Port Operations
Trieste traffic sees 10-month increase of over 3%
Trieste, Italy (PortSEurope) December 14, 2018 – With 52.9 million tons of goods handled, the total traffic volume in the port of Trieste grew by 3.48%...
Uir and Assoporti present in Tokyo the opportunities for investment in Italy
Naples, Italy (PortSEurope) December 14, 2018 –Â At the Italian Embassy in Tokyo, the President of Unione Interporti Riuniti, Matteo Gasparato, and the...
Ravenna Port System in Hong Kong
Ravenna, Italy (PortSEurope) December 14, 2018 – Ravenna port has sent a business mission to Hong Kong, China, to present the port’s business offer...
Isia Global Service is unfit for carrying out port operations
Gioia Tauro, Italy (PortSEurope) December 14, 2018 – The Regional Administrative Court of Reggio Calabria has ruled that the company Isia Global...
PSA Container Terminal of Sines surpasses TEU record of 2017
Sines, Portugal (PortSEurope) December 14, 2018 – Until December 12, Terminal XXI (Sines container terminal) handled 1,669,295 TEU, up 5% on the same...
Volkswagen plant in Pamela faces production suspension due to Setúbal port strike
Setúbal, Portugal (PortSEurope) December 14, 2018 – Autoeuropa, the Volkswagen AG can manufacturing facility in Palmela, has no further space to store...
“Mediterraneo” floating dock is operational again in Livorno port
Livorno, Italy (PortSEurope) December 14, 2018 – The “Mediterraneo” floating dock is operational again: normal haulage activities suspended...
Cagliari port hosts “Liquefied natural gas, prospects for maritime transport” event
Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy (PortSEurope) December 14, 2018 –Â Sardinia has hosted the conference, organized by the Regional Industry Council, entitled...
Minister of Economy considers situation in the port of Setúbal “serious”
Set̼bal, Portugal (PortSEurope) December 14, 2018 РDeputy Minister of the Economy, Pedro Siza Vieira, has described the situation...
Valencia Port and Traxens launch pilot internet-of-things project
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) December 16, 2018 –Â Traxens, French data and supply chain specialists, is collaborating with the Mediterranean Shipping...
Yilport wins Port Operator Award at Lloyd’s List Global Awards
Istanbul, Turkey (PortSEurope) December 14, 2018 –Â Yilport Holding, a subsidiary of Turkey’s Yildirim Group of Companies, the first ever Turkish...
Can Europe close its ports to Russian ships arriving from the Azov Sea?
Mariupol (PortSEurope) December 15, 2018 -The European Parliament passed on December 12 a resolution calling on the European Union (EU) to close European ports...
Amazon will open a second logistics centre in Seville port
Seville, Spain (PortSEurope) December 14, 2018 – Amazon, a U.S. electronic commerce, cloud computing, and consumer...
Spain’s Inditex bidding for purchase of land plot from Valencia port
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) December 14, 2018 – Spanish textile giant Inditex is bidding for the purchase of a 280,000 m² land plot at the Parc...
SCZone, DP World to sign Ain Sokhna industrial complex agreement soon
Suez, Egypt (PortSEurope) December 14, 2018 – The Suez Canal Economic Zone (SCZone) plans to sign a contract with DP World for the development of a 45...
AdSP Civitavecchia may terminate contract with Port Utilities
Civitavecchia, Italy (PortSEurope) December 14, 2018 – Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Tirreno Centro-Settentrionale (AdSP – Centre-North...
MSC carries out pilot IoT project at Valencia port
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) December 14, 2018 – The Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) has started a pilot project to improve the efficiency of its...
Luka Rijeka calls tender for two land plots
Rijeka, Croatia (PortSEurope) December 14, 2018 – Luka Rijeka d.d., the operator of Croatia’s Rijeka port, has called a tender for the sale of two land...
Luka Bar names new board of directors
Bar, Montenegro (PortSEurope) December 14, 2018 – Luka Bar a.d., the operator of Montenegro’s Bar port, has appointed a new board of directors. The...
Italy’s RFI approves overhaul of rail network near Venice port
Venice, Italy (PortSEurope) December 13, 2018 – Italian state-owned railway operator Rete Ferroviaria Italiana (RFI) has approved an investment project for...