Year: 2018
Algeciras, Huelva ports discuss cooperation projects
Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) January 3, 2018 – Huelva and Algeciras port authorities’ presidents, José Luis Ramos and Manuel Morón, respectively,...
Cádiz port to invest €21.2 million in 2018
Cádiz, Spain (PortSEurope) January 3, 2018 – Cádiz port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de la Bahía de Cádiz) plans to invest €21.16 million ($25.43...
A Coruña port posts largest rise of fresh fish cargo in Jan-Nov 2017
A Coruña, Spain (PortSEurope) January 3, 2018 – A Coruña port posted the highest growth of fresh fish handled in the first eleven months of 2017 among the...
Ireland aspires to steal fish traffic from Spain’s Vigo port
Vigo, Spain (PortSEurope) January 3, 2018 – Ireland’s government has chosen Castletownbere to build a warehouse for the storage of fresh and frozen...
Spain’s Termicar applies for concession at Vigo port
Vigo, Spain (PortSEurope) January 3, 2018 – Spanish company Termicar Vigo SL, the operator of the ro-ro terminal of Vigo port, has applied for a concession...
COSCO sets up OceanRail Logistics in Greece
Piraeus, Greece (PortSEurope) January 3, 2018 – Chinese COSCO Shipping and Ports Limited has announced the setting up of OceanRail Logistics S.A. The...
Resignation of Deputy CEO and CFO of Piraeus Port Authority
Piraeus, Greece (PortSEurope) January 3, 2018 – The management of Piraeus Port Authority S.A. (PPA) has announced the resignation of Deputy CEO and CFO...
Thessaloniki Port Authority sees record container numbers in 2017
Thessaloniki, Greece (PortSEurope) January 3, 2018 – Thessaloniki Port Authority S.A. (ThPA) closed 2017 with more than 400,000 TEUs being transported,...
European Investment Bank to support Thessaloniki port development
Thessaloniki, Greece (PortSEurope) January 3, 2018 – The “green light” for the consolidation of Thessaloniki’s seafront, from...
Las Palmas port posts largest cruise traffic growth in Spain
Las Palmas, Spain (PortSEurope) January 2, 2018 – Las Palmas port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Las Palmas) recorded a 12% increase in cruise traffic...
Almería port expects ferry traffic to rise by 16% in 2017
Almería, Spain (PortSEurope) January 2, 2018 – Almería port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Almería) expects the number of ferry passengers handled in...
Spanish ports handle 8.5 million cruise passengers in Jan-Nov 2018
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) January 2, 2018 – Spanish ports handled a total of 8.5 million passengers in the first eleven months of 2017, up 4.31% on the...
Valencia port starts railway import service for new cars
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) January 2, 2018 – Valencia port started a railway import service of vehicles in December, when two convoys left the harbour to...
Puertos Canarios analyses improvement of harbour accessibility
Las Palmas, Spain (PortSEurope) January 2, 2018 – Puertos Canarios, the operator of regionally-owned ports at the Canary Islands, has carried out a study to...
Naples port to start handling larger ships in summer of 2018
Naples, Italy (PortSEurope) January 2, 2018 – Naples port expects to complete its dredging project at the end of 2018, but could start handling large...
Cádiz port to keep pilotage, towing fees unchanged in 2018
Cádiz, Spain (PortSEurope) January 2, 2018 – Cádiz port authority (Autoridad Portuaria Bahía de Cádiz) plans to keep intact the tariffs for pilotage,...
Morocco’s national ports agency plans MAD 6 billion of investments
Casablanca, Morocco (PortSEurope) January 2, 2018 – The country’s Agence National des Ports (ANP – National Ports Agency) plans to...
Ceuta call for links to Moroccan ports
Ceuta, Spain (PortSEurope) January 2, 2018 – Ceuta president, Juan Vivas (PP), has formally made a request to the central Spanish government for the...
Azerbaijan and Russia to cooperate in cruise shipping
Baku, Azerbaijan (PortSEurope) January 2, 2018 – Chairman of Azerbaijan Caspian Shipping Company (ACSC) Rauf Veliyev and Konstantin Anisimov, the General...
EBRD Ukrainian loan to improve connectivity between industrial and agricultural areas and key ports
Odessa, Ukraine (PortSEurope) January 2, 2018 – The EBRD is to make a loan to Ukraine to increase efficiency of Ukrainian Railways (JSC Ukrzaliznytsya...