Ferries
Port activities linked to the handling of ferries and ferry passengers. Includes passenger terminal investment.
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)...
Albania’s Vlora port set for €15 million investment
Durrës, Albania (PortSEurope) November 18, 2018 – Albania’s second port, Vlora, is to receive investment worth €15 million ($17.13 million) to...
Italy’s Moby, Toremar open bookings for trips to Elba island
Portoferraio, Italy (PortSEurope) November 15, 2018 – Italian companies Moby and Toremar have opened bookings for the Island of Elba for the 2019 season....
Italy’s Moby wins Quality Seal award for fifth consecutive year
Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) November 14, 2018 – Italian ferry company Moby has won the Quality Seal award, awarded by the German Quality and Finance...
Trasmediterránea starts new Gandia-Ibiza-Palma ports service
Gandia, Spain (PortSEurope) November 13, 2018 – Trasmediterránea SA, a Spanish ferry company, has started a new daily ferry line linking...
Baleà ria, Fred. Olsen launch Huelva-Canary Islands service
Huelva, Spain (PortSEurope) November 9, 2018 – Baleà ria EurolÃnias MarÃtimas S.A. and Fred Olsen Express plan to launch today their service linking...
Tirrenia to increase frequency of Genoa-Porto Torres line in 2019
Porto Torres, Italy (PortSEurope) November 8, 2018 – Italian company Onorato Armatori has said its subsidiary Tirrenia plans to operate...
Grimaldi Lines to launch line linking Civitavecchia port to Sardinia
Civitavecchia, Italy (PortSEurope) November 8, 2018 – Italian shipping company Grimaldi Lines plans to launch a new line linking the ports...