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Coronavirus: Let’s keep ships moving, ports open and cross-border trade flowing
News – UNCTAD – Coronavirus: Let’s keep ships moving, ports open and cross-border trade flowing – March 25, 2020 As the world battles...
Analysis – Cruise ships businesses face hard challenges. COVID-19 takes business “offline”
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) March 25, 2020 – Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. has announced it is to extend the suspension of cruise sailings of its...
Taranto port sees cargo traffic down over 11% in 2019
Taranto, Italy (Ports Europe) March 25, 2020 – In the calendar year of 2019, the south Italian port of Taranto handled 18.1 million tons, down 11.3% on...
WSC and ICS welcome the extension of consortia block exemption regulation – GSF, ESC and GSA disagree
Brussels, Belgium (Ports Europe) March 25, 2020 – Washington, D.C.-based World Shipping Council (WSC), whose carrier members account for more than...
Grimaldi Group: Coronavirus prevention: we protect traffic in the Mediterranean
News – Coronavirus (COVID-19) prevention: we protect traffic in the Mediterranean – Grimaldi Group – March 18, 2020 The Grimaldi Group has an...
Piraeus Port Authority – financial support for passenger shipping companies
News – Piraeus Port Authority SA (PPA) – March 24, 2020 Piraeus Port Authority SA has announced that in the context of Corporate Social...
ECSA: Joint industry statement on COVID-19: Transport keeps us going
News – European Community Shipowners’ Associations (ECSA) – March 12, 2020 On 11 March 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the...
European Commission prolongs the validity of block exemption for liner shipping consortia
Press Release – Brussels – March 24, 2020 The European Commission has prolonged for another four years the regulation outlining the conditions...
Piraeus Port Authority donates locally
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) March 24, 2020 – Piraeus Port Authority (PPA) has offered a donation of sanitary material to the Tzaneio General Hospital...
Portuguese ports implement contingency plan for emergencies
News – APS – Administração dos Portos de Sines e do Algarve, S.A. – March 24, 2020 Following the preventive measures decreed by the...
FEPORT calls for EU to support private ports
FEPORT welcomes the reactivity of the EU Commission and calls on Member States to mobilize appropriate support for all critical infrastructures – March...
Genoa port reports slight cargo traffic fall in Jan-Feb 2019
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) March 24, 2020 – In the period January-February 2019 Genoa reports that traffic reduced by 0.3%, compared to the period of...
China sends medical support to Greece
News – Greek Parliament – March 21, 2020 Deputy Foreign Minister Miltiadis Varvitsiotis has participated in a ceremony held at El. Venizelos...
Trieste Marine Terminal: Updated information on terminal and intermodal operation – 23.3.2020
TRIESTE, 23 March 2020 Dear Customers and Partners, with the aim of keeping you informed on the present situation in Trieste in relation to the epidemiological...
Coronavirus: Commission presents practical guidance to ensure continuous flow of goods across EU via green lanes
Press Release – Brussels – 23 March 2020 Today, the Commission issued new practical advice on how to implement its Guidelines for border...
First batch of pipes for IGB arrive at Alexandroupolis port
Alexandroupolis, Greece (Ports Europe) March 23, 2020 – The first delivery of pipes for the gas pipeline “Interconnector Greece – Bulgaria...
Mercè Conesa says that Barcelona port continues work
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) March 22, 2020 – The Port of Barcelona is operating its logistic chains during this state of alarm thanks to all the...