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Almería port’s passenger traffic rises 2.5% in January
Almería, Spain (Ports Europe) February 15, 2019 – Almería port started 2019 with an increase of 2.5% in the movement of passengers while the number of...
Spain reiterates need to impose protectionist towing rules
Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) February 15, 2019 – Spain’s Public Works Ministry has informed the European Commission that it considers necessary...
Suez Canal to double annual revenue by 2023
Suez, Egypt (Ports Europe) February 15, 2019 – The new channel of the Suez Canal, opened in August 2015, has paid off in the shortest possible time, the...
Valencia port handles one of every three containers that move through Spain
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) February 15, 2019 – A total of 30.12% of the containers that are loaded and unloaded in the 46 state-owned ports in Spain...
Mexico’s Cemex applies for concession in Gijón port
Gijón, Spain (Ports Europe) February 15, 2019 – Mexican multinational cement producer Cemex has requested a 2,500 m² concession in the port of Gijón, for...
Avilés port launches mobile management system
Avilés, Spain (Ports Europe) February 15, 2019 – Avilés port has launched an internal management system that will allow customers and operators to...
Augusta port may become Italy’s LNG hub
Augusta, Italy (Ports Europe) February 15, 2019 – Liquefied natural gas (LNG) is a competitive lever for the industrial and logistic system of...
Piraeus Port Authority reports 19.2% revenue increase in 2018
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) February 15, 2019 – Piraeus Port Authority SA, operated by China’s COSCO Shipping Ports Limited, has reported revenue of...
Georgia’s Black Sea ports seek role in new international trade corridors
Tbilisi, Georgia (Ports Europe) February 14, 2019 – The Caucasus country of Georgia has three leading ports alongside its Black Sea coastline, Anaklia,...
ICTSI inaugurates expansion of Batumi International Container Terminal
Batumi, Georgia (Ports Europe) February 14, 2019 – International Container Terminal Services Inc. (ICTSI), a global port terminal operator, has...
APM Terminals’ Suez Canal Container Terminal sees improvements
Port Said, Egypt (Ports Europe) February 14, 2019 – APM Terminals has reported that some modifications in the Navis N4 Expert Decking Module, the system...
Ports included in updated Spain-Morocco bilateral agreement
Rabat, Morocco (Ports Europe) February 14, 2019 – During an official visit of King Don Felipe VI and Queen Dona Letizia of Spain to Morocco, a number of...
Spain: Puertos del Estado – 2018 cargo traffic by port authority
Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) February 14, 2019 – Puertos del Estado, the state-run ports system, reports December 2018 cargo traffic (tonnes) statistics...
Russia’s NCSP Group reports cargo turnover down 2.3% in 2018
Novorossiysk, Russia (Ports Europe) February 14, 2019 – NCSP Group, a Russian port operator, has reported that cargo turnover for 2018 was 140.209...
Ukraine ports target EU TEN-T integration
Odessa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) February 14, 2019 – The priority development of the ports of Ukraine is the integration into the enlarged...
POSCO Daewoo to buy share in Mykolaiv port grain terminal
Mykolaiv, Ukraine (Ports Europe) February 14, 2019 – South Korea’s POSCO Daewoo has signed an agreement with local logistics company Orexim Group...
Israeli ambassador visits Naples port
Naples, Italy (Ports Europe) February 14, 2019 – The Israeli ambassador to Italy, Ofer Sachs, with the two delegates Yigal Maor and Shlomo Brieman, has...