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Valencia port tenders contract for aid to passengers travelling to Algeria

Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) July 16, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) has tendered the service contract of...

BlueConnect is now online, and includes ports in France and Italy

Nice, France (PortSEurope) July 15, 2017 – BlueConnect, the port observation platform, is now online, and includes 295 ports in Var, Alpes Maritimes,...

Zadar port to receive cruise investment

Zadar, Croatia (PortSEurope) July 14, 2017 – The port of Zadar is to the site of a new cruise port on the Croatian Adriatic coastline. Other ports in the...

Government inspects Alicante port’s measures to facilitate OPE 2017

Alicante, Spain (PortSEurope) July 12, 2017 – The government delegate of the region of Valencia, Juan Carlos Moragues, visited the area in the port of...

Durrës reports increased ferry traffic in first half of 2017

Durrës, Albania (PortSEurope) July 9, 2017 – In the first six months of 2017, the ferries of Durres – Bari and Durrës – Ancona – Trieste line and...

More than 29,000 passengers arrive in Oran in Q1, 2017

Oran, Algeria (PortSEurope) July 7, 2017 –29,146 passengers arrived in the Algerian port of Oran from Spanish and French ports and further 21,069 passengers...

Motril port handles less passengers in first month of OPE 2017

Motril, Spain (PortSEurope) July 5, 2017 – A total of 10,890 passengers and 2,824 vehicles were handled at Motril port during the first month of Operación...

Ceuta-Algeciras line passenger traffic declines in Jan-May 2017

Ceuta, Spain (PortSEurope) July 5, 2017 – Passenger traffic across the Strait of Gibraltar between the ports of Ceuta and Algeciras has reached 645,000...

Corsica to create a regional shipping company

Ajaccio, Corsica, France (PortSEurope) July 3, 2017 – Corsica is in the process of creating a regional shipping company, which will provide ferry services...

New maritime terminal opens in the port of Béjaïa

Béjaïa, Algeria (PortSEurope) July 3, 2017 – A new passenger terminal has been inaugurated in Béjaïa, Algeria’s second largest commercial port, located...

Morocco’s AML incorporates third ship into Gibraltar Strait service

Tangier, Morocco (PortSEurope) July 3, 2017 – Moroccan shipping company Africa Morocco Link (AML) has announced the incorporation of a third ship to the...

Spain’s Naviera Armas starts operating jetty at Las Palmas port

Las Palmas, Spain (PortSEurope) July 3, 2017 – Spanish ferry company Naviera Armas Ferries has started operating the jetty East at the terminal it is...

Motril port starts OPE with passenger traffic decline

Motril, Spain (PortSEurope) June 27, 2017 – Motril port has started Operación Paso del Estrecho 2017 (OPE 2017), an initiative for the facilitation of the...

New vessel incorporated into Huelva-Canary Islands line

Huelva, Spain (PortSEurope) June 27, 2017 – Huelva port has a new container ship with greater capacity for the Huelva-Canary Islands line, the...

Algeciras, Tarifa ports are ready for OPE 2017

Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) June 26, 2017 – The ports of Algeciras and Tarifa activated on Friday the special regime for Operación Paso del Estrecho 2017...

Corsica Linea prospers with Marseille connections

Ajaccio, Corsica, France (PortSEurope) June 25, 2017 – Twelve months ago, Corsica Linea took up the challenge of crossing the Mediterranean with precise...

Trasmediterránea introduces new ship into Barcelona-Mahón line

Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) June 22, 2017 – Spanish ferry company Compañía Trasmediterránea, S.A. has incorporated its “Juan J. Sister”...

Bari, Durrës ports sign cooperation deal for cargo, passenger traffic

Bari, Italy (PortSEurope) June 21, 2017 – Bari and Durrës ports agreed to set up a cooperation project to facilitate the flow of cargo and passengers...

EC welcomes international agreement to increase the safety of passenger ships

Brussels, Belgium (PortSEurope) June 20, 2017 – On June 16, 2017, the European Commission commented on the international agreement adopted this week...

OPE 2017 starts with 6,000 passengers a day

Almería, Spain (PortSEurope) June 19, 2017 – Operación Paso del Estrecho 2017 (OPE 2017), an initiative for the facilitation of the travel of North African...

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