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Piraeus Container Terminal S.A.- April 2017 container terminal statistics
Piraeus, Greece (PortSEurope) –Â Piraeus Container Terminal S.A., part of the Chinese Cosco shipping group, has reported April 2017 container terminal...
Las Palmas port analyses extension of Santa Catalina dock
Las Palmas, Spain (PortSEurope) May 18, 2017 – Las Palmas port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Las Palmas) plans to extend the dock of Santa Catalina. One...
Spanish dockworkers trade unions express readiness to negotiate
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) May 18, 2017 – Spanish dockworkers trade unions consider that the government is “giving” them a...
Spanish minister asks dockworkers for “common sense”
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) May 18, 2017 – Spanish Minister of Public Works, Inigo de la Serna, today asked trade unions of dockers and employers for...
Basque Country, Navarre governments discuss connectivity of Bilbao, Pasaia ports to Pamplona
Bilbao, Spain (PortSEurope) May 18, 2017 – Representatives of the governments of the Basque Country and Navarre held a working meeting in Pamplona to analyse...
Mariupol port grain traffic declines 1.8% y/y in Jan-Apr 2017
Mariupol, Ukraine (PortSEurope) May 18, 2017 – In January-April 2017, Mariupol seaport handled 141,860 tonnes of grain, which is 1.8% less than in the same...
Spanish Congress ratifies stowage sector reform decree
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) May 18, 2017 – The Spanish Congress of Deputies has ratified by a simple majority the royal decree of reform of the...
Port of Barcelona – Traffic Indicators – Accumulated data March 2017
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) May 18,2017 – The Port of Barcelona has published accumulated traffic statistics for March 2017: TRAFFIC INDICATORS...
Cosco reports April 2017 container terminal statistics
Hong Kong, China (PortSEurope) April 18, 2017 – Cosco Shipping has announced April 2017 container terminals throughput. The three Mediterranean Sea container...
Spain: Puertos del Estado – March 2017 cargo traffic by port authority
Madrid, Spain (PortSEurope) May 18, 2017 – Puertos del Estado, the state-run ports system, reports March 2017 cargo traffic (tonnes) statistics by port...
Productivity declines at Valencia port as government prepares new stowage sector law
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) May 17, 2017 – The slight decrease in productivity, which began on May 15 in Valencia port, was consolidated on May 16....
Huelva port awards railway rehabilitation deal to Acciona
Huelva, Spain (PortSEurope) May 17, 2017 – Huelva port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Huelva) and Acciona Construcción S.A. have signed a contract worth...
Spain’s Adif plans actions for overhaul of Bobadilla-Algeciras line
Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) May 17, 2017 – Spanish state-owned railway operator Adif is carrying out the inspection of the Bobadilla-Algeciras railway...
Croatia gets EU funding for construction of bulk terminal in Osijek
Osijek, Croatia (PortSEurope) May 17, 2017 – The Croatian government has agreed a EU financing for the construction of bulk cargo terminal in Osijek. The...
Occitanie region targets 4.6 million tonnes of cargo traffic at Sète port in 2020
Sète, France (PortSEurope) May 17, 2017 – France’s Occitanie region revealed a strategy to boost the competitiveness of Sète port. The objective is...
Portuguese stevedores not to service ships diverted from Spain
Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) May 17, 2017 – After the Spanish government approved a decree for the reform of the stowage sector and trade unions announced...
Spanish parliament to discuss stowage sector reform on May 18
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) May 17, 2017 – A new call for strikes in Spanish ports by the stowage trade unions has not had an impact, at the moment, on...
South Korea’s HMM to acquire entire capital of TTI Algeciras
Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) May 15, 2017 – South Korean shipping company Hyundai Merchant Marine (HMM) said that it will buy the entire share capital of...
Serbia to agree on financing of Bar-Belgrade motorway section in November
Bar, Montenegro (PortSEurope) May 16, 2017 – Serbian infrastructure minister Zorana Mihajlovic said she expects to sign a contract for the financing of the...
Valencia port authority container traffic rises 10% y/y in April
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) May 16, 2017 – The ports operated by Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia), namely Valencia, Gandia and...