Port Operations
UPCT to carry out two environmental studies at Cartagena port
Cartagena, Spain (PortSEurope) December 28, 2018 – Researchers from Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena (UPCT – Polytechnic University of Cartagena)...
Iran to start meat, livestock imports through Turkey’s Trabzon port
Trabzon, Turkey (PortSEurope) December 28, 2018 – Iran plans to start imports of livestock and meat from Turkey’s Trabzon port, managing director of...
Trieste port to benefit from DFDS, Ekol cooperation
Trieste, Italy (PortSEurope) December 28, 2018 – Trieste port expects to take advantage of the cooperation agreement signed between Danish shipping group...
Bergé, Gefco establish Spain’s largest car logistics operator
Santander, Spain (PortSEurope) December 28, 2018 – Spanish companies Bergé and Gefco announced the signing of the agreement to create the leading provider...
Montenegro’s Luka Kotor awarded concession to operate Kotor port
Kotor, Montenegro (PortSEurope) December 28, 2018 – Montenegrin company Luka Kotor has received a concession for the operation of the Kotor port in the...
Cuba shows interest in Almería port’s services
Almería, Spain (PortSEurope) December 27, 2018 – Cuba is interested in the services of Almería port, Cuba’s consul general in Seville, Alejandro...
Suez Canal executes complicated FPSO towing operation
Suez, Egypt (PortSEurope) December 27, 2018 – The Suez Canal Authority has carried out the complicated operation of towing a floating system for the...
Trade union protests against Solvay’s decision to alter Santander port service
Santander, Spain (PortSEurope) December 27, 2018 – The change in the concession of the road transport service of Belgian chemical company Solvay to Santander...
Las Palmas port’s container traffic declines in November
Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain (PortSEurope) December 27, 2018 Container traffic at Las Palmas port turned negative in November with a fall of 15.53% on the...
Tarragona handles export of CCR system units to USA
Tarragona, Spain (PortSEurope) December 27, 2018 – Tarragona port handled last week the export to the USA of six independent modules of a complete unit of...
Cartagena port expects record-high 165 cruise calls in 2019
Cartagena, Spain (PortSEurope) December 27, 2018 – Cartagena port received on December 26 the last cruise of the year, the ship Aidamar, belonging to the...
Montenegro’s Bar port names executive director
Bar, Montenegro (PortSEurope) December 27, 2018 – Montenegrin port operator Luka Bar d.d. has named Vladan Vučelić executive director. The...
Trieste port expects more investments in 2019
Trieste, Italy (PortSEurope) December 26, 2018 – Trieste port expects to attract several investors in 2019, in order to take advantage of its the...
Las Palmas port opens probe into contaminated water spill accident
Las Palmas, Spain (PortSEurope) December 26, 2018 – Las Palmas port has opened an investigation to clarify the causes of a...
Italian association dissatisfied with lack of reforms on private marinas operation
Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) December 26, 2018 – Italian association Ucina Confindustria has expressed its dissatisfaction with the lack of actions on the...
Castellón port to invest €20.3 million in 2019
Castellón, Spain (PortSEurope) December 26, 2018 – Castellón port’s board of directors has ratified the business plan for 2019, which includes...
Gijón port awards €42,000 insurance services contract to Aon Gil y Carvajal
Gijón, Spain (PortSEurope) December 26, 2018 – Autoridad Portuaria de Gijón (APG – Port Authority of Gijón) has awarded a €42,000 ($47,800)...
Cádiz port attracts winter season cruise calls
Cádiz, Spain (PortSEurope) December 26, 2018 – Cádiz port has booked record-high cruise figures in 2018, with 322 registered calls, making the industry...
Portugal to invest €12 million in ro-ro ramp at Porto das Pipas harbour
Porto das Pipas, Azores Islands, Portugal (PortSEurope) December 26, 2018 – The capacity overhaul project at Porto das Pipas in Portugal’s Azores...
Suez Canal studies ways for developing Ain Sokhna project
Suez, Egypt (PortSEurope) December 24, 2018 – The Suez Canal Economic Zone (SCZone) is conducting a study on the mechanism for implementing a partnership...