Industries
All news from Ports Europe categorised by searchable individual industry categories.
Trade union protests against Solvay’s decision to alter Santander port service
Santander, Spain (PortSEurope) December 27, 2018 – The change in the concession of the road transport service of Belgian chemical company Solvay to Santander...
Las Palmas port’s container traffic declines in November
Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain (PortSEurope) December 27, 2018 Container traffic at Las Palmas port turned negative in November with a fall of 15.53% on the...
Tarragona handles export of CCR system units to USA
Tarragona, Spain (PortSEurope) December 27, 2018 – Tarragona port handled last week the export to the USA of six independent modules of a complete unit of...
Cartagena port expects record-high 165 cruise calls in 2019
Cartagena, Spain (PortSEurope) December 27, 2018 – Cartagena port received on December 26 the last cruise of the year, the ship Aidamar, belonging to the...
Montenegro’s Bar port names executive director
Bar, Montenegro (PortSEurope) December 27, 2018 – Montenegrin port operator Luka Bar d.d. has named Vladan Vučelić executive director. The...
CMA CGM announces feeder service for Egyptian ports
Port Said, Egypt (PortSEurope) December 26, 2018 – The French shipping company CMA CGM has announced that it will deploy its own feeder vessel to link...
Trieste port expects more investments in 2019
Trieste, Italy (PortSEurope) December 26, 2018 – Trieste port expects to attract several investors in 2019, in order to take advantage of its the...
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...
Venice port completes first LNG refueling of ship
Venice, Italy (PortSEurope) December 24, 2018 – Venice port has completed the third and last phase of its first refueling of a ship with liquefied natural...
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...