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Ro-Ro

Port activities related to Ro-Ro (roll on, roll off) – ships or ferries designed which carry vehicles that can be driven straight on and straight off. Includes passenger ferries and vessels with lorries and trailers carrying cargo.

Somagec, SGTM to extend Tanger Med passenger, Ro-Ro terminals

Tanger Med, Morocco (Ports Europe) July 21, 2024 – The Moroccan consortium Somagec-SGTM (Societé Générale des Travaux du Maroc) has won the tender to...

Finnlines increases cargo at Port of Bilbao

Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) July 11, 2024 – Starting from January 2024, Finnlines set up twice a week service between the ports of Bilbao, Vigo and...

Sea Lines launches Constanta-Karasu Ro-Ro service

Constanta, Romania (Ports Europe) July 5, 2024 – The Turkish Black Sea ferry operator Sea Lines has signed an agreement with DP World to launch...

Port of Antwerp completes first dredging of Southern Canal Dock

Antwerp, Belgium (Ports Europe) June 10, 2024 – The Port of Antwerp has completed the first stage of the dredging of the Southern Canal Dock at the...

Antwerp Euroterminal installs cold ironing

Antwerp, Belgium (Ports Europe) May 30, 2024 – Antwerp Euroterminal (AET) is installing the first shore power connection for seagoing vessels in Belgium...

Alicante Port starts new maritime Ro-Ro service Alexandria, Egypt

Alicante, Spain (Ports Europe) February 19, 2024 – The Port Authority of Alicante Port has announced a new maritime Ro-Ro service with the port of...

Possible new Ro-Ro line Burgas to Alexandria or Damietta

Cairo, Egypt (Ports Europe) February 11, 2024 – There is a possibility for the opening of a Ro-Ro (roll-on/roll-off) line between Bulgaria’s Black Sea...

Port of Piraeus inaugurates Ro-Ro terminal expansion

Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) February 7, 2024 – The inauguration ceremony for the project “Completion of the Expansion of RoRo – Heracleous...

New Ro-Ro line between Trieste and Damietta

Cairo, Egypt (Ports Europe) January 23, 2024 – An agreement to launch a roll-on/roll-off (Ro-Ro) sea freight line with a capacity of 420 trucks every...

Iberdrola to introduce “cold ironing” in Port of Vigo

Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) January 19, 2024 – The Spanish multinational electric utility company Ibedrola plans to introduce onshore power supply (OPS,...

Port of Castellón inaugurates new Libya service

Castellón, Spain (Ports Europe) January 4, 2024 – The Port of Castellón has received a ship which inaugurates a new regular line with Libya from the...

Port of Cagliari appoints environmental monitor

Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy (Ports Europe) December 22, 2023 – The Port of Cagliari has appointed the VDP company to carry out environmental monitoring...

Maersk launches new Rades-Cagliari Ro-Ro service

Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy (Ports Europe) December 21, 2023 – Maersk has announced a new Ro-Ro service operating between Rades in Tunisia and Cagliari,...

Restart of cargo ferry between Astrakhan and Turkmenbashi

Astrakhan, Russia (PortSEurope) December 20, 2023 – The Caspian Sea regular ferry line between the ports of Russia’s Astrakhan region (Astrakhan and...

Finnlines to connect the ports of Bilbao, Vigo and Zeebrugge

Zeebrugge, Belgium (Ports Europe) December 18, 2023 – Commencing January 2024, Finnlines will consolidate its Biscay services with a twice-weekly service...

Port of Koper reports record car and Ro-Ro traffic

Koper, Slovenia (Ports Europe) December 6, 2023 – The Port of Koper has reported that November was a record month for the terminal which handles car and...

SUARDIAZ, new Ro-Ro line linking Tanger Med & Barcelona

Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) November 19, 2023 – The SUARDIAZ Group has announced the launch of the new regular Ro-Ro line connecting the port of...

VinFast & Luka Koper sign agreement for electric vehicle handling

Koper, Slovenia (PortSEurope) November 10, 2023 – VinFast and Luka Koper have signed an agreement to establish Ro-Ro terminal services for VinFast...

Dublin Port Company opens new Ro-Ro freight terminal

Dublin, Ireland (PortSEurope) November 7, 2023 – Dublin Port Company (DPC) has announced the opening of T4, a newly redeveloped Ro-Ro freight terminal in...

Port of Burgas to renovate its communist era Ro-Ro berth

Burgas, Bulgaria (PortSEurope) October 16, 2023 – BGN 6.4 million (3.27 million euro) will be invested by Bulgaria’s state-owned Port Infrastructure for...

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