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Polluting cruise ship highlighted by Marseilles residents
Marseille Fos, France (Ports Europe) August 16, 2017 – Residents of Marseille port regularly complain about pollution generated by cruise ships in the...
Livorno port announces dredging tender
Livorno, Italy (Ports Europe) August 16, 2017 – Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Tirreno Settentrionale (North Tyrrhenian Sea Port Authority),...
Attica agrees purchase of majority stake in Hellenic Seaways Maritime
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) August 16, 2017 – Attica Holdings S.A., part of Marfin Investment Group (MIG), has announced an agreement in principle,...
Valencia port completes construction of road to new cruise terminal
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) August 16, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) has approved the completion of the works of the...
Tenerife port confirms tender for dredging at Arinaga basin
Tenerife, Spain (Ports Europe) August 16, 2017 – Tenerife port authority (Autoridad Portuaria Santa Cruz de Tenerife) confirmed the call of a tender for...
Barcelona port boosts short sea shipping lines traffic
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) August 16, 2017 – Barcelona port is offering more short sea shipping (SSS) lines with its main markets in Italy and North...
Cádiz port studies expansion into Andalusian passenger market
Cádiz, Spain (Ports Europe) August 16, 2017 – Cádiz has become in the last years a tourist port par excellence. Especially, in the dock closest to...
Greece completes pier construction at Kos port
Kos, Greece (Ports Europe) August 16, 2017 – Greece’s government has completed a project for the construction of a pier at the port of Kos. The pier...
No asbestos pollution at Patras port following warehouse collapse
Patras, Greece (Ports Europe) August 16, 2017 – There was no air pollution from asbestos fibres after the collapse of the warehouse in the northern port of...
Mariupol port cargo traffic falls in Jan-July 2017
Mariupol, Ukraine (Ports Europe) August 16, 2017 – Mariupol port’s cargo traffic declined by 2.6% on the year to 3.944 million tonnes in the first...
Odessa port cargo traffic rises 1.3% y/y in Jan-July 2017
Odessa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) August 16, 2017 – Odessa port handled 13.78 million tonnes of cargo in the first seven months of 2017, up 1.3% on the year,...
Georgian ports cargo traffic declines 1.2% y/y in H1 2017
Poti, Georgia (Ports Europe) August 15, 2017 – Georgian ports handled 8.3 million tonnes of cargo in the first half of 2017, down 1.2% on the year, the...
Berdyansk port cargo traffic falls 34.1% y/y in Jan-July 2017
Berdyansk, Ukraine (Ports Europe) August 15, 2017 – Berdyansk port handled 1.357 million tonnes of cargo in the first seven months of 2017, down 34.1% on the...
Chernomorsk port cargo traffic rises 3.5% y/y in Jan-July 2017
Chernomorsk, Ukraine (Ports Europe) August 15, 2017 – Chernomorsk port handled 9.338 million tonnes of cargo in the first seven months of 2017, up 3.5% on...
Izmail port cargo traffic rises 13.1% y/y in Jan-Jul 2017
Izmail, Ukraine (Ports Europe) August 15, 2017 – Izmail port handled 2.723 million tonnes of cargo in the first seven months of 2017, down 13.1% on the year....
Turkey’s Yildirim gains full control of Leixões port’s container terminal
Leixões, Portugal (Ports Europe) August 15, 2017 – Turkish conglomerate Yildirim has just gained control of Leixões port’s container terminal, the...
Alicante cruise traffic starts to recover
Alicante, Spain (Ports Europe) August 15, 2017 – Cruise tourism continues to recover in Alicante, with 38,789 passengers arriving in the first six months of...
Murcia court dismisses appeal against port extension
Cartagena, Spain (Ports Europe) August 15, 2017 – Spanish region of Murcia’s superior court has dismissed the appeal of environmentalist organisation...
Tenerife port authority sees cruise traffic to rise by 5% y/y in 2017
Tenerife, Spain (Ports Europe) August 15, 2017 – Tenerife port authority (Autoridad Portuaria Santa Cruz de Tenerife) expects cruise traffic to rise by 5% on...
Ibiza-Gandia line exceeds 15,000 passengers
Gandia, Spain (Ports Europe) August 15, 2017 – The first line of passenger and car transport between the port of Gandia and Ibiza has surpassed the 15,000...