Port Operations
Las Palmas port aims to become offshore wind power hub
Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain (PortSEurope) January 7, 2019 – Autoridad Portuaria de Las Palmas (APP – Port Authority of Las Palmas) aims to...
Orange, Vodafone to test 5G applications at Vigo port
Vigo, Spain (PortSEurope) January 7, 2019 – Telecoms groups Orange and Vodafone plan to test at the port of Vigo the possibilities of 5G technology in very...
Croatia’s Uljanik extends bid period for interested parties
Rijeka, Croatia (PortSEurope) January 7, 2019 – Croatian shipbuilder Uljanik d.d. has extended the time period available for interested parties to respond...
Piraeus Container Terminal S.A. – November 2018 container terminal statistics
Piraeus, Greece (PortSEurope) January 7, 2019 – Piraeus Container Terminal S.A., operated by China’s COSCO Shipping Ports Limited, has reported...
Ranking – COSCO Shipping Ports – November 2018 container throughput – overseas terminals
Piraeus, Greece (PortSEurope) January 7, 2019 – COSCO Shipping Ports Limited has published November 2018 container throughput. Below is the ranking of...
Morocco plans €165 million investment in 2019-2021 port plan
Casablanca, Morocco (PortSEurope) January 6, 2019 – The Moroccan government’s Agence Nationale des Ports (ANP – National Ports Agency) in...
AdSP del Mare Adriatico Meridionale (Bari) to finance Brindisi airport infrastructure overhaul
Bari, Italy (PortSEurope) January 4, 2019 – Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mare Adriatico Meridionale (AdSP – Southern Adriatic Sea Port...
MarÃn port to invest €20,000 in overhaul of PV plant
MarÃn, Spain (PortSEurope) January 4, 2019 – Autoridad Portuaria de MarÃn y RÃa de Pontevedra (APMRP – Port Authority of Marin) has awarded a...
Piraeus is the head of the dragon
Piraeus, Greece (PortSEurope) January 4, 2019 – Crisis? In Greece’s largest port of Piraeus, it is not felt. In the first nine months of 2018,...
Vigo port seeks storage space to cope with rising aluminium traffic
Vigo, Spain (PortSEurope) January 4, 2019 – Vigo port has started a desperate search for free land to offer to operators for the storage...
Salerno port calls dredging tender
Salerno, Italy (PortSEurope) January 4, 2019 – Salerno port has called a tender for a €220,000 ($250,000) dredging project to be carried out under the...
Luka Bar invites bids in IT system upgrade tender
Bar, Montenegro (PortSEurope) January 4, 2019 – Luka Bar, the operator of Montenegro’s Bar port, has invited bids for the reconstruction...
Luka Koper sells 15.2% stake in Portorož airport operator
Koper, Slovenia (PortSEurope) January 4, 2019 – Serbian entrepreneur Miodrag Kostić has taken control of the capital of Slovenian airport...
Alexandroupolis port set to benefit from regional port privatisation
Alexandroupolis, Greece (PortSEurope) January 3, 2019 – This month, the Greek parliament aims to pass legislation to allow the privatisation of a number...
Palermo port names secretary general
Palermo, Italy (PortSEurope) January 3, 2019 – Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mare di Sicilia Occidentale (AdSP – Western Sicilian Sea Port Authority)...
Nissan increases workforce at Barcelona port’s distribution centre
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) January 3, 2019 – The Nissan vehicle distribution centre in the port of Barcelona has increased its workforce by almost 50%...
Cartagena port handles first cruise ship of 2019
Cartagena, Spain (PortSEurope) January 3, 2019 – The Aidamar cruise ship, with more than 2,500 passengers, docked on January 3 at Cartagena port, which is...
Belgium’s North Sea Port eyes stronger links to Morocco
Tangier Med, Morocco (PortSEurope) January 3, 2019 – Belgian port platform North Sea Port’s CEO Daan Schalck has participated in a delegation of 500...
Portuguese dockworkers’ strike may cause damage to paper companies
Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) January 3, 2019 – The strike of dockworkers in Portugal is expected to have a negative impact on the export of paper mills...
Portuguese dockworkers to launch new six-month strike
Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) January 3, 2019 – Portugal’s dockworkers’ trade union Sindicato dos Estivadores e da Atividade LogÃstica (SEAL)...