EU Policy
A category covering news about how European Union (EU) policy relates to ports. This includes the relationship between EU and national government policy, the role of EU institutions. Subjects include EU regulation, the environment, cold ironing, investment, aid and Ten-T transport.
Malta hosts “Blue Invest in the Mediterranean 2019” event
Valletta, Malta (Ports Europe) January 25, 2019 – Malta has hosted the European Commission’s ” Blue Invest in the Mediterranean...
Piraeus port turning into a gate for counterfeit and undervalued Chinese goods
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) January 24, 2019 – Greece will be fined more than €200 million ($226.76 million) by the European Union’s Anti-Fraud...
Bilbao port is prepared to take advantage of Brexit
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) January 21, 2019 – The Association of Ship Agents and Stevedores (ACBE – Asociación de Consignatarios de Buques y...
World Bank & EU publish indicative action plan for investment in Trans-European Transport Network
Brussels, Belgium (Ports Europe) January 21, 2019 – The European Commission and the World Bank have co-authored an “Indicative trans-European Transport...
Associated British Ports invests £250 million since the EU referendum in 2016
London, United Kingdom, January 14, 2019 – Associated British Ports (ABP), the UK’s leading ports operator, recently announced an additional investment...
British Ports Association Responds to Brexit Vote
16 January 2019 “The ports industry notes developments in Parliament this evening and some in our sector will have real concern about the increasing...
EC completes security inspection at Naples port
Naples, Italy (PortSEurope) January 14, 2019 – The European Commission (EC) has completed a security inspection Naples port to monitor the...
Rixi comments on European Commission demand for Italian port taxation
Rome, Italy (PortSEurope) January 10, 2019 – Deputy Minister for Infrastructure Edoardo Rixi has responded to the position taken by the EU Commission...
Spain’s government opposes European Commission, defends port tax exemptions
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) January 10, 2019 – The warning of the European Commission for Spain to put an end to exemptions to the payment of corporate...
Italian port authorities general secretaries discuss EU permit taxation rules
Rome, Italy (PortSEurope) January 9, 2019 – The coordination group of the general secretaries of the Italian port authorities, established in April to...
EU Commission adopts two decisions recommending taxation of ports in Italy and Spain
EU Commission Press Release – State aid: Commission adopts two decisions recommending taxation of ports in Italy and Spain Brussels, 8 January 2019 The...
British Ports Association: 2019 will be about more than just Brexit
4 January 2019 BPA Chief Executive Richard Ballantyne outlines the Association’s key priorities for 2019. The BPA is looking at challenges and...
Spanish state ports to receive another €68.2 million of EU aid
Madrid, Spain (PortSEurope) January 1, 2019 – Puertos del Estado has negotiated, as an intermediary body for European aid, with the Spanish Ministry of...
UK Major Ports Group welcomes step-up in no deal planning
London, United Kingdom (PortSEurope) December 21, 2018 – Tim Morris, Chief Executive of the UK Major Ports Group, has welcomed the UK government to...
Puertos del Estado to attend first meeting of new Digital Transport and Logistic Forum in January
Madrid, Spain (PortSEurope) December 18, 2018 – Puertos del Estado, the state-owned organisation for the Spanish port system, will attend the first...
Can Europe close its ports to Russian ships arriving from the Azov Sea?
Mariupol (PortSEurope) December 15, 2018 -The European Parliament passed on December 12 a resolution calling on the European Union (EU) to close European ports...
Ports included in new EU-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement
Brussels, Belgium (PortSEurope) December 12, 2018 – The European Union has published details of the key elements of the EU-Japan Economic Partnership...