Barcelona remains main contributor to Interport Compensation Fund
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) January 10, 2017 – Barcelona port remains the main contributor to the Spanish port system. According to data released by the Ministry…
Ponta Delgada port starts reinforcement works on main dock
Ponta Delgada, Portugal (PortSEurope) January 10, 2017 – The preparation works for the reinforcement of the main dock of Portugal's Ponta Delgada port have already…
Mykolaiv port cargo traffic rises 0.6% Y/Y in 2016
Mykolaiv, Ukraine (PortSEurope) January 10, 2017 – Mykolaiv port cargo traffic edged up by 0.6% on the year in the first eleven months of 2016 to…
MacAndrews updates “Valencia Express” service
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) January 10, 2017 – UK shipping company MacAndrews has announced the update of its service "Valencia Express", between Valencia port and northern Europe,…
Malaga port handles three ships with destination Melilla
Malaga, Spain (PortSEurope) January 10, 2017 – Three ships with destination Melilla port coincided for the first time at Malaga port on January 8. Between 1800…
EMS-Fehn to open Rijeka office
Rijeka, Croatia (PortSEurope) January 9, 2017 - EMS-Fehn-Group is to set up a new subsidiary in Rijeka, Croatia, where the company forecasts new opportunities in…
China’s CCCC shows interest in dredging, port facilities in Ukraine
Mykolaiv, Ukraine (PortSEurope) January 9, 2017 – In December 2016, representatives of Ukrainian dredging company "Tehmorgidrostroy Nikolaev" held a meeting with representatives of Chinese corporation…
Ukrainian ports export 40.2 million tonnes of grain in 2016
Odessa, Ukraine (PortSEurope) January 9, 2017 – Ukrainian ports exported 40.249 million tonnes of grain in 2016, customs statistics showed. The total value of the…
Mykolaiv port announces dredging tender
Mykolaiv, Ukraine (PortSEurope) January 9, 2017 – Ukraine's Mykolaiv port has called a tender for the dredging of its sea basin. Under the project, a…
Spanish government not to open Puertos del Estado to private capital
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) January 9, 2017 – Spanish Ministry of Public Works does not contemplate opening the capital of Spanish national ports agency Puertos del Estado…
Andalusian public ports to receive €196.5 million investments in 2017
Seville, Spain (PortSEurope) January 9, 2017 – Andalusian public ports will receive investments worth €196.5 million ($207.8 million) in 2017, including both €159 million ($168.1…
Puertos del Estado net profit rises 8% Y/Y in 2016
Seville, Spain (PortSEurope) January 9, 2017 – Spanish national ports agency Puertos del Estado, managed by the Public Works Ministry, booked a net profit of…
Vigo port completes design of Bouzas ro-ro terminal
Vigo, Spain (PortSEurope) January 9, 2017 – Vigo port has completed the design of the extension of Bouzas ro-ro terminal. The space gained for the…
Mediterranean ports join forces to attract container traffic
Marseille, France (PortSEurope) January 9, 2017 – Authorities at ports in the Mediterranean area agreed to form an organisation specifically designed to promote the region's…
Novorossiysk oil traffic at KTK terminal increases in 2016
Novorossiysk, Russia(PortSEurope) January 9, 2017 – Novorossiysk port saw oil traffic at its Caspian Pipeline Consortium (KTK) terminal rise by 3.6% on the year to 44.3…
2016 year of growth for Gibraltar port
Gibraltar (PortSEurope) January 9, 2017 - The Gibraltar Port Authority (GPA) has announced another year of growth across most areas of activity following a performance…
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…