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Bayonne port gain ground as multimodal platform in 2018
Bayonne, France (Ports Europe) February 22, 2019 – Bayonne port has developed its role as a multimodal platform and in 2018 recorded an overall growth in...
Valencia port records best January container traffic ever
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) February 22, 2019 – Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia (APV – Valenciaport, Port Authority of Valencia) closed the first...
Gioia Tauro port workers end blockade as MSC guarantees investments
Gioia Tauro, Italy (Ports Europe) February 22, 2019 – Workers at Gioia Tauro port have removed the blockade of the harbour they launched on February 13...
Gijón port to launch concession of former Naval Gijón shipyard
Gijón, Spain (Ports Europe) February 22, 2019 – Autoridad Portuaria de Gijón (APG – Port Authority of Gijón) has approved the launch of a concession...
COSCO’s Piraeus port development plan receives partial approval
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) February 22, 2019 – Greece’s Port Planning and Development Committee gave a partial approval of the master plan of...
Government works on business plan for shipbuilding group Uljanik
Pula, Croatia (Ports Europe) February 21, 2019 – Croatian Economy Minister Darko Horvat has said that any restructuring plan for the troubled...
New deep water terminal to be built in the port of Poti
Poti, Georgia (Ports Europe) February 21, 2019 – A new deep water terminal will be built in the Georgian port of Poti, which will enable it to receive...
Italian court dismisses appeal against Yilport’s concession at Taranto port
Taranto, Italy (Ports Europe) February 21, 2019 – The Lecce administrative court has rejected the appeal presented by the South Gate Europe Terminal...
Koper port’s tender for external hiring contractor fails
Koper, Slovenia (Ports Europe) February 21, 2019 – Koper port has selected no offers for a public contract for an external company hiring workers at the...
Agaete port’s extension project may fail over lack of funding
Agaete, Canary Islands, Spain (Ports Europe) February 21, 2019 – The extension of Spain’s Agaete port, already awarded for €44.6 million ($50.7...
Cepsa Gibraltar factory complies with Algeciras port’s environmental requirements
Algeciras, Spain (Ports Europe) February 21, 2019 – Cepsa’s factory in Gibraltar-San Roque has received an environmental certification,...
Livorno, Piombino host meetings of EasyLog project
Livorno, Italy (Ports Europe) February 21, 2019 – Livorno and Piombino ports have joined the list of port cities hosting EasyLog focus groups, a project...
Las Palmas ports regular passenger traffic rises 3% in 2018
Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain (Ports Europe) February 21, 2019 – Las Palmas ports registered a 3% increase in passenger traffic on regular lines during...
Metrika to support Contship Italia’s intermodal services marketing
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) February 21, 2019 – Contship Italia SpA has picked Metrika SRL, a digital marketing and communication services consultancy...
Port of Figueira da Foz records small decrease in cargo in 2018
Figueira da Foz, Portugal (Ports Europe) February 21, 2019 – In 2018, the port of Figueira da Foz handled 2.3 million tons of cargo, a decrease of 1.8%...
Ceuta government to invest €1.7 million in protecting port from migratory pressure
Ceuta, Spain (Ports Europe) February 20, 2019 – Ceuta’s local government plans to invest €1.7 million ($1.9 million) in facilities for the protection...
Galicia port operators benefiting from new port law
Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) February 20, 2019 – More than 30 companies in Galicia have extended their port concessions to 50 from 35 years, taking advantage...