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Austrian business delegation visits Koper port
Koper, Slovenia (PortSEurope) May 29, 2017 –Â Â On 24th May, Koper port hosted a delegation of Austrian businessmen. The delegation included 40...
Agreement for installation of automatic container management system in Rades port inked
Rades, Tunisia (PortSEurope) May 29, 2017 – A system for automatic management of containers and rolling units will be installed at the port of Rades...
Trieste port’s Pier VII receives crane upgrade
Trieste, Italy (PortSEurope) May 28, 2017 – The upgrading phase of the second crane of Trieste’s container terminal has been carried out in the past...
Reconstruction works at Tanger Port completed at 70% as of May 2017
Tangier, Morocco (PortSEurope) May 28, 2017 – Reconstruction works for the transformation of the Tanger Med Port in a port of pleasure and a terminal for...
French Port of Marseille Fos will pay premiums to ecological ships
Marseille, France (PortSEurope) May 28, 2017 – The Port of Marseille Fos will implement from July 1, 2017 special incentives for environmentally friendly...
Traffic of commodities via Algiers port declines Y/Y in Jan-Mar 2017
Algiers, Algeria (PortSEurope) May 29, 2017 – Traffic of commodities in the port of Algiers showed a slight decline yearly in the first quarter of 2017. A...
Spanish government approves Sagunto port railway access project
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) May 26, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) announced the approval by the Spanish Ministry of...
India’s SCI incorporates Barcelona into Indian Subcontinent-Mediterranean service
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) May 26, 2017 – The Shipping Corporation of India Ltd (SCI) has incorporated Barcelona port to its service between the Indian...
Bulgarian ports passenger traffic rises 61.5% y/y in Q1 2017
Varna, Bulgaria (PortSEurope) May 26, 2017 – Bulgarian sea and river ports handled a total of 12,500 passengers in the first quarter of 2017, up 61.5% on the...
Vigo port cargo traffic declines in April
Vigo, Spain (PortSEurope) May 26, 2017 – Vigo port cargo traffic fell by 6.5% on the year in April, due to the decline in container traffic and fresh fish,...
Ukrainian ports handle 16.3 million tonnes of grain in May
Odessa, Ukraine (PortSEurope) May 26, 2017 – Ukrainian ports handled 16.3 million tonnes of grain in May 2017, the president of Ukraine Sea Ports Authority...
Voltri Terminal Europa orders 21 electric cranes from China’s Zhenhua
Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) May 26, 2017 – Voltri Terminal Europa S.p.A, the operator of Genoa container terminal PSA Voltri Prà has ordered the delivery of...
APM Terminals Barcelona beats container record
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) May 26, 2017 – The “OOCL Brussels” container ship carried out a total of 4,607 movements at APM Terminals...
Greece to capitalise on sea tourism’s growth via concession and PPP investment models
Piraeus, Greece (PortSEurope) May 26, 2017 –Â Elena Kountoura, Greek Minister of Tourism, has addressed delegates at the 4th Posidonia Sea Tourism Forum,...
Spanish association complains about service quality at Noatum terminal in Valencia
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) May 25, 2017 – Spanish association of container transport companies Asociación de Empresas de LogÃstica y Transporte de...
Spain’s Anesco calls on stevedoring trade union to stick to commitments
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) May 25, 2017 – Spanish stevedoring companies association Asociación Nacional de Empresas Estibadoras y Consignatarias de...
Barcelona port to test natural gas-fired power generator this summer
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) May 25, 2017 – Barcelona port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Barcelona) plans to start tests of a natural gas-fired power...
Termisur Eurocargo looks at Huelva port-Canary Islands container line
Huelva, Spain (PortSEurope) May 25, 2017 – Spanish company Termisur Eurocargo S.A. has announced the characteristics and potential of the new regular...
Gijón-Nantes Motorway of the Sea attracts interest of “one or two” companies
Gijón, Spain (PortSEurope) May 25, 2017 – Spanish national ports agency Puertos del Estado’s president José Llorca said that there are “one or...
USPA signs second contract for Port Yuzhniy dredging with China’s CHEC
Port Yuzhniy, Ukraine (PortSEurope) May 25, 2017 – Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority (USPA) has signed a second contract with China Harbor Engineering Сompany...