ANFAC 2018 report highlights port role in automotive industry
Madrid, Spain (PortSEurope) August 6, 2019 - ANFAC has produced a report for 2018 that includes the assessment of maritime-port logistics in vehicle traffic based…
Puertos del Estado reports Jan-Jun 2019 cargo figures by port authority
Madrid, Spain (PortSEurope) August 2, 2019 – Puertos del Estado, the state-run ports system, reports June 2019 cargo traffic (tonnes) statistics by port authority. Port…
Italian shipping group Grimaldi meets Spanish authorities to discuss plans
Madrid, Spain (PortSEurope) July 19, 2019 - The president of Puertos del Estado is a state-owned company responsible for the management of state-owned ports, Salvador…
Vigo port to assume presidency of ESPO-Blue Growth Network
Vigo, Spain (PortSEurope) July 15, 2019 - Autoridad Portuaria de Vigo (APV - Port Authority of Vigo) has been chosen to assume the presidency of…
Emenasa to gain land concession in Vigo port
Vigo, Spain (PortSEurope) June 28, 2019 – Spanish company Emenasa (Electromecánica Naval e Industrial, S.A.) is expected to gain the concession for the operation of…
Vigo port drafts business plan for 2020
Vigo, Spain (PortSEurope) June 28, 2019 – Vigo port authority has approved the initial proposal of the 2020 Business Plan that needs to be ratified by…
Vigo port aims to boost its motorway of the sea and bring it to Northern Europe
Vigo, Spain (PortSEurope) June 27, 2019 – Vigo port and shipping company Suardíaz are developing a project that can improve the viability of the motorway of the…
FAO’s annual fisheries conference in Vigo port
Vigo, Spain (PortSEurope) June 10, 2019 - The United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organisation’s Fisheries and Aquaculture Department is to return for its fifth year…
Vasco Shipping Services plans to sell new Cosco Shipping Lines services from Gijón port area
Gijón, Spain (PortSEurope) June 7, 2019 - Vasco Shipping Services is to start selling new Cosco Shipping Lines services from Gijón port on June 12. The service…
Spanish authorities allow fishmeal handling at Vigo port
Vigo, Spain (PortSEurope) June 4, 2019 – Manufacturers of fishmeal and fish oil can breathe relief after knowing that they will be able to continue…
Vigo port to put up for sale land of logistics platform PLISAN
Vigo, Spain (PortSEurope) May 31, 2019 – Vigo port authority plans to put up for sale the land of the Industrial Logistics Platform of Salvaterra As Neves…
Vigo port, BIP analyse better inspections of fishmeal products
Vigo, Spain (PortSEurope) May 27, 2019 – The Vigo Border Inspection Point (BIP) management, Vigo port authority and the health inspection services met on May…
Vigo, Nantes ports wish to extend Motorway of the Sea to Dublin
Vigo, Spain (PortSEurope) May 17, 2019 – Ireland is the third connection that most interests the ports of Vigo and Nantes-Saint Nazaire for a possible extension…
Vigo port to invest €50 million in expansion of Bouzas terminal
Vigo, Spain (PortSEurope) May 9, 2019 – Vigo port plans to invest €50 million ($56.1 million) in the expansion of the Bouzas terminal to improve…
Puertos del Estado innovation director visits Termavi terminal
Vigo, Spain (PortSEurope) May 1, 2019 – The innovation director of Spanish national ports agency Puertos del Estado, José Llorca, accompanied by Enrique López Veiga, president of…
Portos de Galicia to start operating large-dimension containers
Vigo, Spain (PortSEurope) May 1, 2019 – Galicia regional ports agency Portos de Galicia has announced that it will open in the coming months a new line…
Puertos del Estado to establish HQ of Galician unit of business accelerator in Vigo
Vigo, Spain (PortSEurope) April 28, 2019 – Spanish national ports agency Puertos del Estado has chosen Vigo to establish the Galicia regional headquarters of its business accelerator. …
Vigo port’s Bouzas terminal expansion not to have negative environmental consequences
Vigo, Spain (PortSEurope) April 26, 2019 – Vigo port authority president Enrique López Veiga has said that the extension of the Bouzas terminal is necessary…
Atlantic regions institutions launch project for energy self-sufficiency at ports
Oviedo, Spain (PortSEurope) April 23, 2019 – Eighteen institutions in the regions bordered by the Atlantic Ocean have launched the Ports Towards Energy Self-Sufficiency (PORTOS)…
Vigo port’s ro-ro terminal expansion drafting tender attracts engineering firms
Vigo, Spain (PortSEurope) April 23, 2019 – The tender for the drafting of the construction project for the expansion of the ro-ro terminal in Vigo…