Ferries
Port activities linked to the handling of ferries and ferry passengers. Includes passenger terminal investment.
Corsica ports’ ferry traffic to Italy, mainland France declines in 2018
Bastia, France (Ports Europe) May 2, 2019 – Corsican ports handled a total of 1.37 million ferry passengers on services to Italy in 2018, down 1.5%,...
Italy’s Moby Group reports loss in 2018
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) May 2, 2019 – Italy’s Moby Group recorded a loss of €62.6 million ($70.2 million) in 2018, versus a net profit...
Corsica Sardinia Ferries to launch Trapani-Toulon service on April 21
Trapani, Italy (Ports Europe) April 19, 2019 – Italian company Corsica Sardinia Ferries plans to launch a service linking Sicily’s Trapani port to...
Bulgaria and Georgia to establish twice daily ferry services between their Black Sea ports
Sofia, Bulgaria (Ports Europe) April 18, 2019 – Bulgaria and Georgia will increase ferry services between their Black Sea ports from twice weekly to twice...
Snav signs “Ancona Blue Agreement”
Ancona, Italy (Ports Europe) April 16, 2019 – Italian ferry company Snav has signed the “Ancona Blue Agreement” aimed at improving the quality of...
Italy’s Onorato Armatori to intensify activity in Baltic Sea
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) April 8, 2019 – Italian company Onorato Armatori group announced an upcoming increase in its activity in the Baltic Sea,...
Naples port: Status of the Molo Beverello redevelopment project
Naples, Italy (Ports Europe) April 7, 2019 – Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Tirreno Centro-Settentrionale (AdSP – Centre-North Tyrrhenian...
Baleària in talks to build ferry terminal at Barcelona port
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) April 4, 2019 – Spanish shipping company Baleària Eurolínias Marítimas S.A. is negotiating with Barcelona port authority...
AdSP del Mare di Sicilia Occidentale launches restyling of passenger station at Trapani port
Trapani, Sicily, Italy (Ports Europe) March 28, 2019 – Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mare di Sicilia Occidentale (AdSP – Western Sicilian Sea...
Corsica Sardinia Ferries, Blu Navy sign cooperation agreement
Bonifacio, Corsica, France (Ports Europe) March 21, 2019 – Corsica Sardinia Ferries and Blu Navy have signed an agreement to allow Corsica Sardinia Ferries...
Ortona port cargo traffic declines 2% in 2018
Ortona, Italy (Ports Europe) March 4, 2019 – Ortona port handled 1.013 million tonnes of cargo in 2018, down 2%, mainly due to a 7% decline in solid bulk. ...
Italy’s Blu Navy signs staff management agreement
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) February 27, 2019 – Italian ferry company Blu Navy (BN di Navigazione S.p.A.) has signed an agreement with Sirius Ship...
Messina port’s passenger terminal to be commissioned in 2020
Messina, Italy (Ports Europe) February 26, 2019 – The new passenger terminal of Messina port, designed by Ottavio Di Blasi & Partners, will be...
Las Palmas ports regular passenger traffic rises 3% in 2018
Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain (Ports Europe) February 21, 2019 – Las Palmas ports registered a 3% increase in passenger traffic on regular lines during...
Spain’s Incargo Galicia may relaunch ferry links to UK from Vigo port
Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) February 18, 2019 – Vigo-based Incargo Galicia SL is looking to restart a regular ferry service between Vigo and the United...
Almería port’s passenger traffic rises 2.5% in January
Almería, Spain (Ports Europe) February 15, 2019 – Almería port started 2019 with an increase of 2.5% in the movement of passengers while the number of...
Ports included in updated Spain-Morocco bilateral agreement
Rabat, Morocco (Ports Europe) February 14, 2019 – During an official visit of King Don Felipe VI and Queen Dona Letizia of Spain to Morocco, a number of...
Malaga-Melilla connection increases by 31.2% in January 2019
News – Malagaport – Malaga-Melilla connection increases by 31.2% in January 2019 The Malaga-Melilla regular line continues its growth in the port...
Italy’s GNV to operation of resume Genoa-Olbia line in spring-2019
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) February 8, 2019 – Italian shipping company Grandi Navi Veloci (GNV) plans to resume the operation of a ferry line linking Genoa...
Confitarma calls for termination of state aid to ferry operator Tirrenia
Cagliari, Italy (Ports Europe) January 24, 2019 – The agreement between the Italian government and ferry company Tirrenia, for the services of...