Port Operations
Italian court reinstates 30 workers of Gioia Tauro port
Gioia Tauro, Italy (PortSEurope) December 5, 2018 – An Italian court has reinstated 30 of the 377 workers of the port of Gioia Tauro who were fired in July...
Italy offers rental of two vessels to save Liberty Lines’ jobs
Messina, Italy (PortSEurope) December 5, 2018 – Italy’s infrastructure ministry has proposed the rental of two vessels with a reinforced hull to...
Trieste port may become gateway for Europe’s banana imports from India
Trieste, Italy (PortSEurope) December 5, 2018 – A shipment of 22 tonnes of bananas from India has been handled at Trieste port, which will be donated to...
Conference of the South ports in Bari, D’Agostino asks for renewed ports government policy
Bari, Italy (PortSEurope) December 4, 2018 –Â The conference “I ports del mezzogiorno” was held today in the Bari cruise terminal, organized...
FEPORT calls for consistency and coordination between different EU policies
Press Release – FEPORT calls for consistency and coordination between different EU policies – General Assembly Meeting Brussels, November 28, 2018...
Carnival Corporation to operate Tenerife port’s cruise terminal
Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain (PortSEurope) December 4, 2018 – Tenerife port has signed a contract with Carnival Corporation for the operation of the...
McAndrews, Tarros, Arkas suspend calls to Setúbal port
Setúbal, Portugal (PortSEurope) November 30, 2018 – Three international shipowners, McAndrews, Tarros, and Arkas, have suspended their calls to Setúbal...
HMM may leave alliance with MSC, Maersk in 2020
Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) December 4, 2018 – Hyundai Merchant Marine (HMM) may abandon its alliance with the Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC)...
Cartagena port says waters in its area are clean
Cartagena, Spain (PortSEurope) December 4, 2018 – Cartagena port has verified that the quality of the waters in its area is “very good” after the...
Balearic Islands government envisages no new port constructions until 2033
Ibiza, Spain (PortSEurope) December 4, 2018 – The Balearic Government has presented in Ibiza its proposal of the General Plan of Ports of Balearic Islands...
Local chamber of commerce starts planning for Crotone port development
Gioia Tauro, Italy (PortSEurope) December 3, 2018 – The Crotone Chamber of Commerce (Camera di commercio di Crotone)has started the process to develop...
Barcelona port presents services at two fairs in France
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) December 3, 2018 – Barcelona port has participated in two fairs dedicated to the transport and logistics sector with the aim...
Future Strategic Framework will be oriented to the new port reality – Puertos del Estado
Fuerteventura, Canary Islands, Spain (PortSEurope) December 3, 2018 – The president of Puertos del Estado, Ornella Chacón, accompanied by Salvador...
Italy’s PIR Group, Edison to start construction of LNG storage facility at Ravenna port in Jan 2019
Ravenna, Italy (PortSEurope) December 3, 2018 – Italian company Depositi Italiani GNL, a 51/49 joint venture of PIR-Petrolifera Italo Rumena group...
Spanish ports plan investments to challenge Rotterdam
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) December 3, 2018 – Spain carried out its great port works 20 years ago. The ports spent billions of euros, but the crisis came...
MarÃn port to invest €1.2 million in signal tower reconstruction in 2019
MarÃn, Spain (PortSEurope) December 3, 2018 – MarÃn port plans to invest €1.19 million ($1.35 million) to reinforce the signal towers of...
German lender Nord/LB to extend €49.9 million loan to Croatia’s Jadroplov
Rijeka, Croatia (PortSEurope) December 3, 2018 – Croatian shipping company Jadroplov d.d. plans to borrow a €49.9 million ($56.6 million) loan from German...
Suez Canal revenues rise 6.8% year-on-year in October
Suez, Egypt (PortSEurope) December 3, 2018 – Suez Canal revenues rose to $506.1 million (€445.9 million) in October from $473.9 million (€417.5...
Agreement set to start Piombino port developments
Piombino, Italy (PortSEurope) December 3, 2018 –Â Expanding the port of Piombino with the support of new settlements capable of creating work and...
Ancona port’s Blue Agreement with shippers reduces pollution
Ancona, Italy (PortSEurope) December 2, 2018 – Fuel sulphur emissions from ships entering reduced by 1.5% to just 0.1% since the port authority signed...