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Venice

Venice is a seaport in North Adriatic Sea in Northeast Italy, and built on numerous small islands in the Lagoon of Venice. Commercial, passenger and other terminals form the Ports of Venice and Chioggia. They handle any kind of traffic, from containers, to liquid and solid bulk, steel products, Ro-Ro/Ro-Pax, general and project cargo. It has a developed cruise ship industry which is having to change after large cruise ship were banned from the lagoon for environmental reasons. The two ports are managed by Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mare Adriatico Settentrionale (AdSPMAS – Northern Adriatic Sea Port Authority).

Venice to receive central funds for development

Venice, Italy (Ports Europe) March 25, 2018 – Earlier in March, the Ministry of Infrastructures and Transport announced that the 2018 budget would...

Venice Blue Flag agreement renewed for 2018

Venice, Italy (Ports Europe) March 25, 2018 – The “Venice Blue Flag” agreement will also be renewed for 2018, following agreement of the...

Venezia Terminal Passeggeri wins Smau innovation award

Venice, Italy (Ports Europe) March 24, 2018 – Venezia Terminal Passeggeri S.p.A. (VTP), terminal manager at Venice port, has been awarded the Premio...

Italy creates “partnerships for logistics and transport”

Rome, Italy (Ports Europe) March 15, 2018 – The Partnership for Logistics and Transport is born. In implementation of the Budget Law 2018, in fact, the...

Italian associations to cooperate in promoting usage of LNG at ports

Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) March 15, 2018 – Italian sector associations have signed an agreement to cooperate in the expansion of the use of liquefied...

Italian government allocates funds to port authorities

Rome, Italy (Ports Europe) March 11, 2018 – To give concrete form to one of the principles of the New Code of Contracts, the Government has made...

Brodosplit successfully completes construction of the gates to prevent Venice flooding

Venice, Italy (Ports Europe) March 10, 2018 – Brodosplit, the Croatian shipyard based in Split, has delivered 63 flood gates to Venice as part of a...

Italy’s cruise traffic to rise by 5.2% in 2018

Venice, Italy (Ports Europe) February 26, 2018 – A 8.6% increase in the number of passengers handled in Italian cruise ports (about 11 million compared to...

VTP may help realisation of Pula port cruise terminal

Venice, Italy (Ports Europe) February 23, 2018 – The director of Pula Port Authority in Croatia has said that it intends to proceed with plans for a...

Event: Green Logistics Expo – Padua, March 7-9, 2018

Padua, Italy (Ports Europe) February 22, 2018 – The Green Logistics Expo will take place March 7-9, 2018, in Padua, in the Veneto region of northeast,...

Algeciras port hosts meeting of Mediterranean, Atlantic corridors workgroup

Algeciras, Spain (Ports Europe) February 21, 2018 – Algeciras port hosted the first meeting of the year of the working group of ports and intermodal...

Italy introduces new Nautical Code

Rome, Italy (Ports Europe) February 20, 2018 – After the publication in the Official Journal of last January 30, 2018, the new Nautical Code comes into...

Italy allocates €262 million for renewal of naval fleets for public transport

Rome, Italy (Ports Europe) February 20, 2018 – At the proposal of the Minister of Infrastructures and Transport (MIT), Graziano Delrio, the government...

Italy’s new Recreational Craft Code comes into force

Rome, Italy (Ports Europe) February 19, 2018 – Italy’s transport ministry has said the country’s new Recreational Craft Code became effective as...

Italy’s Customs Agency director visits Venice port

Venice, Italy (Ports Europe) February 14, 2018 – The director of Italy’s Customs and Monopoly Agency Giovanni Kessler made an inspection of Venice port and...

Venice and Chioggia – Agreement between RFI-Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mare Adriatico Settentrionale

Venice, Italy (Ports Europe) February 12, 2018 – RFI (Rete Ferroviaria Italiana) and Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mare Adriatico Settentrionale...

National customs chief Giovanni Kessler visits Venice port

Venice, Italy (Ports Europe) February 4, 2018 – Giovanni Kessler, director of Agenzia delle Dogane e dei Monopoli (Italian Customs and Monopoly Agency),...

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