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Piombino

Piombino is an Italian port town in the province of Livorno on Italy’s Western coast. The port was traditionally based on local steel industries and has a developed ferry service with local islands including Elba. The port is managed by Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Tirreno Settentrionale (AdSP – North Tyrrhenian Sea Port Authority).

Italy: Total TEU by port 2023 – ranking

Rome, Italy (Ports Europe) July 1, 2024 – Industry association Assoporti has published seaport TEU traffic figures for 2023. In 2023, the ports handled...

Italy: Total cargo by port 2023 – ranking

Rome, Italy (Ports Europe) June 30, 2024 – Industry association Assoporti has published seaport cargo figures for 2023. In 2023, the ports handled 473...

Dredging of Port of Castiglione della Pescaia completed

Piombino, Italy (Ports Europe) June 28, 2024 – The dredging works of the dock and the mouth of the port of Castiglione della Pescaia have been...

Livorno signs agreement with Port of Damietta, Egypt

Livorno, Italy (Ports Europe) June 27, 2024 – The Ports of Livorno and Damietta have signed an agreement to develop energy traffic. The Memorandum of...

Ports of Livorno and Piombino schedule cold ironing

Livorno, Italy (Ports Europe) May 20, 2024 – The port authority of Livorno and Piombino is starting processes on the project to electrify the docks, also...

LNG regasifiers’ “musical chairs” in Italy

Piombino, Italy (Ports Europe) May 1, 2024 – As Italy’s Ministry of the Environment and Energy Security reviews the proposal to move the Piombino...

Gas & Heat company interested in hydrogen plant in Piombino

Piombino, Italy (Ports Europe) February 8, 2024 – Gas & Heat, a company from Pisa, has contacted the port authority regarding an interest in setting...

Axpo delivers LNG to Piombino port and Panigaglia, Italy

Piombino, Italy (PortSEurope) November 8, 2023 – Swiss energy trader and renewable energy company Axpo has delivered liquefied natural gas (LNG) to...

Eni to import Qatari gas via Piombino port

Piombino, Italy (PortSEurope) October 23, 2023 – Eni has signed a long-term contract with QatarEnergy LNG NFE (5) for the delivery of up to 1.5 billion...

LNG controversy moves to Vado Ligure, Genoa

Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) September 7, 2023 – The EU energy plan calls for increased imports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) and ports have been...

Port of Piombino to build Axpo-chartered LNG carrier

Piombino, Italy (Ports Europe) August 11, 2023 – The San Giorgio shipyard in Piombino will build an liquefied natural gas (LNG) bunkering vessel with a...

Piombino LNG FSRU terminal will move to Vado Ligure in 2026

Piombino, Italy (PortSEurope) July 21, 2023 – The Golar Tundra regasification ship will relocate to the coast of Vado Ligure in the second half of 2026....

Piombino terminal receives first gas from Eni

Piombino, Italy (PortSEurope) July 10, 2023 – Eni has delivered a gas cargo of 90 million m³ to the SNAM regasification terminal in Piombino, Italy....

Piombino LNG FSRU terminal receives final authorisation

Piombino, Italy (PortSEurope) June 28, 2023 – Italian energy company Snam has received a final authorisation for its Golar Tunda floating...

FSRU can only stay in Piombino port for three years

Piombino, Italy (PortSEurope) June 5, 2023 – Italian energy company Snam has said that at its Golar Tunda floating storage and regasification...

Piombino LNG FSRU terminal to start operations in June

Piombino, Italy (Ports Europe) May 30, 2023 – Italian energy company Snam has said that at its Golar Tunda floating storage and regasification...

Snam receives its first LNG at its FSRU docked at the port of Piombino

Piombino, Italy (Ports Europe) May 7, 2023 – Italian energy company Snam has received its first liquefied natural gas (LNG) cargo at its Golar Tunda...

Port of Livorno presents plan for dock electrification

Livorno, Italy (PortSEurope) December 13, 2022 – The Port of Livorno has presented its plan for dock electrification which will also include the port of...

Italy must have more LNG regasifiers – Eni

Rome, Italy (PortSEurope) December 11, 2022 – Italy must have more regasifiers for liquefied natural gas (LNG). This is the view of Claudio Descalzi,...

Government supports LNG terminal in Piombino port, against city’s wishes

Piombino, Italy (PortSEurope) November 28, 2022 – The government is to challenge a court appeal by the city of Piombino to stop an liquefied natural gas...

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