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Port de Sète, P&O Ports eye long-term concession
Sete, France (PortSEurope) July 14, 2017 – The French port of Sète and P&O (previously Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company) Ports, a...
Yilport invests in Gebze and Gemport terminals
Istanbul, Turkey (PortSEurope) July 14, 2017 – Six RTG cranes bought from Japanese Mitsui Paceco, the main equipment supplier of Yilport Holding Inc,...
Koper port reports improved cargo figures for first half 2017
Koper, Slovenia (PortSEurope) July 14, 2017 – Maritime throughput in January–June 2017 was 11,945,659 tons, up 6% on the same period of 2016. The...
Sines port reports improved H1 2017 cargo throughout
Sines, Portugal (PortSEurope) July 14, 2017 – Sines port has closed the first six months of 2017 with a total of 25.8 million tons of cargo handled,...
BlueConnect is now online, and includes ports in France and Italy
Nice, France (PortSEurope) July 15, 2017 – BlueConnect, the port observation platform, is now online, and includes 295 ports in Var, Alpes Maritimes,...
Re-positioning Greece as a global maritime capital
Piraeus, Greece (PortSEurope) July 14, 2017 – Ernst & Young (EY) has produced a report entitled “Re-positioning Greece as a global maritime...
Spain fined €3 million by European Court of Justice over stevedore sector
Brussels, Belgium (PortSEurope) July 14, 2017 – The European Union’s Court of Justice has ordered Spain to pay a punitive fine of €3 million ($3.4...
EU supports new railway line from Venice to Ljubljana
Venice, Italy (PortSEurope) July 14, 2017 – The European Union is to support the construction of a new railway line from Venice to Ljubljana, Slovenia....
Zadar port to receive cruise investment
Zadar, Croatia (PortSEurope) July 14, 2017 – The port of Zadar is to the site of a new cruise port on the Croatian Adriatic coastline. Other ports in the...
Adif sets up commission to monitor Cantabrian-Mediterranean Corridor
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) July 13, 2017 – In Madrid yesterday, the president of Spanish state-run railway operator Administrador de Infraestructuras...
Tarragona port exports one million heads of cattle in five years
Tarragona, Spain (PortSEurope) July 13, 2017 – Tarragona port has reached one million head of cattle of export since this traffic began five years ago. In...
Port of Sète and P&O Ports to relaunch container activity
Sète, France (PortSEurope) July 13, 2017 – The Port of Sète has announced that the P&O Ports group has been chosen to manage and develop the...
LNG has huge potential as marine fuel in the Iberian Peninsula
Oslo, Norway (PortSEurope) July 11, 2017 – With the global fuel sulphur limit of 0.5% entering into force in 2020, the interest towards LNG as a marine...
Santander port says works at Raos dock are not officially stopped
Santander, Spain (PortSEurope) July 12, 2017 – Santander port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Santander) has assured that the works of the new Raos dock...
Italy’s Marche region gives green light to dredging of Fano port
Fano, Italy (PortSEurope) July 12, 2017 – Italy’s Marche regional government has given the green light to the start of dredging works at the port of...
Ukraine’s sea ports transship 450,000 tonnes of grain in July 1-7
Odessa, Ukraine (PortSEurope) July 12, 2017 – Ukraine’s sea ports transshipped 450,400 tonnes of grain for export in the period between July 1 and 7,...
Taranto port to open 600m of overhauled quay
Taranto, Italy (PortSEurope) July 12, 2017 – On July 27, Italy’s Minister for the South and Territorial Cohesion, Claudio De Vincenti, will officially...