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All news from Ports Europe categorised by searchable individual industry categories.
COSCO to improve services at Algeciras port
Algeciras, Spain (Ports Europe) February 23, 2017 – COSCO Shipping Lines, the company that resulted from the merger of COSCO Container Lines and China...
Unions press Spanish government to negotiate stowage system with workers – IDC
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) February 13, 2017 –Â A press release from the International Dockworkers Council (IDC). International protest rises...
Global dockworkers trade union expresses support to longshoremen in Spain
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) February 21, 2017 – Global trade union International Dockworkers Council (IDC) has expressed its support to Spanish...
Spanish trade unions call strikes at ports as of Mar 6
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) February 21, 2017 – Spanish dockworker trade unions announced a strike on March 6 against government plans to adopt a law...
Barcelona port calls tender for urbanisation of Cruise Terminal E
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) February 22, 2017 – The Barcelona port board of directors approved a tender for the urbanisation of the space adjacent to...
Ignazio Messina’s employees at Genoa port agree labour deal
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) February 22, 2017 – The employees of Italian company Ignazio Messina & C at Genoa port have signed an agreement changing...
Royal Caribbean cancels calls at Turkish ports
Istanbul, Turkey (Ports Europe) February 22, 2017 – US cruise company Royal Caribbean has cancelled all calls at Turkish ports for 2017. Royal Caribbean...
Algeria’s MCI presents line to Spain at ceramics fair
Castellon, Spain (Ports Europe) February 22, 2017 – Algerian company Maghreb Container International (MCI) S.L. is participating in the international...
Japan’s JICA analyses Port Yuzhniy reconstruction
Port Yuzhniy, Ukraine (Ports Europe) February 22, 2017 – Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has started an analysis of the project for...
Nika-Tera port doubles cargo traffic in Jan 2017
Mykolaiv, Ukraine (Ports Europe) February 22, 2017 – Ukrainian private port Nika-Tera, located near Mykolaiv, handled a total of 330,500 tonnes of cargo in...
Huelva port calls tender for Majarabique railway terminal work
Huelva, Spain (Ports Europe) February 21, 2017 – Huelva port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Huelva) has called a tender for the rehabilitation of the...
Cosco reports January 2017 container terminal statistics
Hong Kong, China (Ports Europe) February 21, 2017 – Cosco Shipping has announced January 2017 container terminals throughput. The three Mediterranean Sea...
A Coruna port cargo traffic rises 21% in Jan 2017
A Coruna, Spain (Ports Europe) February 21, 2017 – A Coruna port handled 1.28 million tonnes of cargo in January, up 21.28% from 1.03 million tonnes in...
Sines port container terminal handles record-high traffic in Jan 2017
Sines, Portugal (Ports Europe) February 21, 2017 – Sines port’s Terminal XXI handled 162,000 TEUs in January, the largest traffic serviced by a...
Leixoes port container terminal quickens handling of trucks
Leixoes, Portugal (Ports Europe) February 21, 2017 –Â Productivity combined with fast processing of trucks. This is how the activity of Leixoes container...
EKOL launches regular line linking Izmir to Paris via Sète port
Sète, France (Ports Europe) February 21, 2017 – Turkish company EKOL has started operating a regular line connecting the Izmir port to France’s...
Environmentalists appeal against Vado Ligure terminal construction
Vado Ligure, Italy (Ports Europe) February 21, 2017 – Italian environmentalist organisation Italia Nostra has filed an appeal with the regional...
Castellon port to launch plan to boost cruise traffic
Castellon, Spain (Ports Europe) February 21, 2017 – Castellon port’s development foundation PortCastello plans to launch a plan to increase the...
Intercontainer applies for concession at Valencia port
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) February 21, 2017 – Valencia-based company Intercontainer has applied with Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria...
Russia’s NCSP cargo volumes up in January 2017
Novorossiysk, Russia (Ports Europe) February 21, 2017 – NCSP (Novorossiysk Commercial Sea Port) group has reported that consolidated cargo turnover for...