Automotive
Santander handles export of three tram units to Australia
Santander, Spain (PortSEurope) November 3, 2017 – Santander port this week was the location of a spectacular cargo operation that the port authority has...
Neptune Lines returns to Valencia port
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) November 2, 2017 – Piraeus-based Neptune Lines had restarted the use of Valencia port with the Neptune Odyssey callig at...
Groupe PSA exports first C3 Aircross cars through Vigo port
Vigo, Spain (PortSEurope) October 23, 2017 – French carmaker Groupe PSA has exported the first C3 Aircross car produced at the Opel factory in Zaragoza...
Livorno port experiences rise in traffic of new cars
Livorno, Italy (PortSEurope) October 20, 2017 – Livorno port has seen a significant increase in the traffic of new cars, as the two operators active in the...
Valencia port participates in ECG Conference
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) October 19, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) attends today and tomorrow the ECG Conference, an...
Santander port forecasts record-high car traffic in 2017
Santander, Spain (PortSEurope) October 18, 2017 – Santander port (Autoridad Portuaria de Santander) enters in the fourth quarter of the year with positive...
ANFAC publishes report on automotive traffic at Spanish ports
Tarragona, Spain (Ports Europe) october 16, 2017 – According to the annual report on “Valuation of Maritime-Port Logistics” prepared by...
Daimler increases usage of Koper port
Koper, Slovenia (Ports Europe) October 12, 2017 – The port of Koper (operator Luka Koper d.d.) has been successful in the second international tender...
Valencia port starts handling PSA cars shipped by train
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) October 3, 2017 – Today, Valencia port has received the first train loaded with cars from the Figueruelas factory of PSA...
Opel to relaunch freight line to Valencia port on October 2
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) September 25, 2017 – German carmaker Opel has said it plans to relaunch the operation of a direct rail line for the transport...
Chinese companies Anhui, Zhongzhi representatives visit Vigo port
Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) September 21, 2017 – Representatives of Chinese companies Anhui Jianghuai Automobile Group and Zhongzhi New Energy Vehicle have...
Sagunto port’s traffic of new cars rises 31.5% y/y in Jan-July 2017
Sagunto, Spain (Ports Europe) September 13, 2017 – Sagunto port handled a total of 144,489 new cars in the first seven months of 2017, up 31.5% on the year,...
Terminal Container Ravenna to test new fast clearing procedures for automotive imports
Ravenna, Italy (Ports Europe) September 3, 2017 – Terminal Container Ravenna (TCR) is to be the testing port for new procedures on automotive imports....
Alexandria port to build complex for storage of cars
Alexandria, Egypt (Ports Europe) August 23, 2017 – Alexandria port has signed a EGP 285 million ($16.1 million/€13.6 million) contract for the...
Valencia port expands area dedicated to car industry
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) August 17, 2017 – Valencia port has reached one million square metres servicing the automobile industry, of which 412,000...
Vigo port aims to include four more ports to MoS with Nantes
Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) August 17, 2017 – The president of Vigo port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Vigo), Enrique López Veiga, has said that the...
Vigo port calls tender for expansion of car silo at Bouzas terminal
Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) August 9, 2017 – Vigo port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Vigo) has called a tender for the expansion of the silo of vertical...
Ford extends concession area at Valencia port
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) August 8, 2017 – US carmaker Ford Motor Company will have 100,000 more square metres in the North Pier of Valencia port after...
Grupo Sesé to manage logistics at Volkswagen’s plant in Algeria
Algiers, Algeria (Ports Europe) August 4, 2017 – Grupo Sesé has been chosen to manage, in its different phases, all the logistics operation in the assembly...
Japan’s JTEKT to build plant in Tangier
Tanger Med, Morocco (PortSEurope) July 2, 2017 – The Japanese group JTEKT Corporation is to build its first plant in Africa and the Middle East in Tanger...