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Ponta Delgada port cargo traffic rises 9% Y/Y in Q3 2016

Ponta Delgada, Portugal (Ports Europe) January 13, 2017 – Ponta Delgada port handled 353,000 tonnes of cargo in the third quarter of 2016, up 9% on the year....

MedCruise names Lisbon “Port of the Week”

Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) January 13, 2017 – Ocidenave, an integrated shipping agency in the Garland Group, has regained the agency of the calls at the...

Sines, Extremadura discuss opportunities of railway corridor to Badajoz platform

Sines, Portugal (Ports Europe) January 13, 2017 – The president of the Spanish region of Extremadura, Guillermo Fernandez Vara, met today with the president...

Seago Line announces new calls at Algeciras port

Algeciras, Spain (Ports Europe) January 13, 2017 – Spanish company Seago Line has announced the update of its Levant Sea and North Sea service through the...

Bilbao to host international maritime industry conference in March

Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) January 12, 2017 – Bilbao will become the centre of international attention for the naval, port, fishing and energy sectors...

Barcelona port free trade zone operator to rehabilitate four warehouses

Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) January 12, 2017 – The consortium operating the free trade zone of Barcelona port, Consorci de la Zona Franca de Barcelona...

Palma de Mallorca port simulates hydrochloric gas leakage

Palma de Mallorca, Spain (Ports Europe) January 12, 2017 – Palma de Mallorca port simulated on January 12 a leakage accident of hydrochloric gas, organised...

Tarragona port handles 325 containers weekly on lines to West Africa

Tarragona, Spain (Ports Europe) January 12, 2017 – Tarragona port maintains a weekly direct service at the DP World container terminal with the African ports...

Naples port container traffic rises in 2016

Naples, Italy (Ports Europe) January 12, 2017 – After nearly three years of and strikes, container traffic at Naples port recorded growth, up 10.3% on the...

Almeria port sets up Port-City protocol commission

Almeria, Spain (Ports Europe) January 12, 2017 – Following the signing of the Port-City action protocol in December, the mayor of Almeria, Ramon...

Barcelona, Mercabarna, Grimaldi Lines to join in Fruit Logistica 2017

Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) January 12, 2017 – Barcelona port, wholesale market operator Mercabarna and Grimaldi Lines plan to participate together for...

Kherson port cargo traffic declines by 10.2% Y/Y in 2016

Kherson, Ukraine (Ports Europe) January 12, 2016 – Kherson port handled 3.71 million tonnes of cargo in 2016, down by 10.2% on the year. The liquid bulk...

Mediterranean ports boost Asia-Europe container traffic

Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) January 12, 2017 – The container traffic between Asia and Europe rose for the sixth consecutive month in November, an increase of...

OFP Atlantique almost hits annual cargo traffic target set for 2018

Nantes, France (Ports Europe) January 12, 2017 – French company OFP Atlantique, owned by La Rochelle and Nantes ports, together with Euro Cargo Rail,...

Naples port to open San Vincenzo dock to public in summer 2017

Naples, Italy (Ports Europe) January 12, 2017 – San Vincenzo dock in Naples will be open to the public as of the summer of 2017, as the port authority of the...

Valencia port authority awards €143,538 contract for urbanisation of land plot

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) January 12, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) has awarded a €143,538 ($152,996) contract to...

Montenegro start talks on privatisation of Luka Bar after Jan 23

Bar, Montenegro (Ports Europe) January 11, 2017 – Montenegrin government expects to start the talks with Polish company OT Logistics S.A. for the...

Norton Edificios builds fertilisers storage complex at Aviles port

Aviles, Spain (Ports Europe) January 11, 2017 – Spanish company Norton Edificios Industriales S.A., with offices in Bilbao, Madrid, Colombia and Peru,...

Petronor to reduce activity of Bilbao port refinery for six weeks

Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) January 11, 2017 – The Petronor (Petróleos del Norte S.A.) refinery, whose activity generates more than 40% of the total...

Huelva port expects container traffic of at least 50,000 TEUs in 2017

Huelva, Spain (Ports Europe) January 11, 2017 – Huelva port closed 2016 with a total cargo traffic of 30.7 million tonnes, an increase of 12% over the...

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