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Porto Torres call for resumption of direct Livorno port links

Porto Torres, Sardinia, Italy (Ports Europe) April 2, 2018 – The municipal administration of Porto Torres has proposed a new shipping service (cargo and...

Morocco becomes Vigo port’s leading trade partner

Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) March 29, 2018 – Vigo launched a Motorway of the Sea (MoS) to Morocco’s Tanger Med in April 2017. The statistics for...

Alstom starts supply of trains to Panama via Tarragona port

Tarragona, Spain (Ports Europe) March 29, 2018 – French machinery group Alstom started on March 28 the shipment of the first of the 21 trains –...

Genoa hosts Silk Road forum

Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) March 29, 2018 – On Friday 23 March 2018 the Authority hosted the convention “The Silk Road in the New Perspective of...

AdSP del Mar Tirreno Centro-Settentrionale reports 2017 traffic numbers

Civitavecchia, Italy (Ports Europe) March 27, 2018 – Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Tirreno Centro-Settentrionale (AdSP – Centre-North...

Livorno, Piombino port authority reports improved 2017 traffic

Livorno, Italy (Ports Europe) March 29, 2018 – In 2017 the ports of Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Tirreno Settentrionale (AdSP – North...

A Coruña port’s cargo traffic keeps growing in February

A Coruña, Spain (Ports Europe) March 28, 2018 – A Coruña port closed February with a fresh increase in traffic, keeping up with the positive trend. The...

Barcelona port cargo traffic rises 23% y/y in Jan-Feb 2018

Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) March 26, 2018 – Barcelona port’s cargo traffic grew by 23% on the year in the first two months of 2018, reaching 10.7...

Genoa port handles 30% of Italy’s trade with China

Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) March 26, 2018 – Genoa port channels a total of 30% of the trade between Italy and China, the general secretary of Autorita’ di...

Spain: Puertos del Estado – January 2018 cargo traffic by port authority

Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) March 25, 2018 – Puertos del Estado, the state-run ports system, reports January 2018 cargo traffic (tonnes) statistics by port...

Santander port cargo traffic rises 27.6% y/y in Jan-Feb 2018

Santander, Spain (Ports Europe) March 22, 2018 – Santander port’s cargo traffic rose by 27.6% on the year in the first two months of 2018 to 961,268...

Bilbao port, a meeting point between China and Atlantic Europe

Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) March 21, 2018 – China is one of the 12 main markets in total traffic of the port of Bilbao and the second in containerised...

Avilés port cargo traffic rises 31% in Jan-Feb 2018

Avilés, Spain (Ports Europe) March 21, 2018 – The 889,231 tonnes of cargo handled by Avilés port in the first two months of the year mark a turning point...

Las Palmas port cargo traffic keeps rising

Las Palmas, Spain (Ports Europe) March 21, 2018 – Las Palmas port authority’s statistics for February show the institution managed to keep the...

Arkas Line upgrades Algerian services

Béjaïa, Algeria (Ports Europe) March 20, 2018 – Arkas Line (Arkas Container Transport S.A.) has announced the expansion of its services to Algeria with the...

Damietta port sees increased cargo traffic in 2017

Damietta, Egypt (Ports Europe) March 20, 2018 – The Damietta Port Authority has reported total tonnage handled in 2017 was 37.74 million tons, compared...

Taranto, Durrës, Kotor ports launch project for promoting Motorways of the Sea

Taranto, Italy (Ports Europe) March 19, 2018 – The ports of Taranto, Durrës and Kotor have launched a project to promote the launch of a Motorway of the Sea...

Genoa, Savona ports strengthen ties with Switzerland

Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) March 16, 2018 – Genoa and Savona ports are deepening their cooperation with Switzerland during a visit of their managers to...

NCSP reports 11.676 million tons of cargo in January 2018

Novorossiysk, Russia (Ports Europe) March 15, 2018 – NCSP Group has reported that consolidated cargo turnover for January 2018 totaled 11,676,000 tons....

Castellón port closes best February in its history

Castellón, Spain (Ports Europe) March 14, 2018 – Castellón port continues its growth path and closes with the best February month in its history in total...

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