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Anti-GMO activists block east entrance to French port of Sète
Sète, France (PortSEurope) July 11, 2017 – On July 10, some 80 anti-GMO (genetically modified organism) activists blocked the east entrance to the Port of...
Government inspects Alicante port’s measures to facilitate OPE 2017
Alicante, Spain (PortSEurope) July 12, 2017 – The government delegate of the region of Valencia, Juan Carlos Moragues, visited the area in the port of...
Lisbon port starts recovering from strike years
Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) July 11, 2017 – Lisbon port has started recovering from the last two years of strikes of dockworkers that caused the loss of...
Railways of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan agreed to strengthen ties
Baku, Azerbaijan (PortSEurope) July 12, 2017 – The head of JSC NC Kazakhstan Temir Zholy Kanat Alpysbayev has held talks with Deputy Prime Minister of...
Sines port to have railway link to Madrid long before Algeciras
Sines, Portugal (PortSEurope) July 11, 2017 – Sines port is one of the main beneficiaries of the isolation of the port of Algeciras from Madrid due to lack...
Pasaia port cargo traffic slumps in H1 2017
Pasaia, Spain (PortSEurope) July 11, 2017 – Pasaia port cargo traffic came in at 1.38 million tonnes in the first half of 2017 and if the trend is...
La Spezia tenders for development of Garibaldi quay
La Spezia, Italy (PortSEurope) July 12, 2017 – A new tender procedure is open for the extension of the Garibaldi dock in La Spezia Container Terminal....
Las Palmas port authority president takes part in Blue Growth event
Las Palmas, Spain (PortSEurope) July 11, 2017 – The president of Las Palmas port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Las Palmas), Luis Ibarra and its...
Ukraine’s Nibulon launches grain transshipment terminal near Kherson port
Kherson, Ukraine (PortSEurope) July 11, 2017 – Ukrainian agricultural holding Nibulon Ltd has put into operation a new terminal for the transshipment of...
Cilsa acquires warehouses at Barcelona port’s logistics zone
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) July 11, 2017 – Cilsa, the company that manages the logistics zone of the port of Barcelona, has reached an agreement with...
Port of Marseille Fos traffic 2% up in H1 2017
Marseille, France (PortSEurope) July 11, 2017 – Overall traffic of the port of Marseille Fos in the first half of 2017 shows an increase of 2% compared...
GPF Capital invests in Grupo Vicarli
Bilbao, Spain (PortSEurope) July 10, 2017 – GPF Capital, an independent private equity vehicle created with the aim of investing in small and medium-sized...
Baleària presents LNG commitment to IMO
Bilbao, Spain (PortSEurope) July 10, 2017 – Spanish ferry company Baleària Eurolínias Marítimas S.A. presented last week its commitment to liquefied...
Ports de la Generalitat to invest in dredging Vilanova port access channel
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) July 10, 2017 – Catalonia regional ports agency Ports de la Generalitat plans to invest €168,000 ($191,331) in the dredging...
Castellón carries out largest ever clay operation
Castellón, Spain (PortSEurope) July 10, 2017 – Castellón port received the ship loaded with the largest quantity of clay that has anchored in the harbour...
Trieste-based port authority to acquire two warehouses from Wärtsilä
Trieste, Italy (PortSEurope) July 10, 2017 – The Authority of the Eastern Adriatic Sea Port System (Autorità di Sistema Portuale del Mare Adriatico...
Rijeka reports improved dry cargo traffic in the first six months of 2017
Rijeka, Croatia (PortSEurope) Jul 10, 2017 – The port of Rijeka’s throughput of dry cargo in the first six months of 2017 was 2.434 million tons, an...