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All news from Ports Europe categorised by searchable individual countries and some regions.
TecnoAranda to build wind towers production plant in Bilbao
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) January 6, 2017 – Spanish company TecnoAranda plans to set up a plant for the production of wind towers at Bilbao port which...
Vigo port praises changes in stevedoring activity rules
Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) January 6, 2017 – Vigo port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Vigo) has praised the changes adopted by dockworkers, which, in its...
Transneft oil traffic through Novorossiysk port rises in 2016
Novorossiysk, Russia (Ports Europe) January 9, 2017 – Russian oil transport group Transneft handled 30.6 million tonnes of oil through Novorossiysk port in...
Varna port sees rising wheat exports
Varna, Bulgaria (Ports Europe) January 9, 2017 – Varna port handled 1.286 million tonnes of wheat in the period between the start of the 2016/17 season, on...
Huelva port opens container line to Canary Islands
Huelva, Spain (Ports Europe) January 6, 2017 – Huelva port has officially opened a container line with the Canary Islands, operated by local company...
NCSP consolidated cargo traffic rises by 5.3% Y/Y in Jan-Nov 2016
Novorossiysk, Russia (Ports Europe) January 5, 2016 – The consolidated cargo traffic of Novorossiysk Commercial Sea Port (NCSP) Group, the operator of...
Ukrainian ports cargo traffic declines by 8.8% Y/Y in 2016
Odessa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) January 5, 2017 – Ukrainian commercial seaports saw their cargo traffic decline by 8.8% on the year to 132 million tonnes in...
Bordeaux is most important French port for ship dismantling, EU says
Bordeaux, France (Ports Europe) January 5, 2017 – Bordeaux port is the most important in France for the ship dismantling industry, a study by the European...
Morocco to launch construction of multipurpose terminal at Agadir port in 2017
Agadir, Morocco (Ports Europe) January 4, 2017 – Moroccan national ports agency Agence nationale des ports (ANP) plans to launch new infrastructure...
Bordeaux container terminal project is still at standstill
Bordeaux, France (Ports Europe) January 4, 2017 – Presented three years ago, the relaunch of operation of the Verdon container terminal at Bordeaux port is...
Valencia tenders for container terminal project study
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) January 4, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) has tendered for €605,000 ($634,385) the...
Egyptian government starts up Port Said projects
Port Said, (Ports Europe) January 2, 2017 – The Minister of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT) Yasser ElKady and the Governor of Port Said Adel...
Motril port to attend 20 trade fairs in 2017
Motril, Spain (Ports Europe) January 4, 2017 – Motril port, through the Motrilport-Granada association, will be present at about twenty trade fairs and...
Valencia port authority to make €56 million investments in 2017
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) January 4, 2017 – The Business Plan approved at the latest board meeting of Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de...
Kherson port cargo traffic declines by 10.5% Y/Y in Jan-Nov 2016
Kherson, Ukraine (Ports Europe) January 5, 2017 – Kherson port handled 3.37 million tonnes of cargo in the first eleven months of 2016, down by 10.5% on the...
Bilbao port expects rise in 2017 cargo traffic
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) January 3, 2017 – In the absence of the final port traffic data for the month of December, the final balance for the 2016...
Central Tyrrhenian Sea port system board to meet on Jan 13
Naples, Italy (Ports Europe) January 3, 2017 – The first meeting of the management committee of the Central Tyrrhenian Sea Port System will be held on...
Valencia is most used port for Spanish exports, imports
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) January 2, 2017 – Valencia port handled over 70 million tonnes of goods with countries on five continents in 2016. Therefore,...
MedCruise to hold next annual assembly in Gibraltar
Gibraltar (Ports Europe) January 2, 2017 – MedCruise, the association of Mediterranean cruise ports, plans to hold its next general assembly in Gibraltar....
Local stakeholders call for role in Limassol port commercialisation
Limassol, Cyprus (Ports Europe) December 27, 2016 – In a press release, the Cyprus Shipping Association (CSA) has called for the new operators to reach...