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.
Barcelona port invests in electric mobility
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) November 22, 2017 – Barcelona port seeks an improvement in air quality by reducing emissions from its activities. For this, it...
Baku International Sea Trade Port looks to achieve Green Port status
Baku, Azerbaijan (PortSEurope) November 21, 2017 – Baku International Sea Trade Port, expecting to become one of the leading trade and logistics hubs of...
Marseille – Mediterranean Air Day – the environmental question will prevail in port economics
Marseille, France (PortSEurope) November 20, 2017 – On November 14, 2017, Marseille hosted “Mediterranean Air Day” (Journée...
Marseille welcomes MSC Orchestra vessel
Marseille, France (PortSEurope) November 16, 2017 – The Port of Marseille Fos and the MSC (Mediterranean Shipping Company) have held a press event to...
EU delivers on blue economy commitments made at Our Ocean conference
Brussels, Belgium, November 9, 2017 In a rapid follow-up to the EU-hosted 2017 Our Ocean conference, and in the run-up to the COP23 Ocean Day in Bonn (11...
Venice issues cruise ships restrictions
Venice, Italy (PortSEurope) November 8, 2017 – An Italian government committee has ruled that ships weighing 100,000 tonnes or more will no longer be...
Cartagena port invests €1.5 million to improve dike’s storm defence
Cartagena, Spain (PortSEurope) November 7, 2017 – Cartagena port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Cartagena) plans to invest €1.5 million ($1.7...
Call for protest day against cruise ships in Venice
Venice, Italy (PortSEurope) November 5, 2017 – Huge cruise ships deliver thousands day tourists to Venice, but many local citizens do not want visitors...
Italy has finances to complete MOSE project in Venice
Venice, Italy (PortSEurope) October 26, 2017 – Italy’s infrastructure minister Graziano Delrio has said the government has the required finances to...
Castellón port advances in environmental protection strategy
Castellón, Spain (PortSEurope) October 24, 2017 – Castellón port continues to advance in its commitment to environmental protection. The harbour...
Bordeaux port introduces new waste collection system
Bordeaux, France (PortSEurope) October 24, 2017 – Bordeaux Port Atlantique (port of Bordeaux) has introduced a new process for the disposal of waste...
Las Palmas port introduces energy supply to reduce noise and pollution
Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain (PortSEurope) October 17, 2017 – “In six months the city will be free of the noises of the port”, says the...
France’s first marine wind turbine inaugurated in Saint-Nazaire
Nantes-St.Nazaire, France (Ports Europe) October 16, 2017 – “I wish Floatgen fair winds and following seas.” With these words Catherine Chabaud, the...
Marseille port to generate energy from seawater
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) October 16, 2017 – The port of Marseille is using technology called Massileo, a moderate-temperature water network to...
Ecocean plans to restock French ports with marine life
Montpellier, France (Ports Europe) October 16, 2017 – Ecocean, a company which helps restore marine ecosystems, plans to replenish marine fish stocks...
Cartagena port bestows environmental award to Enagás
Cartagena, Spain (Ports Europe) October 12, 2017 – Cartagena port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Cartagena) has awarded the energy efficiency plan of the...
Air PACA publishes report on air quality in Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) October 7, 2017 – Air PACA, an air pollution monitoring organisation, has published the a dossier on air quality in...