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Balearia takes over Tarifa-Tangier maritime line

Tarifa, Spain (Ports Europe) December 2, 2024 – The Baleària shipping company has been awarded a 15-year contract to operate the shipping line...

DFDS acquires FRS Iberia

Copenhagen, Denmark (Ports Europe) September 18, 2023 – International shipper DFDS has acquired FRS Iberia from its parent company FRS, a Flensburg-based...

Expected return of passenger traffic between Spain and Morocco has a date

Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) April 12, 2022 – Today the maritime ferry routes between the ports of Algeciras and Tangier-Med and between Tarifa and the...

Port of Motril reduces occupancy rate at terminals operated by Armas and FRS shipping companies

Motril, Spain (Ports Europe) June 2, 2021 – Motril Port Authority has agreed to reduce the occupancy rate by 60% at the terminals operated by the Armas...

Balearia, FRS and Trasmediterránea reduce rotations until November 9 on Algeciras-Ceuta line

Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) November 3, 2020 – The shipping companies Baleària, FRS and Trasmediterránea, that cover the Algeciras-Ceuta-Algeciras...

Shipping companies return to operate on the Algeciras-Ceuta line

Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) July 21, 2020 – With the end of the state of alarm in Spain due to the Covid-19 coronavirus crisis, the shipping companies...

FRS to introduce new vessel in Motril-Melilla line

Motril, Spain (PortSEurope) June 7, 2019 – Förde Reederei Seetouristik (FRS) plans to introduce a new ferry in the operation of the line linking the...

Motril port ratifies Armas-FRS concession decision

Motril, Spain (Ports Europe) September 7, 2018 – The Board of Directors of Autoridad Portuaria de Motril (APM – Port Authority of Motril) has...

Naviera Armas to cede part usage of Motril port passenger terminal

Motril, Spain (Ports Europe) August 11, 2018 – Naviera Armas SA has been asked to cede part of the Motril passenger terminal in the Levante dock to the...

Motril port renews three concessions

Motril, Spain (Ports Europe) July 24, 2018 – The Board of Directors of the Port of Motril has approved the administrative concessions requested by German...

FRS Motril-Tangier line breaks traffic record

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) March 7, 2018 – German company Förde Reederei Seetouristik (FRS) has broken its own record in the line connecting the ports...

FRS surpasses capacity record on Motril-Tangier shipping route

Motril, Spain (Ports Europe) March 6, 2018 – The German-owned shipping company FRS has broken its own record in the line of goods that operates between...

Germany’s FRS acquires ship for Motril-Tanger Med line

Motril, Spain (PortSEurope) January 10, 2018 – German group Förde Reederei Seetouristik GmbH & Co. KG (FRS) has acquired the “MV Miranda”...

Ceuta-Algeciras line handles 1.4 million passengers in Jan-Sep 2017

Ceuta, Spain (PortSEurope) November 9, 2017 – The maritime line of the Strait of Gibraltar established between the ports of Ceuta and Algeciras has...

Motril port starts OPE with passenger traffic decline

Motril, Spain (PortSEurope) June 27, 2017 – Motril port has started Operación Paso del Estrecho 2017 (OPE 2017), an initiative for the facilitation of the...

Spain’s González Gaggero starts operations at Motril port

Motril, Spain (PortSEurope) April 27, 2017 – Spanish freight forwarder and customs agent González Gaggero SL, one of the main international operators in the...

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