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Tarragona port handles 325 containers weekly on lines to West Africa
Tarragona, Spain (Ports Europe) January 12, 2017 – Tarragona port maintains a weekly direct service at the DP World container terminal with the African ports...
Naples port container traffic rises in 2016
Naples, Italy (Ports Europe) January 12, 2017 – After nearly three years of and strikes, container traffic at Naples port recorded growth, up 10.3% on the...
Kherson port cargo traffic declines by 10.2% Y/Y in 2016
Kherson, Ukraine (Ports Europe) January 12, 2016 – Kherson port handled 3.71 million tonnes of cargo in 2016, down by 10.2% on the year. The liquid bulk...
Mediterranean ports boost Asia-Europe container traffic
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) January 12, 2017 – The container traffic between Asia and Europe rose for the sixth consecutive month in November, an increase of...
OFP Atlantique almost hits annual cargo traffic target set for 2018
Nantes, France (Ports Europe) January 12, 2017 – French company OFP Atlantique, owned by La Rochelle and Nantes ports, together with Euro Cargo Rail,...
Naples port to open San Vincenzo dock to public in summer 2017
Naples, Italy (Ports Europe) January 12, 2017 – San Vincenzo dock in Naples will be open to the public as of the summer of 2017, as the port authority of the...
Valencia port authority awards €143,538 contract for urbanisation of land plot
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) January 12, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) has awarded a €143,538 ($152,996) contract to...
Norton Edificios builds fertilisers storage complex at Aviles port
Aviles, Spain (Ports Europe) January 11, 2017 – Spanish company Norton Edificios Industriales S.A., with offices in Bilbao, Madrid, Colombia and Peru,...
Huelva port expects container traffic of at least 50,000 TEUs in 2017
Huelva, Spain (Ports Europe) January 11, 2017 – Huelva port closed 2016 with a total cargo traffic of 30.7 million tonnes, an increase of 12% over the...
Balearic Islands ports to receive €42.3 million investment in 2017
Palma de Mallorca, Spain (Ports Europe) January 11, 2017 – The five state-owned ports on the Balearic Islands, Palma de Mallorca, Alcudia, Ibiza, Mahon and...
Rostov-on-Don port cargo traffic rises 13.3% Y/Y in 2016
Rostov-on-Don, Russia (Ports Europe) January 11, 2016 – Rostov-on-Don port handled 19.385 million tonnes of cargo in 2016, up 13.3% on the year,...
Azov port cargo traffic edges up 0.8% Y/Y in 2016
Azov, Russia (Ports Europe) January 11, 2016 – Azov port handled 9.755 million tonnes of cargo in 2016, up 0.8% on the year, harbourmaster Vladimir Bragin...
Port Yuzhniy cargo traffic declines by 19% Y/Y in 2016
Mykolaiv, Ukraine (Ports Europe) January 9, 2017 – Port Yuzhniy handled 39.292 million tonnes of cargo in 2016, down 19.12% on the year, Ukrainian national...
Huelva port awarded contract to operate Majarabique railway terminal
Huelva, Spain (Ports Europe) January 10, 2017 – Huelva port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Huelva) has been awarded a contract for the operation of the...
Castellon port southern road access offsets 1,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions in one year
Castellon, Spain (Ports Europe) January 10, 2017 – The new access to the south dock Castellon port has been in operation in one year now, improving road...
Gioia Tauro port trade unions say harbour depends entirely on MSC
Gioia Tauro, Italy (Ports Europe) January 10, 2017 – “The global crisis that hit the transshipment sector has been exacerbated by the gradual and...
Ponta Delgada port starts reinforcement works on main dock
Ponta Delgada, Portugal (Ports Europe) January 10, 2017 – The preparation works for the reinforcement of the main dock of Portugal’s Ponta Delgada port...
Mykolaiv port cargo traffic rises 0.6% Y/Y in 2016
Mykolaiv, Ukraine (Ports Europe) January 10, 2017 – Mykolaiv port cargo traffic edged up by 0.6% on the year in the first eleven months of 2016 to 23.37...
MacAndrews updates “Valencia Express” service
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) January 10, 2017 – UK shipping company MacAndrews has announced the update of its service “Valencia Express”,...
Malaga port handles three ships with destination Melilla
Malaga, Spain (Ports Europe) January 10, 2017 – Three ships with destination Melilla port coincided for the first time at Malaga port on January 8. Between...