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All news from Ports Europe categorised by searchable individual countries and some regions.
Spanish minister expresses dissatisfaction with dockworkers’ strike
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) June 13, 2017 – Spanish Public Works Minister Íñigo de la Serna has said the decision of dockworkers to stage a 48-hour...
Cosco’s acquisition of Noatum is encouraging for Valencia’s economic growth
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) June 13, 2017 – The arrival of a Chinese state-owned company to Valencia port, after the acquisition of Noatum Ports...
Cosco includes Valencia’s traffic in China’s Silk Road
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) June 13, 2017 – The nearly 300 vessels of the world’s fourth largest shipping company each year move 1.6 million...
Cosco Shipping Ports Limited acquisition of interest in Noatum Port Holdings in Spain
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) June 13, 2017 – Cosco Shipping Ports Limited has published the following press release regarding its acquisition of Noatum...
Venice sees fewer cruise ship visits
Venice, Italy (PortSEurope) June 13, 2017 – Porto di Venezia (Venice port authority) is forecasting a 10% fall in the number of cruise ships visiting Venice...
Spain’s Sertego applies for concession at Motril port
Motril, Spain (PortSEurope) June 12, 2017 – Motril port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Motril) said Spanish company Sertego Servicios Medioambientales has...
Noatum Logistics to start operating new warehouse at Barcelona port logistics zone
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) June 12, 2017 – Noatum Logistics plans to start operating a new logistics platform in the Prat logistics zone area of...
Spanish minister confident in positive outcome of dockworkers, employers meeting
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) June 12, 2017 – Spanish Public Works Minister Íñigo de la Serna has expressed his confidence that the meeting between dock...
Algeciras port extends Cadiz container terminal bidding deadline to October 31
Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) June 12, 2017 – Algeciras port authority (Autoridad Portuaria Bahía de Algeciras) has extended until October 31 the deadline...
Spain’s Trasmediterránea presents summer season offer
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) June 12, 2017 – Spanish ferry company Trasmediterránea organised an official presentation of its offer during the summer...
DP World starts offering Tarragona-Genoa regular line
Tarragona, Spain (PortSEurope) June 12, 2017 – DP World has started offering a regular shipping line between Spain’s Tarragona and Italy’s Genoa...
Cosco agrees to acquire 51% stake in Noatum Ports
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) June 12, 2017 – Chinese company Cosco Shipping Ports Limited has signed an agreement to acquire a 51% stake in the capital of...
Ivory Coast port authority shows interest in operating area at Las Palmas port
Las Palmas, Spain (PortSEurope) June 12, 2017 – The Ivory Coast Port Authority has shown interest in operating an area in the free zone of Las Palmas port...
Basque Country, Castile and Leon regions lobby for shorter Madrid-Bilbao port route
Bilbao, Spain (PortSEurope) June 12, 2017 – Basque and Castile and Leon regional government officials have called on the central government to initiate a...
France’s Macron seeks review of STX shipyard sale to Fincantieri
Nantes-St.Nazaire, France (PortSEurope) JUne 12, 2017 – New French President Emmanuel Macron has said that the recently announced deal for Fincantieri of...
Event – SRM to present its fourth annual report “Italian Maritime Economy” – Naples.
Naples, Italy (PortSEurope) June 12, 2017 – On Wednesday June 21, 2017, Studi e Ricerche per il Mezzogiorno (SRM) will present its fourth annual...
Suez Canal signs investments contracts worth EGP 1 billion
Port Said, Egypt (PortSEurope) June 12, 2017 – The General Authority for Suez Canal Economic Zone (SCZone) and the Ministry of Investment and...
UK Chamber of Shipping responds to general election
London, United Kingdom (PortSEurope) June 12, 2017 – UK Chamber of Shipping CEO Guy Platten has commented on the UK general election, saying that it is...
Tenerife Ports Authority attends international Paris energy meeting
Tenerife, Spain (PortSEurope) June 12, 2017 – A delegation consisting of representatives from La Autoridad Portuaria de Santa Cruz de Tenerife (Santa...
Open house for Marseille port J1 for investors
Marseille, France (PortSEurope) June 12, 2017 – Marseille port is questioning what to do with J1, an old hangar located in La Joliette, a neighbourhood...