Environment/Green Issues
News associated with environmental, green and reneable energy issues linked to ports. Includes efforts to reduces port and ship emissions such as cold ironing. Application of national and European Union environmental and renewable energy policies. This includes new facilities for the production of ammonia, biofuels, hydrogen and vegetable oils.
Cruise companies sign “Venice Blue Flag 2019” agreement
Venice, Italy (Ports Europe) April 4, 2019 – Venice municipality, Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mare Adriatico Settentrionale (AdSP – Northern...
Karla Peijs, European Coordinator for the TEN-T Rhine-Danube Corridor, in Constanta Port
Constanta, Romania (Ports Europe) April 3, 2019 – Karla Peijs, European Coordinator for the TEN-T Rhine-Danube Corridor, and Dirk Beckers, Director INEA...
Italy’s intermodal routes offset 1.2 million tonnes of CO2 emissions
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) April 2, 2019 – A total of 1.5 million trucks were transported on intermodal routes in Italy, reducing the total weight of...
Verdemar accuses Algeciras port of causing coastline loss in Bay of Algeciras
Algeciras, Spain (Ports Europe) April 1, 2019 – Spanish environmentalist organisation Verdemar Ecologistas en Acción has filed a complaint with...
GRI wind towers arriving at Seville port
Seville, Spain (Ports Europe) March 31, 2019 – Between March and April, 24 GRI wind towers will arrive by sea at the port of Seville, where they will be...
Eni starts wave power energy generation at the Ravenna offshore site
Ravenna, Italy (Ports Europe) March 28, 2019 – The Italian energy company Eni SpA has installed and activated the Inertial Sea Wave Energy Converter...
Las Palmas port joins Earth Hour initiative
Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain (Ports Europe) March 28, 2019 – Las Palmas port plans to shut down the lighting of the main facade of its headquarters on...
Carbon4PUR Project: 14 partners experiment with industrial CO2 recovery
Press Release – Marseille Fos – CARBON4PUR Project: 14 partners experiment with industrial CO2 recovery – March 21, 2019 In a context of...
Di Majo addresses “Autotrasporto e Portualità: Analysis and Proposals” convention
Civitavecchia, Italy (Ports Europe) March 26, 2019 – Francesco Maria di Majo, President Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Tirreno...
Valencia port to build wind towers, power substation
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) March 21, 2019 – Valencia port authority aims to achieve the energy balance by 2050 with its own wind power plan that...
Italy adopts rules for CO2 emissions in sea transport
Rome, Italy (Ports Europe) March 22, 2019 – Italy’s government has approved a decree on the monitoring and reporting obligations for carbon...
Hyster Europe develops zero-emission reachstacker for Valencia port
Press Release – Hyster Europe – Hyster Europe has announced it is developing a zero-emission reachstacker featuring a hydrogen fuel cell for the...
Alicante port to move to companies responsible for emissions from outdoor activity
Alicante, Spain (Ports Europe) March 19, 2019 – From 2020, stevedoring companies in Alicante port will assume the responsibility for their emissions into the...
Castellón port improves particle emission management
Castellón, Spain (Ports Europe) March 18, 2019 – Castellón port has extended the control of particle emissions within the ambitious environmental...
Valencia port receives ‘GREEN4SEA Port Award’
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) March 13, 2019 – Valencia port has received the international prize ‘GREEN4SEA Port Award’ 2019 in environmental...
Court confirms fine on Vilagarcía port for environmental rules violation
Vilagarcía, Spain (Ports Europe) March 12, 2019 – The Pontevedra administrative court has confirmed the sanction imposed by the Galicia regional government...
Dubrovnik airport and port authority cooperate in EU ADRIGREEN environment project
Dubrovnik, Croatia (Ports Europe) March 11, 2019 – Dubrovnik’s airport (ZLD – Zračna luka Dubrovni) and port authority (LUC – Lucke...