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Italy’s Council of State delays decision on legitimacy of La Spezia port decisions
La Spezia, Italy (Ports Europe) February 26, 2019 – Italy’s Council of State has decided to delay a decision on the legitimacy of acts of La Spezia...
Sète port to handle 125,000 cruise passengers in 2019
Sète, France (Ports Europe) February 26, 2019 – Port de Sète’s cruise season expects to handle 125,000 cruise passengers in 2019, up from 115,000...
Valencia port launches first freight operation using electronic CMR
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) February 26, 2019 – Spain launched the first intermodal freight transport from Valencia port that uses an electronic...
Alexandroupolis port seeks new law to promote concession-based future
Alexandroupolis, Greece (Ports Europe) February 26, 2019 – The President of the Port Authority of Alexandroupolis, Christos Doukas, together with the...
Eni starts building a photovoltaic plant in Porto Torres, Sardinia
Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy (Ports Europe) February 26, 2019 – Eni subsidiary company Eni New Energy SpA has commenced construction of a photovoltaic plant...
Durrës port to receive WBIF grant for reconstruction work
Durrës, Albania (Ports Europe) February 26, 2019 – In the framework of the 20th Western Balkans Investment Instrument (WBIF) call for technical...
Italy to deliver formal notice to MCT for breaches in Gioia Tauro port concession
Gioia Tauro, Italy (Ports Europe) February 26, 2019 – Italy’s government plans to shortly send a formal notice to Medcenter Container Terminal (MCT)...
Thessaloniki port orders Konecranes agreement
Thessaloniki, Greece (Ports Europe) February 26, 2019 – Thessaloniki Port Authority SA has submitted an order for 12 Konecranes Noell Straddle Carriers,...
Ferrol port hosts LNG refueling operations for first time
Ferrol, Spain (Ports Europe) February 26, 2019 – For the first time, Ferrol port has hosted liquefied natural gas (LNG) refueling operations to ships....
Bilbao port seeks to become hub for handling special cargo
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) February 26, 2019 – Bilbao is seeking to consolidate itself as a hub for special pieces and needs to carry out expansion...
Jesús Caicedo Bernabéa appointed president of Port Authority of Almería
Almería, Spain (Ports Europe) February 26, 2019 – Jesús Caicedo Bernabé has been appointed president of Autoridad Portuaria de Almería (APA –...
Leixões port set for significant investments
Leixões, Portugal (Ports Europe) February 25, 2019 – The Douro, Leixões and Viana do Castelo Ports Authority (APDL) has launched the public tender for...
Sines port upgrading its services
Sines, Portugal (Ports Europe) February 25, 2019 – The port of Sines is taking a number of steps to upgrade its services – the Zalsines (Zona...
Viana do Castelo port to award road and dredging tenders
Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) February 25, 2019 – The Minister of the Sea, Ana Paula Vitorino, will be in Viana do Castelo, in northern Portugal, this...
Diana Containerships reports results for 2018
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) February 25, 2019 – Diana Containerships Inc, a global shipping company specializing in the ownership of containerships,...
Nautica Service to operate tourist dock at Sardinia’s Porto Torres
Porto Torres, Italy (Ports Europe) February 25, 2019 – Italian company Nautica Service Srl was picked as the new concessionaire of the Nino Pala tourist...
Turkish ports handle 4.2 million tonnes of transhipments from Iran, Russia
Istanbul, Turkey (Ports Europe) February 25, 2019 – Turkish ports handled 4.192 million tonnes of transhipments from Iran and Russia in January....