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All news from Ports Europe categorised by searchable individual countries and some regions.
Anti-GMO activists block east entrance to French port of Sète
Sète, France (PortSEurope) July 11, 2017 – On July 10, some 80 anti-GMO (genetically modified organism) activists blocked the east entrance to the Port of...
Government inspects Alicante port’s measures to facilitate OPE 2017
Alicante, Spain (PortSEurope) July 12, 2017 – The government delegate of the region of Valencia, Juan Carlos Moragues, visited the area in the port of...
Lisbon port starts recovering from strike years
Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) July 11, 2017 – Lisbon port has started recovering from the last two years of strikes of dockworkers that caused the loss of...
Railways of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan agreed to strengthen ties
Baku, Azerbaijan (PortSEurope) July 12, 2017 – The head of JSC NC Kazakhstan Temir Zholy Kanat Alpysbayev has held talks with Deputy Prime Minister of...
Sines port to have railway link to Madrid long before Algeciras
Sines, Portugal (PortSEurope) July 11, 2017 – Sines port is one of the main beneficiaries of the isolation of the port of Algeciras from Madrid due to lack...
A Coruña port holds meetings with ambassadors from Asia-Pacific region countries
A Coruña, Spain (PortSEurope) July 11, 2017 – A Coruña port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de A Coruña) received ten ambassadors from countries in the...
Pasaia port cargo traffic slumps in H1 2017
Pasaia, Spain (PortSEurope) July 11, 2017 – Pasaia port cargo traffic came in at 1.38 million tonnes in the first half of 2017 and if the trend is...
Algeciras port to join Silk Road conference in Ningbo, China
Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) July 11, 2017 – Algeciras port will participate in the International Forum on Maritime Silk Road Port Cooperation in Ningbo,...
La Spezia tenders for development of Garibaldi quay
La Spezia, Italy (PortSEurope) July 12, 2017 – A new tender procedure is open for the extension of the Garibaldi dock in La Spezia Container Terminal....
Leixões port operates normally despite dockworkers’ strike
Leixões, Portugal (PortSEurope) July 11, 2017 – Leixões port authority (Administração do Porto de Leixões ) has assured that it is operating...
Ukraine’s USPA considers Port Yuzhniy as example for other harbours
Port Yuzhniy, Ukraine (PortSEurope) July 11, 2017 – Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority (USPA) considers the development of Port Yuzhniy to serve as an example for...
Las Palmas port authority president takes part in Blue Growth event
Las Palmas, Spain (PortSEurope) July 11, 2017 – The president of Las Palmas port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Las Palmas), Luis Ibarra and its...
Bergé, ArcelorMittal request €67.8 million compensation from Valencia port
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) July 11, 2017 – Spanish automotive company Bergé and Luxembourg-based steel giant ArcelorMittal are requesting a €67.8...
Ukraine’s Nibulon launches grain transshipment terminal near Kherson port
Kherson, Ukraine (PortSEurope) July 11, 2017 – Ukrainian agricultural holding Nibulon Ltd has put into operation a new terminal for the transshipment of...
Cilsa acquires warehouses at Barcelona port’s logistics zone
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) July 11, 2017 – Cilsa, the company that manages the logistics zone of the port of Barcelona, has reached an agreement with...
Yildirim analyses investment in Praia da Vitória harbour in the Azores
Ponta Delgada, Azores, Portugal (PortSEurope) July 11, 2017 – Turkey’s ambassador to Portugal, Mehmet Hasan Gogus, has visited the Portuguese port of...
Portuguese prime minister promotes Sines port for the new Silk Road
Sines, Portugal (PortSEurope) July 11, 2017 – Portuguese prime minister António Costa insisted today on the “leading position” of the port of...
Port of Marseille Fos traffic 2% up in H1 2017
Marseille, France (PortSEurope) July 11, 2017 – Overall traffic of the port of Marseille Fos in the first half of 2017 shows an increase of 2% compared...
Grimaldi joins joins GIA decarbonisation alliance
Naples, Italy (PortSEurope) July 11, 2017 – The Grimaldi Group, the global shipping and logistics company, has become the fourteenth company to join the...
GPF Capital invests in Grupo Vicarli
Bilbao, Spain (PortSEurope) July 10, 2017 – GPF Capital, an independent private equity vehicle created with the aim of investing in small and medium-sized...