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Spanish cruise ports aim to hit 9.5 million passenger mark by 2020
Malaga, Spain (Ports Europe) March 25, 2017 – Spain’s cruise ports welcomed a record 8.7 million passengers in 2016, a 0.6% rise from 2015. Ports in...
DP World Limassol welcomes first maiden call cruise ship
Limassol, Cyprus (Ports Europe) March 25, 2017 –Â DP World Limassol has successfully welcomed the maiden call of the newest cruise ship in the world,...
Valencia port receives visit of foundation for support of railway operations between China, Spain
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) March 24, 2017 – Valencia port received this week a visit of a delegation from the Foundation for Exchange between Yiwu and...
Bilbao port calls tender for construction of warehouse at AZ-2 dock
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) March 24, 2017 – Bilbao port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Bilbao) has called a tender for the construction of the...
Increased rail traffic at Bilbao port
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) march 23, 2017 – Last year, 1,615 tanker trucks loaded approximately 40,000 tons of LNG at the BahÃa Bizkaia Gas facilities...
Bilbao maritime cruise station set to open
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) March 23, 2017 – On 29 March, concurrently with the call of P&O’s Brittania, the new Bilbao maritime cruise station...
Bilbao port handles largest container ship ever
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) March 23, 2017 – The “Cezanne” vessel of Danish shipping group Maersk became the largest container ship ever to...
Dockworkers, employers’ association fail to strike deal on stowage agreement
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) March 22, 2017 – The meeting between the stevedoring unions and the employers’ association ANESCO on the collective...
Galicia government awards Ferrol-A Coruna railway contract
Ferrol, Spain (Ports Europe) March 23, 2017 – Galicia regional government has awarded the contract for an analysis of potential alternatives for the...
MTL Feeder to launch regular sea service connecting Castellon, Barcelona to Alexandria
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) March 23, 2017 – Container feeder operator MTL Feeder (Maritime Tunisian Line) plans to launch a new regular sea service,...
Aviles port cargo traffic rises 6.36% in Jan-Feb 2017
Aviles, Spain (Ports Europe) March 23, 2017 – Aviles port handled a total of 677,311 tonnes of cargo in the first two months of 2017, 40,498 more than in the...
Canary Islands government, Tenerife port discuss construction link
Tenerife, Spain (Ports Europe) March 23, 2017 – The regional government of the Canary Islands and Tenerife port authority (Autoridad Portuaria Santa Cruz de...
Cosco to start Bilbao-Mexico service
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) March 23, 2017 –Â Cosco Shipping Lines, whose agent is Vasco Shipping Services, will start operating a new weekly service...
Port of Sibenik – Maritime Passenger Terminal
Sibenik, Croatia (Ports Europe) March 23, 2017 – The Port of Sibenik Authority (PSA) has used a loan from the European Bank for Reconstruction and...
Spanish dockworkers ask government to adopt retirement plan
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) March 22, 2017 – Representatives of Spanish dockworkers have asked the government to adopt a preliminary retirement plan...
Boluda incorporates vessel into tugboat fleet
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) March 22, 2017 – Boluda Towage and Salvage, a division of Spanish group Boluda Corporacion Maritima, has added a new...
Cartagena port okays plan for development of logistics activities zone
Cartagena, Spain (Ports Europe) March 22, 2017 – Cartagena port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Cartagena) gave the green light to a plan for the...
Bayonne port participates in 16th edition of Interpyrenic Cereal Exchange fair
Bayonne, France (Ports Europe) March 22, 2017 – Bayonne port participated last week as an exhibitor in the 16th edition of Interpyrenic Cereal Exchange fair,...
TMT increases container and intermodal traffic during February
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) March 22, 2017 –Â The volumes in TEU moved by Trieste Marine Terminal S.p.A. (TMT) in February 2017 show an increase of...
Trieste, port and dry port continue integration
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) March 22, 2017 – The authority that manages Trieste’s port of call continues to expand the complete integration between...