Month: April 2018
New Ocean Network Express links Koper, Damietta, Piraeus ports
Koper, Slovenia (Ports Europe) April 6, 2018 – ONE (Ocean Network Express) has started a new service connecting the ports of Koper, Piraeus (Greece)...
Bilbao port for first time handles LNG arriving from Siberia
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) April 5, 2018 – An ice-breaking methane tanker arrived to in the port of Bilbao with gas from one of the largest deposits in the...
CMA CGM carries out oversized cargo operation at Bilbao port
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) April 5, 2018 – French company CMA CGM, one of the world leaders in maritime transport, has recently demonstrated its ability...
Melilla port president expects environmental impact assessment to be ready in Q3 2018
Melilla, Spain (Ports Europe) April 5, 2018 – Melilla port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Melilla) president Miguel Marín has said that the file for...
Spanish ports’ cargo traffic rises in Jan-Feb 2018, backed by solid bulk, containers
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) April 5, 2018 – At the end of the second month of 2018, Spanish ports accumulated a 6.86% growth in the total cargo traffic,...
Málaga port to handle 170,000 cruise passengers this spring
Málaga, Spain (Ports Europe) April 5, 2018 – Málaga port expects to handle 170,000 passengers aboard 108 cruise ships from March 20 to June 30,...
Algeciras port starts trade mission to Costa Rica
Algeciras, Spain (Ports Europe) April 5, 2018 – Algeciras port has started in Costa Rica its first commercial action for the second quarter of 2018. The...
BPI gathers international experts on the ECOPORTIL project in Sofia
Sofia, Bulgaria (Ports Europe) April 5, 2018 – The second partners’ workshop in the framework of the recently launched project Environmental...
Cargill MV Cargo grain terminal set for first mln tons of grain exports in 2018
Yuzhny, Ukraine (Ports Europe) April 5, 2018 – The grain terminal of Cargill and MV Cargo in Yuzhny port, is forecast to transfer the first one million...
In the first three months of 2018, transshipment in Ukrainian seaports totaled 32.8 million tons
Odessa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) April 5, 2018 – Seaports in Ukraine transported 32.8 million tons of cargo from January to March 2018, an increase of...
Nibulon management delegation visits Damietta port
Damietta, Egypt (Ports Europe) april 5, 2018 – The Ukrainian grain trader Nibulon is considering an investment in grain storage and transport projects...
Event: 6th MED Ports 2018 Exhibition & Conference – Livorno, April 17-19, 2018
Livorno, Italy (Ports Europe) april 5, 2018 – Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Tirreno Settentrionale (AdSP – North Tyrrhenian Sea Port...
Assoporti ranks Sardinia as leading port for passenger numbers
Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy (Ports Europe) April 4, 2018 – Assoporti, the Italian ports association, has ranked Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mare...
Spain’s Bikote Solar completes construction of PV plant at Bilbao port
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) April 4, 2018 – Spanish company Bikote Solar has recently launched a 100 kW photovoltaic plant for refrigerated storage...
ONE Spain starts operations
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) April 4, 2018 – ONE Spain, a subsidiary of Ocean Network Express (ONE), the new shipping company established after the merger...
Cartagena port president meets operators
Cartagena, Spain (Ports Europe) April 4, 2018 – Joaquín Segado, president of Cartagena port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Cartagena), has met at a...
Valencia port updates land transport app
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) April 4, 2018 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) has made available to land transport service...
Baleària floats Mediterranean’s first LNG-fired ferry
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) April 4, 2018 – Spanish shipping company Baleària Eurolínias Marítimas S.A. carried out the floating of vessel...
MSC launches rail line linking Seville port to Sines
Seville, Spain (Ports Europe) April 4, 2018 – Seville port has kicked off its new rail connection with the Portuguese Atlantic coast, launched by the...
Las Palmas port proposes cruise, fishing cooperation project to Mauritania
Las Palmas, Spain (Ports Europe) April 4, 2018 – The president of Las Palmas port authority, Luis Ibarra, along with the manager of the Port of Las Palmas...