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Tarragona port president resigns
Tarragona, Spain (PortSEurope) June 7, 2018 – Tarragona port’s president Josep Andreu has announced his resignation after days of intense rumours...
Barcelona port books record-high cargo traffic in May
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) June 7, 2018 – Barcelona port surpassed in May, for the first time in its history, the 6 million tonnes of total cargo traffic...
Valencia port president recommends appointment of public works minister from the region
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) June 7, 2018 – Valencia is already the biggest port in the Mediterranean in terms of container traffic, and is among the 30 top...
Alcúdia municipal government prohibits scrap handling at port
Alcúdia, Spain (PortSEurope) June 7, 2018 – The municipality of Alcúdia decided at the end of May to initiate a precautionary measure to suspend the...
Gijón port calls tender for technical assistance of dock upgrade
Gijón, Spain (PortSEurope) June 7, 2018 – Gijón port has called a tender for a contract for €248,753 ($294,171) technical assistance contract to draft...
Avilés port joins Samoa project
Avilés, Spain (PortSEurope) June 7, 2018 – Avilés port reinforces its digitisation strategy by joining the second edition of the port authority’s...
Sagunto port’s short sea shipping traffic rises 52% in 2017
Sagunto, Spain (PortSEurope) June 7, 2018 – Short sea shipping is experiencing one of its largest growths in the port of Sagunto. Although for the moment...
Sicily port workers plan Palermo protest
Palermo, Italy (PortSEurope) June 6, 2018 – The port workers of Sicily plan to protest today, in front of the Palermo offices of Autorita’ di Sistema...
Thessaloniki Port Authority to ordinary general meeting June 28, 2018
Thessaloniki, Greece (PortSEurope) June 7, 2018 – Thessaloniki Port Authority SA (ThPA) has invited shareholders to an Ordinary General Meeting on June...
Lloyd’s Register awards ISO certificates to Piraeus Port Authority
Piraeus, Greece (PortSEurope) June 7, 2018 – Piraeus Port Authority SA (PPA) CEO Capt. Weng Lin, PPA Deputy CEO, has been presented with certifications...
Calabria president meets unions to review investment progress
Gioia Tauro, Italy (PortSEurope) June 6, 2018 – “The President of the Calabria Region
Mario Oliverio has presided a meeting with...
Call for Messina as its own port system
Messina, Italy (PortSEurope) June 6, 2018 – Under recent government port reform, Messina port (Sicily) was included in Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale...
Brindisi and Bari ports look to rail link with Interporto of Bologna
Bari, Italy (PortSEurope) June 6, 2018 – Plans have been announced for rail links between the ports of Brindisi and Bari, and the Interporto di Bologna...
Las Palmas port expects smaller number of cruise calls next season
Las Palmas, Spain (PortSEurope) June 6, 2018 – Las Palmas port is no stranger to the global trend in the cruise market and expects next season the number of...
Ford Spain’s Almussafes plant to export 45% of overseas vehicles via Valencia port
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) June 6, 2018 – Ford Spain has begun to use its new facilities in the port of Valencia, a terminal of 100,000 square metres in...
Liguria region’s president to propose new reform of Italy’s port management system
Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) June 6, 2018 – The president of the regional government of Liguria, Giovanni Toti, has proposed to the new government of the...
Santander port joins Samoa meteorological project
Santander, Spain (PortSEurope) June 6, 2018 – Santander port has joined the Samoa project for the development of a meteorological and oceanographic support...