Ferries
Port activities linked to the handling of ferries and ferry passengers. Includes passenger terminal investment.
Port of Bari plans new passenger terminal
Bari, Italy (PortSEurope) December 21, 2021 – Early next year, the Port of Bari plans to issue a tender for the construction of a new passenger terminal...
Almeria-Algeria passenger traffic up by 92% since the reopening of the border
Almería, Spain (PortSEurope) December 17, 2021 – Over 5,400 passengers have traveled on the ferries between Almería and the Algerian ports of Oran and...
Cyprus announces a tender for a subsidized ferry link with Greece
Limassol, Cyprus (PortSEurope) November 26, 2021 – The Cyprus Shipping Deputy Ministry (SDM) has announced the launch of a tender to establish a maritime...
Trasmediterránea resumes Almería-Algeria ferry service
Almería, Spain (PortSEurope) November 22, 2021 – The Spanish ferry company Trasmediterránea has resumed its ferry service between Almería and the...
Baleària to resume Valencia – Mostaganem ferry service
València, Spain (PortSEurope) November 5, 2021 – Spanish shipping company Baleària Eurolíneas Marítimas is to restart its connection between Valencia...
Italian ambassador visits Greek port of Igoumenitsa
Igoumenitsa, Greece (PortSEurope) October 8, 2021 – The Italian ambassador to Greece, Patrizia Falcinelli, has visited the Greek western port of...
Greece’s Attica group sees business recovery in first half
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) September 27, 2021 – The Attica group, part of the Marfin Investment Group (MIG), has announced first half consolidated...
Repsol start to build Bilbao port LNG terminal
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) September 22, 2021 – Spanish energy and petrochemical company Repsol SA has started building an liquified natural gas (LNG)...
Greek ports see Q1 2021 cargo traffic down over 10%
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) September 20, 2021 – The Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT) has published data on traffic of passengers, goods and...
Brittany Ferries and CMA CGM form a partnership in passenger and freight transport
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) September 14, 2021 – CMA CGM Group, a world leader in shipping and logistics, and Brittany Ferries, the largest ferry...
Croatia to invest in Adriatic Sea ports of Rab and Senj
Rijeka, Croatia (Ports Europe) September 3, 2021 – Minister of the Sea, Transport and Infrastructure Oleg Butković has attended the ceremony of...
Proposed fast catamaran service between Malta and the Sicilian port of Augusta delayed
Augusta, Sicily, Italy (Ports Europe) August 25, 2021 – A proposed fast catamaran service between Valletta in Malta and the Sicilian port of Augusta has...
Port of Piombino reports record weekend for passengers
Piombino, Italy (Ports Europe) August 17, 2021 – The weekend immediately preceding the August bank holiday weekend was a record one for the port of...
Port of Civitavecchia – quay 29 becomes operational
It will be a mid-August of intense work for the port of Civitavecchia. Next Sunday, in fact, the “Euro Valencia” of Grimaldi Lines arrives for the first...
Malaga-Melilla ferry traffic resumes
In the middle of the summer, the Malaga-Melilla connection increased by 42.7% between June and July compared to the same period of the previous year, with a...
Passenger traffic grows at port of Almería
Almería, Spain (Ports Europe) August 16, 2021 – In July, 6,549 passengers passed through the Almería Maritime Station (5,075 passengers and 1,471...
Croatian seaport passenger numbers recover in Q2 2021
In the second quarter of 2021, a total of 5.43 million passengers embarked or disembarked in Croatian seaports. Compared to the same period of 2020, it was an...
New dock planned for port of Corralejo, Fuerteventura
Corralejo, Canary Islands, Spain (Ports Europe) August 11, 2021 – The Minister of Public Works, Transport and Housing of the Government of the Canary...
Grimaldi and Armas Trasmediterranea agreement: Trasmed GLE established
An agreement was signed today in Madrid for the acquisition by Trasmed GLE, the new Spanish company of the Grimaldi Group, of five ferries for the transport of...
Grimaldi finalises Armas Trasmediterránea acquisition
Naples, Italy (Ports Europe) July 20, 2021 – Grimaldi has completed the €375 million agreement to acquire assets of the Iberian shipping company...