Port Operations
Pantelleria, Navy divers in action to ‘free’ the port
Trapani, Italy (PortSEurope) June 7, 2018 – A navy operation has destroyed a huge boulder that prevented the docking of the ferries at Pantelleria port....
Barcelona port’s new president vows to pursue traffic growth
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) June 8, 2018 – Mercè Conesa, the new president of Barcelona port authority, aims to keep the harbour among the leaders in...
Shanghai International Port Group interested in Sines port’s Vasco da Gama Terminal
Sines, Portugal (PortSEurope) June 8, 2018 – According to Ana Paula Vitorino, Portuguese Minister of the Sea, Shanghai International Port Group (SIPG) is...
Portuguese minister visits COSCO Shipping in China
Shanghai, China (PortSEurope) June 8, 2018 – Ana Paula Vitorino, Portuguese Minister of the Sea, has visited COSCO Shipping headquarters in Shanghai. Yu...
China could become a key concession partner in Ukraine’s infrastructure development
Odessa, Ukraine (PortSEurope) June 8, 2018 – Minister of Infrastructure of Ukraine Volodymyr Omelyan has discussed opportunities for investing in the...
Tarragona port president resigns
Tarragona, Spain (PortSEurope) June 7, 2018 – Tarragona port’s president Josep Andreu has announced his resignation after days of intense rumours...
Thessaloniki Port Authority to ordinary general meeting June 28, 2018
Thessaloniki, Greece (PortSEurope) June 7, 2018 – Thessaloniki Port Authority SA (ThPA) has invited shareholders to an Ordinary General Meeting on June...
Lloyd’s Register awards ISO certificates to Piraeus Port Authority
Piraeus, Greece (PortSEurope) June 7, 2018 – Piraeus Port Authority SA (PPA) CEO Capt. Weng Lin, PPA Deputy CEO, has been presented with certifications...
Calabria president meets unions to review investment progress
Gioia Tauro, Italy (PortSEurope) June 6, 2018 – “The President of the Calabria Region
Mario Oliverio has presided a meeting with...
Call for Messina as its own port system
Messina, Italy (PortSEurope) June 6, 2018 – Under recent government port reform, Messina port (Sicily) was included in Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale...
Liguria region’s president to propose new reform of Italy’s port management system
Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) June 6, 2018 – The president of the regional government of Liguria, Giovanni Toti, has proposed to the new government of the...
Santander port joins Samoa meteorological project
Santander, Spain (PortSEurope) June 6, 2018 – Santander port has joined the Samoa project for the development of a meteorological and oceanographic support...
Spain’s Anesco wishes to participate in development of port business plans
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) June 6, 2018 – Spanish employer organisation of the stowage sector Anesco (Asociación Nacional de Empresas Estibadoras) has...
Sète port hosts the Union of Ports of France
Sète, France (PortSEurope) June 6, 2018 – The board of directors of l’Union des Ports de France (UPF – Union of Ports of France) met June...
Venice port authority signs research study with Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia
Venice, Italy (PortSEurope) June 5, 2018 – Venice, 6 June – The maritime-port culture is to become the theme of study and research in Venice,...
Piraeus Port Authority participates in Posidonia 2018
Piraeus, Greece (PortSEurope) June 6, 2018 – Piraeus Port Authority SA (PPA) is taking part in Posidonia 2018 which runs in Athens, June 4-8, 2018....
Augusta and Catania ports face labour disruptions
Catania, Sicily, Italy (PortSEurope) June 6, 2018 – The provincial secretariats of Syracuse and Catania of Filt Cgil, Fit Cisl and Uiltrasporti have...
ABB Turbocharging Service Point opens at MMS shipyard in Limassol
Limassol, Cyprus (PortSEurope) June 5, 2018 – ABB Turbocharging and Multimarine Services Ltd (MMS) have agreed an ABB Turbocharging Service Point will...
Balearic port authority to invest €27 million in underground parking construction
Ibiza, Spain (PortSEurope) June 5, 2018 – The president of Autoridad Portuaria de Baleares (APB – Balearic Islands port authority), Joan Gual de...
Canary Islands government not to replace Las Palmas port’s president
Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain (PortSEurope) June 5, 2018 – The spokesperson for the regional government of the Canary Islands has assured that a...