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Barcelona port to open railway terminal shortly
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) December 14, 2017 – Barcelona port plans to launch in the coming days a terminal for freight trains, increasing its capacity...
Huelva port analyses feasibility study on new logistic activities zone
Huelva, Spain (PortSEurope) December 14, 2017 – The board of directors of Huelva port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Huelva) has analysed a feasibility...
Gijón port cargo traffic rises 17% y/y in Jan-Nov 2017
Gijón, Spain (PortSEurope) December 14, 2017 – Gijón port handled 20.2 million tonnes of cargo in the first eleven months of 2017, up 17% on the year. The...
Cádiz port to handle more than 300 cruise calls in 2017
Cádiz, Spain (PortSEurope) December 14, 2017 – Cádiz port could end the year, for the first time, with more than 300 cruise calls. A total of 320,000...
Cartagena port’s largest project in administrative standstill
Cartagena, Spain (PortSEurope) December 14, 2017 – The most ambitious project of Cartagena port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Cartagena), the Gorguel...
Spain’s Partida Logística opens office at Motril port
Motril, Spain (PortSEurope) December 13, 2017 – Spanish logistics customs and logistics services company Partida Logística S.A. has opened an office at...
Barcelona port cargo traffic rises 26% y/y in Jan-Nov 2017
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) December 13, 2017 – Barcelona port handled 56.2 million tonnes of cargo in the first eleven months of 2017, up 26% on the...
Castellón port cargo traffic rises 9.1% y/y in Jan-Nov 2017
Castellón, Spain (PortSEurope) December 13, 2017 – Castellón port has closed November as the best month in its history in total cargo traffic and has also...
Spanish government expects another record-high year at ports
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) December 13, 2017 – The cargo traffic will once again beat its absolute record in the ports of Spain. This was confirmed by the...
Baleària cancels 12 ferry trips to Melilla
Melilla, Spain (PortSEurope) December 13, 2017 – Spanish company Baleària Eurolínias Marítimas S.A. has suspended 12 ferry trips between the ports of...
Spain’s Boluda profit rises 30% in 2016
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) December 13, 2017 – Spanish company Boluda Corporación Marítima recorded a profit of €36 million ($42.3 million) in 2016,...
Alicante port authority names board member
Alicante, Spain (PortSEurope) December 13, 2017 – Alicante port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Alicante) has appointed Antonio López as a board member...
Port of Sète receives first cargo of fruits in years
Sète, France (PortSEurope) December 13, 2017 – The Baltic Klipper freighter has docked at Sète port from Toamasina (Madagascar) to deliver 8,000...
LafargeHolcim starts cement exports from Algeria’s Arzew port
Oran, Algeria (PortSEurope) December 13, 2017 – LafargeHolcim Algeria has completed its first cement export on Tuesday – 16600 tons of gray...
Huelva port set for investments
Huelva, Spain (PortSEurope) December 13, 2017 – The Minister of Development and Housing of the Junta de Andalucía, Felipe López, announced this...
World Economic Forum – Global Competitive Index 2017-2018 – Port Infrastructure
Geneva, Switzerland (PortSEurope) December 13, 2017 – The World Economic Forum reports that ten years on from the global financial crisis, the prospects...
Genoa looks to take Swiss traffic from northern European ports
Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) December 12, 2017 – Whilst the Italian port of Genoa has always had a trading relationship with Switzerland, its full...
Valencia port ready to participate in China’s OBOR initiative
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) December 12, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) president Francesc Sánchez has participated in...
Ibiza port launches new border control office
Ibiza, Spain (PortSEurope) December 12, 2017 – Ibiza port has a new office for border control exercised by the General Commissariat of Foreigners and...
Spain’s Consulmar acquires 80% stake in Amarres Ceuta
Ceuta, Spain (PortSEurope) December 12, 2017 – Spanish port services provider Consulmar S.R.L. has acquired 80% stake in the capital of Amarres Ceuta S.L.,...