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Israel’s Zim to introduce new network of transatlantic services in April
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) March 21, 2017 – Israeli company Zim Integrated Shipping Services plans to introduce its new network of transatlantic...
Bilbao port to handle 58 cruise ships this season
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) March 20, 2017 – Bilbao port expects 58 cruise ships to be docked at its Getxo cruise terminal this season, which starts...
NCSP reports Jan-Feb 2017 cargo turnover
Novorossiysk, Russia (Ports Europe) March 21, 2017 –Â NCSP Group has reported its consolidated cargo turnover for January-February 2017, slightly down on...
Damietta port sees 37% increase in January cargo
Damietta, Egypt (Ports Europe) March 20, 2017 –Â A report issued by the Damietta Port Authority showed a growth ratio of 6.3% in the number of docked...
Work on the Marseille north passage continues
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) March 21, 2017 – Work on the expansion of the North Passage continues. The objective is to facilitate access for large...
Koper port hosts Fresh Food Corridors meeting
Koper, Slovenia (Ports Europe) March 21, 2017 – Luka Koper has hosted a delegation of partners with the representative of the European executive...
Berdyansk port cargo traffic declines 44.3% Y/Y in Jan-Feb 2017
Berdyansk, Ukraine (Ports Europe) March 20, 2017 – Berdyansk port handled 160,300 tonnes of cargo in the first two months of 2017, down 44.3% on the...
BEST terminal operator starts Barcelona-Miranda del Ebro regular freight railway line
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) March 20, 2017 – Barcelona Europe South Terminal (BEST), a subsidiary of Hutchison Ports, has started operating a regular...
Coal, steel traffic disappearing from Ligurian ports
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) March 20, 2017 – Declining maritime freight rates, the closure of coal-fired power plants, industrial transformation: the...
Andalusia, Aragon jointly request state investment in Algeciras-Tarragona railway
Algeciras, Spain (Ports Europe) March 20, 2017 – The presidents of the Spanish autonomous regions of Andalusia and Aragon have signed a cooperation...
Cosco reports February 2017 container terminal statistics
Hong Kong, China (Ports Europe) March 18, 2017 – Cosco Shipping has announced February 2017 container terminals throughput. The three Mediterranean Sea...
Logistics crucial to the UK’s future success, says Minister
London, United Kingdom (Ports Europe) March 17, 2017 – Establishing strong global trading relationships, and maintaining the UK’s ability to deliver...
Spanish minister says rejection of stowage reform in Congress is surprising
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) March 17, 2017 – Spanish Public Works Minister Inigo de la Serna expressed his surprise with the result of the voting in...
Andalusian ports expect combined cruise traffic to rise by 10% in 2016
Cadiz, Spain (Ports Europe) March 17, 2017 – Andalusian ports expect their combined cruise traffic to rise by between 5% and 10% in 2016, the president...
Basque government, Public Works Ministry approve deal to improve Bilbao port railway
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) March 17, 2017 – Basque Country government and the Spanish Ministry of Public Works signed an agreement on the construction...
Spanish trade unions call off strikes of dockers
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) March 17, 2017 –Â Spanish trade unions have called off the strikes of dockworkers in the country, envisaged for March 17,...
Moroccan government to invest MAD 2.5 billion in port infrastructure this year
Casablanca, Morocco (Ports Europe) March 17, 2017 – This year will be marked by the launch of new infrastructure projects at Moroccan ports, l’Agence...
France’s Wlife to build warehouse at Marseille port
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) March 17, 2017 – Wlife, a property development and rehabilitation company based in Lyon, signed in January 2017 a...
UK could take advantage of Brexit to boost port sector
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) March 17, 2017 –Â The logistics sector generates nearly 10% of the French annual gross domestic product (GDP) and ports...
Seville port suspends Guadalquivir channel dredging project
Seville, Spain (Ports Europe) March 17, 2017 – Seville port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Sevilla) has suspended the project for the dredging of the...