano Delrio, the government...
Livorno port presents new port regulations
Livorno, Italy (Ports Europe) February 20, 2018 – Admiral Giuseppe Tarzia, Maritime Director of Tuscany and Commander of the Port Authority of Livorno,...
Interporto Vespucci reports improved performance in 2017
Livorno, Italy (Ports Europe) February 20, 2018 – Interporto Vespucci has reported improved results and traffic at Livorno port on 2017. In 2017, the...
Livorno port to develop railway capacity
Livorno, Italy (Ports Europe) February 20, 2018 – Rail freight traffic is increasing significantly in Livorno. Since the direct connection between the...
Valencia port awards contracts for special plan drafting, technical assistance
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) February 19, 2018 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) has awarded a contract for technical assistance...
Spain’s Adif launches 2nd phase of Valencia-Castellón railway upgrade
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) February 19, 2018 – Spanish state-run railway operator Administrador de Infraestructuras Ferroviarias (Adif) has started the...
Castellón port starts 2018 with record-high traffic figures
Castellón, Spain (Ports Europe) February 19, 2018 – Castellón port has started 2018 with record data. During the month of January, a total of 1,825,652...
OOCL to launch weekly service connecting Mediterranean to Middle East, Pakistan, India
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) February 19, 2018 – OOCL plans to launch in March a regular weekly maritime service that will link the Mediterranean with the...
La Spezia port community defends harbour’s future
La Spezia, Italy (Ports Europe) February 19, 2018 – After days of rumours and controversies about the future of the port of La Spezia, the port community...
Italy’s new Recreational Craft Code comes into force
Rome, Italy (Ports Europe) February 19, 2018 – Italy’s transport ministry has said the country’s new Recreational Craft Code became effective as...
Marsa Maroc considers private sector involvement in Casablanca port
Casablanca, Morocco (Ports Europe) February 18, 2018 – Marsa Morocco, an operator of ports in Morocco, is looking to open Casablanca port to the private...