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.
French government supports CMA CGM LNG fuel announcement
Paris, France (PortSEurope) November 25, 2017 – Nicolas Hulot, Ministre d’État, Minister for the Ecological and Inclusive Transition, and Élisabeth...
CMA CGM chooses LNG for its biggest ships
Marseille, France (PortSEurope) November 25, 2017 – The French container shipper CMA CGM has announced that it will use engines using liquefied natural...
Castellón port adopts measures to reduce air pollution of trucks
Castellón, Spain (PortSEurope) November 24, 2017 – Castellón port authority (Autoridad Portuaria Castellón) plans to distribute leaflets to all carriers...
Vigo port announces measures to address water shortage
Vigo, Spain (PortSEurope) November 24, 2017 – Vigo port plans to adopt measures to restrict water consumption in the face of the drought suffered by the...
Investments continue to improve lighting conditions in Constanta South Port
Constanta, Romania (PortSEurope) November 23, 2017 – Compania Națională Administrația Porturilor Maritime SA Constanța (National Company...
Valencia: CO-EVOLVE Project to foster Sustainable Maritime and Coastal tourism development
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) November 23, 2017 – The 3rd Steering Committee of the CO-EVOLVE project (Promoting the co-evolution of human activities...
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...
Event: Mediterranean Air Day, Ports – November 14, 2017
Marseille, France (PortSEurope) November 7, 2017 – Pierre-Charles Maria, President of Air PACA, and François Alfonsi, President of Qualitair Corse will...
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...