Industries
All news from Ports Europe categorised by searchable individual industry categories.
Spain’s Noatum expects Cosco deal to boost container traffic
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) June 13, 2017 – Spain’s Noatum Port Holdings S.L.U. expects the strategic partnership agreement signed with Cosco...
Castellón port expresses economic concerns over strike
Castellón, Spain (PortSEurope) June 13, 2017 – Castellón port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Castellón) and companies active at the harbour expressed...
Ukraine’s USPA to fleet renewal plans to shipbuilders
Odessa, Ukraine (PortSEurope) June 13, 2017 – The Ukraine Sea Ports Authority (USPA) plans to carry out a conference on the development of the...
Badajoz logistics platform to be completed by 2020
Setúbal, Portugal (PortSEurope) June 13, 2017 –The Plataforma Logística do Sudoeste Europeu (PLSWE – The Southwestern European Logistics Platform) in...
Boluda Lines sets up shipping agency based in Lisbon port
Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) June 13, 2017 – Boluda Lines, a leading Spanish shipowner and global marine services company, will bet on Lisbon port through...
Spanish minister expresses dissatisfaction with dockworkers’ strike
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) June 13, 2017 – Spanish Public Works Minister Íñigo de la Serna has said the decision of dockworkers to stage a 48-hour...
Cosco includes Valencia’s traffic in China’s Silk Road
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) June 13, 2017 – The nearly 300 vessels of the world’s fourth largest shipping company each year move 1.6 million...
Cosco Shipping Ports Limited acquisition of interest in Noatum Port Holdings in Spain
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) June 13, 2017 – Cosco Shipping Ports Limited has published the following press release regarding its acquisition of Noatum...
Venice sees fewer cruise ship visits
Venice, Italy (PortSEurope) June 13, 2017 – Porto di Venezia (Venice port authority) is forecasting a 10% fall in the number of cruise ships visiting Venice...
Noatum Logistics to start operating new warehouse at Barcelona port logistics zone
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) June 12, 2017 – Noatum Logistics plans to start operating a new logistics platform in the Prat logistics zone area of...
Spanish minister confident in positive outcome of dockworkers, employers meeting
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) June 12, 2017 – Spanish Public Works Minister Íñigo de la Serna has expressed his confidence that the meeting between dock...
Algeciras port extends Cadiz container terminal bidding deadline to October 31
Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) June 12, 2017 – Algeciras port authority (Autoridad Portuaria Bahía de Algeciras) has extended until October 31 the deadline...
Spain’s Trasmediterránea presents summer season offer
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) June 12, 2017 – Spanish ferry company Trasmediterránea organised an official presentation of its offer during the summer...
DP World starts offering Tarragona-Genoa regular line
Tarragona, Spain (PortSEurope) June 12, 2017 – DP World has started offering a regular shipping line between Spain’s Tarragona and Italy’s Genoa...
Cosco agrees to acquire 51% stake in Noatum Ports
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) June 12, 2017 – Chinese company Cosco Shipping Ports Limited has signed an agreement to acquire a 51% stake in the capital of...
Basque Country, Castile and Leon regions lobby for shorter Madrid-Bilbao port route
Bilbao, Spain (PortSEurope) June 12, 2017 – Basque and Castile and Leon regional government officials have called on the central government to initiate a...
Tenerife Ports Authority attends international Paris energy meeting
Tenerife, Spain (PortSEurope) June 12, 2017 – A delegation consisting of representatives from La Autoridad Portuaria de Santa Cruz de Tenerife (Santa...
Stevedore strike affects Barcelona port
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) June 12, 2017 – After last Monday’s strike in the Port of Barcelona, a new strike began on Wednesday. Only...
Spain’s port strike causes €36 million loss
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) June 9, 2017 – The third day of this week’s port dockers’ strike is followed by almost all stevedores, as in the...
Spanish public works minister says companies to leave Spain due to dockworkers strike
Santander, Spain (PortSEurope) June 9, 2017 – Spanish Public Works Minister Íñigo de la Serna has called on trade unions to stop the strikes in the...