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Avilés port cargo traffic rises 3.54% y/y in Jan-July 2017
Avilés, Spain (Ports Europe) August 14, 2017 – Avilés port handled 2.8 million tonnes of cargo in the first seven months of 2017, up 3.54% on the year. The...
Mediterranean ports handle 64% of Spanish cruise traffic in H1 2017
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) August 14, 2017 – Spanish ports have closed the first half of the year, recording the historic high in cruise traffic, with...
Puertos Canarios to invest in improvement of Corralejo port mooring service
Fuerteventura, Spain (Ports Europe) August 14, 2017 – Canary Island’s port operator Puertos Canarios plans to invest €435,783 ($513,221) in works to...
Engel & Völkers Yachting ranking: the ten highest priced marinas in Europe
Engel & Völkers Yachting has published its ranking of the ten highest priced marinas in Europe: With a mooring fee of €3,025 per day, Ibiza Magna in...
Morocco’s new Safi port 75% complete
Safi, Morocco (Ports Europe) August 15, 2017 – The project to create a new port at Safi was started in 2013 and is now 75% complete. At a cost of...
Las Palmas port starts first phase of construction of La Esfinge dock’s interior pier
Las Palmas, Spain (Ports Europe) August 14, 2017 – Las Palmas port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Las Palmas) has started the first phase of the...
Ceuta-Algeciras line passenger traffic declines in H1 2017
Ceuta, Spain (Ports Europe) August 14, 2017 – The passenger line of the Strait of Gibraltar between the ports of Ceuta and Algeciras has reached 768,564...
Figueira da Foz port breaks monthly cargo traffic record in July
Figueira da Foz, Portugal (Ports Europe) August 14, 2017 – Figueira da Foz port handled 229,252 tonnes of cargo in July, up 6.38% on the year. The figures...
USPA calls tender for dredging of Mykolaiv port access channel
Mykolaiv, Ukraine (Ports Europe) August 14, 2017 – Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority (USPA) has called a tender for the dredging of the access channel of...
Kherson port cargo traffic declines 16.6% y/y in Jan-July 2017
Kherson, Ukraine (Ports Europe) August 14, 2017 – Kherson port cargo traffic declined by 16.6% on the year to 1.71 million tonnes in the first seven months...
Marco Polo Foundation trains future port employees in sustainable mobility
Venice, Italy (Ports Europe) August 14, 2017 – Fondazione ITS Marco Polo (The Marco Polo Foundation) aims to train future experts in the field of...
DP World, Suez Canal Economic Zone set up joint venture
Port Said, Egypt (Ports Europe) August 10, 2017 – UAE-based group DP World has set up a joint venture with Egypt’s General Authority for the Suez...
Ukrainian seaports cargo traffic rises in Jan-July 2017
Mykolaiv, Ukraine (Ports Europe) August 11, 2017 – In January-July, 2017, cargo handling in Ukraine’s seaports amounted to 76.2 million tons, which is...
Ukraine diversifies petroleum product imports through its harbours
Mykolaiv, Ukraine (Ports Europe) August 11, 2017 – Ukrainian ports are an instrument of market diversification, a backup against any excesses with...
Ville Forte Ukraine exports LPG from Izmail port for first time
Izmail, Ukraine (Ports Europe) August 10, 2017 – Ukrainian company Ville Forte Ukraine has sent the first shipment of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) from...
Spain’s Ergransa to invest €500,000 in overhaul of warehouse at Barcelona port
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) August 11, 2017 – Spanish stevedoring company Ergransa, part of Holding M. Condeminas, has presented to the Barcelona port...
Port Yuzhniy cargo traffic rises 6.4% y/y in Jan-July 2017
Port Yuzhniy, Ukraine (Ports Europe) August 11, 2017 – Port Yuzhniy handled 25.29 million tonnes of cargo in the first seven months of 2017, up 6.4% on the...