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New railway connection agreement between Greece and Bulgaria

Kavala, Greece (Ports Europe) September 6, 2017 – A memorandum of understanding between Bulgaria and Greece for a new railway connection will be signed...

Izmir tourism visitors increases steadily

Izmir, Turkey (Ports Europe) September 5, 2017 – Aegean Touristic Hotels and Investors Associations – ETIK has published a report showing that Turkish...

UK Department for Transport UK Port Freight Statistics: 2016 – Short Sea Freight with the European Union

London, United Kingdom (Ports Europe) September 6, 2017 – UK major port traffic with the European Union rose 2% to 206.8 million tonnes in 2016, due...

UK Department for Transport publishes Annual UK Port Freight Statistics 2016

London, United Kingdom (Ports Europe) September 5, 2017 – The Department for Transport has published its Annual UK Port Freight statistics which shows...

BPA says ports welcome focus on businesses and trade in Labour announcements on Brexit

London, United Kingdom (Ports Europe) September 5, 2017 – British Ports Association Chief Executive Richard Ballantyne has welcomed the Labour Party...

NABU publishes its 7th cruise ship pollution rankings

Berlin, Germany (Ports Europe) September 5, 2017 – Even in the seventh edition of the cruise industry ranking, not a single cruise ship in Europe from...

Vigo port sees signs of recovery in July

Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) September 5, 2017 – After an adverse first half in terms of cargo traffic, marked by the announcements of the strike of dockers...

A Coruña port expects record-high cruise traffic in September

A Coruña, Spain (Ports Europe) September 5, 2017 – With the double call of the vessels “Silver Muse” and “Sea Cloud II”, on...

Vilagarcía port breaks monthly cargo traffic record in August 

Vilagarcía, Spain (Ports Europe) September 5, 2017 – Vilagarcía port has just surpassed in August its best historical monthly record of cargo traffic....

The floating dock Marco Polo christened in Marseille

Marseille, France (Ports Europe) September 6, 2017 – The floating dock or “caissonier” Marco Polo received a blessing on 29 August 2017...

Sato Asturias pontoon arrives at Las Palmas port to perform overhaul works

Las Palmas, Spain (Ports Europe) September 5, 2017 –  The Sato Asturias pontoon arrived in the port of Las Palmas to manufacture the floating concrete...

Cádiz port participates in Seatrade Europe to attract river cruise traffic

Cádiz, Spain (Ports Europe) September 5, 2017 – Cádiz port participates this week in the most important cruise event in Europe, the ‘Seatrade...

Castellón port to start drafting southern rail access project 

Castellón, Spain (Ports Europe) September 5, 2017 – Castellón port plans to begin the drafting of the construction project of the southern access by...

European Parliament to host conference on new technologies in maritime transport sector

Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) September 5, 2017 – The president of Bilbao port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Bilbao), Asier Atutxa, will participate in a...

Valencia port expects private investment in new cruise terminal

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) September 5, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) plans to announce the next approval of the...

Spain’s Sermaco Logistic launches repair workshops in Tarragona, Castellón, Sagunto

Tarragona, Spain (Ports Europe) September 5, 2017 – Spanish company Sermaco Logistic Integral S.L., a company specialised in integral services to the...

Greek government invests €2.481 million in overhaul of Patras port

Patras, Greece (Ports Europe) September 5, 2017 – Greece’s government has given the green light to two projects for the overhaul of Patras port’s...

Piraeus port is 38th largest in the world

Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) September 5, 2017 – Piraeus port ranked 38th in the world classification of the largest, world-class ports, with a positive...

Aegean Shipping Management enters dry bulk market

Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) September 5, 2017 – Piraeus-based company Aegean Shipping Management has announced the signing of a new building order of a...

Cartagena port’s strategy of low fees pays off

Cartagena, Spain (Ports Europe) September 4, 2017 – Cartagena port has begun to recover from the drop in cargo traffic last year, which stood at 2.2%....

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