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All news from Ports Europe categorised by searchable individual industry categories.
APM Terminals Tangier handles its biggest container ship ever
Tanger Med, Morocco (Ports Europe) August 2, 2017 – APM Terminals Tangier, the largest and most modern north African port facility, has celebrated its ten...
Barcelona, Koper ports cooperate to boost handling of new cars at Motorways of the Sea
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) August 2, 2017 – Barcelona and Koper ports are carrying out the CarEsmatic project to boost the transport of new vehicles on...
Madeira government to launch tender for ferry services to mainland Portugal
Funchal, Portugal (Ports Europe) August 2, 2017 – The regional government of Madeira is finalising the launch of an international tender for a weekly ferry...
Azeri oil exports through Novorossiysk port rise 31% y/y in H1 2017
Novorossiysk, Russia (Ports Europe) August 2, 2017 – The exports of Azeri oil through Russia’s Novorossiysk port rose by 31% on the year in the first...
Baleària reinforces links to North Africa
Algeciras, Spain (Ports Europe) August 1, 2017 – Spanish ferry company Baleària has reinforced the services that connect with north Africa, both in terms of...
A Coruña port cargo traffic rises 1.52% y/y in H1 2017
A Coruña, Spain (Ports Europe) August 1, 2017 – The port of A Coruña handled more than 6.8 million tonnes of cargo during the first half of the year, the...
Las Palmas port expects requests for LNG tank facility by end-2017
Las Palmas, Spain (Ports Europe) August 1, 2017 – Las Palmas port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Las Palmas) expects to receive before the end of the year...
Ukraine to begin work on transport corridor linking Black Sea, Baltic ports
Odessa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) July 31, 2017 – Ukraine plans to begin the implementation of the project of the international transport corridor Go Highway,...
Italian Court of Audit provides €39 million funding to La Spezia port
La Spezia, Italy (Ports Europe) August 1, 2017 – Italian Court of Audit has unblocked €39 million ($46.1 million) in financing for the construction of...
Valencia port recovers work rate
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) August 1, 2017 – The activity in the Port of Valencia has normalised after the problems suffered in recent weeks. Finally,...
Anaklia Development Consortium Signs Agreement with SSA Marine
Anaklia, Georgia (Ports Europe) August 1, 2017 – Today sees the official signing ceremony of the agreement between the Anaklia Development Consortium...
Kuşadası becomes top cruise ship destination in Turkey
Kuşadası, Turkey (Ports Europe) August 1, 2017 – Turkey’s cruise passenger traffic was 118,087 people in the first half of 2017 and most of the...
Constanta and Gdansk ports sign Three Seas Initiative agreement
Constanta, Romania (Ports Europe) August 1, 2017 – Poland’s PKP Cargo SA and the Port of Gdansk Authority SA signed a Memorandum of Cooperation...
CMA CGM launches direct service to link Morocco and Algeria to the Black Sea
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) August 1, 2017 – The French CMA CGM Group is launching the Black Sea Med Express, created specifically to respond to the...
Container traffic, record growth for the port of Salerno
Salerno, Italy (Ports Europe) August 1, 2017 – The Salerno Container Terminal (SCT) saw growth of 20% in the second quarter of 2017. Containers at the...
Barcelona and Valencia join forces over Mediterranean Corridor
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) August 1, 2017 – The Mayor of Barcelona, Ada Colau, and the Mayor of Valencia, Joan Ribó, met last month to sign a joint...
Pemex officially abandons terminal construction at A Coruña port
A Coruña, Spain (Ports Europe) July 31, 2017 – Mexico’s state-owned oil company Pemex has officially announced its intention to abandon...
Santander port cargo traffic increases 8.65% y/y in H1 2017
Santander, Spain (Ports Europe) July 31, 2017 – Santander port cargo traffic increased by 8.65% in the first half of the year to 2.52 million tonnes. Of the...
Huelva port’s container traffic soars in H1 2017
Huelva, Spain (Ports Europe) July 31, 2017 – Huelva port increased container traffic by 362% on the year in the first half of 2017, thanks to the start-up...
Genoa-based port authority president expresses support for China’s Silk Road initiative
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) July 31, 2017 – Countries in northern Europe oppose the One Belt, One Road (OBOR) initiative of China, as they want to prevent...