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All news from Ports Europe categorised by searchable individual countries and some regions.
Georgian ports cargo traffic declines 1.2% y/y in H1 2017
Poti, Georgia (Ports Europe) August 15, 2017 – Georgian ports handled 8.3 million tonnes of cargo in the first half of 2017, down 1.2% on the year, the...
Odessa port resumes road reconstruction works
Odessa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) August 15, 2017 – In early August, work on the reconstruction of the second stage of Odessa port overpass road was resumed....
Berdyansk port cargo traffic falls 34.1% y/y in Jan-July 2017
Berdyansk, Ukraine (Ports Europe) August 15, 2017 – Berdyansk port handled 1.357 million tonnes of cargo in the first seven months of 2017, down 34.1% on the...
Constanta port forbids access of passengers, cars via Gate 1 until May 2018
Constanta, Romania (Ports Europe) August 15, 2017 – The access of passengers and passenger cars to Constanta port through Gate 1 will be banned from August...
Ukrainian minister says 13 ports to be managed under concession
Odessa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) August 15, 2017 – Ukrainian ports need to be privatised because private owners can provide better conditions for development,...
Chernomorsk port cargo traffic rises 3.5% y/y in Jan-July 2017
Chernomorsk, Ukraine (Ports Europe) August 15, 2017 – Chernomorsk port handled 9.338 million tonnes of cargo in the first seven months of 2017, up 3.5% on...
Izmail port cargo traffic rises 13.1% y/y in Jan-Jul 2017
Izmail, Ukraine (Ports Europe) August 15, 2017 – Izmail port handled 2.723 million tonnes of cargo in the first seven months of 2017, down 13.1% on the year....
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...
Alicante cruise traffic starts to recover
Alicante, Spain (Ports Europe) August 15, 2017 – Cruise tourism continues to recover in Alicante, with 38,789 passengers arriving in the first six months of...
Murcia court dismisses appeal against port extension
Cartagena, Spain (Ports Europe) August 15, 2017 – Spanish region of Murcia’s superior court has dismissed the appeal of environmentalist organisation...
Tenerife port authority sees cruise traffic to rise by 5% y/y in 2017
Tenerife, Spain (Ports Europe) August 15, 2017 – Tenerife port authority (Autoridad Portuaria Santa Cruz de Tenerife) expects cruise traffic to rise by 5% on...
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...
New advanced Multraship tugboat for Port of Burgas
Burgas, Bulgaria (Ports Europe) July 15, 2017 – The Black Sea fleet of the towage and salvage specialist Multraship will be strengthened by an advanced...
Varna Port to invest €6 million in 2017
Varna, Bulgaria (Ports Europe) August 15, 2017 –  ($3 million/€2.6 million) for new equipment and another BGN 5 million for improvement of port’s...
AlmerÃa port boost passenger traffic during OPE
AlmerÃa, Spain (Ports Europe) August 14, 2017 – AlmerÃa port handled 232,502 passengers as part of the Operación Paso del Estrecho (OPE) initiative in...
Avilés port cargo traffic rises 3.54% y/y in Jan-July 2017
Avilés, Spain (Ports Europe) August 14, 2017 – Avilés port handled 2.8 million tonnes of cargo in the first seven months of 2017, up 3.54% on the year. The...
Mediterranean ports handle 64% of Spanish cruise traffic in H1 2017
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) August 14, 2017 – Spanish ports have closed the first half of the year, recording the historic high in cruise traffic, with...
Barcelona, Cartagena ports to take part in Latin American Port Congress
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) August 14, 2017 – Barcelona and Cartagena ports will participate at the Latin American Port Congress to present the good...
Puertos Canarios to invest in improvement of Corralejo port mooring service
Fuerteventura, Spain (Ports Europe) August 14, 2017 – Canary Island’s port operator Puertos Canarios plans to invest €435,783 ($513,221) in works to...
Alicante port complains against deadline for anti-pollution infrastructure installation
Alicante, Spain (Ports Europe) August 14, 2017 – Alicante port has filed a complaint with the Valencia regional Environment Council that it has until the...