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Algeria

Algeria is a country in Northwest Africa bordered by Morocco, Tunisia, Libya, Niger, Mauritania and Western Sahara. The main seaports are Alger, Skikda (largest by TEU), Arzew, Oran, Djen-Djen, Mostaganem and Bejaia. Ports are managed by the Ministry of Public Works and Transport. The government has expansion plans but remians overshadowed by Morocco’s Tanger Med Port Complex.

World Economic Forum – Global Competitive Index 2017-2018 – Port Infrastructure

Geneva, Switzerland (PortSEurope) December 13, 2017 – The World Economic Forum reports that ten years on from the global financial crisis, the prospects...

Alberia’s new El Hamdania port delayed

El Hamdania, Algeria (PortSEurope) December 11, 2017 – The project of the port of El Hamdania in the region of Tipasa, has been slightly delayed and the...

Port of Béjaïa launches projects to increase trade capacity

Béjaïa, Algeria (PortSEurope) December 1, 2017 – The long-term development plan that the port of Béjaïa has inscribed will strengthen the commercial...

CNAN-MED and Arkas Line to transport CKD parts for Renault Algeria plant in Oued Tlelat, Oran.

Oran, Algeria (PortSEurope) November 1, 2017 – An agreement has been signed between the Algerian shipping company CNAN-MED and its Turkish...

Corsica Linéa to operate Mostaganem to Marseille service

Mostaganem, Algeria (PortSEurope) November 19, 2017 – Ryad Bouledjouidja, CEO of Entreprise Portuaire de Mostaganem (the Port Authority of Mostaganem),...

Director general of the port of Béjaïa criticised

Béjaïa, Algeria (Ports Europe) October 7, 2017 – The workers’ support committee of the Cevital group and economic interests in the wilaya of...

Finland’s Containerships launches line linking Barcelona port to Algeria, Turkey

Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) October 6, 2017 – Finnish shipping group Containerships has launched a regular service connecting Barcelona port with Algeria...

DP World and Algeria discuss future port development plans

Algiers, Algeria (Ports Europe) October 5, 2017 – Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem, DP World Group Chairman and CEO, has met with the Algerian Minister of Public...

Algeria announces plan to develop ports and logistics

Algiers, Algeria (Ports Europe) September 30, 2017 – The Minister of Public Works and Transport, Abdelghani Zaalane, that a national plan was being...

Algerian Minister visits El-Hamdania port project

Algiers, Algeria (Ports Europe) September 9, 2017 – The Minister of Public Works and Transport, Abdelghani Zaalane has paid a working visit to the...

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...

Barcelona port’s traffic with Italy, North Africa set to expand

Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) August 10, 2017 – Barcelona port has put into service new short sea shipping lines with its main markets in Italy and north...

XPO Logistics restructures management of Iberian unit

Algiers, Algeria (Ports Europe) August 4, 2017 – XPO Logistics has restructured the management of its transport division in Iberia, which includes Morocco,...

Baleària handles 53,000 passengers on Valencia-Mostaganem line in H1 2017

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) August 4, 2017 – The ferry line of Spanish company Baleària Eurolínias Marítimas S.A. between the ports of Valencia and...

Valencia-Mostaganem sea transport line handles 53,000 passengers in H1

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) August 3, 2017 – The sea transport line between Valencia and Mostaganem (Algeria), which has been operating in the port of...

CMA CGM launches direct service to link Morocco and Algeria to the Black Sea

Marseille, France (Ports Europe) August 1, 2017 – The French CMA CGM Group is launching the Black Sea Med Express, created specifically to respond to the...

DP reports improved H1 2017 TEU traffic

Dubai, UAE (Ports Europe) 25 July 25, 2017 – DP World Limited handled 34.0 million TEU (twenty-foot equivalent units) across its global portfolio of...

Valencia port tenders contract for aid to passengers travelling to Algeria

Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) July 16, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) has tendered the service contract of...

More than 29,000 passengers arrive in Oran in Q1, 2017

Oran, Algeria (PortSEurope) July 7, 2017 –29,146 passengers arrived in the Algerian port of Oran from Spanish and French ports and further 21,069 passengers...

Algeria’s CNAN Nord to increase frequency of service to Bilbao port

Bilbao, Spain (PortSEurope) July 5, 2017 – Algerian shipping company CNAN Nord is considering a potential increase of the frequency of its regular...

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