Port Operations
EU invites tenders for port system regulatory plan drafting
Ancona, Italy (PortSEurope) November 20, 2018 – The European Union has published a call for tenders for the drafting of a Port System Regulatory Plan which...
Ukraine government continues to work on the implementation of pilot concession projects
Odessa, Ukraine (PortSEurope) November 19, 2018 – The Ukrainian Ministry of Infrastructure supported by “SPILNO” PPP Project Management Office moves...
EU invites applications for European Ports Forum
Brussels, Belgium (PortSEurope) November 19, 2018 – The EU has announced a continuously Open Call for Applications for the selection of members of the...
AdSP Livorno calls crane demolition tender
Livorno, Italy (PortSEurope) November 19, 2018 – Autorità di Sistema Portuale del Mar Tirreno Settentrionale (AdSP – Northern Tyrrhenian Sea Port...
Italy’s Fincantieri signs fleet upgrade contract with Windstar Cruises
Palermo, Italy (PortSEurope) November 19, 2018 – Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri has signed a €200 million ($228.6 million) contract for the upgrade of...
Italy’s Caronte & Tourist presents LNG-fired ferry as part of Gainn4mos project
Messina, Italy (PortSEurope) November 19, 2018 – Italian company Caronte & Tourist S.p.A. has presented the first liquefied natural gas-fired (LNG)...
Valencia port books record-high container traffic in 12 months to November
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) November 19, 2018 – Valencia port handled a total of 5,044,270 TEUs of container traffic in the twelve months to November,...
Repsol’s maintenance works drag down traffic at Cartagena port
Cartagena, Spain (PortSEurope) November 19, 2018 – Cartagena port attributes the 2% decline in cargo traffic to 34.6 million tonnes in the first ten...
Italy’s Cereal Docks invests €60 million in Venice ports in seven years
Venice, Italy (PortSEurope) November 19, 2018 – Italian company Cereal Docks SpA has invested a total of €60 million ($68.6 million) in the overhaul...
Montenegrin port’s transshipment declines 26.5% y/y in Q3
Bar, Montenegro (PortSEurope) November 19, 2018 – Montenegro’s ports handled 455,690 tonnes of transshipment traffic in the third quarter of 2018,...
Ambassador of Great Britain to Greece visits Alexandroupolis Port Authority
Alexandroupolis, Greece (PortSEurope) November 19, 2018 – Ms. Kate Smith, the Ambassador of Great Britain to Greece, has visited Alexandroupolis Port...
MSC sets up Trieste port-Giegen rail service
Trieste, Italy (PortSEurope) November 19, 2018 – MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company SA has announced a new rail connection between Giengen (a.d. Brenz)...
Italian government against privatisation of the port system
Rome, Italy (PortSEurope) November 18, 2018 – Following a question in parliament, Danilo Toninelli, Minister of Transport, said that the Italian port...
Eurogate presents passenger terminal improvements at Malaga port
Málaga, Spain (PortSEurope) November 18, 2018 – Eurogate Group Terminals has presented the modifications it has carried out to the Estación Marítima...
Norway to fund Albanian port development
Durrës, Albania (PortSEurope) November 18, 2018 – At an event called “Maritime Sector Development” Project, organised by the Norwegian...
Albania’s Vlora port set for €15 million investment
Durrës, Albania (PortSEurope) November 18, 2018 – Albania’s second port, Vlora, is to receive investment worth €15 million ($17.13 million) to...
Nestlé Waters to restart Vergèze (Gard) and Fos-sur-Mer port service
Marseille, France (PortSEurope) November 17, 2018 – Nestlé Waters is restart the 100 km railway line between the Perrier factory in Vergèze (Gard,...
US Coast Guard runs training programme for Ukrainian ports
Odessa, Ukraine (PortSEurope) November 17, 2018 – On November 12-16, 2018, a delegation of the International Coastal Security Ports Security...
Statement from the UK Chamber of Shipping on the Brexit deal
London, United Kingdom, November 17, 2018 The UK Chamber of Shipping has welcomed reports that the UK Government and the European Union have reached agreement...
Consortium awarded Genoa port concession in ex-Piaggio location
Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) November 17, 2018 – Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Ligure Occidentale (AdSP – Western Ligurian Sea Port...