Invitalia issues Port of Trieste tender
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) November 20, 2024 – The tender for the integrated contract of the PNRR/PNC Project for the new Servola Station of the Port...
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Contship Italia – TEU throughput – Jan-Sep 2024
Milan, Italy (Ports Europe) November 13, 2024 – In January-September 2024, the Contship Italia Group’s container terminals handled 1,215,703 containers (TEU), up +6.9% from the same period of 2023 (1,137,758 TEU). La Spezia Container Terminal (LSCT) recorded 818,336 TEU, an increase of +11.1%. Salerno handled 263,545 TEU (+3%) and Ravenna registered 133,839 TEU (-8%). Contship and Eurogate…
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Port of Valencia handles fewer cars
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) November 20, 2024 – In October 2024, the Port of Valencia (APV) handled the loading and unloading of 50,465 vehicles, down...
EU sanctions Iran’s Caspian ports of Amirabad and Anzali
Brussels, Belgium (Ports Europe) November 20, 2024 – The European Union (EU) sanctioned Iran’s Caspian Sea ports of Amirabad and Anzali on November 18 and...
Giurgiulesti inland port – Who will buy Moldova’s only port?
Giurgiulesti, Moldova (Ports Europe) November 20, 2024 – There is real interest in the landlocked Moldova’s little-known only Danube River Giurgiulesti...
Cantabria plans to spend 8.79 mln euros on dredging
Santander, Spain (Ports Europe) November 19, 2024 – Cantabria, an autonomous region on Spain’s north coast, plans to tender a project for 8.79 million...
Port of Constanta reduces Ukrainian grain exports
Constanta, Romania (Ports Europe) November 19, 2024 – In January-October 2024, the port of Constanta exported 5.6 million tonnes of Ukrainian grain, down...
Port of Pasaia considers options for cold ironing
Pasaia, Spain (Ports Europe) November 19, 2024 – The Basque port of Pasaia is looking at three options for the first phase of the introduction of onshore...
A Bridge of Africa – Italian ports look south
La Spezia, Italy (Ports Europe) November 19, 2024 – La Spezia hosted “A Bridge to Africa“, a two-day event to promote trade between Italy and...
T&E: How much does LNG emit before it burns on a ship?
Brussels, Belgium (Ports Europe) November 19, 2024 – Transport and Environment, an advocate for clean transport & energy, has published a report:...
Monopolies commission investigates SAS & Moby
Milan, Italy (Ports Europe) November 19, 2024 – Yesterday, the Competition and Market Authority (AGCM) opened an investigation into SAS, part of MSC...
Underwater cables in Baltic Sea damaged again
Helsinki, Finland (Ports Europe) November 19, 2024 – A 1,170 km undersea fibre-optic cable connecting the port of Helsinki, Finland to Rostock port,...
Cobasa granted concession in Port of Santander
Santander, Spain (Ports Europe) November 19, 2024 – The board of directors of the Port Authority of Santander has granted Consignatarios de Barcos de...
Ports of Catania, Augusta continue redevelopment
Catania, Sicily, Italy (Ports Europe) November 19, 2024 – The redevelopment of the ports of Catania continues, pending approval of the Master Plan, and...
BMF Port Burgas started major railway expansion
Burgas, Bulgaria (Ports Europe) November 19, 2023 – Private port operator BMF Port Burgas, a concessionaire of the Black Sea’s Burgas East-2 and Burgas...
ABB, Dura Vermeer, GMB to expand APM Terminals Maasvlakte II
Rotterdam, The Netherlands (Ports Europe) November 19, 2024 – CareGo, a consortium comprising technology leader ABB and Dutch construction companies Dura...
Captagon pills seized in Port of Ambarli, Turkey
Ambarli, Turkey (Ports Europe) November 18, 2024 – Turkish Customs authorities have seized over 1.3 million Captagon pills and 26,520 mixer parts in...
Abandoned ship removed from Port of Elefsina
Elefsina, Greece (Ports Europe) November 18, 2024 – The abandoned tanker “PROMITHEAS” (IMO 7414286) has been permanently removed from the bay...
US Army battalion passes through Port of Setúbal, Portugal
Setúbal, Portugal (Ports Europe) November 18, 2024 – The MV ARC Endurance ship pulled into the port of Setubal on November 5, carrying over 750 pieces...
MSC meets conditions to acquire 49.9% of HHLA
Hamburg, Germany (Ports Europe) November 18, 2024 – As of November 14, 2024, all closing conditions for the takeover offer of Port of Hamburg...
Port of Trapani forecasts increased cruise passengers
Trapani, Sicily, Italy (Ports Europe) November 18, 2024 – In 2025, the port of Trapani is expected to welcome approximately 25,000 passengers from 58...
Ukraine monopolies commission approves MSC-HHLA deal
Kiev, Ukraine (Ports Europe) November 18, 2024 – On 14 November, the Antimonopoly Commission of Ukraine (AMK) approved the deal for Mediterranean...
Port of Ancona receives go-ahead for dredging
Ancona, Italy (Ports Europe) November 18, 2024 – The Marche Region has sent the Central Adriatic Sea Port System Authority (AdSP) the environmental...
New Black Sea railway ferry line Varna-Poti
Varna, Bulgaria (Ports Europe) November 17, 2024 – The Georgian-flagged Ro-Ro ferryboat AIA (IMO: 9120384) opened a few days ago a line between the Bulgarian...
5 tonnes of cocaine destined for Valencia port seized in Guayaquil
Guayaquil, Ecuador (Ports Europe) November 17, 2024 – More than five tonnes of cocaine were seized in Ecuador’s port of Guayaquil by the National...
2.6 times more containers via Middle Corridor in Jan-Oct’24
Astana, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) November 17, 2024 – Container shipments along the Trans-Caspian International Transport Route (TITR, Middle Corridor),...
Cargotec sells MacGregor to Triton funds for €480 million
Helsinki, Finland (Ports Europe) November 17, 2024 – Helsinki-headquartered Cargotec Corporation decided on November 14 to sell its MacGregor business...
1.2 tonnes of cocaine seized in Spain’s Algeciras port
Algeciras, Spain (Ports Europe) November 16, 2024 – Over 1,160 kg of cocaine hidden inside a shipping container that arrived at Spain’s port...
Four tonnes of cocaine seized off the Canary Islands
Puerto Naos, Canary Islands, Spain (Ports Europe) November 16, 2024 – Four tonnes of cocaine were seized on November 12 by Spanish authorities from a...
Russia’s ports handled 4.6 mln TEUs in Jan-Oct’24
Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) November 16, 2024 – Russian ports handled 4.6 million TEUs in the first 10 months of the year, which is 12% (or 490,000 TEUs)...
New Caspian ferry line Turkmenbashi-Olya might finally launch
Astrakhan, Russia (Ports Europe) November 16, 2024 – After years of talks, in the near future, a regular ferry service may finally be launched between...