Port News & Information Mediterranean, Black & Caspian Seas

Italy

Italy is a republic in southern Europe, comprising a peninsula south of the Alps, and Sicily, Sardinia, Elba, and other smaller islands; member of the European Union (EU); by tonnage, its leading ports are Trieste, Genoa and Gioia Tauro. In September 2016, the government reorganised the port system into 16 new port system authorities (AdSP – Autorità di Sistema Portuale). The 57 ports of national importance are coordinated by 16 AdSPs with the task of planning, coordinating and regulating the port system in the reference area. The AdSPs are members of the Italian port association – Assoporti.

AlpineIncT aims to improve regional transport

Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) October 6, 2017 – Share, implement and realise innovative solutions for the development of combined transport: these were...

Hamburg Süd launches regular line connecting Mediterranean, Northern Europe, South America

Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) October 5, 2017 – German shipping company Hamburg Süd Group (Hamburg Süd-Gruppe) has presented a weekly service that links...

Genoa and San Francisco announce port cooperation

Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) October 5, 2017 – Porto Antico of Genova S.p.A. and Port of San Francisco have announced an agreement to promote tourism,...

Trieste port increases intermodal traffic to Budapest

Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) October 5, 2017 – “Hungary is becoming Trieste’s first reference market, as for port railway container traffic”,...

CMA CGM launches Morocco Express ro-ro service

Marseille, France (Ports Europe) October 5, 2017 – The French CMA CGM Group, a leader in container shipping, is launching a service connecting Morocco...

Grandi Navi Veloci increases passenger traffic in Q3 2017

Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) October 5, 2017 – Grandi Navi Veloci (GNV) is performing better than expected and saw the number of passengers increase by...

Fincantieri partners with British designers on new superyacht concept

Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) October 4, 2017 – Fincantieri Yachts is to cooperate with design studios Claydon Reeves and March & White to create...

Italy’s Fedespedi asks for clearer container weighing rules

Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) October 4, 2017 – Italian national freight forwarders association Fedespedi (Federazione Nazionale delle Imprese di Spedizioni...

Livorno port to launch Darsena Europa tender in 48 hours

Livorno, Italy (Ports Europe) October 4, 2017 – The port authority of Italy’s Northern Tyrrhenian Sea plans to launch a tender for the construction of...

Genoa’s PSA Voltri-Pra achieves 1 million TEUs in 2017

Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) October 4, 2017 – On September 5, the PSA Voltri-Pra Terminal reached a goal of handling 1 million TEUs since the start of...

Pino Musolino calls for northern Adriatic ports to cooperate

Venice, Italy (Ports Europe) October 3, 2017 – The president Porto di Venezia (Venice Port Authority), Pino Musolino, has written to colleagues of...

Siracusa port to start operating cruise dock on October 4

Siracusa, Italy (Ports Europe) October 3, 2017 – Italy’s Siracusa port will start operating a new dock with a length of some 300 metres for the...

Graziano Delrio supports Taranto-Matera Special Economic Zone

Taranto, Italy (Ports Europe) September 28, 2017 – “The ZES (Special Economic Zone) Taranto-Matera seems to me a great idea”, said Minister...

Salerno gets award from Grimaldi Lines

Salerno, Italy (Ports Europe) October 2, 2017 – Salerno is the best Italian port. At least for Grimaldi Lines, the Italian giant of passenger and freight...

Friuli Venezia Giulia approves €1.8 million financing for intermodality projects

Venice, Italy (Ports Europe) October 2, 2017 – The government of the Italian region of Friuli Venezia Giulia has given the green light to a €1.8 million...

Genoa port president calls on government to change structure of port authorities

Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) October 2, 2017 – The president of the port authority of Genoa and Savona, Paolo Emilio Signorini, has called on the government...

Trieste Porto Vecchio renovation under way

Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) October 1, 2017 – Work has started on the renovation of Porto Vecchio, an old port area of Trieste. President of the Region...

Rodolfo Giampieri reacts positively to Fincantieri support

Ancona, Italy (Ports Europe) September 30, 2017 – “The choice of Fincantieri to bet on Ancona is unbelieving to us. We believe it is the result...

Fincantieri plant in Ancona should be expanded

Ancona, Italy (Ports Europe) September 30, 2017 – The Fincantieri plant in Ancona needs to be expanded to build larger ships, according to...

Launch of a French-Italian roadmap to strengthen naval defence cooperation

Press Release, 27 September 2017, Naval Group and Fincantieri Launch of a French-Italian roadmap to strengthen naval defence cooperation Naval Group and...

Subscribe to weekly news

We keep you informed on the top European port news.