Port Operations
Italy to co-finance electrification, LNG use at ports
Civitavecchia, Italy (Ports Europe) January 18, 2019 – Italy’s government plans to co-finance the electrification and the use...
Balearic Islands port authority gets eight offers for Molinar port reconstruction
Molinar, Spain (Ports Europe) January 18, 2019 – The Balearic Islands port authority has received eight offers in a tender for the reconstruction of Molinar...
APM Terminals Gijón to invest €800,000 in crane overhaul
Gijón, Spain (Ports Europe) January 18, 2019 – APM Terminals Gijón, operator of the container terminal at Gijón port, plans to invest €800,000...
Saipem 3000 crane-ship executes offshore load-lifting test at Almería port
Almería, Spain (Ports Europe) January 18, 2019 – The Saipem 3000 crane-ship, which has been in Almería port for maintenance works since December, has...
Leixões port to receive €379 million of investment by 2030
Leixões, Portugal (Ports Europe) January 18, 2019 – Leixões port expects to receive a €379 million ($432 million) investment by 2030 to become a...
UAE shows interest in Montenegro’s Bar port
Bar, Montenegro (Ports Europe) January 18, 2019 – United Arab Emirates (UAE) investors are interested in Montenegro’s Bar port, Emirati royal...
AdSP del Mare Adriatico Meridionale (Bari) introduces safety training
Bari, Italy (Ports Europe) January 17, 2019 – Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mare Adriatico Meridionale (AdSP – Southern Adriatic Sea Port...
Caronte & Tourist to introduce two new ships in services to Lampedusa, Pantelleria
Catania, Italy (Ports Europe) January 17, 2019 – Italian company Caronte & Tourist plans to introduce two new ships for services to the islands of...
Libya’s Al Waha cuts oil output as bad weather causes port closures
Al Sidra, Libya (Ports Europe) January 17, 2019 – Oil company Al Waha, a subsidiary of the Libyan National Oil Company (NOC), reduced its crude oil...
Livorno port records stable deseasonalisation trend
Livorno, Italy (Ports Europe) January 17, 2019 – More than half of the ferries arrived in the port of Livorno in 2018 came from Sardinia: 40% from Olbia and...
Spain’s SLP records 4% rise in cargo traffic at Bilbao port
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) January 17, 2019 – Servicios Logísticos Portuarios, S.A. (SLP), a stevedoring company based in the port of Bilbao, closed 2018...
Boluda Tankers incorporates oil tanker for bunkering services at Ceuta port
Ceuta, Spain (Ports Europe) January 17, 2019 – The oil tanker “Petrobay”, owned by Boluda Tankers, arrived at the port of Ceuta to operate as a...
Tarragona port’s president meets local Dow representatives
Tarragona, Spain (Ports Europe) January 17, 2019 – Autoridad Portuaria de Tarragona (APT – Port Authority of Tarragona)’s president Josep Maria...
Associated British Ports invests £250 million since the EU referendum in 2016
London, United Kingdom, January 14, 2019 – Associated British Ports (ABP), the UK’s leading ports operator, recently announced an additional investment...
Dragomir Matić joins Piattaforma Logistica Trieste
Trieste, Italy (PortSEurope) January 17, 2019 – Dragomir Matić, former CEO at Luka Koper, has joined Piattaforma Logistica Trieste srl, part of the...
DeloPorts reports increased cargo in 2018
Novorossiysk, Russia (Ports Europe) January 17, 2019 – DeloPorts, a leading Russian stevedoring holding, has reported total cargo throughput of 8.68...
Italy’s government launches inspections into Civitavecchia, Ravenna, Taranto ports
Civitavecchia, Italy (Ports Europe) January 16, 2019 – Italy’s transport ministry has initiated random inspections of the management of...