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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.

Grimaldi orders new six new Ro-Ro multipurpose vessels

The Grimaldi Group continues investing to upgrade and modernize its fleet. Today, with the signing of an agreement worth over $500 million, the Neapolitan...

Orcelle Wind: Wallenius Wilhelmsen’s first full-scale wind-powered Ro-Ro ship

Oslo, Norway (Ports Europe) February 18, 2021 – Wallenius Wilhelmsen, a leading market operater in Ro-Ro shipping and vehicle logistics, has...

Valenciaport handled more than 11.22 million tons of goods through the motorways of the sea

It is the Spanish port that mobilized the most Ro-Ro traffic in 2020, 20% of the national total – February 11, 2021 This multimodal transport, promoted...

EKOL logistics to start new Ro-Ro service between Izmir and Tarragona port

Tarragona, Spain (PortSEurope) February 10, 2021 – The president of the Port of Tarragona, Josep M Cruset, and the president of the logistics company...

Sea Lines to start Karasu-Constanta port Ro-Ro service

Constanta, Romania (PortSEurope) February 2, 2021 – On February 4, 2021, the ship Vasaland will arrive in the port of Constanta, the ship that serves the...

Cartagena port starts to Ro-Ro service to Toulon, southern France

Cartagena, Spain (PortSEurope) January 20, 2021 – Consignee Agencia Marítima Blázquez, with the cooperation of FROET, has started a weekly Ro-Ro...

Grimaldi to start Palermo-Cagliari Ro-Pax service

Naples, Italy (PortSEurope) January 8, 2021 – The Grimaldi Group will add Palermo to its service which currently serves the three-times-a-week...

Alsancak port restart Ro-Ro operations

Izmir, Turkey (PortSEurope) November 28, 2020 – The Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure has approved an application for the port of Alsancak (Izmir)...

HySHIP project clinches €8 million funding award

Ground-breaking maritime innovation project is granted EUR 8m in European funding as Norwegian government announces strengthened focus on development and...

Traffic in Cádiz port grows by 15% in June

Cádiz, Spain (PortSEurope) July 31, 2020 – Port traffic in the Bay of Cádiz grew 15.40% in the first half of the year, compared to the same period in...

Cádiz port reduces rates for goods and increases bonuses for road and container traffic

Cádiz, Spain (Ports Europe) July 7, 2020 – Autoridad Portuaria de la Bahía de Cádiz (APBC – Port Authority of Cadiz) will lower the merchandise...

Leixões port launches new connection to Belgium

Leixões, Portugal (Ports Europe) July 3, 2020 – Operated by CLdN and Yilport Leixões, the new service will provide access to new routes with origin and...

CLdN connects Santander port with Liverpool and Dublin

Santander, Spain (Ports Europe) June 26, 2020 – The Luxembourg-based shipping company CLdN has connected Santander with Liverpool and Dublin through a...

Luka Koper inaugurates new Ro-Ro berth

Koper, Slovenia (Ports Europe) June 10, 2020 – Luka Koper, operator of Koper port, has held the opening ceremony for the new Ro-Ro berth, completed just...

Traffic in Vigo port reached a figure of 1.315 million tons (-5.34%) in Jan-Apr 2020

Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) June 4, 2020 – Total traffic registered in the port of Vigo from January to April reached 1.31 million tons, which represents...

Traffic in Bilbao port decreases 4.6% between January and April

Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) May 28, 2020 – In the first four months of 2020, traffic in the Port of Bilbao stood at 11.4 million tonnes, – 4.6%...

Vigo port receives largest Ro-Ro vessel powered by LNG

Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) May 29, 2020 – Vigo will receive the ship “AUTO ECO”, the largest Ro-Ro ship powered by liquefied natural gas (LNG), in...

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