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Greek regional port privatisation progressing slowly
Alexandroupolis, Greece (Ports Europe) June 24, 2020 – President of the Port Authority of Alexandroupolis, Konstantinos Hadjimichael, has met with the...
Port Burgas managers visit Alexandroupolis Port
Alexandroupolis, Greece (Ports Europe) June 24, 2020 – Alexandroupolis Port Authority has hosted a visit from managers from Bulgaria’s BMF Port...
German Foreign Minister visits Valencia port and talks cooperation with Spanish ports
German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas appreciates Valenciaport’s leadership, a port that compared with the Germans, is located between Hamburg and Bremen...
Yilport Gebze plans to invest in rail platform for its terminal
Yilport Gebze, the “home terminal” of Yilport Holding in the Gulf of Izmit in Turkey, has announced a new investment in a rail platform inside the terminal...
Turkey’s Hopaport receives first tanker carrying petroleum products
Trabzon, Turkey (Ports Europe) June 23, 2020 – Following completion of the work at the HopaPort oil-petroleum Terminal, the port has received its first...
Von der Leyen statement following EU-China Summit
Von der Leyen following EU-China Summit: We must make progress, one that implies reciprocity and trust – June 22, 2020 “It is not possible to shape the...
Romanian Black Sea port of Constanta joins International Port Community Systems Association
Driving digital solutions: Black Sea port of Constanta joins International Port Community Systems Association – June 22, 2020 The rapidly expanding...
Valenciaport traffic reflects the slowdown in the economy during the months of confinement due to the Covid-19 crisis
Valenciaport managed close to 400,000 containers in May, 19.68% less than in the same month of 2019. In the accumulated index for the year, activity decreased...
Algeciras port sees total traffic down 4.82% in Jan-May 2020
Algeciras, Spain (Ports Europe) June 23, 2020 – In the period January-May 2020, total throughput at Algeciras port was 44.423 million tons, compared to...
Dredging of the AGCT’s Rijeka South Berth contract signed
Contract for the execution of works within the project “Improvement of infrastructure in the port of Rijeka – dredging of the south berth at Adriatic...
France and Italy announce transport cooperation
10 points of convergence in Franco-Italian transport cooperation – June 16, 2020 Following the February 2020 intergovernmental summit in Naples, the...
First overseas car freighter with low-emission LNG propulsion in service for Volkswagen Group
News Release – Volkswagen AG – Premiere in Emden: For the first time, vehicles from Europe will be transported from Europe to North and Central...
HMM sells half of its holding in Total Terminal International Algeciras
Algeciras, Spain (Ports Europe) June 22, 2020 – South Korea’s HMM (previously Hyundai Merchant Marine) is reported to have sold a 50% stake in its...
Jaguar Land Rover vehicles arrive in Koper port for export
Koper, Slovenia (Ports Europe) June 22, 2020 – A train carrying 198 cars of Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has arrived today at Koper port’s Car &...
Livorno’s Darsena Europa to be ready in 2024
Livorno, Italy (Ports Europe) June 22, 2020 – Stefano Corsini, President of Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Tirreno Settentrionale (AdSP –...
Yilport’s Transitex starts new rail link between Elvas and Huelva port
Huelva, Spain (Ports Europe) June 22, 2020 – Transitex, an Iberian logistics and transport company and part of Yilport, has added the port of Huelva to...
Marseille port and SGMF promote LNG as ship fuel
With a second bunkering operation completed on 15 June, Marseille Fos demonstrates its commitment to liquefied natural gas (LNG) and its aim of achieving...