Ferries
Port activities linked to the handling of ferries and ferry passengers. Includes passenger terminal investment.
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...
AlmerÃa port’s passenger traffic rises 2.5% in January
AlmerÃa, Spain (Ports Europe) February 15, 2019 – AlmerÃa 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...
Tirrenia says that Confitarma defends interests of Grimaldi
Cagliari, Italy (Ports Europe) January 24, 2019 – The owner of Italian ferry company Tirrenia, Vincenzo Onorato, has responded to the accusations of...
Balearia to repair Ramon Llull ferry at Livorno port
Livorno, Italy (Ports Europe) January 23, 2019 – The fast ferry Ramon Llull of Spanish company Balearia will arrive on January 23 in the port of Livorno...
Italy to end Tirrenia’s monopoly on ferry links to Sardinia
Cagliari, Italy (Ports Europe) January 18, 2019 – Italy plans to put an end of the monopoly of ferry company Tirrenia for servicing lines to the island of...
Tirrenia dismisses monopoly accusations by government
Cagliari, Italy (Ports Europe) January 18, 2019 – Italian ferry company Tirrenia does not have a monopoly on the links to Sardinia, as four other companies...
Caronte & Tourist to introduce two new ships in services to Lampedusa, Pantelleria
Catania, Italy (Ports Europe) January 17, 2019 – Italian company Caronte & Tourist plans to introduce two new ships for services to the islands of...
Livorno port records stable deseasonalisation trend
Livorno, Italy (Ports Europe) January 17, 2019 – More than half of the ferries arrived in the port of Livorno in 2018 came from Sardinia: 40% from Olbia and...
Durrës port handles 855,000 passengers with 180,000 cars in 2018
Durrës, Albania (PortSEurope) January 14, 2019 – In 2018, Durrës port handled approximately 855,000 ferry passengers and over 180,000 cars. According...
Basalt Infrastructure Partners acquires 30% stake in Italian shipping group C&T
Messina, Italy (PortSEurope) January 7, 2019 – London-based investment fund Basalt Infrastructure Partners has acquired a 30% stake of the...
Italy offers rental of two vessels to save Liberty Lines’ jobs
Messina, Italy (PortSEurope) December 5, 2018 – Italy’s infrastructure ministry has proposed the rental of two vessels with a reinforced hull to...
Moby Lines to halt Bastia-Nice line
Nice, France (PortSEurope) November 29, 2018 – Italian shipping company Moby Lines plans to cease the service between the ports of Nice and Bastia at the...
Malaga port traffic grows by 7.2% between Jan-Oct 2018
Málaga, Spain (PortSEurope) November 28, 2018 – The Port of Malaga has reported traffic of 2.5 million tons between the months of January and October...
Croatian seaports passenger traffic grows 3.8% in Q3
Rijeka, Croatia (PortSEurope) November 21, 2018 – Croatian seaports handled a total of 17.9 million passengers in the third quarter of 2018, up 3.8% on the...
Italy’s Caronte & Tourist presents LNG-fired ferry as part of Gainn4mos project
Messina, Italy (PortSEurope) November 19, 2018 – Italian company Caronte & Tourist S.p.A. has presented the first liquefied natural gas-fired (LNG)...