25 tons of hashish seized in the port of Algeciras
Algeciras, Spain (Ports Europe) April 26, 2024 – The Civil Guard, in collaboration with the Customs Surveillance Service of the Tax Agency, has seized...
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Commodity traders investing in Spanish port terminals
Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) April 24, 2024 – Global commodity and trading companies have been investing in port terminals in Spain. Many traders are flush with cash after record energy prices and are investing to secure supply chains. Trafigura acquires Vilma Oil Med Trafigura, one of the world’s largest oil traders, has agreed to acquire…
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Lavrio, the next regional Greek port for privatisation
Lavrio, Greece, (Ports Europe) April 26, 2024 – Lavrio is set to be the next regional port to be privatised based on the sale of 50% plus one share....
Cocaine found in port of Piraeus
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) April 26, 2024 – Inspectors from the Hellenic Authority for Communication Security and Privacy (AADE) have seized a huge...
Damietta Alliance signs contract for superstructure works
Damietta, Egypt (Ports Europe) April 26, 2024 – Damietta Alliance Container Terminals has signed a contract with Rowad Modern Engineering for...
Tarragona City Council initiates action against Ership and Noatum
Tarragona, Spain (Ports Europe) April 26, 2024 – The Ajuntament de Tarragona (Tarragona Town Council) has initiated a series of actions against Ership...
Port of Sines participates in the Singapore Maritime Week
Sines, Portugal (Ports Europe) April 25, 2024 – As part of the international promotion of the NEXUS Agenda, the Port of Sines participated for the second...
Port of Lisbon increases cargo and containers in 2023
Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) April 25, 2024 – In 2023, the Port of Lisbon handled 11 million tons of cargo and 2,045 ship calls (+8.7%), Cruise calls...
Turkey’s Hopaport presents Q1 24 report
Hopa, Turkey (Ports Europe) April 25, 2024 – Hopa Park Denizcilik ve Hopa Liman İşletmeleri AŞ, which operates the Hopa Port in Hopa district of...
TIV Terminal concession, Venice, renewed for 25 years
Venice, Italy (Ports Europe)- April 25, 2024 – Terminal Intermodale Venezia (Tiv) has had its concession renewed for 25 more years until 2050. After...
Port of Rotterdam reports cargo traffic slightly down in Q1 24
Rotterdam, Netherlands (Ports Europe) April 25, 2024 – In the first quarter of 2024, total cargo throughput in the port of Rotterdam was 110.1 million...
Aquaculture in maritime ports – can they co-exist?
Fareham, United Kingdom (Ports Europe) April 25, 2024 – There is much focus on the coexistence of offshore renewable energy and aquaculture, two rapidly...
MSC launches bid to buy Gram Car Carriers
Hamburg, Germany (Ports Europe) – April 25, 2024 – MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company S.A. has offered to purchase Gram Car Carriers (GCC), which...
Chinese port delegation visits Port of Barcelona
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) April 25, 2024 – A delegation from China’s Shangdong Port Group and the Port of Quingdao yesterday visited the Port...
Ravenna to host “Adria Shipping Summit”
Ravenna, Italy (Ports Europe) April 25, 2024 – Ravenna is preparing to host the first edition of the Adria Shipping Summit, the event dedicated to the...
Ferretti confirms Taranto port withdrawal, what next?
Taranto, Italy (Ports Europe) April 25, 2024 – The luxury group Ferretti has confirmed its withdrawal from a proposed development of the former Belleli...
APM Terminals’ Vado Gateway reports 284% auto imports in 2023
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) April 24, 2024 – APM Terminals’ Vado Gateway has reported a 284% increase in vehicle imports in 2023, and a good start...
Port of Koper has launched a new 3.3 MW solar power plant
Koper, Slovenia (Ports Europe) April 24, 2024 – The Port of Koper has launched a new 3.3 MW solar power plant with 15,000 m² of panels, the tenth such...
Ports of Sardinia improve performance in 2023
Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy (Ports Europe) April 24, 2024 – In 2023, AdSP del Mare Di Sardegna reported revenue of 69.4 million euros, an improvement of...
Peninsula to add the chemical tanker to service in Port of Barcelona.
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) April 24, 2024 – Peninsula, a global marine energy supplier, will add the chemical tanker “Aarlborg” to its...
Spain: Total TEU traffic by port – March & Q1 24
Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) April 24, 2024 – Puertos del Estado has published container numbers for Spanish ports in January-March 2024. Spain’s ports...
Spain: Total cargo traffic by port – March & Q1 24
Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) April 24, 2024 – Spain’s ports of general interest moved 47.2 mt million tons of cargo in March 2024, slightly down on...
Kuehne+Nagel reports reduced profit in Q1 24
Zürich, Switzerland (Ports Europe)- April 24, 2024 – The first quarter of 2024 saw a slight improvement in demand for transportation services in sea and...
Cargo traffic through Spanish ports up +1.4% in Q1 24
Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) April 24, 2024 – Spain’s state ports handled a total of 135,985,963 tons of cargo in the first quarter of 2024, up...
Constanta port-based JT Grup plans IPO
Constanta, Romania (Ports Europe) April 24, 2024 – Romanian independent fuel distributor JT Grup Oil has announced plans for an initial public offering...
Rensen-Driessen contracts Romania’s Orsova for two vessels
Bucharest, Romania (Ports Europe) April 24, 2024 – The Netherlands’ Rensen-Driessen Shipbuilding has signed a contract with Romanian...
Update: Port SEZ and multimodal port in Nizhny Novgorod
Nizhny Novgorod, Russia (Ports Europe) April 24, 2024 – The creation of a port special economic zone (PSEZ) in Nizhny Novgorod will increase container...
FT: Western Mediterranean container ports congested by Red Sea crisis
Algeciras, Spain (Ports Europe) April 23, 2024 – Container ports around the Western Mediterranean are nearing full capacity, raising the risk of higher...
Russia’s container market in Q1’24 was 1.6 million TEUs
Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) April 23, 2024 – Russia’s container market grew by 13% in the January-March period compared to Q1’2023 to 1.608 million...
Port of Ravenna, 150kg cocaine seized from ship
Ravenna, Italy (Ports Europe) April 23, 2024 – Around 150 kilos of cocaine were seized by the police on a ship waiting in the port of Ravenna. The...
Update: After Murmansk Belarus wants Russia’s Arkhangelsk port
Minsk, Belarus (Ports Europe) April 23, 2024 – Western sanctions-hit Belarus is intensifying its efforts to use the sea ports of fellow global pariah Russia....
