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COSCO’s Kumport Liman reports 2018 container throughput up 18.3%
Ambarli, Turkey (Ports Europe) January 30, 2019 – Kumport Liman Hizmetleri ve Lojistik Sanayi ve Ticaret A.Ş, operated by China’s COSCO Shipping Ports...
Suez Canal Container Terminal sees 2018 container throughput rise 3.2%
Port Said, Egypt (Ports Europe) January 30, 2019 – Suez Canal Container Terminal S.A.E. (SCCT), operated by China’s COSCO Shipping Ports Limited, has...
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...
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,...
Sète port attracts €300 million investment since 2007
Sète, France (Ports Europe) January 29, 2019 – The Occitanie Region, Port Sud de France and private partners have invested a total of €300...
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...
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...