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Event: Constanta Port Container Day – March 22, 2018

Constanta, Romania (Ports Europe) March 13, 2018 – Constanta Port Container Day will take place on March 22, 2018, in Cluj-Napoca. At the event, Mihai...

Global Ports provides 2017 ports update

Istanbul, Turkey (Ports Europe) March 13, 2018 – As part of it 2017 annual financial report, Global Ports Holding (GPH) has commented on the activities...

Pasaia port cargo traffic rises in February

Pasaia, Spain (Ports Europe) March 12, 2018 – Pasaia port has increased its traffic in February, continuing the good data for January, a month in which the...

Grimaldi reorganises the staging area of ​​the trailers in Salerno

Salerno, Italy (Ports Europe) March 11, 2018 – The shipping group Grimaldi, in collaboration with Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Tirreno...

Livorno port focuses on intermodality

Livorno, Italy (Ports Europe) March 11, 2018 – In order to move a significant part of the semi-trailers from road to railways for sections over three...

Port of Adria receives parts for wind plant

Bar, Montenegro (Ports Europe) March 10, 2018 – The port of Adria, Bar, has started receiving shipments of parts for the Mozura wind power plant, a...

Valencia port cargo traffic declines in January

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) March 7, 2018 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) handled 5,562,805 tonnes of cargo in January, down...

Barcelona port participates in the 10th WCA Worldwide Conference in Singapore

Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) March 6, 2018 – The Port of Barcelona is participating this week in the 10th WCA Worldwide Conference, the annual...

Transinsular reinforces “Africa Express” service, a maritime link between Portugal and Cape Verde

Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) March 6, 2018 – Transportes Marítimos Insulares, S.A., owned by the ETE Group, has strengthened its Africa Express...

Spanish ports cargo traffic rises 7% in 2017

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) March 6, 2018 – The 46 Spanish ports handled a total of 544.9 million tonnes of cargo in 2017, which represents an increase...

Vilagarcía port cargo traffic rises in Jan-Feb 2018

Vilagarcía, Spain (Ports Europe) March 6, 2018 – Vilagarcía port’s cargo traffic exceeded the figure of 190,000 tonnes in the first two months of the...

Tarragona port cargo traffic rises in Jan 2018

Tarragona, Spain (Ports Europe) March 6, 2018 – Tarragona port has recorded cargo traffic growth of 9.1% in the month of January, exceeding three million...

Cartagena port to cooperate with China’s Qingdao

Cartagena, Spain (Ports Europe) March 6, 2018 – Murcia region plans to intensify maritime traffic with China thanks to a collaboration agreement with the...

A Coruña port cargo traffic rises 23% y/y in January 2018

A Coruña, Spain (Ports Europe) March 2, 2018 – After closing 2017 with historical figures, the port of A Coruña continues to show a positive trend in the...

Finnlines launches Bilbao-Rosyth service

Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) March 1, 2018 – Finnish shipping company Finnlines, a subsidiary of Italy’s Grimaldi Group, will launch a new sea...

Grimaldi to export Cygnus module for International Space Station from Savona port

Savona, Italy (Ports Europe) February 28, 2018 – Italian company Grimaldi Group plans to export the Cygnus module, destined to supply the International...

Seago Line to launch direct service linking Genoa to Alexandria

Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) February 27, 2018 – Seago Line, a shipping company belonging to the Maersk Group and specialised in marine feeder services and...

Las Palmas port’s cruise, cargo traffic keeps rising in January

Las Palmas, Spain (Ports Europe) February 27, 2018 – Las Palmas port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Las Palmas) has started the year continuing the...

Bilbao increase cargo traffic 7% on 2017

Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) february 27, 2018 – The Port of Bilbao ended 2017 with a 7% traffic growth, a 2.2 million-tonne increase over 2016. This is...

Avilés port cargo traffic rises in January

Avilés, Spain (Ports Europe) February 26, 2018 – Avilés port handled in the first month of the year a total of 525,477 tonnes, up 33.61% on the year,...

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