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All news from Ports Europe categorised by searchable individual industry categories.
Vigo port praises changes in stevedoring activity rules
Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) January 6, 2017 – Vigo port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Vigo) has praised the changes adopted by dockworkers, which, in its...
Transneft oil traffic through Novorossiysk port rises in 2016
Novorossiysk, Russia (Ports Europe) January 9, 2017 – Russian oil transport group Transneft handled 30.6 million tonnes of oil through Novorossiysk port in...
Varna port sees rising wheat exports
Varna, Bulgaria (Ports Europe) January 9, 2017 – Varna port handled 1.286 million tonnes of wheat in the period between the start of the 2016/17 season, on...
Huelva port opens container line to Canary Islands
Huelva, Spain (Ports Europe) January 6, 2017 – Huelva port has officially opened a container line with the Canary Islands, operated by local company...
NCSP consolidated cargo traffic rises by 5.3% Y/Y in Jan-Nov 2016
Novorossiysk, Russia (Ports Europe) January 5, 2016 – The consolidated cargo traffic of Novorossiysk Commercial Sea Port (NCSP) Group, the operator of...
Ukrainian ports cargo traffic declines by 8.8% Y/Y in 2016
Odessa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) January 5, 2017 – Ukrainian commercial seaports saw their cargo traffic decline by 8.8% on the year to 132 million tonnes in...
Bordeaux is most important French port for ship dismantling, EU says
Bordeaux, France (Ports Europe) January 5, 2017 – Bordeaux port is the most important in France for the ship dismantling industry, a study by the European...
Bordeaux container terminal project is still at standstill
Bordeaux, France (Ports Europe) January 4, 2017 – Presented three years ago, the relaunch of operation of the Verdon container terminal at Bordeaux port is...
Valencia tenders for container terminal project study
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) January 4, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) has tendered for €605,000 ($634,385) the...
Kherson port cargo traffic declines by 10.5% Y/Y in Jan-Nov 2016
Kherson, Ukraine (Ports Europe) January 5, 2017 – Kherson port handled 3.37 million tonnes of cargo in the first eleven months of 2016, down by 10.5% on the...
Grimaldi includes Venice in Valencia-Greece shortsea shipping service
Venice, Italy (Ports Europe) January 2, 2017 – Italian shipping group Grimaldi has announced plans to reinforce its shortsea shipping service network with...
MedCruise to hold next annual assembly in Gibraltar
Gibraltar (Ports Europe) January 2, 2017 – MedCruise, the association of Mediterranean cruise ports, plans to hold its next general assembly in Gibraltar....
Plans for Krk LNG terminal progress
Krk, Croatia (Ports Europe) December 27, 2016 – A plan to construct an LNG facility on the Croatian Adriatic island of Krk are progressing with increased...
Blohm+Voss to open refit facility for megayachts in the Mediterranean
Hamburg, Germany (Ports Europe) June 30, 2016 – Blohm+Voss has announced today that it has won the tender for the set-up of a new maintenance and refit...