EMS Shipping & Trading claim against Albania proceeds
Durrës, Albania (Ports Europe) April 19, 2024 – An ICSID tribunal has refused to separately hear Albania’s preliminary objections to a claim brought...
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Ports de la Generalitat – a new body to support Catalan ports
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) April 19, 2024 – A new organisation, Ports de la Generalitat, has been established to develop cooperation between the ports of Catalonia. Ports de la Generalitat, a public-sector company, is affiliated to the Department of Territory of the Generalitat of Catalonia. Ports de la Generalitat is divided into three port regions: Northern (from…
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GravitHy signs a power agreement for Fos-sur-Mer plant
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) April 19, 2024 – GravitHy is planning to build France’s first low-carbon DRI/HBI1 production plant in Fos-sur-Mer,...
Port of Tarragona 2024 Yearbook published
Tarragona, Spain (Ports Europe) April 19, 2024 – Autoridad Portuaria de Tarragona (APT – Port Authority of Tarragona) has published the “Port...
Koper’s LUKA.DT project comes to an end
Koper, Slovenia (Ports Europe) April 19, 2024 – The two-year LUKA.DT project ended last month. The project aimed to develop advanced digital solutions...
Key port sector issues discussed at TT Club seminar
Rotterdam, Netherlands (Ports Europe) April 19, 2024 – Maritime & Transport Business Solutions (MTBS) reported on the key port sector trends and...
China’s Famsun to build a new grain terminal at Makhachkala port
Makhachkala, Russia (Ports Europe) April 18, 2024 – China’s Famsun Group is to construct a new grain terminal at Makhachkala Commercial Seaport. A...
Petronor to work with Gaslog & EnBW
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) April 18, 2024 – Repsol’s Petronor has signed a cooperation agreement with the Port of Amsterdam, the Dutch gas...
Rome questions Strait of Messina bridge documentation
Rome, Italy (Ports Europe) April 18, 2024 – The società Stretto di Messina, the project manager to build a bridge over the Strait of Messina, has been...
EUROKAI confirms Contship Italia investment
Milan, Italy (Ports Europe) April 18, 2024 – During meetings in Italy, Tom Eckelmann, member of the management board of EUROKAI, and shareholder of...
Third drug seizure in a month in Belgium’s North Sea Port
Ghent, Belgium (Ports Europe) April 18, 2024 – Drugs were again found in Belgium’s North Sea Port Ghent during the inspection of a coal ship on April 13....
Port of Rotterdam cargo down -4.5% in Q1 2024
Rotterdam, Netherlands (Ports Europe) April 18, 2024 – In the first three months of 2024, the total cargo throughput of the Port of Rotterdam was 110.1...
North Sea Port sees decline in cargo throughput in Q1 24
Ghent, Belgium (Ports Europe) April 18, 2024 – Seaborne cargo transhipment at North Sea Port was down -3.2% in the first quarter of this year compared to...
Russian ports handled 214.3 mln tonnes of cargo in Q1’24
Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) April 18, 2024 – Cargo turnover of Russian seaports in January-March 2024 decreased by 3.3% compared to the same period of last...
Príncipe Felipe Pier solar facility now 100% operational – Valencia
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) April 18, 2024 – The solar installation at the Príncipe Felipe Pier is now 100% operational. It now provides an average...
Reference: Bunkering in Gibraltar
Gibraltar (Ports Europe) April 18, 2024 – Gibraltar is the largest bunkering port in the Mediterranean. Its bunkering companies continue to grow, and...
Russia’s Taman port with 415,000 sq.m. coal storage
Taman, Russia (Ports Europe) April 17, 2024 – OTEKO, the operator of two marine terminals (bulk and liquid) in Russia’s Black Sea port of Taman,...
Thessaloniki Port Authority announces financial results for 2023
Thessaloniki, Greece (Ports Europe) April 17, 2024 – Thessaloniki Port Authority (ThPA) has announced its financial results for 2023. Consolidated...
Turkey: Seaports TEU traffic – March 2024
Ankara, Turkey (Ports Europe) April 17, 2024 – The Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure has reported container (TEU) traffic for March 2024. Below is...
Turkey: Seaports cargo traffic – March 2024
Ankara, Turkey (Ports Europe) April 17, 2024 – The Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure has reported total seaport cargo traffic for March 2024....
EU delegation visits Port of Baku
Baku, Azerbaijan (Ports Europe) April 17, 2024 – A high-level European Union delegation led by the EU Special Representative for Central Asia, Ambassador...
Port of Antwerp Bruges sees improved Q1 24 traffic
Antwerp, Belgium (Ports Europe) April 17, 2024 – The Port of Antwerp-Bruges handled a total of 70.4 million tonnes of cargo in Q! 2024, up +2.4% compared...
Romania would like to take a shareholding in Greece’s Gastrade
Alexandroupolis, Greece (Ports Europe) April 17, 2024 – Media reports suggest that the Romanian government would like to take a shareholding in...
TFG Marine to acquire Spanish bunkering company Vilma Oil Med
Ceuta, Spain (Ports Europe) April 17, 2024 – TFG Marine has agreed to acquire majority ownership of Spanish bunkering company Vilma Oil Med for an...
Port of Sete to house Nezzy2, a floating wind turbine prototype
Sète, France (Ports Europe) April 17, 2024 – Oenewable energy manufacturer Valeco has given the University of Montpellier a 1:10-scale prototype of a...
Tenerife receives the Port Environmental Review System certificate
Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain (Ports Europe) April 17, 2024 – The Port Authority of Santa Cruz de Tenerife has received the Port...
Six tonnes of cocaine seized near Antwerp port
Antwerp, Belgium (Ports Europe) April 17, 2024 – Cocaine weighing 5,922 kg was seized on April 10 during a raid by special units on a warehouse on an...
Over 600 million illicit cigarettes seized in EU in 2023
Brussels, Belgium (Ports Europe) April 17, 2024 – In 2002, international operations involving the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) led to the seizure of...
Slovenia seizes over 15,000 tonnes of undeclared cigarettes
Koper, Slovenia (Ports Europe) April 17, 2024 – Slovenian customs officials seized more than 15,000 tonnes of undeclared cigarettes at Koper port in...
60 kg of drugs seized in Greek port of Igoumenitsa
Igoumenitsa, Greece (Ports Europe) April 16, 2024 – Greek coast guard authorities seized more than 2 million euro worth of narcotics and arrested a lorry...
Belarus multimodal port in Murmansk, Russia
Murmansk, Russia (Ports Europe) April 16, 2024 – Preparations have started for the construction of a multimodal port for processing Belarusian cargo in...
