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Valencia port closes 2017 with €393 million debt
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) January 9, 2018 – Valencia port closed 2017 with a debt with long-term credit institutions of €393 million ($468.8 million),...
Gijón port to book record-high cargo traffic in 2017
Gijón, Spain (PortSEurope) January 9, 2018 – Gijón port closed 2017 with the highest turnover in its history and an absolute record in the movement of...
Spain’s Transcoma changes name of bunkering division
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) January 9, 2018 – Spanish company Transcoma Shipping has said it has spun off its bunkering division and changing its name to...
Cádiz port’s new container terminal handles first ship
Cádiz, Spain (PortSEurope) January 9, 2018 – The new container terminal of Cádiz port has received its first container ship on January 9. At 0830 local...
Spinelli Group gets more space for container storage at Genoa port
Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) January 9, 2018 – Genoa port has awarded a concession of additional 57,000 square metres to Spinelli Group in an area adjacent to...
Nantes.St-Nazaire considers cruise port development
Nantes.Saint-Nazaire (PortSEurope) January 9, 2018 – Saint-Nazaire, the port city located at the mouth of the Loire estuary, is best known for its...
Nantes.St-Nazaire reports increased traffic in 2017
Nantes.St-Nazaire, France (PortSEurope) January 9, 2018 – In 2017, traffic at Nantes Saint-Nazaire Port amounted to 29.9 million tonnes (Mt), up 17.2%...
Damen Shiprepair wins LNG conversion contract in Nantes.St-Nazaire
Nantes.St-Nazaire (PortSEurope) January 9, 2018 – Damen Shiprepair & Conversion Holding BV has been contracted by GIE Dragages-Ports to convert the...
Reganosa receives first shipment of LNG from Yamal at Ferrol port
Ferrol, Spain (PortSEurope) January 9, 2018 – Reganosa, the Spanish energy company, has received its first shipment of liquified natural gas (LNG) from...
Augusta port authority to attend Fruit Logistica event in Berlin
Augusta, Italy (PortSEurope) January 8, 2018 – Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mare di Sicilia Orientale (AdSP – Eastern Sicilian Sea Port...
Valencia port authority calls tender for asphalt-laying at Sagunto port
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) January 8, 2018 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) has called a tender for the asphalt-laying of a...
Spain’s Grupo Alonso sets up subsidiary in Tunisia
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) January 8, 2018 – Spanish maritime logistics company Grupo Alonso has established a subsidiary in Tunisia as part of its...
Las Palmas port cruise traffic rises 6.6% in Jan-Nov 2017
Las Palmas, Spain (PortSEurope) January 8, 2018 – Las Palmas port handled 985,662 cruise passengers in the eleven months through November, up 6.6% on the...
Cádiz port extends bulk storage area in 2017
Cádiz, Spain (PortSEurope) January 8, 2018 – Cádiz port significantly increased its area for the storage of bulk last year. In the basin of La...
Spain’s Gas Natural develops LNG transport floating platform
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) January 8, 2018 – Spanish company Gas Natural Fenosa has developed a floating platform for the transport of liquefied natural...
Gijón port cargo traffic rises 17.3% y/y in Jan-Nov 2017
Gijón, Spain (PortSEurope) January 8, 2018 – Gijón port handled some 20.2 million tonnes of cargo in the first eleven months of 2017, up 17.3% on the...
Huelva port president hopes Levante dock project to boost business in city
Huelva, Spain (PortSEurope) January 8, 2018 – Huelva port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Huelva) president José Luis Ramos has said that he...
CIPE committee reviews Port Hub of Ravenna 2017 project
Ravenna, Italy (PortSEurope) January 8, 2018 –Â Regional Councilor for Infrastructures and Transport, Raffaele Donini, said that it is a significant step...
Venice hosts EU “Ursa Major neo” transport event
Venice, Italy (PortSEurope) January 8, 2018 –Â On December 14-15, 2017, Venice port hosted the two days of “Ursa Major neo” European Union...
Port of Trieste Servizi – Public Consultation for the update of the Triennial Corruption Prevention Plan
Trieste, Italy (PortSEurope) January 8, 2018 – Porto di Trieste Servizi S.p.A. (Port of Trieste Servizi S.p.A. – PTS) has to approve, by January...