Port Operations
Venice port completes first LNG refueling of ship
Venice, Italy (PortSEurope) December 24, 2018 – Venice port has completed the third and last phase of its first refueling of a ship with liquefied natural...
Avilés port to invest €57 million in overhaul of Raíces dock
Avilés, Spain (PortSEurope) December 24, 2018 – Avilés port has said it plans to invest €57 million ($64.9 million) in a project for the overhaul of...
Denmark’s DFDS enters cooperation deal with Ekol, expands presence in Mediterranean
Trieste, Italy (PortSEurope) December 25, 2018 – Danish shipping group DFDS, which has recently expanded its presence in the Mediterranean market with...
Cartagena port to join MEDPorts association
Cartagena, Spain (PortSEurope) December 25, 2018 The MEDPorts association, which brings together twenty of the main ports and state port agencies of the...
Lebanon’s Tripoli port becomes central destination for weekly shipments from China
Tripoli, Lebanon (PortSEurope) December 25, 2018 – Lebanon’s Tripoli port has become a central destination for weekly shipments from China to the...
Sevastopol port to sign trade agreement with Syria’s Tartus harbour
Sevastopol, Crimea (PortSEurope) December 25, 2018 – A delegation from the Crimea’s port of Sevastopol will visit the Syrian harbour of...
Santander port in talks to terminate contract with builder FCC
Santander, Spain (PortSEurope) December 25, 2018 – Santander port has started negotiations with civil engineering company Fomento de Construcciones y...
Montenegro’s Bar port invites bids for two projects
Bar, Montenegro (PortSEurope) December 25, 2018 – Montenegrin port operator Luka Bar a.d. Bar has invited bids for the implementation of a project for the...
Haifa container terminal deal with China’s SIPG under review
Haifa, Israel (PortSEurope) December 23, 2018 – The Israeli government is widely believed to be reviewing the March 2015 deal that gives China’s Shanghai...
Amazon gets plot concession at Seville port’s logistics zone
Seville, Spain (PortSEurope) December 21, 2018 – Seville port authority has approved the concession of a land plot at its logistics zone to US e-commerce...
Spain’s SATO to build outer harbour wall at Arrecife port
Arrecife, Canary Islands, Spain (PortSEurope) December 21, 2018 – Spanish company SATO has won a €8.1 million ($9.2 million) contract for the...
A Coruña port postpones launch of Punta Langosteira railway project
A Coruña, Spain (PortSEurope) December 21, 2018 – A Coruña port has postponed by more than a year the works for the construction of a railway line in...
Vopak Terquimsa starts liquid bulk operations at Barcelona port terminal
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) December 21, 2018 – Spanish company Vopak Terquimsa, a specialist in the storage, processing and transport...
Volkswagen to keep exports via Vigo despite end of Setúbal port strike
Vigo, Spain (PortSEurope) December 21, 2018 – German carmaker Volkswagen AG has said it plans to continue the export of cars produced at its Palmela factory...
Spain’s Gmetal gets 30-year plot concession at Seville port
Seville, Spain (PortSEurope) December 21, 2018 – Spanish company General de Metalistería, Maquetas y Diseños (Gmetal) has signed a 30-year concession for...
ExxonMobil to use Valencia port as main base in Mediterranean
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) December 21, 2018 – US oil company ExxonMobil plans to make Valencia port one of its bases in the Mediterranean in the first...
Croatia’s Uljanik cancels strategic partnership with Kermas Energija
Rijeka, Croatia (PortSEurope) December 21, 2018 – Croatian shipbuilder Uljanik has cancelled a decision to select investment company Kermas Energija as a...
UK Major Ports Group welcomes step-up in no deal planning
London, United Kingdom (PortSEurope) December 21, 2018 – Tim Morris, Chief Executive of the UK Major Ports Group, has welcomed the UK government to...
Ukraine government adopts new maritime policy
Odessa, Ukraine (PortSEurope) December 21, 2018 – The Ukrainian government has approved an updated Maritime Doctrine for the period up to 2035, a...
AdSP del Mare Di Sardegna (Cagliari) signs port workers agreement
Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy (PortSEurope) December 21, 2018 – From 1 April 2019, 29 former employees of Compagnia Lavoratori Portuali di Cagliari (Cagliari...