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Shipping agents warn against elimination of customs’ night shift at Thessaloniki port

Thessaloniki, Greece (Ports Europe) August 22, 2017 – The Association of Shipping Agents of Thessaloniki has expressed its concern with the decision of...

Maersk Line confirms launch of Med-Montreal service 

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) August 21, 2017 – Maersk Line has confirmed the launch of a new service that will link Mediterranean ports with Canada. The...

Valencia speeds process for extending Noatum’s concession

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) August 21, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) has accelerated the procedures to approve the...

Livorno to sell 80% stake in port logistics operator

Livorno, Italy (Ports Europe) August 21, 2017 – Italy’s Livorno local government, has started a project for the sale of a 80% stake in SPIL S.p.a....

Greece’s Thessaloniki port can face problems with customs service

Thessaloniki, Greece (Ports Europe) August 21, 2017 – Thessaloniki port can face problems with the delivery of customs service, as the Greek association of...

Luka Koper receives lawsuit from Slovenian Railways

Koper, Slovenia (Ports Europe) August 19, 2017 – Luka Koper, d.d., the operator of Koper port, has received a lawsuit from SŽ – Tovorni promet d.o.o....

Croatia starts preliminary work on LNG facility

Krk, Croatia (Ports Europe) August 18, 217 – Croatia has started preliminary underwater works in the northern Adriatic, the first concrete step in...

Adif tenders railroad ties supply contract for Valencia-Sagunto line

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) August 18, 2017 – Spanish state-owned railway operator Adif has tendered a supply and transportation contract to provide the...

COSCO starts operating MAF1 line

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) August 18, 2017 – COSCO Shipping Lines launched on August 17 its new service MAF1 between the main ports of the Mediterranean...

Valencia port expands area dedicated to car industry

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) August 17, 2017 – Valencia port has reached one million square metres servicing the automobile industry, of which 412,000...

Vigo port aims to include four more ports to MoS with Nantes

Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) August 17, 2017 – The president of Vigo port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Vigo), Enrique López Veiga, has said that the...

Croatian state invites bids for 11.75% stake in Luka Rijeka

Rijeka, Croatia (Ports Europe) August 17, 2017 – Croatian state agency Restructuring and Sale Centre (CERP) has invited bids for the sale of a 11.75% stake...

MSC launches service including call at Portugal’s Sines port

Sines, Portugal (Ports Europe) August 17, 2017 – The Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) has announced the launch of a service that connects the eastern...

Polluting cruise ship highlighted by Marseilles residents

Marseille Fos, France (Ports Europe) August 16, 2017 – Residents of Marseille port regularly complain about pollution generated by cruise ships in the...

Attica agrees purchase of majority stake in Hellenic Seaways Maritime

Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) August 16, 2017 – Attica Holdings S.A., part of Marfin Investment Group (MIG), has announced an agreement in principle,...

Barcelona port boosts short sea shipping lines traffic

Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) August 16, 2017 – Barcelona port is offering more short sea shipping (SSS) lines with its main markets in Italy and North...

Attica Group signs agreement to acquire 50.3% of Hellenic Seaways Maritime

Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) August 16, 2017 – Greek company Attica Holdings S.A. has signed an agreement in principle with Piraeus Bank to...

Turkey’s Yildirim gains full control of Leixões port’s container terminal

Leixões, Portugal (Ports Europe) August 15, 2017 – Turkish conglomerate Yildirim has just gained control of Leixões port’s container terminal, the...

Ibiza-Gandia line exceeds 15,000 passengers

Gandia, Spain (Ports Europe) August 15, 2017 – The first line of passenger and car transport between the port of Gandia and Ibiza has surpassed the 15,000...

Almería port boost passenger traffic during OPE

Almería, Spain (Ports Europe) August 14, 2017 – Almería port handled 232,502 passengers as part of the Operación Paso del Estrecho (OPE) initiative in...

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