Environment & pollution; oil spills; renewable energy; wind power, wave power; government policy
Gijón, Spain (PortSEurope) July 11, 2018 – The president of Autoridad Portuaria de Gijón (APG – Port Authority of Gijón), Laureano Lourido, has warned of the importance of coal industr... Read more
Vigo, Spain (PortSEurope) July 2, 2018 – The participation of Spanish textile group Inditex (Industria de Diseño Textil, SA) in the ML-Style project for the reconversion of marine garbage in... Read more
Cartagena, Spain (PortSEurope) June 28, 2018 – The president of Autoridad Portuaria de Cartagena (APC – Port Authority of Cartagena), Joaquín Segado, accompanied by the Rector of... Read more
Marseille, France (PortSEurope) June 28, 2018 – The Grand Port of Marseilles (GPMM) has presented its ESI (Environmental ship index) awards. Set up by around 50 ports worldwide based o... Read more
Cartagena, Spain (PortSEurope) June 28, 2018 – Autoridad Portuaria de Cartagena (APC – Port Authority of Cartagena)a has participated in the meeting of Mesa Náutica (the Nautical... Read more
Civitavecchia, Italy (PortSEurope) June 28, 2018 – The Harbour Authority, the Municipality, Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Tirreno Centro-Settentrionale (AdSP – Centre-Nor... Read more
Civitavecchia, Italy (PortSEurope) June 27, 2018 – The shipping companies that call at Civitavecchia port with their own ferries will be obliged to use fuels with a sulphur content of not hi... Read more
Naples, Italy (PortSEurope) June 25, 2018 – Works to secure the beach and the marine area in front of the Trentaremi Bay in Posillipo, Naples, have been completed and required the remo... Read more
Livorno, Italy (PortSEurope) June 25, 2018 – The RINA certification organisation has renewed the environmental certificate and EMAS registration for Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del M... Read more
Ceuta, Spain (PortSEurope) June 19, 2018 – Ceuta port has detected a diesel contamination of the potable water supplied by the company Acemsa in its area. The harbour and Acemsa coordinated... Read more
Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain (PortSEurope) June 18, 2018 – Granadilla port will become a logistics area for wind turbines in the Canary Islands, under a contract where logistics ope... Read more
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) June 12, 2018 – 26 vehicles have been adapted for the use of natural gas thanks to this led initiative by the port of Barcelona in collaboration with ATE... Read more
Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) June 11, 2018 – The Italian company Grandi Navi Veloci (GNV) has received from the Italian Naval Registry (Registro Italiano Navale) certification on the stu... Read more
Huelva, Spain (PortSEurope) June 8, 2018 – A total of 16 Andalusian marinas have received this year the blue flag awarded by the European Foundation for Environmental Education (FEE) a... Read more
Brussels, Belgium (PortSEurope) June 8, 2018 – The European Union’s Transport, Telecommunications and Energy Council adopted a general approach on the draft directive on port reception... Read more
Santander, Spain (PortSEurope) June 6, 2018 – Santander port has joined the Samoa project for the development of a meteorological and oceanographic support system carried out by national por... Read more
Bari, Italy (PortSEurope) June 3, 2018 – Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mare Adriatico Meridionale (AdSP – Southern Adriatic Sea Port Authority) and Distretto Tecnologico Nazi... Read more
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) May 30, 2018 – The concern for environmental sustainability has become the latest trend in the cruise industry. Regardless of the company or port that works wit... Read more
Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy (PortSEurope) May 30, 2018 – The PORT-5R project has been presented in Cagliari port. It is part of the Interreg Italy-France Maritime Program 2014-2020, a cr... Read more
Las Palmas, Spain (PortSEurope) May 29, 2018 – Under the Spanish law (Ley de Desindexación de la economía Española) energy companies will be exempt from the state electricity tax when... Read more
Burgas, Bulgaria (PortSEurope) May 28, 2018 – The European Commission’s Directorate General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, the Bulgarian EU Presidency and the Municipality o... Read more
Taganrog, Russia (PortSEurope) May 27, 2018 – In the first quarter of 2018, Taganrog Sea Commercial Port (TSCP) spent $28,300 (€110,070) for implementation of its environmental program... Read more
Venice, Italy (PortSEurope) May 27, 2018 – A focus group of the SUPAIR project has met in Venice to discuss how to make port-logistics operations greener and to increase the competitiv... Read more
Sines, Portugal (PortSEurope) May 24, 2018 – An Environmental Impact Study (Estudo de Impacto Ambiental) has concluded that the new terminal at Sines (Terminal Vasco da Gama) is enviro... Read more
Vigo, Spain (PortSEurope) May 22, 2017 – In 2016 Vigo port launched implementation of the Blue Growth strategy proposed by the European Commission. The objective of the measure is to promote... Read more
Ravenna, Italy (PortSEurope) May 16, 2018 – Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mare Adriatico Centro-Settentrionale (AdSP – Centre-North Port Authority) will hold two events this... Read more
Piraeus, Greece (PortSEurope) May 15, 2018 – COSCO-owned Piraeus Port Authority S.A. (PPA) is looking to reduce carbon emissions from its facilities in order to reduce its carbon footp... Read more
Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) May 14, 2018 – A total of seven Spanish ports have achieved environmental certification of the international standard Port Environmental Review System (PERS) w... Read more
Alcúdia, Mallorca, Spain (PortSEurope) May 11, 2018 – Autoridad Portuaria de Baleares (APB – Port Authority of the Balearic Islands) has installed a structure to reduce the impac... Read more
Civitavecchia, Italy (PortSEurope) May 7, 2018 – Two communities, La Piaia-Peschiera in Gaeta and Vindicio in Formia, stand against a request from Eni SpA, the energy company, for th... Read more
Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) May 3, 2018 – On 16 April, in Cape Verde, the EMERTOX project started, which consists of the study of the emergence of marine toxins in the North Atlanti... Read more
EU: Ocean energy – a sustainable blue growth opportunity for Europe, April 27, 2018 On 27 March, Commissioner Vella met with 20 leading companies operating in the ocean energy sector in vari... Read more
Burgas, Bulgaria (PortSEurope) May 2, 2018 – European Maritime Day (EMD), dedicated to gaining new insights into maritime affairs and blue growth and related EU policies and funding op... Read more
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) April 27, 2018 – Valencia port has approved an agreement to participate in the Samoa 2 project, which aims to improve the systems of oceanography and meteorolog... Read more
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) April 25, 2018 – Portuguese energy group Galp maintains its commitment to the Ecoport II Project, an initiative launched by Valencia port authority (Autoridad P... Read more
April 19, 2018 The German organisation, Control Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union (henceforth NABU), together with Ecologists in Action, have carried out measurements of atmospheric... Read more
La Spezia, Italy (PortSEurope) April 19, 2018 – The La Spezia Panigaglia regasification plant is moving towards a phase of work with the arrival of the large methane-powered ships in t... Read more
Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) April 18, 2018 – The new Genoa breakwater will have facilities dedicated to renewables with next-generation wind turbines able to generate energy from the wi... Read more
Nantes-Saint.Nazaire, France (PortSEurope) April 19, 2018 – The port is studying ways to recycle CO2 and other effluents from factories in the industrial zone. Such waste is food for s... Read more
Marseille, France (PortSEurope) April 19, 2018 – Costa Cruises and the Grand Port of Marseilles (GPMM) have signed a partnership agreement to pursue joint efforts in the area of sust... Read more
Ibiza, Spain (PortSEurope) April 18, 2018 – There are no efficient and systematic administration controls with detailed records for the entry of vegetables into ports on the island of Ibiza,... Read more
Marseille, France (PortSEurope) April 17, 2018 – The port of Marseille Fos has carried out a detailed study to evaluate the safety conditions required for the port to supply liquified... Read more
Cartagena, Spain (PortSEurope) April 13, 2018 – Cartagena port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Cartagena) has been operating a specific vessel for more than a decade to collect solid waste... Read more
Palma de Mallorca, Spain (PortSEurope) April 11, 2018 – Balearic Islands port authority has asked the environmental group GOB to provide studies on the environmental impact of the cruise ind... Read more
Palma de Mallorca, Spain (PortSEurope) April 11, 2018 – The mayor of Palma de Mallorca, Antoni Noguera, has said that the arrival of eight cruise ships to the port in a single day “is... Read more
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) April 10, 2018 – Ecologists and neighbourhood representatives saw off on April 7 the largest tourist cruise in the world, the “Symphony of the Seas... Read more
Koper, Slovenia (PortSEurope) April 10. 2018 – On 5 April, within the framework of the European SUPAIR project, as part of the Interreg Adrion program, Koper port a meeting with repres... Read more
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) April 9, 2018 – The cruise industry has been betting for years on investing in technologies with a strong environmental policy. So far, cruise companies have i... Read more
Brussels, 6 April 2018 – European Union Press Release The European Commission has approved under EU State aid rules a Portuguese tonnage tax scheme which, together with a scheme to sup... Read more
Press Release – The Union of Greek Shipowners – March 28, 2018 The Union of Greek Shipowners strongly supports the successful outcome of the forthcoming IMO MEPC 72 deliberations... Read more