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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.

Italy’s Ignazio Messina launches Italy-Tunisia ro-ro link

Naples, Italy (PortSEurope) May 23, 2018 – Italian shipping company Ignazio Messina has launched a new ro-ro maritime link between Italy and Tunisia. The...

Bilbao port completes construction of ro-ro ramp

Bilbao, Spain (PortSEurope) May 11, 2018 – Bilbao port authority has said it completed the construction of a ro-ro ramp number 8 at the harbour.  The works...

Valencia port consolidates offer to keep ro-ro traffic leadership in Spain

Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) May 9, 2018 – Valencia and Sagunto ports, both managed by the Valencia port authority, have developed in recent years a series...

Grimaldi renews fleet with €1 billion investment

Naples, Italy (PortSEurope) May 1, 2018 – Italian shipping company Grimaldi has renewed its fleet with investments of €1 billion ($1.2 billion) to be...

Delo NUTEP container terminal reports improved March 2018 traffic

Novorossiysk, Russia (PortSEurope) April 30, 2018 – In March 2018, NUTEP handled 40,776 TEU, up 31 % on the same period of 2017. It is also up 12%...

Avilés port considers installation of ro-ro ramp

Avilés, Spain (PortSEurope) April 27, 2018 – Manufacturers of large industrial parts that operate in the port of Avilés are demanding a ro-ro ramp, a...

Koper port plans new Ro-Ro berth

Koper, Slovenia (Ports Europe) April 17, 2018 – Koper port is planning to build a new Ro-Ro berth in Basin 3 which will be designed to meet the mooring...

Terminal TRI Genova receives port concession extention

Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) April 3, 2018 – The Management Committee of Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Ligure Occidentale (AdSP – Western...

Samer & Co completes overhaul of ro-ro terminal at Trieste port

Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) March 29, 2018 – Italian company Samer & Co Shipping S.p.A. has officially completed the overhaul of its Riva Traiana Ro-Ro...

MSC to launch con-ro service linking Trieste to Izmir

Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) March 8, 2018 – The Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) plans to launch a new service for the transport of ro-ro, containers...

Genoa Chamber of Commerce takes part in Go Smart Med project

Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) February 21, 2018 – The Genoa Chamber of Commerce continues to participate in the Go Smart Med project, funded under the Interreg...

Leixões received inaugural scale of one of the largest ro-ro ships

Leixões, Portugal (Ports Europe) February 18, 2018 – On, February 14, the Port of Leixões received, for the first time, one of the largest ro-ro...

Genoa port approves ro-ro, container handling activities at Terminal Rinfuse

Genoa, Spain (Ports Europe) February 1, 2018 – The Authority of the Western Ligurian Sea Port System (Autorità di Sistema Portuale del Mar Ligure...

Port of Barcelona and Grimaldi will present offer for fresh produce at Fruit Logistica Berlin

Berlin, Germany (Ports Europe) January 29, 2018 – The Port of Barcelona and the shipping company Grimaldi Lines will jointly present their logistics...

Italian media highlight opening of new terminal of Baku International Sea Trade Port

Baku, Azerbaijan (PortSEurope) January 13, 2018 – The Italian press has widely covered the opening of the new Ro-Ro terminal at the Baku International...

Trieste port sees improved traffic in Jan-Nov 2017

Trieste, Italy (PortSEurope) December 28, 2017 – The positive trend is again confirmed in the second half of 2017 characterizing the traffic of the port...

Spain’s Noatum Maritime sets up ro-ro division

Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) November 28, 2017 – Spanish company Noatum Maritime has set up a division called Noatum Maritime Automotive, which will bring...

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