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Port activities linked to the handling of ferries and ferry passengers. Includes passenger terminal investment.

Balearic Islands port authority launches passenger station at Palma de Mallorca port

Palma de Mallorca, Spain (Ports Europe) April 11, 2018 – Balearic Islands port authority has put into service on April 9 the new Maritime Station No. 6,...

Baleària encouraged to restart Gijón-Saint Nazaire motorway of the sea

Gijón, Spain (Ports Europe) April 10, 2018 – The Baleària Eurolínias Marítimas S.A. shipping line has been encouraged to resume the motorway of the...

Baleària launches the ship ‘Hypatia de Alejandría’, the first ferry powered by LNG from the Mediterranean

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) April 7, 2018 – Baleària Eurolínias Marítimas S.A. has completed the floating of the ship Hypatia de Alejandría ,...

Assoporti ranks Sardinia as leading port for passenger numbers

Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy (Ports Europe) April 4, 2018 – Assoporti, the Italian ports association, has ranked Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mare...

Baleària floats Mediterranean’s first LNG-fired ferry

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) April 4, 2018 – Spanish shipping company Baleària Eurolínias Marítimas S.A. carried out the floating of vessel...

Passenger traffic at Ibiza-Formentera lines rises 3% in 2017

Ibiza, Spain (Ports Europe) April 3, 2018 – Shipping companies that operate on the line between Ibiza and Formentera handled traffic of 2,028,840 passengers...

Corsica Ferries launches Toulon-Mallorca route

Mallorca, Spain (Ports Europe) April 2, 2018 – Italian company Corsica Ferries has launched a Toulon-Mallorca route, as part of its strategy to gain ground...

Porto Torres call for resumption of direct Livorno port links

Porto Torres, Sardinia, Italy (Ports Europe) April 2, 2018 – The municipal administration of Porto Torres has proposed a new shipping service (cargo and...

Livorno, Piombino port authority reports improved 2017 traffic

Livorno, Italy (Ports Europe) March 29, 2018 – In 2017 the ports of Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Tirreno Settentrionale (AdSP – North...

Baleària eyes own terminal at Barcelona port

Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) March 26, 2018 – Spanish company Baleària Eurolínias Marítimas S.A. grew passenger traffic by 5.7% and cargo by 10% in...

Ports Europe – Reference – Cagliari Port 2020

Cagliari Ports 2020, March 21, 2018 The Cagliari Port 2020 project aims to set up a system able to effectively deal with the integration of three main hubs of...

Moby and Tirrenia join “Cagliari Port 2020” and Open Data Trasporti of Sardinia

Cagliari, Sardinia (Ports Europe) March 21, 2018 – Ferry companies Moby and Tirrenia are to join “Cagliari Port 2020” and Open Data Trasporti...

Taranto, Durrës, Kotor ports launch project for promoting Motorways of the Sea

Taranto, Italy (Ports Europe) March 19, 2018 – The ports of Taranto, Durrës and Kotor have launched a project to promote the launch of a Motorway of the Sea...

Trasmediterránea to start operating Gandía-Ibiza line on June 8

Gandía, Spain (Ports Europe) March 12, 2018 – Spanish ferry company Trasmediterránea plans to start operating on June 8 the high-speed line linking...

Trasmediterránea names business development director

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) March 9, 2018 – Eva González Cuerda has been appointed Director of Business Development of the Balearic Islands of Spanish...

FRS Motril-Tangier line breaks traffic record

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) March 7, 2018 – German company Förde Reederei Seetouristik (FRS) has broken its own record in the line connecting the ports...

FRS surpasses capacity record on Motril-Tangier shipping route

Motril, Spain (Ports Europe) March 6, 2018 – The German-owned shipping company FRS has broken its own record in the line of goods that operates between...

A new shipping line linking Oran to Barcelona has started

Oran, Algeria (Ports Europe) February 23, 2018 – L’Entreprise Nationale de Transport Maritime de Voyageurs (ENTMV) has started a new passenger and...

Passengers using Pesaro port in 2017 up on previous year

Pesaro, Italy (Ports Europe) February 20, 2018 – A total of 8,643 passengers passed through the port of Pesaro in 2017. Of these, 8,169 (up 13% on...

Baleària orders two ferries from Cantiere Navale Visentini

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) February 18, 2018 – Baleària Eurolínias Marítimas S.A. has reached an agreement with the Italian shipyard Cantiere...

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