Port Operations
Investments in Croatian port may reinforce Adriatic region’s economic growth
Rijeka, Croatia (PortSEurope) January 3, 2019 – Investments in the Croatian ports of Rijeka, Zadar and Ploče may have a crucial impact on the economic...
Galician ports’ fishing exports to UK increase in 2018
Vigo, Spain (PortSEurope) January 2, 2019 – Galicia-based companies have significantly increased their exports to the United Kingdom (UK) in 2018,...
Livorno port receives largest self-propelled crane in Europe
Livorno, Italy (PortSEurope) January 2, 2019 – Livorno port has received the largest self-propelled crane in Europe, which will start operating in the coming...
Cartagena port to handle 165 cruise calls in 2019
Cartagena, Spain (PortSEurope) January 2, 2019 – Cartagena port has “the best forecast in history” for the year 2019 with 165 confirmed cruise...
Italy’s Grimaldi Lines may leave Livorno port
Livorno, Italy (PortSEurope) January 2, 2019 – Grimaldi Lines, a shipping company of the Neapolitan shipowning group Grimaldi, could decide to leave the port...
Valencia port to introduce hydrogen-fuelled cargo handling operations
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) January 2, 2019 – Valencia may become the first port in Europe to incorporate hydrogen energy to reduce the environmental...
ANESCO urges Adif to restore rail traffic to Algeciras port
Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) January 2, 2019 – Asociación Nacional de Empresas Estibadoras (ANESCO – Spanish National Association of Stevedoring...
Montenegro’s Luka Bar records €5.37 million loss in Jan-Sep 2018
Bar, Montenegro (PortSEurope) January 2, 2019 – Montenegrin port operator Luka Bar AD Bar has closed the first nine months of 2018 with a loss of €5.37...
Spanish state ports to receive another €68.2 million of EU aid
Madrid, Spain (PortSEurope) January 1, 2019 – Puertos del Estado has negotiated, as an intermediary body for European aid, with the Spanish Ministry of...
Cruise Industry Commits to Reduce the Rate of Carbon Emissions Globally by 40 Percent by 2030
Press Release – Washington DC, United States – December 18, 2018 Cruise Industry Commits to Reduce the Rate of Carbon Emissions Globally by 40...
Suardíaz drives Vigo port’s traffic growth in 2018
Vigo, Spain (PortSEurope) December 31, 2018 – The Suardíaz group, headquartered in Madrid, ends the year as the growth generator of traffic at the port of...
Suez Canal settles dispute with Sewedy Group unit
Suez, Egypt (PortSEurope) December 31, 2018 – The Suez Canal Authority has settled a dispute with a subsidiary of Sewedy Group over the operation of a land...
Las Palmas port terminates tender for Nelson Mandela dock overhaul
Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain (PortSEurope) December 31, 2018 – Las Palmas port has opted to terminate the tender called at the end of November to find a...
Spain’s anti-trust watchdog warns against protectionist rules in port services
Madrid, Spain (PortSEurope) December 31, 2018 – Spain’s competition regulator has urged the country’s government to liberalise the port...
Gioia Tauro port approves budget for 2019, business plan for 2019-2021
Gioia Tauro, Italy (PortSEurope) December 31, 2018 – Gioia Tauro port’s board of directors has given the green light to the budget for next year and...
Deputy Minister of Transport appointed Member of the Board of Directors of NCSP
Novorossiysk, Russia (PortSEurope) December 30, 2018 – NCSP Group has announced that Yuriy Tsvetkov is appointed Member of the Board of Directors of NCSP...
AdSP del Mar Tirreno Centro-Settentrionale (Naples) records improved November 2018 cargo numbers
Naples, Italy (PortSEurope) December 30, 2018 – Data from Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Tirreno Centro-Settentrionale (AdSP –...
Spanish ports to receive €68.2 million of EU funding
Las Palmas, Spain (PortSEurope) December 25, 2018 – Twelve Spanish port authorities will distribute more than €68.2 million ($77.6 million) of...
Italy’s Grimaldi gets two awards from FCA
Naples, Italy (PortSEurope) December 28, 2018 – Italy’s Gruppo Grimaldi was awarded the best Ocean Carrier of the year for an extraordinary...
Azerbaijan’s Baku port handles first cargo transit of “Lapis Lazuli” route
Baku, Azerbaijan (PortSEurope) December 28, 2018 – Azerbaijan’s Baku port handled the first cargo transit operation on the international route...