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COSCO’s Piraeus Container Terminal sees 2018 container throughput up 19.4%

Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) January 30, 2019 – Piraeus Container Terminal S.A., operated by China’s COSCO Shipping Ports Limited, gas reported...

Event: 4th European Dredging Summit – March 6-7, 2019, Rotterdam

Rotterdam, Netherlands, January 30, 2019 – The 4th Dredging Summit Europe taking place in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, March 6-7, 2018. The organiser,...

“French Smart Port in Med” launches website

Marseille, France (Ports Europe) January 29, 2019 – A new website has been launched to promote “The French Smart Port in Med”. The French...

Constanta port faces further customs checks

Constanta, Romania (Ports Europe) January 29, 2019 – Romania’s National Agency for Fiscal Administration (ANAF) has launched the...

Work has begun on securing the port of Termini Imerese, Palermo

Palermo, Sicily, Italy (Ports Europe) January 29, 2019 – The construction of infrastructures and plants necessary for the implementation of the Port...

Suez Canal recovers cost for new Suez Canal project

Suez, Egypt (Ports Europe) January 29, 2019 – Suez Canal Authority has recovered the EGY 20 billion (€992 million/$1.1 billion) cost for the construction...

Las Palmas port to launch electronic notification of settlements system in February

Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain (Ports Europe) January 29, 2019 – Las Palmas port plans to launch in February an electronic notification of settlements,...

Contship’s Melzo RHM rail terminal set to receive trains from Chengdu in China

Milan, Italy, January 24, 2019 The first westbound train connecting RHM terminal in Melzo with China, operated by FELB, left Chengdu on Saturday January 26,...

Italy’s GNV names new finance director

Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) January 29, 2019 – Italian shipping company Grandi Navi Veloci (GNV) has appointed Pietro Di Maio as financial director. Di...

DIV and Fincantieri confirm joint interest in Uljanik shipyard

Rijeka, Croatia (Ports Europe) January 29, 2019 – Italian shipbuilding group Fincantieri SpA and Croatia’s DIV Group have submitted a joint letter of...

Ecoslops and Suez Canal Economic Zone to set up unit for treatment unit of maritime oil waste in Port Said

Port Said, Egypt (Ports Europe) January 29, 2019 – Ecoslops and Suez Canal Economic Zone have signed an agreement towards setting up a collection,...

Rail freight traffic drives Trieste port’s growth in 2018

Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) January 29, 2019 – Trieste port was the largest Italian harbour in terms of cargo traffic in 2018, backed by the rail freight...

Re-launch of Genoa port with over €1 billion in investment

Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) January 29, 2019 – An extraordinary investment plan of €1.61 billion ($1.84 billion) has been announced to fund the...

France announces €50m planned investment in ports and airports to prepare for no-deal Brexit

Paris, France (Ports Europe) January 29, 2019 – Last week, Édouard Philippe, the French prime minister, has announced a €50 million investment to...

GEFCO supplies wagons to PSA Kenitra plant in Morocco

Tanger, Morocco (Ports Europe) January 29, 2019 – GEFCO, a global operator in supply chain solutions and the European leader in automotive logistics,...

Denmark suggests EU sanctions against Russia over its Azov Sea behaviour

Mariupol, Ukraine (Ports Europe) January 29, 2019 – Denmark has said that the European Union (EU) should impose sanctions on Russia over its detention of...

In the midst of sanctions, Sevastopol port seeks to boost traffic through transshipment to Syria

Sevastopol, Crimea (Ports Europe) January 28, 2019 – Severely hit by the sanctions imposed to Crimea after its annexation by Russia in 2014, Sevastopol...

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