Genoa
Genoa is a seaport in Northwest Italy, South of Milan; one of the most important seaports in Italy, in competition with the ports of Marseille and Barcelona; managed by Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Ligure Occidentale (AdSP – Western Ligurian Sea Port Authority) which includes the ports of Genoa, Savona, Pra’ and Vado; the organisation is also known as “Ports of Genoa”; together the ports are Italy’s pre-eminent port range in terms of traffic volumes, product diversity and economic output, and play a pivotal role in the Mediterranean, in a global shipping industry characterised by carrier upsizing and mega liner alliances.
GNV launches Barcelona-Nador ferry service
Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) March 4, 2017 – Starting next June, the Italian shipping company Grandi Navi Veloci (GNV) S.p.A. will launch a new maritime...
Trieste, Genoa promoted as gateway for Chinese exports to Italy
Trieste, Italy (PortSEurope) February 27, 2017 – Italian Infrastructure and Transport Minister Graziano Delrio has held a meeting with representatives of...
Med ports unite on southern gateway alternative
Marseille, France (PortSEurope) February 25, 2017 – Ports from around the Mediterranean coast have agreed to form a specific organisation to promote the...
Ignazio Messina’s employees at Genoa port agree labour deal
Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) February 22, 2017 – The employees of Italian company Ignazio Messina & C at Genoa port have signed an agreement changing...
AEW acquires logistics asset in northern Italy
Milan, Italy (PortSEurope) February 7, 2017 – AEW, a leading European real estate investment and asset manager, announces that it has acquired the DSV...
Infracapital to take control of Gruppo Investimenti Portuali
Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) February 6, 2017 – Infracapital, a leading investor in European infrastructure, is set to take control of GIP (Gruppo...
Barcelona port operates first call of HDASCO ship as part of Mediterranean service
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) January 27, 2017 – Iranian shipping company Hafez Darya Arya (HDAS Co), belonging to the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping...
Event – European Maritime Day – Poole, UK, May 18-19, 2017
Brussels, Belgium (PortSEurope) January 25, 2017 -The European Maritime Day (EMD) is the annual meeting point for Europe’s community of maritime...
Court orders Genoa port to change way of granting access to dry docks
Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) January 19, 2017 – Genoa port authority will have to reconsider the access of operators to dry docks. This was ruled by the...
Enel to operate coal-fired power plant at Genoa port for few months in 2017
Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) January 17, 2017 – Italian power utility Enel Spa has announced that it can reopen the coal-fired power plant at Genoa port...
Italian, Catalan logistics, maritime companies meet at Barcelona port
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) January 17, 2017 – Representatives of several Italian and Catalan companies from the logistics and maritime sector met on...
Italian ports boost recovery of container traffic in Mediterranean region
Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) January 17, 2017 – For once the ports of northern Europe are not the best on the continent, the ones that drive the...
Spanish company Tamaran starts operating Motril-Genoa container line
Motril, Spain (PortSEurope) January 16, 2017 – Spanish shipping company Naviera Tamaran S.A., a subsidiary of JSV Logistic, has started operating a regular...
Mediterranean ports boost Asia-Europe container traffic
Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) January 12, 2017 – The container traffic between Asia and Europe rose for the sixth consecutive month in November, an increase of...
MSC appoints former Genoa port president as institutional relations manager
Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) January 11, 2017 – Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) has appointed Luigi Merlo as institutional relations director. Merlo, a...
Mediterranean ports join forces to attract container traffic
Marseille, France (PortSEurope) January 9, 2017 – Authorities at ports in the Mediterranean area agreed to form an organisation specifically designed to...