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Trieste port handles 20% more trains in Q1 2017

Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) April 20, 2017 – Trieste port handled some 2,000 trains in the first quarter of 2017, up 20.06% on the year, while total cargo...

A Coruna port cargo traffic rises 10% y/y in Jan-Feb 2017

A Coruna, Spain (Ports Europe) April 20, 2017 – A Coruna port closed the first two months of 2017 with a 10% year-on-year increase in cargo traffic to 2.3...

Las Palmas port awards permit for use of land to Fred Olsen

Las Palmas, Spain (Ports Europe) April 20, 2017 – The board of directors of Las Palmas port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Las Palmas) awarded to Fred...

Rodritol wins Las Palmas port yachts workshop tender

Las Palmas, Spain (Ports Europe) April 20, 2017 – Las Palmas port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Las Palmas) made official the result of the competition...

China’s CHEC wins tender for Port Yuzhniy dredging

Port Yuzhniy, Ukraine (Ports Europe) April 20, 2017 – China Harbor Engineering Company (CHEC) won the tender for the implementation of the first stage of the...

Ukrainian president says Hutchinson to enter country’s container market soon

Odessa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) April 20, 2017 – Ukraine’s president Petro Poroshenko said he expects the Hutchison Ports International to enter the...

Almeria to host forthcoming Mediterranean Corridor meeting

Almeria, Spain (Ports Europe) April 20, 2017 – After the last meeting for discussions on the Mediterranean Corridor project, carried out in Tarragona and in...

Turkey’s Global Ports announces $250 million London Stock Exchange float

Istanbul, Turkey (Ports Europe), April 20, 2017 – Global Ports Holding (GPH), the world’s largest cruise port operator, plans a London Stock Exchange...

Sete port to handle 70 cruise calls in 2018

Sete, France (Ports Europe) April 19, 2017 – As a port of entry to the medieval city of Carcassonne, the port of Sete expects 100,000 cruise passengers...

Palermo port handles 10,000 cruise passengers in single day

Palermo, Italy (Ports Europe) April 19, 2017 – Palermo port handled around 10,000 cruise passengers in a single day on April 18. Costa Fascinosa and MSC...

Valencia port names board member

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) April 19, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) has appointed Gustavo Ferrer as a board member....

Sfax Chamber of Commerce promotes launch of logistics area

Sfax, Tunisia (Ports Europe) April 19, 2017 – The Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Sfax, in synergy with all economic players of the region, has...

Small French ports attract more and more cruise passengers

Sete, France (Ports Europe) April 19, 2017 – At Sète, Bordeaux, Honfleur, La Rochelle and Port-Vendres, the number of passenger ships is rising sharply....

Barcelona port starts information campaign on cruise industry emissions

Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) April 19, 2017 – In order to strengthen transparency in relation to gas emissions of cruise ships, Barcelona port has...

Spain’s Noatum Ports names business development director

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) April 19, 2017 – Spanish group Noatum Ports has appointed Juan Orti as business development director. Orti has almost 20...

Trieste Marine Terminal reports increased traffic in Q1 2017

Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) April 19, 2017 – In the first three months of 2017, cargo volumes moved via Trieste Marine Terminal increased by 12.56% to...

Spain’s Trasmediterranea starts Gandia-Ibiza ferry service

Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) April 19, 2017 – Spanish ferry operator Trasmediterranea has started operating a regular service connecting Gandia port to...

Spanish government still not ready with mediation rules on stevedoring dispute

Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) April 19, 2017 – After Holy Week, the complete wording of the normative text that will shape the proposal for mediation in...

Algeciras container terminal attracts international services

Algeciras, Spain (Ports Europe) April 19, 2017 – The container terminal at the port of Algeciras, TTI Algeciras, has incorporated in the last few weeks the...

Ferretti group reports first profit since 2008

Milan, Italy (Ports Europe) April 12, 2017 – The Ferretti Group has presented its financial results for 2016 and the first quarter of 2017. The group...

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