Ports
All news from Ports Europe categorised by searchable individual ports and articles feature hyperlinks to individual ports.
Salerno port calls dredging tender
Salerno, Italy (PortSEurope) January 4, 2019 – Salerno port has called a tender for a €220,000 ($250,000) dredging project to be carried out under the...
Luka Bar invites bids in IT system upgrade tender
Bar, Montenegro (PortSEurope) January 4, 2019 – Luka Bar, the operator of Montenegro’s Bar port, has invited bids for the reconstruction...
Luka Koper sells 15.2% stake in Portorož airport operator
Koper, Slovenia (PortSEurope) January 4, 2019 – Serbian entrepreneur Miodrag Kostić has taken control of the capital of Slovenian airport...
Alexandroupolis port set to benefit from regional port privatisation
Alexandroupolis, Greece (PortSEurope) January 3, 2019 – This month, the Greek parliament aims to pass legislation to allow the privatisation of a number...
Greek agency selects preferred bidder for €6.2 million Chios marina development
Piraeus, Greece (PortSEurope) January 4, 2019 – The Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund (HRADF), responsible for privatising Greek state-owned...
Thessaloniki Port sees increased cargo traffic in 2018
Thessaloniki, Greece (PortSEurope) January 4, 2019 – Thessaloniki Port Authority SA (ThPA) has reported improved general cargo and container traffic in...
Palermo port names secretary general
Palermo, Italy (PortSEurope) January 3, 2019 – Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mare di Sicilia Occidentale (AdSP – Western Sicilian Sea Port Authority)...
Nissan increases workforce at Barcelona port’s distribution centre
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) January 3, 2019 – The Nissan vehicle distribution centre in the port of Barcelona has increased its workforce by almost 50%...
Cartagena port handles first cruise ship of 2019
Cartagena, Spain (PortSEurope) January 3, 2019 – The Aidamar cruise ship, with more than 2,500 passengers, docked on January 3 at Cartagena port, which is...
Portuguese dockworkers to launch new six-month strike
Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) January 3, 2019 – Portugal’s dockworkers’ trade union Sindicato dos Estivadores e da Atividade Logística (SEAL)...
Investments in Croatian port may reinforce Adriatic region’s economic growth
Rijeka, Croatia (PortSEurope) January 3, 2019 – Investments in the Croatian ports of Rijeka, Zadar and Ploče may have a crucial impact on the economic...
Livorno port receives largest self-propelled crane in Europe
Livorno, Italy (PortSEurope) January 2, 2019 – Livorno port has received the largest self-propelled crane in Europe, which will start operating in the coming...
Cartagena port to handle 165 cruise calls in 2019
Cartagena, Spain (PortSEurope) January 2, 2019 – Cartagena port has “the best forecast in history” for the year 2019 with 165 confirmed cruise...
Italy’s Grimaldi Lines may leave Livorno port
Livorno, Italy (PortSEurope) January 2, 2019 – Grimaldi Lines, a shipping company of the Neapolitan shipowning group Grimaldi, could decide to leave the port...
Valencia port to introduce hydrogen-fuelled cargo handling operations
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) January 2, 2019 – Valencia may become the first port in Europe to incorporate hydrogen energy to reduce the environmental...
ANESCO urges Adif to restore rail traffic to Algeciras port
Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) January 2, 2019 – Asociación Nacional de Empresas Estibadoras (ANESCO – Spanish National Association of Stevedoring...
Montenegro’s Luka Bar records €5.37 million loss in Jan-Sep 2018
Bar, Montenegro (PortSEurope) January 2, 2019 – Montenegrin port operator Luka Bar AD Bar has closed the first nine months of 2018 with a loss of €5.37...
Madeira plans to invest €17 million in ports in 2019
Funchal, Madeira, Portugal (PortSEurope) January 2, 2019 – The Madeira Regional Government, through program contracts with APRAM (Administração dos...
Belgian economic mission visits Tanger Med port
Tangier, Morocco (PortSEurope) January 2, 2019 – On November 29, 2018, Tangier Med port received an official visit of the Belgian economic mission headed...
Spanish state ports to receive another €68.2 million of EU aid
Madrid, Spain (PortSEurope) January 1, 2019 – Puertos del Estado has negotiated, as an intermediary body for European aid, with the Spanish Ministry of...