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All news from Ports Europe categorised by searchable individual industry categories.
Valencia port container traffic declines due to labour conflict
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) April 25, 2017 – In the first three months of the year, total cargo traffic at Valencia port fell by 1.2% and container...
Barcelona port hosts christening of MSC Cadiz ship
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) April 25, 2017 – The Barcelona Europe South Terminal (BEST) has hosted the christening of the container ship “MSC...
Boluda starts operating towage services at Mexico’s Manzanillo port
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) April 25, 2017 – Boluda Towage and Salvage, the tugboat division of Spanish group Boluda Corporación MarÃtima, through its...
Setubal port cargo traffic falls 4.9% in 2016
Setubal, Portugal (PortSEurope) April 24, 2017 – The first quarter of 2017 is proving very good for Portuguese ports, with Lisbon announcing 33% growth,...
Aveiro port books record-high cargo traffic in Q1 2017
Aveiro, Portugal (PortSEurope) April 24, 2017 – Aveiro port booked a record-high cargo traffic of 1.216 million tonnes for the first quarter of 2017, up 18%....
USPA awards Port Yuzhniy dredging deal to Novadeal
Port Yuzhniy, Ukraine (PortSEurope) April 24, 2017 – Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority (USPA) has awarded a contract for the dredging of the access channel to...
Pasaia port remains dependent on steel, cars
Pasaia, Spain (PortSEurope) April 25, 2017 – Statistics on port traffic in Pasaia in the first quarter of 2017 reveal its high dependence on steel products...
Huelva port awards Majarabique rehabilitation works to Acciona
Huelva, Spain (PortSEurope) April 26, 2017 – Huelva port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Huelva) has awarded to Spanish company Acciona Construction S.A....
Port of Sète to be represented at Breakbulk Europe
Sète, France (PortSEurope) April 26, 2017 – The port of Sète will be present at 12th Breakbulk Europe event to be held in Antwerp 24-26 April....
EU invests €22.1 million supporting synergies between transport & energy sectors
Brussels, Belgium, April 24, 2017 – EU invests €22.1 million supporting synergies between transport & energy sectors Today, EU Member States...
Trieste handles more trains in Q1 2017
Trieste, Italy (PortSEurope) April 26, 2017 – Trieste port handled more than 2,000 trains in the first quarter of 2017, a 20.06% increase on the same...
Nantes port awards inland waterway freight transport deal to CLT
Nantes, France (PortSEurope) April 25, 2017 – Nantes port has awarded a contract for the operation of inland waterway transport of cargo as of January 1,...
Sagunto port consolidates as major Spanish hub for car traffic
Sagunto, Spain (PortSEurope) April 25, 2017 – Sagunto port consolidates as one of the main logistic hubs of Spain for the traffic of cars. With a traffic of...
Santander port handles record number of cars in Q1 2017
Santander, Spain (PortSEurope) April 25, 2017 – Santander port serviced record-high 135,484 cars in the first quarter of 2017, up 19.11% on the year. The...
China’s CRCC representatives visit Lisbon port
Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) April 24, 2017 – Lisbon port has received a delegation of China Railway Construction Corporation (CRCC) and its subsidiaries...
Repsol, Enagás complete first pipe-to-ship bunkering in Europe at Cartagena port
Cartagena, Spain (PortSEurope) April 24, 2017 – Spanish companies Repsol and Enagás have for the first time in Europe supplied a ship with liquefied natural...
Cadiz starts home port feasibility study
Cadiz, Spain (PortSEurope) April 24, 2017 – Cadiz port authority (Autoridad Portuaria BahÃa de Cádiz) has reported that the start of the high season of...
Valencia port recovers cruise traffic in 2017
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) April 24, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) and the region’s tourist organisation said...
Santander port starts construction of dock at Raos terminal
Santander, Spain (PortSEurope) April 24, 2017 – Santander port has started work on the construction of dock 9 at Raos terminal, an infrastructure that will...
Berdyansk cargo traffic falls 43.3% y/y in Q1 2017
Berdyansk, Ukraine (PortSEurope) April 23, 2017 – The cargo turnover of Berdyansk port in January-March 2017 amounted to 300,700 tonnes, which is 43.3% lower...