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In 2020, Barcelona port handles over 39,100 m3 of natural gas for ships – 65% on Baleària ferries

In 2020, 219 operations were carried out at the Port of Barcelona to supply liquefied natural gas (LNG) to ships, totalling 39,149 m³. Of the total number of...

Ningbo Containerized Freight Index keep rises in January

From January to December, the container throughput of Chinese ports have a marginal increase compared with the same month last year, and the Ningbo...

Vigo port sees cargo traffic up over 4% in 2020

Vigo, Spain (PortSEurope) January 25, 2021 – According to provisional data from 2020, the northwest port of Vigo reports a record year for merchandise...

Konecranes and Calata Bettolo container terminal in Genoa port sign port equipment contract

Konecranes is providing a container handling solution for TiL’s re-activated Calata Bettolo container terminal in Genoa, Italy. Konecranes and Bettolo have...

La Spezia port to invest in rail link to Parma

La Spezia, Italy (PortSEurope) January 25, 2021 – After years of requests for attention to the strategic works necessary for the development of La Spezia...

Genoa, Livorno, Palermo ports to see investment

Rome, Italy (PortSEurope) January 25, 2021 – The Italian government has issued a DPCM and appointed extraordinary commissioners to accelerate the...

Two UAE companies named as investors in controversial Durrës Port project

Durrës, Albania (PortSEurope) January 25, 2021 – In December 2020, Albania’s Top Channel broadcaster surprised everyone by announcing that the...

CMA CGM reported to be interested in multi-purpose terminal in Alexandria port

Alexandria, Egypt (PortSEurope) January 24, 2021 – The Al-Mal newspaper reported last week that the French shipping group CMA CGM is negotiating the...

Turkey’s Karasu port sees over 25% fall in cargo 2020

Istanbul, Turkey (PortSEurope) January 24, 2021 – Karasu Port, which was constructed by IC İçtaş İnşaat and opened to service in 2017, reached 80%...

Alicante port increases wood exports

Almeria, Spain (PortSEurope) January 22, 2021 – The Port of Almería moved 14,859 tons of wood last year, up 1,400% more than in 2019, a year in which...

Alicante PortLab, an open innovation laboratory in collaboration with the port-logistics cluster

Within the framework of its commitment to promote the competitiveness, attractiveness and sustainability of the province of Alicante, the Port Authority...

Fundación Valenciaport participates in LASTING project with aim of increasing participation of maritime transport sector in European R&D&I activities

The LASTING project is a coordination support action, led by both INEA (Innovation and Networks Executive Agency) and the European Commission, with a budget of...

Boluda Towage acquires Dutch Towage & Salvage Company Iskes

Vicente Boluda Ceballos, Boluda Towage SL, and Jim Iskes has today signed in Amsterdam an agreement with the Dutch family-owned Towage & Salvage company,...

Ports of Galicia joins Galician Logistics Function Cluster

Coruña, Spain (PortSEurope) January 22, 2021 – Ports of Galicia has just ratified its accession to the Galician Logistics Function Cluster (Clúster da...

TCR obtains UNI EN ISO 45001 certification

On November 11th world leading certification company SGS qualified the TCR Integrated Management System as compliant with requirements set by new legislation...

Start of a new intermodal connection between Italy and Germany for Arcese

The intermodal freight service between Bologna and Cologne operating from mid- January will pass through the new Ceneri Base Tunnel, directly linking central...

Ukraine discusses port investment with Turkish companies

Odessa, Ukraine (PortSEurope) January 22, 2021 – Minister of Infrastructure of Ukraine, Vladyslav Krykliy, has held a working meeting with...

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