Ferries
Port activities linked to the handling of ferries and ferry passengers. Includes passenger terminal investment.
New catamaran line between Burgas and Istanbul
Burgas, Bulgaria (Ports Europe) November 16, 2019 – A new catamaran/fast ferry line will start operations on July 1, 2020, between Bulgaria’s second...
Columbia Threadneedle Investments and Brittany Ferries to acquire Condor Ferries
14th November 2019 Brittany Ferries, in consortium with the Columbia Threadneedle European Sustainable Infrastructure Fund (ESIF), has reached an agreement to...
Croatia to modernise port of Zigljen
Rijeka, Croatia (PortSEurope) November 10, 2019 – Minister of the Sea, Transport and Infrastructure, Oleg Butkovic, has signed an agreement to finance...
Ferry connection between Skadovsk port and Zonguldak Turkish port planned
Odessa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) November 7, 2019 – Skadovsk port has hosted a meeting of the port administration, Kherson Oblast Administration and...
Enedis and Marseille Fos port sign partnership for new connection of Marseille basins to public electricity network
Marseille, France (PortSEurope) October 18, 2019 – Enedis and the port of Marseille Fos have signed an agreement for a new connection of the Marseille...
OPE closes with 142,955 passengers in Malaga port, 15% up on 2018
The increase in vehicles is close to 32% when reaching 29,949, compared to 22,696 that embarked and disembarked in Malaga last year. The sub-delegate of the...
AdSP del Mare Adriatico Meridionale (Bari) president meets Albanian prime minister
Bari, Italy (PortSEurope) September 24, 2019 – The president of Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mare Adriatico Meridionale (AdSP – Southern...
Palma de Mallorca tenders for dockside electricity supply infrastructure
Mallorca, Spain (PortSEurope) September 23, 2019 – The port of Palma de Mallorca is set to be the first Spanish port to have a medium voltage electrical...
Ancona port produces research on passenger traffic between Adriatic shores
Ancona, Italy (PortSEurope) September 17, 2019 – On behalf of Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mare Adriatico (AdSP – Central Adriatic Sea Port...
Greece aims to solve Samothraki ferry and port issues
Piraeus, Greece (PortSEurope) September 4, 2019 – At a meeting chaired by the Minister of State, George Gerapetritis, to investigate solutions to the...
Baleària and Fred Olsen incorporate the ‘smart ship’ to gas ‘Abel Matutes’ to the route Huelva-Canary Islands
Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain (PortSEurope) July 29, 2019 – Baleària and Fred. Olsen Express have started operating the Abel...
Cyprus looks at reviving Greece ferry connections
Limassol, Cyprus (PortSEurope) July 10, 2019 – Deputy Minister for Shipping Natasa Pilides has said that the Cypriot government is considering reviving...
DFDS to take over Sète port-Pendik, Turkey, service
Sète, France (PortSEurope) July 10, 2019 – Danish ferry operator DFDS is to take over the ferry service between Sète port in France and Pendik,...
Greek and Turkish officials inaugurate new Lavrio-Cesme ferry line
Piraeus, Greece (PortSEurope) July 3, 2019 – Greek Minister of Infrastructure, Transport and Networks Christos Spirtzis and Turkish Ambassador to Greece,...
Corsica Linea gets contract to operate services linking mainland France to Corsica
Bastia, Corsica, France (PortSEurope) June 28, 2019 – Corsica’s government has assigned to the shipping company Corsica Linea the contract to ensure...
Marítima Alborán adds larger ship to Málaga-Motril route
Málaga, Spain (PortSEurope) June 25, 2019 – Spanish company Marítima Alborán has incorporated to the Málaga-Motril route the...
Algeciras port improves pedestrian access to passenger terminal
Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) June 25, 2019 – Algeciras port authority has launched a pedestrian crossing with the new pavement that connects...
Almería port’s passenger traffic rises in first week of OPE
Almería, Spain (PortSEurope) June 24, 2019 – Almería port has exceeded 10,200 passengers in the first week of Operation Paso del Estrecho (OPE) 2019...
FRS to introduce new vessel in Motril-Melilla line
Motril, Spain (PortSEurope) June 7, 2019 – Förde Reederei Seetouristik (FRS) plans to introduce a new ferry in the operation of the line linking the...
Italy’s SNAV to launch Naples-Aeolian Islands ferry link
Naples, Italy (PortSEurope) May 29, 2019 – Italian ferry company Società Navigazione Alta Velocità (SNAV) plans to launch the operation of...