Cartagena port to handle 145 cruise ships in 2017
Cartagena, Spain (PortSEurope) January 9, 2017 – Cartagena port expects to receive a total of 145 cruise ships in 2017, of which ten will enter the…
Valencia port authority to adapt land plot for solid bulk storage purposes
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) January 9, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) plans to adapt a plot of 20,730 square meters, located in…
Spanish government presents investment plan for ports
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) January 9, 2017 – Spanish Public Works Minister Inigo de la Serna presented an investment plan of €1.418 billion ($1.5 billion) for…
South Korea parliamentary delegation visits Sines port
Sines, Portugal (PortSEurope) January 6, 2017 – A parliamentary delegation from the National Assembly of the Republic of Korea visited the Sines port on January…
Madeira port to consolidate number of calls in 2017
Funchal, Portugal (PortSEurope) January 6, 2017 – Madeira port authority (Administração dos Portos da Região Autónoma da Madeira) plans to consolidate the number of calls…
Figueira da Foz cargo traffic rises 3.5% Y/Y in 2016
Figueira da Foz, Portugal (PortSEurope) January 6, 2017 – Figueira da Foz port handled 2.07 million tonnes of cargo in 2016, up 3.5% on the…
Lisbon port close to half million cruise passengers in Jan-Nov 2016
Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) January 6, 2017 – At the end of November, Lisbon port was close to half a million cruise passengers, 498,792, which was…
Portugal to support Figueira da Foz port upgrade
Figueira da Foz, Portugal (PortSEurope) January 6, 2017 – Portuguese Minister of the Sea, Ana Paula Vittorino, has included the projects for the upgrade of…
TecnoAranda to build wind towers production plant in Bilbao
Bilbao, Spain (PortSEurope) January 6, 2017 – Spanish company TecnoAranda plans to set up a plant for the production of wind towers at Bilbao port…
Vigo port praises changes in stevedoring activity rules
Vigo, Spain (PortSEurope) January 6, 2017 – Vigo port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Vigo) has praised the changes adopted by dockworkers, which, in its opinion,…
Transneft oil traffic through Novorossiysk port rises in 2016
Novorossiysk, Russia (PortSEurope) January 9, 2017 – Russian oil transport group Transneft handled 30.6 million tonnes of oil through Novorossiysk port in 2016, spokesperson Igor…
Varna port sees rising wheat exports
Varna, Bulgaria (PortSEurope) January 9, 2017 – Varna port handled 1.286 million tonnes of wheat in the period between the start of the 2016/17 season,…
Huelva port opens container line to Canary Islands
Huelva, Spain (PortSEurope) January 6, 2017 – Huelva port has officially opened a container line with the Canary Islands, operated by local company Termisur. The…
NCSP consolidated cargo traffic rises by 5.3% Y/Y in Jan-Nov 2016
Novorossiysk, Russia (PortSEurope) January 5, 2016 – The consolidated cargo traffic of Novorossiysk Commercial Sea Port (NCSP) Group, the operator of Novorossiysk port, amounted to…
Ukrainian ports cargo traffic declines by 8.8% Y/Y in 2016
Odessa, Ukraine (PortSEurope) January 5, 2017 – Ukrainian commercial seaports saw their cargo traffic decline by 8.8% on the year to 132 million tonnes in…
Bordeaux is most important French port for ship dismantling, EU says
Bordeaux, France (PortSEurope) January 5, 2017 – Bordeaux port is the most important in France for the ship dismantling industry, a study by the European…
Morocco to launch construction of multipurpose terminal at Agadir port in 2017
Agadir, Morocco (PortSEurope) January 4, 2017 – Moroccan national ports agency Agence nationale des ports (ANP) plans to launch new infrastructure development projects in 2017,…
Bordeaux container terminal project is still at standstill
Bordeaux, France (PortSEurope) January 4, 2017 – Presented three years ago, the relaunch of operation of the Verdon container terminal at Bordeaux port is at…
Valencia tenders for container terminal project study
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) January 4, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) has tendered for €605,000 ($634,385) the feasibility study and completion of…
Egyptian government starts up Port Said projects
Port Said, (PortSEurope) January 2, 2017 – The Minister of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT) Yasser ElKady and the Governor of Port Said Adel al-Ghadban…