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Spain to invest €559 million in 53 ports transport accesses

Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) July 28, 2017 – El Fondo Financiero de Accesibilidad Terrestre Portuaria (Financial Fund for Port Accessibility), in the...

Port of Santander exceeds 2.5 million tonnes during the first half of 2017

Santander, Spain (Ports Europe) July 28, 2017 – During the first half of the year the traffic at the port of Santander reached 2,523,244 tonnes, up 8.65%...

Port of La Gomera grows in passengers and goods in the first half of the year

La Gomera, Canary Islands, Spain (Ports Europe)  July 28, 2017 – The port of San Sebastián de La Gomera grew in the first half of 2017 in both...

IndaMed – new container service from Malta Freeport

Freeport, Malta (Ports Europe) July 28, 2017 – A new weekly service IndaMed will call at Freeport, linking it with major ports in India, Pakistan,...

Fransabank organises port of Beirut export to China

Beirut, Lebanon (Ports Europe) July 28, 2017 – In July 2016, Fransabank organized a “One Belt & One Road to Beijing” in the Chinese capital where...

ODN TAY IV platform leaves for Almería after undergoing improvements in Tenerife

Tenerife, Spain (Ports Europe) July 27, 2017 – The platform  ODN TAY IV has left the port of Santa Cruz de Tenerife after undergoing repairs, and is now...

Port of Algeciras reports reduced traffic in first half of 2017

Algeciras, Spain (Ports Europe) July 27, 2017 – Algeciras Port has registered a decline in activity in the first half of this year 2017. Total traffic...

Port of Gandia closes first half of the year with a 37% increase in exports

Gandia, Spain (Ports Europe) July 27, 2017 – The port of Gandia has channeled a total of 180,853 tonnes in the first half of 2017, a decrease of 7.13%...

EU project tests new technologies in Madrid to improve traffic and travel information

Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) July 27, 2017 – Spanish technology group Indra is working on the European R&D&i project Harmony to develop new...

Espadas calls on Seville port companies to get involved in social and cultural life

Seville, Spain (Ports Europe) July 27, 2017 – The mayor of Seville, Juan Espadas, has appealed to port companies to become more involved in the social...

DP reports improved H1 2017 TEU traffic

Dubai, UAE (Ports Europe) 25 July 25, 2017 – DP World Limited handled 34.0 million TEU (twenty-foot equivalent units) across its global portfolio of...

A cruise ship pollutes as much as one million cars

Marseille, France (Ports Europe) July 26, 2017 – A cruise ship pollutes as much as one million cars, in terms of fine particles and nitrogen dioxide,...

Port of Nantes-Saint-Nazaire becomes a logistic hub for Airbus

Nantes Saint-Nazaire, France (Ports Europe) July 26, 2017 – The port of Nantes Saint-Nazaire, located on the French Atlantic coast, will become a logistic...

Cruise traffic using Koper port increases

Koper, Slovenia (Ports Europe) July 26, 2017 – Koper port welcomed its 33rd cruise liner of the current season and around 40,500 cruise passengers have...

Portugal introduces radar module of Costa Segura system

Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) July 26, 2017 – The Minister of National Defense, José Azeredo Lopes and the Minister of the Sea, Ana Paula Vitorino,...

Shippers must register containers in advance to use Moroccan ports

Casablanca, Morocco (Ports Europe) July 26, 2017 – Effective August 1, only containers with advance notice of arrival filed sufficiently in advance via...

Egypt aims to attract $30 bln in investment in Suez Canal Zone in five years

Port Said, Egypt (Ports Europe) July 26, 2017 – Minister of Investment Sahar Nasr has said that cooperation is ongoing between the ministry and the...

General merchandise grows in Puertos de Las Palmas above 20% in H1 of 2017

Las Palmas, Spain (Ports Europe) July 26, 2017 – General merchandise traffic, container movement, liquid bulk and total port traffic show double-digit...

Sagunto port reports traffic for H1 2017

Sagunto, Spain (Ports Europe) July 26, 2017 – The port of Sagunto has handled 3,045,200 tonnes during the first half of 2017, representing a decrease of...

Valencia port generates 36,978 jobs

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) July26, 2017 – The economic impact of Valenciaport reached €2,352 million ($2,736 million) in 2015. This figure is...

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