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Ukrainian ports cargo traffic rises in Jan-Aug 2017
Odessa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) September 7, 2017 – Ukrainian sea ports handled 86.95 million tonnes of cargo in the first eight months of 2017, up 1.6% on...
Rail Cargo Austria to launch intermodal service to Iran, via Trieste
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) September 6, 2017 – Austria’s Rail Cargo Group, together with the Turkish shipping company U.N. Ro-Ro İşletmeleri...
Hellespont set for contract with Cosco
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) September 6, 2017 – Athens-based Hellespont Group, headed by Greek shipowner Phrixos Papachristidis is in talks with the...
Spain’s Paceco to deliver two RTGs to Lithuania’s Klaipeda port
Klaipeda, Lithuania (Ports Europe) September 6, 2017 – Madrid-based, Spanish company Paceco España S.A. has recently signed a contract for the supply of...
Pasaia port cargo traffic declines 22.6% y/y in Jan-July 2017
Pasaia, Spain (Ports Europe) September 6, 2017 – Pasaia port handled a total of 1.6 million tonnes of cargo in the first seven months of 2017, down by...
MACS adds Charleston port to service from Bilbao
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) September 6, 2017 – MACS Maritime Carrier GmbH & Co, based in Hamburg (Germany), has added the US port of Charleston to...
Bulgaria-Greece port railway connection project needs investment of €5 billion
Kavala, Greece (Ports Europe) September 6, 2017 – Bulgaria’s transport minister Ivaylo Moskovski has said the total investment in the railway...
Bulgarian PM says port link project with Greece will boost energy, transport, tourist sectors
Kavala, Greece (Ports Europe) September 6, 2017 – Bulgaria’s prime minister Boyko Borisov has said the launch of a railway connection between...
Algeciras port opens to traffic third lane of road to Marina Alcaidesa
Algeciras, Spain (Ports Europe) September 6, 2017 – Algeciras port authority (Autoridad Portuaria Bahía de Algeciras) has opened to traffic the so-called...
Tenerife port handles its biggest container ship ever
Tenerife, Spain (Ports Europe) September 6, 2017 – Tenerife port handled on September 5 and 6 the Maersk Guayaquil container ship, with a length of 337...
Valencia port interested in launch of logistics complex in Chiva municipality
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) September 6, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) has expressed interest in the development of a...
Lisbon port to handle 55 cruise calls in September
Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) September 6, 2017 – Lisbon port expects to handle 55 calls of cruise ships in September, one-third of which will...
Port of Adria starts operating new crane at Bar port
Bar, Montenegro (Ports Europe) September 6, 2017 – Port of Adria JSC Bar, the operator of the cargo terminal of Bar port in Montenegro, has started...
Gibraltar Tourist Board & Port Authority attend Seatrade Convention
Hamburg, Germany (Ports Europe) September 6, 2017 – The Gibraltar Tourist Board and Port Authority are attending the Seatrade Europe Cruise Convention....
New railway connection agreement between Greece and Bulgaria
Kavala, Greece (Ports Europe) September 6, 2017 – A memorandum of understanding between Bulgaria and Greece for a new railway connection will be signed...
Izmir tourism visitors increases steadily
Izmir, Turkey (Ports Europe) September 5, 2017 – Aegean Touristic Hotels and Investors Associations – ETIK has published a report showing that Turkish...
UK Department for Transport UK Port Freight Statistics: 2016 – Short Sea Freight with the European Union
London, United Kingdom (Ports Europe) September 6, 2017 – UK major port traffic with the European Union rose 2% to 206.8 million tonnes in 2016, due...
UK Department for Transport publishes Annual UK Port Freight Statistics 2016
London, United Kingdom (Ports Europe) September 5, 2017 – The Department for Transport has published its Annual UK Port Freight statistics which shows...
NABU publishes its 7th cruise ship pollution rankings
Berlin, Germany (Ports Europe) September 5, 2017 – Even in the seventh edition of the cruise industry ranking, not a single cruise ship in Europe from...
Vigo port sees signs of recovery in July
Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) September 5, 2017 – After an adverse first half in terms of cargo traffic, marked by the announcements of the strike of dockers...