Investment
Investment – Capital outlay in ports assets and businesses by companies, organisations and governments. Usually to increase capacity and implement upgrades to to port equipment.
Gijón port looks for companies to operate Motorway of the Sea line
Gijón, Spain (PortSEurope) May 23, 2017 – Gijón port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Gijón) is studying the interest of companies regarding the launch...
Trieste port takes advantage of Italy’s economy digitalisation strategy
Trieste, Italy (PortSEurope) May 23, 2017 – Italian regional government of Friuli Venezia Giulia said it became the first regional authority to participate...
Bulgaria to invest €15 million in Burgas port
Burgas, Bulgaria (PortSEurope) May 23, 2017 – Bulgarian transport minister Ivaylo Moskovski said the government plans to invest BGN 30 million ($17.2...
China considers Albanian transport investment
Durrës, Albania (PortSEurope) May 23, 2017 – Albanian Minister of Transport and Infrastructure Sokol Dervishaj attended the recent Belt and Road forum...
Baku port head says more harbours to join Trans-Caspian International Transport Route
Baku, Azerbaijan (PortSEurope) May 22, 2017 – The number of ports that will join the Trans-Caspian International Transport Route (TMTM) will be increased,...
Chinese investors show interest in Ligurian ports
Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) May 22, 2017 – Italian transport minister Graziano Delrio said Chinese investors have expressed serious interest in the ports of...
CILSA publishes 2016 results
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) May 22, 2017 – CILSA, owned by the Port of Barcelona (63%), Merlin Properties (32%) and Sepes (5%) has closed 2016 with...
France’s Carrefour starts operating warehouse at Barcelona port’s logistics complex
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) May 22, 2017 – Carrefour S.A. and the ZAL Port have inaugurated today a warehouse which CILSA has built for the distribution...
MSC Cruises eyes construction of private terminal at Barcelona port
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) May 22, 2017 – Barcelona port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Barcelona) president Sixte Cambra said MSC Cruises is...
EIB confirms support for Belt and Road initiative
Luxembourg (PortSEurope) May 21, 2017 – Europe’s long-term lending institution, the European Investment Bank (EIB), has formally agreed to support...
China eyes heavy investment in Egypt’s Suez Canal
Port Said, Egypt (PortSEurope) May 21, 2017 – Egypt’s Minister of Trade and Industry Tarek Kabil has said that China is looking at heavily...
China looks at Trieste port investment
Trieste, Italy (PortSEurope) May 21, 2017 – Following a visit to China, Italy’s Premier Paolo Gentiloni said that Chinese investors were...
Cargill indicates further Egyptian investment
Alexandria, Egypt (PortSEurope) May 21, 2017 – Cargill International has announced plans for new investments in grain storage and vegetable oil...
Spain’s AEST representatives visit Tarragona port
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) May 17, 2017 – Representatives of the Association of Services Companies of Tarragona (AEST) visited Tarragona port to...
Huelva port awards railway rehabilitation deal to Acciona
Huelva, Spain (PortSEurope) May 17, 2017 – Huelva port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Huelva) and Acciona Construcción S.A. have signed a contract worth...
Spain’s Adif plans actions for overhaul of Bobadilla-Algeciras line
Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) May 17, 2017 – Spanish state-owned railway operator Adif is carrying out the inspection of the Bobadilla-Algeciras railway...
Almería, Malaga, Melilla ports to strengthen ties
Almería, Spain (PortSEurope) May 17, 2017 – The ports of Almería, Malaga and Melilla agreed yesterday to work together to strengthen the ties they have...
Croatia gets EU funding for construction of bulk terminal in Osijek
Osijek, Croatia (PortSEurope) May 17, 2017 – The Croatian government has agreed a EU financing for the construction of bulk cargo terminal in Osijek. The...
Occitanie region targets 4.6 million tonnes of cargo traffic at Sète port in 2020
Sète, France (PortSEurope) May 17, 2017 – France’s Occitanie region revealed a strategy to boost the competitiveness of Sète port. The objective is...
Italian ports are strategic for China’s One Belt One Road initiative – PM
Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) May 15, 2017 – China puts in place a multi-billion dollar investment plan for the New Silk Road, the largest infrastructure,...