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Intermodal Transport/Facilities

The transport of cargo and containers between locations using more than mode of transport – intermodal. Often involves an international logistics company arranging rail and road for one cargo delivery.

Leixoes port container terminal quickens handling of trucks

Leixoes, Portugal (Ports Europe) February 21, 2017 – Productivity combined with fast processing of trucks. This is how the activity of Leixoes container...

EKOL launches regular line linking Izmir to Paris via Sète port

Sète, France (Ports Europe) February 21, 2017 – Turkish company EKOL has started operating a regular line connecting the Izmir port to France’s...

Vilagarcia port tests interior railway links

Vilagarcia, Spain (Ports Europe) February 20, 2017 – Vilagarcia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Vilagarcía) carried out a successful test of...

Spanish Public Ministry commits to promote Mediterranean Corridor

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) February 20, 2017 – Spanish Public Works Minister Inigo de la Serna said his institution plans to promote the development...

Valencia to revive intermodal transport facility

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) February 15, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) and the regional government of Valencia have...

Ferrol port approves railway access construction

Ferrol, Spain (Ports Europe) February 15, 2017 – Ferrol port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Ferrol-San Cibrao) board of directors will hold an...

New RMG cranes at Koper for improved productivity

Koper, Slovenia (Ports Europe) February 15, 2017 – In the last few days two rail-mounted gantries for the container terminal arrived at the port of...

Trieste Marine Terminal increases Munich train frequency

Trieste, Italy (PortSeurope) February 14, 2017 – A fourth regular weekly block train departure from Trieste to Munich and vice versa will commence at...

Catalan and Valencian businessmen support Mediterranean railway corridor

Tarragona, Spain (Ports Europe) February 13, 2017 – Around 300 businessmen from Catalonia and Valencia met to defend the need to build the Mediterranean...

€1 billion to boost investment in European transport infrastructure

Brussels, Belgium (Ports Europe) February 8, 2017 – The European Commission is launching a new and innovative way to finance transport infrastructure...

Valencia ports handle 7.04% of traffic by rail in 2016

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) February 3, 2017 – The share of rail transport at the ports operated by Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de...

Trieste railway line to make Baltic-Mediterranean transport more flexible

Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) January 31, 2017 – The German port of Kiel on the Baltic Sea and the Italian port of Trieste in the Adriatic have been...

Valencia port joins campaign for promotion of Mediterranean Corridor

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) January 31, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) has joined the campaign supporting the...

Spanish railway operator to tender access to Barcelona port in May

Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) January 31, 2017 – Barcelona port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Barcelona) president, Sixte Cambra, said that Spanish...

Rail Cargo Austria subsidiary relocates to Porto Marghera

Venice, Italy (Ports Europe) January 31, 2017 – The Rail Cargo Austria subsidiary Rail Cargo Carrier Italy (RCCI) is to relocate its operational...

Event – BiLOG Logistics and Maritime Forum

La Spezia, Italy (Ports Europe) January 24, 2017 – Piacenza’s mayor, Paolo Dosi and the President of Eastern Liguria Sea Port Authority, Carla...

Spanish northern ports presidents meet to discuss cooperation, intermodality

Gijon, Spain (Ports Europe) January 24, 2017 – Competition and collaboration, competitiveness and efficiency, coordination and planning, are some of the...

First train on TEN-T Adriatic-Baltic corridor to depart from Trieste port on Jan 25

Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) January 23, 2017 – The first intermodal train scheduled on the Kiel-Gothenburg route will travel from Trieste port...

Balearia, Renfe sign deal to sell tickets jointly

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) January 20, 2017 – The president of shipping company Balearia, Adolfo Utor, and the chairman of Spanish state-run railway...

Almeria mayor, Puertos del Estado president discuss railway line construction project

Almeria, Spain (Ports Europe) January 19, 2017 – Almeria mayor Ramon Fernandez-Pacheco held a meeting with the president of Spanish national port agency...

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