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More than 29,000 passengers arrive in Oran in Q1, 2017
Oran, Algeria (PortSEurope) July 7, 2017 –29,146 passengers arrived in the Algerian port of Oran from Spanish and French ports and further 21,069 passengers...
A Coruña port cruise traffic rises 57% y/y in H1 2017
A Coruña, Spain (PortSEurope) July 6, 2017 – A Coruña port handled 74,762 cruise passengers in the first half of 2017, up 57% on the year. The port expects...
Marín to extend Border Inspection Post
Marín, Spain (PortSEurope) July 6, 2017 – Marín port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Marín) plans to extend its Border Inspection Post (BIP) to...
The Alliance’s weekly maritime service in Barcelona attracts significant interest
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) July 6, 2017 – The weekly maritime service between Asia and the Mediterranean launched in April by The Alliance – MOL,...
Valencia port calls tender for construction of access to container terminal
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) July 6, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) has tendered the construction of the new access to...
Spain to build Valencia-Castellón line of Mediterranean Corridor with standard gauge track
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) July 6, 2017 – Spanish Public Works Minister Íñigo de la Serna has said the government plans to build the stretch of the...
Spanish government to ensure dockworkers sector agreement is legal
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) July 6, 2017 – Spanish Minister of Public Works, Íñigo de la Serna, has said that the government will ensure that the...
Reganosa to launch LNG bunkering project at Ferrol port in June 2018
Ferrol, Spain (PortSEurope) July 6, 2017 – Spanish regasification terminal Reganosa is investing €2 million ($2.3 million) in transforming Ferrol port in...
Bulgaria and Greece to build a multimodal corridor between Black Sea, Aegean Sea and Danube
Sofia, Bulgaria (PortSEurope) July 6, 2017 – Bulgaria and Greece have announced that they plan to extend the multimodal transport corridor between the...
Yildirim to sell 24% stake in CMA CGM
Marseille, France (PortSEurope) July 6, 2017 – CMA CGM has confirmed it is in talks with the Yildirim Group over the sale of the Turkish...
Kuşadası and Bodrum Cruise Port receive Green Port certification
Istanbul, Turkey (PortSEurope) July 6, 2017 – The Turkish port of Kuşadası and Bodrum Cruise Port have been awarded ‘Green Port’ certification in...
Algeria’s CNAN Nord to increase frequency of service to Bilbao port
Bilbao, Spain (PortSEurope) July 5, 2017 – Algerian shipping company CNAN Nord is considering a potential increase of the frequency of its regular...
Cádiz port to reduce cruise ship fees in 2018
Cádiz, Spain (PortSEurope) July 5, 2017 – Cádiz port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Cádiz) plans to maintain in 2018 its rates and bonuses on the...
Motril port handles less passengers in first month of OPE 2017
Motril, Spain (PortSEurope) July 5, 2017 – A total of 10,890 passengers and 2,824 vehicles were handled at Motril port during the first month of Operación...
Ceuta-Algeciras line passenger traffic declines in Jan-May 2017
Ceuta, Spain (PortSEurope) July 5, 2017 – Passenger traffic across the Strait of Gibraltar between the ports of Ceuta and Algeciras has reached 645,000...
Las Palmas port confident of keeping position as bunkering hub in Atlantic region
Las Palmas, Spain (PortSEurope) July 5, 2017 – Las Palmas port is confident that it will keep its position as a bunkering hub in the Atlantic after the...
USPA completes tender for reconstruction of Odessa port dock
Odessa, Ukraine (PortSEurope) July 5, 2017 – Ukraine Sea Ports Authority (USPA) has said it completed a tender for the reconstruction of dock 7 at Odessa...
Bilbao port seeks to attract agrifood traffic from South America, Africa
Bilbao, Spain (PortSEurope) July 5, 2017 – Bilbao port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Bilbao) and wholesale market operator Mercabilbao have met in...
Ceuta port cruise passenger traffic declines 87% y/y in Jan-May 2017
Ceuta, Spain (PortSEurope) July 5, 2017 – Ceuta port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Ceuta) has closed the first five months of the year...
Tarragona port cargo traffic rises 5.2% y/y in Jan-May 2017
Tarragona, Spain (PortSEurope) July 5, 2017 – Tarragona port handled a total of 13.44 million tonnes of cargo in the first five months of 2017, an increase...