Year: 2018
Las Palmas port opens probe into contaminated water spill accident
Las Palmas, Spain (PortSEurope) December 26, 2018 – Las Palmas port has opened an investigation to clarify the causes of a...
Italian association dissatisfied with lack of reforms on private marinas operation
Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) December 26, 2018 – Italian association Ucina Confindustria has expressed its dissatisfaction with the lack of actions on the...
Castellón port to invest €20.3 million in 2019
Castellón, Spain (PortSEurope) December 26, 2018 – Castellón port’s board of directors has ratified the business plan for 2019, which includes...
Gijón port awards €42,000 insurance services contract to Aon Gil y Carvajal
Gijón, Spain (PortSEurope) December 26, 2018 – Autoridad Portuaria de Gijón (APG – Port Authority of Gijón) has awarded a €42,000 ($47,800)...
Cádiz port attracts winter season cruise calls
Cádiz, Spain (PortSEurope) December 26, 2018 – Cádiz port has booked record-high cruise figures in 2018, with 322 registered calls, making the industry...
Portugal to invest €12 million in ro-ro ramp at Porto das Pipas harbour
Porto das Pipas, Azores Islands, Portugal (PortSEurope) December 26, 2018 – The capacity overhaul project at Porto das Pipas in Portugal’s Azores...
Suez Canal studies ways for developing Ain Sokhna project
Suez, Egypt (PortSEurope) December 24, 2018 – The Suez Canal Economic Zone (SCZone) is conducting a study on the mechanism for implementing a partnership...
Avilés port to invest €57 million in overhaul of Raíces dock
Avilés, Spain (PortSEurope) December 24, 2018 – Avilés port has said it plans to invest €57 million ($64.9 million) in a project for the overhaul of...
Denmark’s DFDS enters cooperation deal with Ekol, expands presence in Mediterranean
Trieste, Italy (PortSEurope) December 25, 2018 – Danish shipping group DFDS, which has recently expanded its presence in the Mediterranean market with...
Cartagena port to join MEDPorts association
Cartagena, Spain (PortSEurope) December 25, 2018 The MEDPorts association, which brings together twenty of the main ports and state port agencies of the...
Lebanon’s Tripoli port becomes central destination for weekly shipments from China
Tripoli, Lebanon (PortSEurope) December 25, 2018 – Lebanon’s Tripoli port has become a central destination for weekly shipments from China to the...
Sevastopol port to sign trade agreement with Syria’s Tartus harbour
Sevastopol, Crimea (PortSEurope) December 25, 2018 – A delegation from the Crimea’s port of Sevastopol will visit the Syrian harbour of...
Santander port in talks to terminate contract with builder FCC
Santander, Spain (PortSEurope) December 25, 2018 – Santander port has started negotiations with civil engineering company Fomento de Construcciones y...
Montenegro’s Bar port invites bids for two projects
Bar, Montenegro (PortSEurope) December 25, 2018 – Montenegrin port operator Luka Bar a.d. Bar has invited bids for the implementation of a project for the...
Top 10 global container port operators for 2018
London, United Kingdom (PortSEurope) December 24, 2018 – Cosco Shipping Ports (CS Ports) remains the global port operators’ leader in 2018, according...
Haifa container terminal deal with China’s SIPG under review
Haifa, Israel (PortSEurope) December 23, 2018 – The Israeli government is widely believed to be reviewing the March 2015 deal that gives China’s Shanghai...
Spain’s SATO to build outer harbour wall at Arrecife port
Arrecife, Canary Islands, Spain (PortSEurope) December 21, 2018 – Spanish company SATO has won a €8.1 million ($9.2 million) contract for the...