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All news from Ports Europe categorised by searchable individual industry categories.
Spanish ports can book record-high cargo traffic in 2017 despite strikes of dockers
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) August 4, 2017 – The selective stoppages of stevedores have been felt in the traffic of the main Spanish ports although very...
Costa Cruises to use Tarragona as home port next year
Tarragona, Spain (Ports Europe) August 7, 2017 – Costa Cruises has reaffirmed its commitment to Tarragona port which will become a home port for the...
A Coruña, Ferrol, VilagarcÃa ports cargo traffic rises in H1 2017
A Coruña, Spain (Ports Europe) August 4, 2017 – In the northern Spanish region of Galicia, the ports of A Coruña, Ferrol-San Cibrao and VilagarcÃa have...
Andalusia ports cargo traffic falls 4.3% y/y in H1 2017
Algeciras, Spain (Ports Europe) August 4, 2017 – Traffic in Andalusian ports has fallen 4.3% to 73.39 million tonnes in the first half of the year. Algeciras...
XPO Logistics restructures management of Iberian unit
Algiers, Algeria (Ports Europe) August 4, 2017 – XPO Logistics has restructured the management of its transport division in Iberia, which includes Morocco,...
Grupo Sesé to manage logistics at Volkswagen’s plant in Algeria
Algiers, Algeria (Ports Europe) August 4, 2017 – Grupo Sesé has been chosen to manage, in its different phases, all the logistics operation in the assembly...
Valletta port cruise a top five Mediterranean cruise location
Valletta, Malta (Ports Europe) August 7, 2017 – The port in Valletta has made the top-five list of Western Mediterranean cruise locations in CruiseCritic...
Baleà ria handles 53,000 passengers on Valencia-Mostaganem line in H1 2017
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) August 4, 2017 – The ferry line of Spanish company Baleà ria EurolÃnias MarÃtimas S.A. between the ports of Valencia and...
Deepening of Volga river can help development of North-South Corridor
Astrakhan, Russia (Ports Europe) August 7, 2017 – A plan to dredge the Volga river to a greater depth and develop local ports, will speed up the...
Ukraine joins Go-Highway project to develop transport corridor connecting the Baltic and Black Seas
Odessa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) August 7, 2017 – Ukraine is to engage in the development of a transport corridor connecting the Baltic and Black Seas...
Asturiana del Zinc awaits license to construct second warehouse at Avilés port
Avilés, Spain (Ports Europe) August 4, 2017 – Spanish mining company Asturiana del Zinc S.A. is awaiting a license from Castrillón municipality for the...
Noatum extends Pla-Za railway terminal concession
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) August 4, 2017 – Spanish state-run railway operator Administrador de Infraestructuras Ferroviarias (Adif) has extended the...
Darsena Europa commission to call two tenders in September
Livorno, Italy (Ports Europe) August 4, 2017 – The commission for the management of the project for the construction of the Darsena Europa dock at Livorno...
Lisbon port to handle 24 cruise calls in August
Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) August 3, 2017 – Lisbon port expects to receive 24 cruise calls in August, two more than in the same month last year,...
Madeira government cancels ferry tender
Funchal, Portugal (Ports Europe) August 4, 2017 – The government of Madeira has cancelled the announcement concerning the public tender, published in the...
Santander port works on expanding harbour to interior area
Santander, Spain (Ports Europe) August 7, 2017 – Santander port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Santander) is working on the expansion to the interior of...
Maersk keeps reducing cargo traffic at Vigo port
Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) August 7, 2017 – The president of the port of Vigo, Enrique López Veiga, attributes the negligible cargo traffic by Maersk in...
Hapag-Lloyd to carry out call of luxury cruise ship at MarÃn port
MarÃn, Spain (Ports Europe) August 7, 2017 – The decision of Hapag-Lloyd to make a call of a luxury cruise in MarÃn port “is without a doubt great...
Vigo port to expand Bouzas ro-ro terminal capacity
Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) August 7, 2017 – Vigo port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Vigo) has decided to launch an ambitious plan, the construction of a...
Pontevedra businessmen hail Hapag-Lloyd’s cruise call at MarÃn port
MarÃn, Spain (Ports Europe) August 7, 2017 – The first call of a cruise ship in the port of MarÃn is “a positive news for the area, but what is...