Port Operations
Vilagarcía port awards concessions of two lighthouses
Vilagarcía, Spain (Ports Europe) March 2, 2018 – Vilagarcía port has awarded contracts for the operation of the lighthouses of Corrubedo and Punta Insua....
Spain to reduce port fees by 10%
Tenerife, Spain (Ports Europe) March 2, 2018 – Spanish prime minister Mariano Rajoy has announced that the government budget for 2017 includes a drop of...
Venice port authority joins MedPorts Association
Venice, Italy (Ports Europe) March 1, 2018 – Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mare Adriatico Settentrionale (Northern Adriatic Sea Port Authority), which...
STM Entreprise to manage Marseille port border inspection point
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) March 1, 2018 – STM Entreprise, a company created by the union of the Marseille freight forwarders, is now manager of...
AdSP del Mar Tirreno Settentrionale published three-year plan
Livorno, Italy (Ports Europe) March 1, 2018 – Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Tirreno Settentrionale (North Tyrrhenian Sea Port Authority) was...
Land transport connections to Chornomorsk port to be upgraded
Chornomorsk, Ukraine (Ports Europe) March 1, 2018 – The Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority (USPA) will set up a special taskforce for coordinating the...
Constanta and Vukovar ports to review cooperation
Constanta, Romania (Ports Europe) March 1, 2018 – National Company Maritime Ports Administration SA Constantza and Luka Vukovar d.o.o. are organizing...
Campania region to invest €150 million in port development
Naples, Italy (Ports Europe) February 28, 2018 – Campania regional government approved a €150 million ($183 million) financing for the development of the...
Ricardo Barkala to be next president of Bilbao port
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) February 28, 2018 – Ricardo Barkala will be the next president of Bilbao port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Bilbao) to...
Venice port hosts SECNET event
Venice, Italy (Ports Europe) February 28, 2018 – On 27 February, 2018, the SECNET seminar on security and cyber security took place at the Port of...
CIPE approves Ravenna port hub project
Ravenna, Italy (Ports Europe) February 28, 2018 – The project for the port hub of Ravenna has been approved by Comitato interministeriale per la...
AdSP del Mar Tirreno Settentrionale details new anti-corruption plan
Livorno, Italy (Ports Europe) February 29, 2018 – Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Tirreno Settentrionale (AdSP – North Tyrrhenian Sea Port...
AdSP del Mar Tirreno Settentrionale organises planning event
Livorno, Italy (Ports Europe) February 28, 2018 – Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Tirreno Settentrionale (AdSP – North Tyrrhenian Sea Port...
GAINN projects presented at joint working group meeting on ports and multimodal terminals in Algeciras
Algeciras, Spain (Ports Europe) February 26, 2018 Last week Eva Pérez, the general coordinator of the GAINN4MOS and GAINN4SHIP Innovation projects,...
EBRD to loan €20 million to modernise privately-owned Bar port, Montenegro
Bar, Montenegro (Ports Europe) February 27, 2018 – The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is to provide a €20 million ($24.64...
AdSP del Mar Tirreno Centro Settentrionale joins ALIS association
Civitavecchia, Italy (Ports Europe) February 27, 2018 – Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mare Adriatico Settentrionale (AdSP – Northern...
Saudi Company Nesma visits Alexandria port
Alexandria, Egypt (Ports Europe) February 27, 2018 – A delegation from Saudi Arabia’s Nesma company has visited Alexandria port to...
Private companies invest €71 million in Bilbao port in 2017
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) February 27, 2018 – The Port of Bilbao has reached an occupancy rate of nearly 83% in 2017 and private enterprise is...
Bilbao port invests €61.5 million in 2017
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) February 27, 2018 – In 2017, the Port Authority of Bilbao invested €61.5 million ($75.87 million), with the sum set to...
Bilbao increase cargo traffic 7% on 2017
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) february 27, 2018 – The Port of Bilbao ended 2017 with a 7% traffic growth, a 2.2 million-tonne increase over 2016. This is...