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The key news from Ports Europe covering business and geopolitical issues. Some of these articles appear in the email newsletter published every Wednesday. This will include any new Analysis articles.
Uir and Assoporti present in Tokyo the opportunities for investment in Italy
Naples, Italy (PortSEurope) December 14, 2018 – At the Italian Embassy in Tokyo, the President of Unione Interporti Riuniti, Matteo Gasparato, and the...
Volkswagen plant in Pamela faces production suspension due to Setúbal port strike
Setúbal, Portugal (PortSEurope) December 14, 2018 – Autoeuropa, the Volkswagen AG can manufacturing facility in Palmela, has no further space to store...
Rete Ferroviaria Italiana and Venice port authority sign railway upgrade agreement
Venice, Italy (PortSEurope) December 14, 2018 – Maurizio Gentile, Managing Director and General Manager of Rete Ferroviaria Italiana (FS Group), the...
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...
Amazon will open a second logistics centre in Seville port
Seville, Spain (PortSEurope) December 14, 2018 – Amazon, a U.S. electronic commerce, cloud computing, and consumer...
EBRD partners with EU for Macedonian Railway Corridor VIII
London, United Kingdom (PortSEurope) December 14, 2018 – The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is to grant Macedonia an...
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...
Port of Antwerp to provide consulting services to USPA in Ukraine
Odessa, Ukraine (PortSEurope) December 11, 2018 – Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority (USPA) and Port of Antwerp International/APEC Port Training Center have...
EU Mediterranean Corridor official calls for cooperation between Spain and Catalonia
December 10, 2018 New EU coordinator for the Mediterranean Corridor, Iveta Radičová, has called for greater cooperation between the Catalan and Spanish...
CORE LNGas hive completes multimodal LNG transport pilot test
Huelva, Spain (PortSEurope) December 10, 2018 – The CORE LNGas hive project has successfully carried out the first pilot test of multimodal...
Port of Izmir to be connected to BTK railway
Izmir, Turkey (PortSEurope) December 9, 2018 – Turkey plans to connect the port of Izmir to the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway corridor (BTK) by rail, the...
Sviluppo Marche Srl launches “4helix+” project
Ancona, Italy (PortSEurope) December 8, 2018 – Sviluppo Marche Srl (Svim) is launching the “4helix+” project, which will provide funding to...
Genoa port loses 9% of traffic after Morandi bridge disaster
Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) December 7, 2018 – Genoa port has lost approximately 9% of its cargo traffic since the collapse of the Morandi bridge in August,...
Italy to invest €922 million in Genoa, Savona ports by 2021
Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) December 6, 2018 – Italy’s government plans to invest €922 million ($1 billion) in the development of Genoa and Savona...
FELB to launch freight rail service linking Italy to China’s Chengdu
Melzo, Italy (PortSEurope) December 6, 2018 – Austria-based company Far East Land Bridge (FELB) plans to launch a freight rail service connecting the Melzo...
French Parliament delegation visits Suez Canal Authority
Suez, Egypt (PortSEurope) December 5, 2018 – Suez Canal Authority has received a senior delegation from the National Defense Committee and the Armed Forces...
Conference of the South ports in Bari, D’Agostino asks for renewed ports government policy
Bari, Italy (PortSEurope) December 4, 2018 – The conference “I ports del mezzogiorno” was held today in the Bari cruise terminal, organized...
Carnival Corporation to operate Tenerife port’s cruise terminal
Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain (PortSEurope) December 4, 2018 – Tenerife port has signed a contract with Carnival Corporation for the operation of the...
Balearic Islands government envisages no new port constructions until 2033
Ibiza, Spain (PortSEurope) December 4, 2018 – The Balearic Government has presented in Ibiza its proposal of the General Plan of Ports of Balearic Islands...
Ukrainian Azov Sea ports partially unblocked
Mariupol, Ukraine (PortSEurope) December 4, 2018 – Russia has partially unblocked access to Ukrainian ports on the Azov Sea, Ukraine’s infrastructure...