Livorno, Piombino host meetings of EasyLog project
Livorno, Italy (PortSEurope) February 21, 2019 – Livorno and Piombino ports have joined the list of port cities hosting EasyLog focus groups, a project financed by the…
Metrika to support Contship Italia’s intermodal services marketing
Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) February 21, 2019 – Contship Italia SpA has picked Metrika SRL, a digital marketing and communication services consultancy company, to support the growth of…
Italy identifies three potential ports for handling cruise ships in Venice
Venice, Italy (PortSEurope) February 20, 2019 – Italy's government has identified the ports of Lido, Malamocco and Chioggia as potential facilities for the handling of large cruise ships,…
Naples port hosts Suez Canal-New Silk Road discussion
Naples, Italy (PortSEurope) February 19, 2019 - The recent doubling of the capacity of the Suez Canal, has improved the competitiveness of the Mediterranean region,…
Livorno port reports record traffic in 2018
Livorno, Italy (PortSEurope) February 19, 2019 - Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Tirreno Settentrionale (AdSP - North Tyrrhenian Sea Port Authority) has report initial…
AdSP del Mar Ligure Occidentale (Genoa) joins IPCSA
Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) February 19, 2019 – Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Ligure Occidentale (AdSP – Western Ligurian Sea Port Authority) has become the…
MCT promises €120 million investment in Gioia Tauro port
Gioia Tauro, Italy (PortSEurope) February 19, 2019 – Medcenter Container Terminal (MCT) has suspended the redundancy schemes and announced investments of €120 million ($135.9 million)…
Grimaldi, Samskip, Rail Cargo Group to launch Venice-Duisburg freight rail service
Venice, Italy (PortSEurope) February 19, 2019 – A consortium of Italy's Grimaldi, Dutch-based Samskip and Austria's Rail Cargo Group plans to launch a freight rail line linking Venice…
Genoa port launches Truck Management System at PSA Voltri-Prà terminal
Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) February 18, 2019 – Genoa port has activated a Truck Management System (TMS) at the PSA Voltri-Prà container terminal. The system is aimed at better…
Livorno expands access channel to handle larger vessels
Livorno, Italy (PortSEurope) February 16, 2019 - Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Tirreno Settentrionale (AdSP - North Tyrrhenian Sea Port Authority) has started proceedings…
Italy’s TSG extends concession at Genoa port
Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) February 15, 2019 – Terminal San Giorgio (TSG), a company of the Gavio group that manages a multipurpose terminal in the port…
Augusta port may become Italy’s LNG hub
Augusta, Italy (PortSEurope) February 15, 2019 – Liquefied natural gas (LNG) is a competitive lever for the industrial and logistic system of Eastern Sicily and the whole…
Israeli ambassador visits Naples port
Naples, Italy (PortSEurope) February 14, 2019 – The Israeli ambassador to Italy, Ofer Sachs, with the two delegates Yigal Maor and Shlomo Brieman, has visited…
Italy’s Marini – Fayat exports asphalt plant via Ravenna port
Ravenna, Italy (PortSEurope) February 14, 2019 – The Ravenna terminal of Contship Italia Group was chosen for the shipment of an oversize cargo, the latest…
Italian transport minister visits northern Sardinia ports
Olbia, Italy (PortSEurope) February 14, 2019 – Italy's Minister of Infrastructures and Transport, Danilo Toninelli, has visited the ports of Olbia and Porto Torres and,…
Salerno port’s ro-ro traffic declines in 2018 but prospects are positive
Salerno, Italy (PortSEurope) February 14, 2019 – Salerno port's ro-ro traffic declined by 5% to 7.73 million units in 2018, down from 8.175 million in the…
Bari, Brindisi ports to strengthen links with Israel’s Haifa
Bari, Italy (PortSEurope) February 13, 2019 – Haifa port authority representatives have completed a visit to the southern Italian region of Apulia to sign cooperation…
Trenitalia to start operation of line linking Rome to Civitavecchia port
Civitavecchia, Italy (PortSEurope) February 13, 2019 – Italian company Trenitalia plans to start the operation of a cruise passenger service linking Civitavecchia port to Rome. The service will improve…
Pescara approves €552,000 port overhaul tender
Pescara, Italy (PortSEurope) February 13, 2019 – Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mare Adriatico Centrale (Central Adriatic Sea Port Authority) has completed the preparation of a…
Liguria’s regional government to complete Genoa Prà port electrification in 2020
Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) February 12, 2019 – Liguria's regional government plans to complete the electrification of the docks in the Prà area of Genoa port by May…