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Tenerife port confirms tender for dredging at Arinaga basin
Tenerife, Spain (Ports Europe) August 16, 2017 – Tenerife port authority (Autoridad Portuaria Santa Cruz de Tenerife) confirmed the call of a tender for...
Galicia extends maximum port concession term to 50 years
Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) August 16, 2017 – The validity of the concessions of ports in Galicia region is expected to rise to 50 from 30 years under the law...
Barcelona port boosts short sea shipping lines traffic
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) August 16, 2017 – Barcelona port is offering more short sea shipping (SSS) lines with its main markets in Italy and North...
Cádiz port studies expansion into Andalusian passenger market
Cádiz, Spain (Ports Europe) August 16, 2017 – Cádiz has become in the last years a tourist port par excellence. Especially, in the dock closest to...
Attica Group signs agreement to acquire 50.3% of Hellenic Seaways Maritime
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) August 16, 2017 – Greek company Attica Holdings S.A. has signed an agreement in principle with Piraeus Bank to...
Greece completes pier construction at Kos port
Kos, Greece (Ports Europe) August 16, 2017 – Greece’s government has completed a project for the construction of a pier at the port of Kos. The pier...
No asbestos pollution at Patras port following warehouse collapse
Patras, Greece (Ports Europe) August 16, 2017 – There was no air pollution from asbestos fibres after the collapse of the warehouse in the northern port of...
Odessa port cargo traffic rises 1.3% y/y in Jan-July 2017
Odessa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) August 16, 2017 – Odessa port handled 13.78 million tonnes of cargo in the first seven months of 2017, up 1.3% on the year,...
Georgian ports cargo traffic declines 1.2% y/y in H1 2017
Poti, Georgia (Ports Europe) August 15, 2017 – Georgian ports handled 8.3 million tonnes of cargo in the first half of 2017, down 1.2% on the year, the...
Odessa port resumes road reconstruction works
Odessa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) August 15, 2017 – In early August, work on the reconstruction of the second stage of Odessa port overpass road was resumed....
Berdyansk port cargo traffic falls 34.1% y/y in Jan-July 2017
Berdyansk, Ukraine (Ports Europe) August 15, 2017 – Berdyansk port handled 1.357 million tonnes of cargo in the first seven months of 2017, down 34.1% on the...
Constanta port forbids access of passengers, cars via Gate 1 until May 2018
Constanta, Romania (Ports Europe) August 15, 2017 – The access of passengers and passenger cars to Constanta port through Gate 1 will be banned from August...
Ukrainian minister says 13 ports to be managed under concession
Odessa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) August 15, 2017 – Ukrainian ports need to be privatised because private owners can provide better conditions for development,...
Chernomorsk port cargo traffic rises 3.5% y/y in Jan-July 2017
Chernomorsk, Ukraine (Ports Europe) August 15, 2017 – Chernomorsk port handled 9.338 million tonnes of cargo in the first seven months of 2017, up 3.5% on...
Izmail port cargo traffic rises 13.1% y/y in Jan-Jul 2017
Izmail, Ukraine (Ports Europe) August 15, 2017 – Izmail port handled 2.723 million tonnes of cargo in the first seven months of 2017, down 13.1% on the year....
Turkey’s Yildirim gains full control of Leixões port’s container terminal
Leixões, Portugal (Ports Europe) August 15, 2017 – Turkish conglomerate Yildirim has just gained control of Leixões port’s container terminal, the...
Murcia court dismisses appeal against port extension
Cartagena, Spain (Ports Europe) August 15, 2017 – Spanish region of Murcia’s superior court has dismissed the appeal of environmentalist organisation...