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All news from Ports Europe categorised by searchable individual industry categories.
Ceuta government to hire staff to assist cruise passengers
Ceuta, Spain (PortSEurope) June 28, 2017 – The government of the autonomous city of Ceuta announced the hiring of a personnel service that will be in charge...
Motril port okays concession at Azucenas dock
Motril, Spain (PortSEurope) June 28, 2017 – Motril port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Motril) has given the green light to a concession at Azucenas dock...
Entrepreneur withdraws from project for reconstruction of Gijón port building
Gijón, Spain (PortSEurope) June 28, 2017 – Spanish entrepreneur Nacho Santiago Pereiras said he has withdrawn from the project for transforming the old...
Barcelona port awards cruise terminal urbanisation contract
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) June 28, 2017 – Barcelona port has awarded a contract for the urbanisation of the areas adjacent to the new Terminal E to a...
Greece has biggest merchant fleet globally
Piraeus, Greece (PortSEurope) June 28, 2017 – Data from Clarksons Research show that Greek shipowners have taken the lead among merchant ship owners...
Poseidon Med II holds LNG event in Piraeus
Piraeus, Greece (PortSEurope) June 28, 2017 –Â The present and the future of the shipbuilding industry in Greece towards LNG as fuel era, was the focus...
Investors interested in Trieste’s Porto Vecchio
Trieste, Italy (PortSEurope) June 28, 2017 – Various investors are interested in the planned renovation of Porto Vecchio, the old port in Trieste. The...
Valletta Cruise Port signs up for tourism code
Valletta, Malta (PortSEurope) June 29, 2017 – Valletta Cruise Port in Malta has signed the UNWTO Private Sector Commitment to the Global Code of Ethics...
CMA CGM announces new strategy and introduces new logo
Marseille, France (PortSEurope) June 29, 2017 –Â Yesterday, June 28, 2017, the French CMA CGM Group unveiled its new strategy and image. 2017 has been a...
European dock workers set to strike June 29
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) June 28, 2017 –Â The International Dockworkers Council (IDC) has called a Europe-wide port stoppage in support of the...
Daily rail freight connection Marseille Fos-Geneva opens officially
Marseille Fos, France (PortSEurope) June 28, 2017 – The daily rail freight connection between French port of Marseille Fos and Geneva, Switzerland, has been...
KMG International to develop Midia Marine Terminal into Black Sea energy hub
Midia, Romania (PortSEurope) June 28, 2017 – Shareholders of Midia Marine Terminal (MMT), part of KazMunaiGaz International Group, plan to transform the...
Tarragona port to host conference on Mediterranean Corridor
Tarragona, Spain (PortSEurope) June 27, 2017 – Tarragona port will host a meeting to analyse the connections of the harbour to the Mediterranean Corridor on...
Motril port starts OPE with passenger traffic decline
Motril, Spain (PortSEurope) June 27, 2017 – Motril port has started Operación Paso del Estrecho 2017 (OPE 2017), an initiative for the facilitation of the...
Spanish stevedores cancel strikes on June 29
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) June 27, 2017 – Spanish stevedores have just issued a statement announcing that they will hold a meeting with union Asociación...
A Coruña port calls on government to finance railway line to outer harbour
A Coruña, Spain (PortSEurope) June 27, 2017 – The mayor of A Coruña, Xulio Ferreiro, today asked the central government to donate the necessary...
New vessel incorporated into Huelva-Canary Islands line
Huelva, Spain (PortSEurope) June 27, 2017 – Huelva port has a new container ship with greater capacity for the Huelva-Canary Islands line, the...
Venice port to receive €3.25 million under CEF
Venice, Italy (PortSEurope) June 27, 2017 – Venice port has gained financing under two projects of the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) out of a total 13...
Ukrtransnafta to start reconstruction of Port Yuzhniy oil terminal
Port Yuzhniy, Ukraine (PortSEurope) June 27, 2017 – Ukrainian oil company Ukrtransnafta plans to start a project for the reconstruction of its oil terminal...
Lisbon port containerised cargo traffic rises 53% y/y in Jan-May 2017
Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) June 27, 2017 – In the first five months of 2017, the containerised cargo traffic in Lisbon port rose by 53.4% on the year,...