Month: April 2018
Pasaia port to handle export of train carriages to Amsterdam
Pasaia, Spain (Ports Europe) April 4, 2018 – Pasaia port goes one step further in the logistics of ro-ro cargo of high added value with the start of a new...
Agreement between OLT Offshore LNG Toscana and GME signed
Livorno, Italy (Ports Europe) April 4, 2018 – OLT Offshore LNG Toscana (OLT) has announced that a contract has been signed with GME (Gestore Mercati...
Port Authority of Las Palmas reduces debt
Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain (Ports Europe) April 4, 2018 – Autoridad Portuaria de Las Palmas (Port Authority of Las Palmas), by end-2017, reduced...
ENI considers Genoa port for LNG facility
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) April 4, 2018 – ENI SpA, the energy group, has carried out a feasibility study to locate a liquified natural gas (LNG)...
Fratelli Cosulich struggles to find new graduates in Genoa
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) April 4, 2018 – Fratelli Cosulich, a shipping services company headquartered in Genoa, has said that it is struggling to...
Public consultation launched over future of Patras port
Patras, Greece (Ports Europe) April 3, 2018 – The Port Authority of Patras is launching public consultation on the concession to operate and manage the...
Andrea Annunziata to head new Sicilian port association
Augusta, Sicily, Spain (Ports Europe) April 3, 2018 – Following a meeting between Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mare di Sicilia Occidentale (AdSP...
Huelva port officially opens cruise season
Huelva, Spain (Ports Europe) April 3, 2018 – The cruise ship “Marella Celebration”, operated by Thomson Cruises, docked on March 28 in Huelva...
Passenger traffic at Ibiza-Formentera lines rises 3% in 2017
Ibiza, Spain (Ports Europe) April 3, 2018 – Shipping companies that operate on the line between Ibiza and Formentera handled traffic of 2,028,840 passengers...
China’s Yang Ming sets up unit to service Mediterranean region
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) April 3, 2018 – Chinese company Yang Ming Marine Transport Corporation has set up a new regional centre in the Mediterranean...
Toulouse operators visit Barcelona port
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) April 3, 2018 – A delegation of operators from Toulouse visited the port of Barcelona on April 2 to learn about its logistics...
Spain’s government, Adif sign deal to co-finance rail line to Punta Langosteira
A Coruña, Spain (Ports Europe) April 3, 2018 – Spain’s prime minister Mariano Rajoy has said that Spanish national ports agency Puertos del Estado and...
Spanish pharma VIR SA plans €20 million investment at Seville port
Seville, Spain (Ports Europe) April 3, 2018 – Seville port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Sevilla) has received an application by Spanish company...
Thessaloniki Port Authority announces board members and audit committee
Thessaloniki, Greece (Ports Europe) April 3, 2018 – Thessaloniki Port Authority SA announces that the new Board of Directors of ThPA SA was constituted...
Fred Olsen cruise ships to visit Funchal, Madeira
Funchal, Madeira, Portugal (Ports Europe) April 3, 2018 – Administração dos Portos da Região Autónoma da Madeira, S. A. (APRAM – Port of...
Marseille port receives a delegation from MEDEF Lyon-Rhône Port
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) April 3, 2018 – President of the Executive Board of Marseille Fos port, Christine Cabau Woehrel, has received a...
Agenzia per il Lavoro Portuale del Porto di Trieste approves 2017 accounts
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) April 3, 2018 – The board of directors of L’Agenzia per il Lavoro Portuale del Porto di Trieste (APLT – Port...
Terminal TRI Genova receives port concession extention
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) April 3, 2018 – The Management Committee of Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Ligure Occidentale (AdSP – Western...
Cartagena port to complete southwest breakwater before summer
Cartagena, Spain (Ports Europe) April 2, 2018 – Cartagena port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Cartagena) plans to complete before the summer the works to...
Santander port posts highest cruise traffic growth in Spain in 2018
Santander, Spain (Ports Europe) April 2, 2018 – Spanish ports recorded 9.2 million cruise passengers in 2017, up 6.6% on the year, and a total of 4,248 ships...