Ports set to gain as Italy and China sign MoU for investment
Rome, Italy (PortSEurope) March 24, 2019 - During a state visit to Italy of Chinese President Xi Jinping, the two countries signed a non-binding memorandum…
Bedeschi to supply Ashdod port with hopper equipment
Ashdod, Israel (PortSEurope) March 24, 2019 - Bedeschi SpA has signed a contract for the supply of No. 2 additional self-propelled ecological hoppers for unloading…
Duško Grabovac is most likely new president of Luka Rijeka
Rijeka, Croatia (PortSEurope) March 21, 2019 – Duško Grabovac is the most probable successor of Jedrzej Mierzewski as president of the management board of Luka Rijeka d.d., the operator…
Valencia port to build wind towers, power substation
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) March 21, 2019 – Valencia port authority aims to achieve the energy balance by 2050 with its own wind power plan that includes the installation…
Ancona port approves demolition of 34 silos
Ancona, Italy (PortSEurope) March 22, 2019 – Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mare Adriatico Centrale (AdSP - Central Adriatic Sea Port Authority) has issued an order concerning…
Consorzio ASI to operate Brindisi port’s rail junction
Brindisi, Italy (PortSEurope) March 22, 2019 – Brindisi port plans to sign an agreement with state-owned company Consorzio per l'Area di Sviluppo Industriale (ASI) for the operation of the…
Nantes port to improve links with hinterland
Nantes, France (PortSEurope) March 22, 2019 – The European Commission has included the Nantes Saint-Nazaire port in the list of major European Union transport routes, announced in…
A Coruña port obtains labour safety certification
A Coruña, Spain (PortSEurope) March 22, 2019 – A Coruña port is the first in Spain to obtain certification of its labour safety and health management system, in…
Serbia to open financial offer of P&O Ports for Luka Novi Sad on March 22
Novi Sad, Serbia (PortSEurope) March 21, 2019 – Serbia’s economy ministry plans to open the financial offer of P&O Ports in a tender for the privatisation…
Sintraport presents proposals to negotiate the transport conditions of Barcelona port
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) March 22, 2019 – Spanish autonomous truck drivers association Sintraport has asked the Barcelona port authority and the Catalan regional government to resume negotiating tables…
Montenegrin ports cruise traffic declines 6.3% in 2018
Bar, Montenegro (PortSEurope) March 21, 2019 – Montenegrin ports handled 506,198 cruise passengers in 2018, down 6.3%. The number of cruise ship calls serviced by the country's…
Ravenna port prepares €235 million tender
Ravenna, Italy (PortSEurope) March 22, 2019 – Ravenna is preparing a €235 million ($267.6 million) tender for 200 hectares of new logistics areas and seeks collaborations with operators interested in…
Huelva port to call tender for temperature-controlled storage complex
Huelva, Spain (PortSEurope) March 22, 2019 – Huelva port has approved the list of requirements of the tender of one or several administrative concessions destined to…
Italy adopts rules for CO2 emissions in sea transport
Rome, Italy (PortSEurope) March 22, 2019 – Italy's government has approved a decree on the monitoring and reporting obligations for carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions generated by…
Piraeus Port Authority sign labour agreement
Piraeus, Greece (PortSEurope) March 22, 2019 - Piraeus Port Authority S.A. has announced the signing of the New Collective Labour Agreement with the representatives of…
Rijeka free port celebrates anniversary and looks to future
Rijeka, Croatia (PortSEurope) March 21, 2019 - The Northern Adriatic port city of Rijeka has been celebrating the 300th anniversary of its status as a…
Berdyansk port invites dredging tender bids
Odessa, Ukraine (PortSEurope) March 21, 2019 - Berdyansk port, part of Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority (USPA) has invited bids for tenders to repair berths 1 and…
Hyster Europe develops zero-emission reachstacker for Valencia port
Press Release - Hyster Europe - Hyster Europe has announced it is developing a zero-emission reachstacker featuring a hydrogen fuel cell for the Port of…
Liguria has know-how to deal with China’s investments in Genoa port
Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) March 21, 2019 – The potential Chinese investments in Genoa port would not lead to the loss of a state control over…
China ready to expand port sector cooperation with Italy
Trieste, Italy (PortSEurope) March 20, 2019 – China is ready to expand the scope of cooperation with Italy, including exploring opportunities in the field of…