Month: August 2018
Switzerland waits to see effect of Morandi bridge collapse on Genoa port trade
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) August 27, 2018 – Genoa port is a strategic entry point for many goods transported to Switzerland and the Morandi bridge...
Greece’s Chania municipal fund investing in Gavdos port upgrade
Gavdos, Greece (Ports Europe) August 28, 2018 – Greece’s Municipal Port Fund of Chania has launched a project to upgrade the infrastructure of Gavdos port...
Rijeka port to finance wastewater treatment plant in Raša
Rijeka, Croatia (Ports Europe) August 28, 2018 – Croatia’s Raša municipality has convened a meeting with representatives of port operator Luka Rijeka d.d....
ESPO secretary general visits Livorno port
Livorno, Italy (Ports Europe) August 27, 2018 – Secretary General of the European Sea Ports Organization (ESPO), Isabelle Ryckbost, has visited the port...
Spain’s Aragón prefers to use Catalan ports for Mediterranean Corridor links
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) August 23, 2018 – Spain’s Aragón regional government has said it prefers to use the Catalan ports for linking the...
Norway’s Höegh celebrates 10th anniversary of Spanish unit at Valencia port
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) August 24, 2018 – Norwegian ro-ro company Höegh Autoliners has celebrated the tenth anniversary of the constitution of its...
Cartagena port introduces own code of conduct
Cartagena, Spain (Ports Europe) August 24, 2018 – Cartagena port has introduced its own code of ethics and conduct, in order to regulate ethical practices...
Barcelona hopes to improve its risk prediction system with SAMOA 2
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) August 24, 2018 – Barcelona port has adhered this summer to SAMOA 2, the second phase of the Meteorological and...
Morandi bridge disaster not to hamper Genoa port’s traffic
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) August 24, 2018 – Genoa port will see no reduction of traffic after the collapse of the Morandi bridge, which partially blocked...
Greece investing €3.7 million in new Ithaca port
Ithaca, Greece (Ports Europe) August 24, 2018 – Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras has examined the project for the construction of the Piso Aetos port on...
Greek customs association says reduction of working time of Thessaloniki port’s office is justified
Thessaloniki, Greece (Ports Europe) August 24, 2018 – Greece’s association of customs agents OTYE has said the reaction of operators following the...
A Coruña port starts loading 22 concrete boxes for export to Aberdeen
A Coruña, Spain (Ports Europe) August 27, 2018 – A Coruña port has launched the process of loading 22 concrete boxes produced in the outer port of Punta...
Spain’s B+Safe installs defibrillators at six yachting ports
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) August 27, 2018 – Spanish company B+Safe has installed Connected Operational Defibrillators at the yachting ports of Selva de...
Seville port receives mobile crane for Batán dock
Seville, Spain (Ports Europe) August 27, 2018 – Seville port has received on board the Wiebke ship the mobile crane with the biggest capacity than it...
Suez Canal books record daily traffic on August 25
Port Said, Egypt (Ports Europe) August 27, 2018 – Suez Canal booked a record daily traffic on August 25 with 49 ships passing by transporting 4.2 million...
Genoa port copes with Morandi Bridge disaster consequences so far
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) August 24, 2018 – Genoa port has managed to successfully cope with the first consequences of the Morandi bridge collapse, which...
Spain’s iContainers expects difficult maritime transport high season this year
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) August 23, 2018 – Spanish company iContainers has warned that the high season of maritime transport will be especially hard...
Canary Islands-owned ports passenger traffic rises 5.85% in Q2 2018
Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain (Ports Europe) August 27, 2018 – Regular passenger traffic in ports owned by the government of the Canary Islands reached...
Spain’s Almería port handles 370,000 passengers under OPE
Almería, Spain (Ports Europe) August 27, 2018 – About 370,000 passengers have used the port of Almería in the first two months of Operación Paso del...
Special Economic Zones may boost Italian port’s growth
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) August 27, 2018 – The proposal to activate a special economic zone in the city of Genoa, hit by the Morandi bridge disaster, is...