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All news from Ports Europe categorised by searchable individual industry categories.
LNG has huge potential as marine fuel in the Iberian Peninsula
Oslo, Norway (PortSEurope) July 11, 2017 – With the global fuel sulphur limit of 0.5% entering into force in 2020, the interest towards LNG as a marine...
Santander port says works at Raos dock are not officially stopped
Santander, Spain (PortSEurope) July 12, 2017 – Santander port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Santander) has assured that the works of the new Raos dock...
Italy’s Marche region gives green light to dredging of Fano port
Fano, Italy (PortSEurope) July 12, 2017 – Italy’s Marche regional government has given the green light to the start of dredging works at the port of...
Ukraine’s sea ports transship 450,000 tonnes of grain in July 1-7
Odessa, Ukraine (PortSEurope) July 12, 2017 – Ukraine’s sea ports transshipped 450,400 tonnes of grain for export in the period between July 1 and 7,...
Leixões port keeps 20% market share in Portugal in Jan-May 2017
Leixões, Portugal (PortSEurope) July 12, 2017 – Leixões port maintained its market share of 20% in Portugal in the first five months of 2017, the port...
Taranto port to open 600m of overhauled quay
Taranto, Italy (PortSEurope) July 12, 2017 – On July 27, Italy’s Minister for the South and Territorial Cohesion, Claudio De Vincenti, will officially...
Koper port considering LNG terminal
Koper, Slovenia (PortSEurope) July 12, 2017 – Slovenia has joined other Balkan countries in looking to develop a role as a regional energy hub. Following...
Anti-GMO activists block east entrance to French port of Sète
Sète, France (PortSEurope) July 11, 2017 – On July 10, some 80 anti-GMO (genetically modified organism) activists blocked the east entrance to the Port of...
Government inspects Alicante port’s measures to facilitate OPE 2017
Alicante, Spain (PortSEurope) July 12, 2017 – The government delegate of the region of Valencia, Juan Carlos Moragues, visited the area in the port of...
Lisbon port starts recovering from strike years
Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) July 11, 2017 – Lisbon port has started recovering from the last two years of strikes of dockworkers that caused the loss of...
Railways of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan agreed to strengthen ties
Baku, Azerbaijan (PortSEurope) July 12, 2017 – The head of JSC NC Kazakhstan Temir Zholy Kanat Alpysbayev has held talks with Deputy Prime Minister of...
Sines port to have railway link to Madrid long before Algeciras
Sines, Portugal (PortSEurope) July 11, 2017 – Sines port is one of the main beneficiaries of the isolation of the port of Algeciras from Madrid due to lack...
Pasaia port cargo traffic slumps in H1 2017
Pasaia, Spain (PortSEurope) July 11, 2017 – Pasaia port cargo traffic came in at 1.38 million tonnes in the first half of 2017 and if the trend is...
La Spezia tenders for development of Garibaldi quay
La Spezia, Italy (PortSEurope) July 12, 2017 – A new tender procedure is open for the extension of the Garibaldi dock in La Spezia Container Terminal....
FCC suspends dock construction work at Santander portÂ
Santander, Spain (PortSEurope) July 11, 2017 – Spanish company Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas (FCC) has suspended work on the construction of a dock...
Las Palmas port authority president takes part in Blue Growth event
Las Palmas, Spain (PortSEurope) July 11, 2017 – The president of Las Palmas port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Las Palmas), Luis Ibarra and its...
Ukraine’s Nibulon launches grain transshipment terminal near Kherson port
Kherson, Ukraine (PortSEurope) July 11, 2017 – Ukrainian agricultural holding Nibulon Ltd has put into operation a new terminal for the transshipment of...
Cilsa acquires warehouses at Barcelona port’s logistics zone
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) July 11, 2017 – Cilsa, the company that manages the logistics zone of the port of Barcelona, has reached an agreement with...
Port of Marseille Fos traffic 2% up in H1 2017
Marseille, France (PortSEurope) July 11, 2017 – Overall traffic of the port of Marseille Fos in the first half of 2017 shows an increase of 2% compared...
GPF Capital invests in Grupo Vicarli
Bilbao, Spain (PortSEurope) July 10, 2017 – GPF Capital, an independent private equity vehicle created with the aim of investing in small and medium-sized...