Industries
All news from Ports Europe categorised by searchable individual industry categories.
SMET managing director comments on Salerno growth
Naples, Italy (Ports Europe) September 2017 – In the first half of 2017, Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Tirreno Centrale (Central Tyrrhenian Sea...
Assoporti attends Seatrade Europe event in Hamburg
Rome, Italy (Ports Europe) September 8, 2017 –  Assoporti, the Italian Port Association, attended the Seatrade Europe event in Hamburg to promote...
Seatrade Europe continues to hold its position as a must-attend event for the industry
Hamburg, 8 September 2017 – Seatrade Europe, the leading trade event for the European cruise and river cruise industry – closed today (8 September...
Cosco awarded floating dock contract in Piraeus
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) September 9, 2017 –Â Piraeus Port Authority S.A. (PPA SA) has announced the completion of the tender and the finalisation...
Algerian Minister visits El-Hamdania port project
Algiers, Algeria (Ports Europe) September 9, 2017 – The Minister of Public Works and Transport, Abdelghani Zaalane has paid a working visit to the...
China’s Cosco books record-high container traffic at Piraeus port in August
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) September 8, 2017 – China’s Cosco said it handled 344,000 containers at Piraeus port in August, exceeding by 4.2% the...
Morocco’s Tanger Med port container traffic rises 11% y/y in H1 2017
Tangier, Morocco (Ports Europe) September 8, 2017 – Morocco’s Tanger Med port has said its container traffic in the first six months of 2017 rose by...
Barcelona port receives award during Seatrade Europe
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) September 8, 2017 – Barcelona port has been recognised by the International German Cruise Awards as part of the Seatrade...
EBRD lends funds for Izmir ferry project
Istanbul, Turkey (Ports Europe) September 8, 2017 – The Izmir Metropolitan signed a €33 million loan ($39.79 million) from the European Bank for...
Event – IAPH Conference 2018 – Baku, My 8-11, 2018
Baku, Azerbaijan (Ports Europe) September 8, 2017 –Â The 2018 IAPH (International Association of Ports and Harbors) World Ports Conference will be held...
Carnival Corporation begins construction of world’s first fully LNG-powered cruise ship
Miami, United States, September 6, 2017 Carnival Corporation & plc, the world’s largest leisure travel company, marked the official beginning of...
Ashdod Port Company sees improved H1 2017 performance.
Ashdod, Israel (Ports Europe) September 7, 2017 – In the first half of 2017 Ashdod Port Company recorded total revenue of 616m Israeli shekels (US$173m),...
Event – 51st MedCruise General Assembly, Toulon, October 11-14
Toulon, France (Ports Europe) September 7, 2015 – The 51st MedCruise General Assembly is scheduled to take place October 11-14, 2017 in Toulon,...
MSC to increase cargo traffic at Trieste port
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) September 7, 2017 – Gianluigi Aponte, chairman of Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC), which operates the second largest cargo...
Boskalis Nederland wins dredging contract at Cádiz port
Cádiz, Spain (Ports Europe) September 7, 2017 – Cádiz port authority (Autoridad Portuaria BahÃa de Cádiz) has awarded a contract to company Boskalis...
Andalusia lobbies for construction of road between Seville port & ring road
Cádiz, Spain (Ports Europe) September 7, 2017 – Andalusia regional government president Susana DÃaz has said that she asked the central government, led by...
Greece to take advantage of strategic position via rail link project with Bulgaria, Tsipras says
Kavala, Greece (Ports Europe) September 7, 2017 – Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras has said the project for the launch of a railway corridor linking the...
Bilbao port prepares for autonomous vessels era
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) September 7, 2017 – The president of Bilbao port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Bilbao), Asier Atutxa, has announced that the...
Azores Islands’ ports to handle 54 cruise calls Sep-Dec 2017
Ponta Delgada, Azores, Portugal (Ports Europe) September 7, 2017 – The first week of September marks the return of cruise ships to the Azores. Portos dos...
Six Croatian ports to receive €41.2 million funding
Rijeka, Croatia (Ports Europe) September 7, 2017 – The six Croatian ports that handle international passenger traffic received a funding of a total of HRK...