Month: March 2018
MSC to operate Genoa’s Bettolo container terminal as of 2019
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) March 29, 2018 – The Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) plans to invest in the expansion of the container terminal at Bettolo...
Pacific Princess ship to open cruise season at Ancona port
Ancona, Italy (Ports Europe) March 29, 2018 – The Pacific Princess cruise ship will open the 2018 cruise season in the port of Ancona in April. The ship,...
Samer & Co completes overhaul of ro-ro terminal at Trieste port
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) March 29, 2018 – Italian company Samer & Co Shipping S.p.A. has officially completed the overhaul of its Riva Traiana Ro-Ro...
UK Government publishes Maritime 2050: call for evidence
London, United Kingdom (Ports Europe) March 29, 2018 – The UK government has published Maritime 2050: call for evidence. Maritime 2050 is a long term...
U.S. consul general visits Genoa port
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) March 29, 2018 – The Consul General of the United States at the Consulate General of Milan, Elizabeth Lee Martinez, and...
Genoa hosts Silk Road forum
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) March 29, 2018 – On Friday 23 March 2018 the Authority hosted the convention “The Silk Road in the New Perspective of...
AdSP del Mar Tirreno Centro-Settentrionale reports 2017 traffic numbers
Civitavecchia, Italy (Ports Europe) March 27, 2018 – Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Tirreno Centro-Settentrionale (AdSP – Centre-North...
Sicilian port authorities sign agreement
Messina, Sicily, Italy (Ports Europe) March 29, 2018 – At a meeting in Messina, the two Sicilian port system authorities signed an agreement to cooperate of...
Las Palmas port to repay €15 million debt in 2018
Las Palmas, Spain (Ports Europe) March 28, 2018 – Las Palmas port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Las Palmas) reduced its debt by €21 million ($25.1...
Huelva port presents intermodal platform project to INEA
Huelva, Spain (Ports Europe) March 28, 2018 – Managers of Huelva port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Huelva) have held a working meeting with...
Valencia port sets traffic conditions for investors in intermodal platform
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) March 28, 2018 – The board of directors of Valencia Intermodal and Logistics Platform (VPI), subsidiary of Autoridad...
A Coruña port’s cargo traffic keeps growing in February
A Coruña, Spain (Ports Europe) March 28, 2018 – A Coruña port closed February with a fresh increase in traffic, keeping up with the positive trend. The...
Spanish ports’ cruise traffic rises in Jan 2018
Las Palmas, Spain (Ports Europe) March 28, 2018 – Spanish ports recorded an annual increase of 45.3% in cruise traffic in January to 529,486 passengers, and...
Valenciaport Foundation gets contract for development of Master Plan of Peru’s Callao port
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) March 28, 2018 – The Valenciaport Foundation has been awarded a contract for the preparation of the new Master Plan for the...
Italy’s Orsero renews cooperation deal with APM Terminals
Vado Ligure, Italy (Ports Europe) March 28, 2018 – Italian company Gruppo Orsero has extended its cooperation contract with APM Terminals, a subsidiary of...
Pesaro port to open cruise season on April 5, 2018
Pesaro, Italy (Ports Europe) March 28, 2018 – Pesaro port’s cruise season will begin on April 5 and an increase in the number of calls to 21 in 2018...
Andreia Ventura appointed president of Associação dos Operadores do Porto de Lisboa
Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) March 28, 2018 – Andreia Ventura has been elected president of Associação dos Operadores do Porto de Lisboa (AOPL...