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Cruise ships avoiding the Black Sea due to Crimea annexation
Varna, Bulgaria (Ports Europe) March 19, 2019 – Major cruise companies are avoiding Black Sea ports due to the uncertain geopolitical situation after the...
Barcelona port hopes to benefit from SmartCAT Challenge
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) March 19, 2019 – The Catalan government and Barcelona’s port authority have joined forces to find innovative...
Trieste Marine Terminal reports increased TEU traffic in first two months of 2019
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) March 19, 2019 – The first two months of 2019, Trieste Marine Terminal srl (TMT) has reported that it handled over 105,000...
The biennial Posidonia Sea Tourism Forum will take place in Athens, May 28-29, 2019
March 19, 2019 The biennial Posidonia Sea Tourism Forum has established itself as one of the most influential events for the international cruise industry,...
Brexit: Ports in the Hauts-de-France region innovate with Channel Pass
Press Release – Brexit: Ports in the Hauts-de-France region innovate with Channel Pass – March 6, 2019 In 2018, the company responsible for...
Global Ports Holding Plc – financial results for 2018
March 12, 2019 Global Ports Holding Plc (GPH), the world’s largest independent cruise port operator, has reported its unaudited results for the twelve...
Sintraport’s strike in Barcelona may spread to other ports
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) March 19, 2019 – While the longshoremen’s conflict remains latent in Spanish ports, it is now the transporters who...
Council of State delays hearing on Genoa port’s dry docks concession
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) March 19, 2019 – Italy’s Council of State has postponed to July 25 the hearing on the potential concession...
Barcelona port expresses willingness to dialogue with Sintraport
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) March 19, 2019 – Spanish autonomous truck drivers association Sintraport held a day of protest in the centre of Barcelona,...
AdSP del Mare Adriatico (Ancona) may lose Pescara, Ortona ports
Pescara, Italy (Ports Europe) March 19, 2019 – Local sources have suggested that the ports of Pescara and Ortona, currently part of Autorita’ di Sistema...
Bordeaux port names Jean-Frédéric Laurent chairman
Bordeaux, France (Ports Europe) March 19, 2019 – Jean-Frédéric Laurent, specialist in international maritime transport, has taken office as chairman of...
Alicante port to move to companies responsible for emissions from outdoor activity
Alicante, Spain (Ports Europe) March 19, 2019 – From 2020, stevedoring companies in Alicante port will assume the responsibility for their emissions into the...
DocksTheFuture will stage the Midterm Conference on April 4, 2019
Press release – DocksTheFuture will stage the Midterm Conference on April 4th 2019 in Trieste, Italy Circle S.p.A. (Italy) and Magellan Association –...
ÖBB and Trieste port sign agreements to increase cooperation
Vienna, Austria (Ports Europe) March 19, 2019 – The ÖBB Rail Cargo Group (RCG) has signed two two memoranda of understanding (MoU) were signed to...
Italian trade unions back Naples port workers strike against self-handling
Naples, Italy (Ports Europe) March 12, 2019 – The national secretariats of Italian trade unions Filt Cgil, Fit Cisl and Uiltrasporti confirmed the support...
Spain’s Sintraport continues protest action in Barcelona
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) March 18, 2019 – After five days of demonstrations and strikes in the port of Barcelona, Spanish autonomous truck drivers...
Reggio Calabria entrepreneurs place bid to acquire stake in Gioia Tauro’s MCT
Gioia Tauro, Italy (Ports Europe) March 18, 2019 – A group of entrepreneurs from Reggio Calabria presented a formal offer to buy shares of Medcenter...