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2016 year of growth for Gibraltar port
Gibraltar (Ports Europe) January 9, 2017 – The Gibraltar Port Authority (GPA) has announced another year of growth across most areas of activity...
Cartagena port to handle 145 cruise ships in 2017
Cartagena, Spain (Ports Europe) January 9, 2017 – Cartagena port expects to receive a total of 145 cruise ships in 2017, of which ten will enter the harbour...
Valencia port authority to adapt land plot for solid bulk storage purposes
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) January 9, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) plans to adapt a plot of 20,730 square meters,...
Spanish government presents investment plan for ports
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) January 9, 2017 – Spanish Public Works Minister Inigo de la Serna presented an investment plan of €1.418 billion ($1.5...
South Korea parliamentary delegation visits Sines port
Sines, Portugal (Ports Europe) January 6, 2017 – A parliamentary delegation from the National Assembly of the Republic of Korea visited the Sines port on...
Madeira port to consolidate number of calls in 2017
Funchal, Portugal (Ports Europe) January 6, 2017 – Madeira port authority (Administração dos Portos da Região Autónoma da Madeira) plans to consolidate...
Figueira da Foz cargo traffic rises 3.5% Y/Y in 2016
Figueira da Foz, Portugal (Ports Europe) January 6, 2017 – Figueira da Foz port handled 2.07 million tonnes of cargo in 2016, up 3.5% on the year. The...
Portugal to support Figueira da Foz port upgrade
Figueira da Foz, Portugal (Ports Europe) January 6, 2017 – Portuguese Minister of the Sea, Ana Paula Vittorino, has included the projects for the upgrade of...
TecnoAranda to build wind towers production plant in Bilbao
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) January 6, 2017 – Spanish company TecnoAranda plans to set up a plant for the production of wind towers at Bilbao port which...
Vigo port praises changes in stevedoring activity rules
Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) January 6, 2017 – Vigo port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Vigo) has praised the changes adopted by dockworkers, which, in its...
Transneft oil traffic through Novorossiysk port rises in 2016
Novorossiysk, Russia (Ports Europe) January 9, 2017 – Russian oil transport group Transneft handled 30.6 million tonnes of oil through Novorossiysk port in...
Varna port sees rising wheat exports
Varna, Bulgaria (Ports Europe) January 9, 2017 – Varna port handled 1.286 million tonnes of wheat in the period between the start of the 2016/17 season, on...
Huelva port opens container line to Canary Islands
Huelva, Spain (Ports Europe) January 6, 2017 – Huelva port has officially opened a container line with the Canary Islands, operated by local company...
NCSP consolidated cargo traffic rises by 5.3% Y/Y in Jan-Nov 2016
Novorossiysk, Russia (Ports Europe) January 5, 2016 – The consolidated cargo traffic of Novorossiysk Commercial Sea Port (NCSP) Group, the operator of...
Ukrainian ports cargo traffic declines by 8.8% Y/Y in 2016
Odessa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) January 5, 2017 – Ukrainian commercial seaports saw their cargo traffic decline by 8.8% on the year to 132 million tonnes in...
Bordeaux is most important French port for ship dismantling, EU says
Bordeaux, France (Ports Europe) January 5, 2017 – Bordeaux port is the most important in France for the ship dismantling industry, a study by the European...
Bordeaux container terminal project is still at standstill
Bordeaux, France (Ports Europe) January 4, 2017 – Presented three years ago, the relaunch of operation of the Verdon container terminal at Bordeaux port is...