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All news from Ports Europe categorised by searchable individual countries and some regions.
Tenerife port cargo traffic rises by 7.8% Y/Y in 2016
Tenerife, Spain (Ports Europe) January 27, 2017 – Tenerife port handled 13.6 million tonnes of cargo in 2016, 7.8% more than in the previous year. The...
Valencia port simulates fire accident to test emergency plan
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) January 27, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) has carried out a simulation of fire...
Supreme Court dismisses accusations against former Valencia port president
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) January 27, 2017 – Spanish Supreme Court has upheld the sentence of Valencia Provincial Court, which not to prosecute for...
Barcelona port operates first call of HDASCO ship as part of Mediterranean service
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) January 27, 2017 – Iranian shipping company Hafez Darya Arya (HDAS Co), belonging to the Islamic Republic of Iran...
Bilbao port cargo traffic declines by 1.39% Y/Y in 2016
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) January 27, 2017 – Bilbao port handled 31.9 million tonnes of goods in 2016, a decline of 1.39% on the year, the port...
Trieste port cargo traffic rises 4% Y/Y in 2016
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) January 27, 2017 – Trieste is a port that is growing by some 4% annually. This is what emerges from the annual statistical...
Leixoes port to operate 107 cruise calls in 2017
Leixoes, Portugal (Ports Europe) January 27, 2017 – Leixoes port has already confirmed 107 calls of cruise ships, which will represent a growth of around...
Baja California delegation visits Lisbon port
Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) January 27, 2017 – A delegation of representatives of the ports of Baja California state in Mexico, visited Lisbon...
Sines port cargo traffic rises 16.4% Y/Y in 2016
Sines, Portugal (Ports Europe) January 27, 2017 – Sines port handled 51 million tonnes of cargo in 2016, up 16.4% on the year. All terminals of the...
USPA looks for EBRD support
Odessa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) January 27, 2017 –Â Ukrainian Seaports Authority (USPA) has applied to the European Bank for Reconstruction and...
Liguria court requests compensation from former Genoa port president
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) January 26, 2017 – The prosecutor of the Court of Auditors of Liguria has demanded compensation of €88,000 ($93,960) from...
Huelva port promotion association strengthens links with Extremadura companies
Huelva, Spain (Ports Europe) January 26, 2017 – HuelvaPort, the Association for the Commercial Promotion of the Port of Huelva, took part in the...
Marseille port to open ship repair dock in April
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) January 26, 2017 – Chantier Naval de Marseille (CNdM)’s new ship repair dock number 10 at Marseille port will be...
Eastern Sicily port authority to be based at Catania port
Catania, Italy (Ports Europe) January 26, 2017 – Italian Transport Minister Graziano Delrio has signed the decree establishing Catania port as the...
Valencia port improves IT security
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) January 26, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) has invested around €770,000 ($822,540) in...
Las Palmas port to start dredging of Puerto del Rosario
Las Palmas, Spain (Ports Europe) January 26, 2017 – Rhoden Nielsen A/S will start the dredging project at Puerto del Rosario port this weekend. The work...
Ukrainian adopts decision of renaming Illichivsk port
Chernomorsk (Illichivsk), Ukraine (Ports Europe) January 26, 2017 – Ukrainian Council of Ministers has adopted the decision of renaming Illichivsk port...
Barcelona port awards €23.8 million contract to ACS
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) January 26, 2017 – Barcelona port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Barcelona) has awarded a €23.8 million ($25.5...
INEA representatives inspect investments at Bilbao port
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) January 26, 2017 – Representatives of the Innovation and Networks Executive Agency (INEA) of the European Union (EU) visited...
Spanish, French governments seek return of LD Lines subsidies
Gijon, Spain (Ports Europe) January 25, 2017 – The Spanish and French governments are discussing the possibility of launching an audit to...