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All news from Ports Europe categorised by searchable individual countries and some regions.
Portugal: Seaports cargo report – January 2024
Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) April 11, 2024 – Portugal’s seaports got off to a positive start in 2024, handling 7.4 million tonnes of cargo in...
Fire at Saipol warehouse in Port of Sète
Sète, France (Ports Europe) April 11, 2024 – Yesterday, a fire broke out in the biodiesel production unit at the Saipol factory in the Port of Sète....
Infrastructure funds complete minor shareholding in PSA Ita
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) April 11, 2024 – FMV Industrial Infrastructure Fund I SCSp and TD Greystone Infrastructure Fund (Global Master) SCSp have...
Police make third largest cocaine haul in Turkey
Istanbul, Turkey (Ports Europe) April 11, 2024 – Turkish police have seized the third-largest haul of cocaine in the country’s history amidst...
IMB report underscores Somali shipping piracy
London, United Kingdom (Ports Europe) April 11, 2024 – The International Maritime Bureau (IMB) has published a report, “Piracy and Armed Robbery...
Port of Antwerp-Bruges to receive EU grant for cold ironing
Antwerp, Belgium (Ports Europe) April 11, 2024 – The Port of Antwerp-Bruges will receive a European grant of €3.2 million for an OPS (onshore power...
Port of Gioia Tauro is a possible site for LNG regasification terminal
Gioia Tauro, Italy (Ports Europe) April 11, 2024 – The Port of Gioia Tauro has been suggested as a potential site for a regasification terminal. The...
Greece, Cyprus ferry link starts in May
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) April 11, 2024 – For the third year in a row, the ferry service between Cyprus and Greece will start on May 29 and operate...
Port of Aktau sees cargo up +14% in first quarter
Aktau, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) April 10, 2024 – In the first quarter of 2024, Aktau port handled 1.1 million tons of transshipment cargo, up +14%...
APM Terminals Gijón handles largest container ship ever
Gijón, Spain (Ports Europe) April 10, 2024 – APM Terminals Gijón has recently handled the largest container ship ever to call at the port. The MSC...
Puertos del Estado attends Seatrade Cruise Global
Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) April 10, 2024 – The state agency Puertos del Estado (PdE) is attending Seatrade Cruise Global, the largest cruise fair in...
Port of Messina opens cruise ship season
Messina, Sicily, Italy (Ports Europe) April 10, 2024 – The Port of Messina has officially opened its cruise ship season, with considerable business...
DFDS to buy international transport network of Ekol Logistics
Copenhagen, Denmark (Ports Europe) April 10, 2024 – Danish shipping and logistics company DFDS has agreed to buy the international transport network of...
Barcelona seeks more sustainable, newer & smaller cruise ships
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) April 10, 2024 – The Port of Barcelona seeks more sustainable, newer & smaller cruise ships. This is how it sees the...
Piraeus Perama Ship Repair Zone receives two cranes
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) April 10, 2024 – The Piraeus Port Authority (PPA) received two state-of-the-art double-level luffing jib shipbuilding...
ABS joins BlueBarge cold ironing project
Houston, United States (Ports Europe) April 10, 2024 – Classification society American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) joined the BlueBARGE Project, a programme...
Cocaine seized in the port of Beirut
Beirut, Lebanon (Ports Europe) April 10, 2024 – 25.6 kg of the “basic ingredient of cocaine” concealed in the metal structure of a container with...
France 2030: 13 winning projects for the maritime industrial sector
News Release – Secrétariat d’État chargé de la Mer et de la Biodiversité – March 29, 2024 Christophe Béchu, Minister of Ecological...
Valaris chooses the Port of Las Palmas as a strategic hub
Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain (Ports Europe) April 9, 2024 – The Port Authority of Las Palmas has renewed its agreement with the oil drilling company...
Tender issued for dredging of Cariño port, Galicia
A Coruña, Spain (Ports Europe) April 9, 2024 – A tender will be issued for the dredging of the port of Cariño, Galicia, at a value of 677,000 euros....