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Turkey leading trade partner for Durrës port

Durrës, Albania (Ports Europe)  January 17, 2017 – Turkey ranks first for the highest volume of goods handled in Durrës port. In 2016, 26% of goods...

Durrës port handles 3.5 million tonnes in cargo

Durrës, Albania (Ports Europe) January 13, 2017 –  In 2016 Durrës port handled nearly 3.5 million tons of cargo, of which more than 1.2 million tons...

Livorno port launches intermodal terminal

Livorno, Italy (Ports Europe) January 10, 2017 – With a total investment of around €40 million ($42.3 million), Livorno port has opened a new...

Trieste Marine Terminal increases container throughput in 2016

Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) January 17, 2017 – Trieste Marine Terminal S.p.A. ended 2016 with a container throughput of 449,481 TEU, up 1.6% on 2015,...

Trieste Marine Terminal reports record rail growth in 2016

Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) January 17, 2017 – Rail volumes at Trieste Marine Terminal S.p.A. (TMT) increased by 26.5% in 2016, compared with the...

Marin port breaks cargo traffic record in 2016

Marin, Spain (Ports Europe) January 18, 2017 – Marin port booked a new record in 2016 by handling 2.34 million tonnes of cargo, up 9.38% on the year,...

Motril port presents plan to promote tourism via ferry lines with Morocco

Motril, Spain (Ports Europe) January 18, 2017 – Motril port has presented at the International Tourism Fair (Fitur) a Plan of Action of Tourism for...

Cagliari port to handle 400,000 cruise passengers in 2017

Cagliari, Italy (Ports Europe) January 18, 2017 – Cagliari port expects to handle 400,000 cruise passengers in 2017, versus 260,000 last year. The...

GPH acquires controlling stake in Cagliari Cruise Terminal

Cagliari, Italy (Ports Europe) January 18, 2017 – Global Ports Holding (GPH), a world leader in the cruise sector, has acquired a controlling stake in...

GPH invests €24.9 million in Bar port container terminal over three years

Bar, Montenegro (Ports Europe) January 18, 2017 – Global Ports Holding (GPH) has invested a total of €24.9 million ($26.6 million) in the container...

Depot Zona Franca acquires reachstacker

Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) January 18, 2017 – Depot Zona Franca, the logistics operator of Barcelona port’s free trade zone, has invested...

Italian, Catalan logistics, maritime companies meet at Barcelona port

Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) January 17, 2017 – Representatives of several Italian and Catalan companies from the logistics and maritime sector met on...

CMA CGM consolidates services at Castellon port

Castellon, Spain (Ports Europe) January 17, 2017 – French shipping group CMA CGM continues to consolidate its commitment to Castellon port. As a result...

Temagra improves operations at Valencia port bulk terminal

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) January 17, 2017 – Terminal Marítima de Graneles, S.L. (Temagra), the operator of the bulk terminal of Valencia port, has...

Italian ports boost recovery of container traffic in Mediterranean region

Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) January 17, 2017 – For once the ports of northern Europe are not the best on the continent, the ones that drive the...

DP World to develop commercial zone in Aktau port

Aktau, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) January 16, 2017 – Dubai’s DP World has signed an agreement with Kazakhstan to develop a special economic zone in the...

Spanish company Tamaran starts operating Motril-Genoa container line

Motril, Spain (Ports Europe) January 16, 2017 – Spanish shipping company Naviera Tamaran S.A., a subsidiary of JSV Logistic, has started operating a regular...

Huelva port expects 400% jump in container traffic Y/Y in 2017

Huelva, Spain (Ports Europe) January 16, 2017 – Huelva port plans to increase container traffic by more than 400% this year, from around 12,000 TEUs in 2016...

Grimaldi Lines delivers cargo to Esbjerg

Gioia Tauro, Italy (Ports Europe) January 12, 2017 – Grimaldi Lines, the shipping line owned by the Naples-based Grimaldi Group, has started delivering...

Event – La Spezia port to attend Berlin Fruit Logistica

La Spezia, Italy (Ports Europe) January 10, 2017 – The Port of La Spezia will attend Fruit Logistica exhibition in Berlin February 8-10, 2017, as part of...

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