Port Operations
Agreement between AdSP La Spezia, Porto di Carrara SpA and Dario Perioli SpA: no redundancies
La Spezia, Italy (Ports Europe) July 30, 2018 – On the evening of July 27, an agreement was reached between Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar...
Tarragona port to invest €1.7 million in building construction
Tarragona, Spain (Ports Europe) August 17, 2018 – Tarragona port plans to invest €1.7 million ($1.9 million) in the construction of a building for...
Spain’s Mercadona considers purchase of land plot from Valencia port
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) August 17, 2018 – Valencia port has decided to extend the closing date of the auction for sale of land it acquired ten...
MarÃn port not to demolish Grupo Nogar’s old HQ building
MarÃn, Spain (Ports Europe) August 16, 2018 – The building of the former headquarters of Spanish shipping company Grupo Nogar in MarÃn port will not be...
Genoa port contemplates options to avoid blockade after Morandi bridge disaster
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) August 16, 2018 – After the collapse of the Morandi bridge – crossed by about 2,000 lorries traveling to the port on a...
President of Cartagena port authority meets with government delegate in the Region of Murcia
Cartagena, Spain (Ports Europe) August 15, 2018 –Â The president of Autoridad Portuaria de Cartagena (APC – Port Authority of Cartagena), JoaquÃn...
Cartagena port increases its commitment to sustainability
Cartagena, Spain (Ports Europe) August 15, 2018 – Autoridad Portuaria de Cartagena (APC – Port Authority of Cartagena) is committed to the...
Morandi bridge collapse puts Genoa port at risk
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) August 15, 2018 – Italian logistics industry association Federlogistica has asked for the immediate establishment of a crisis...
Rijeka port starts railway infrastructure overhaul project
Rijeka, Croatia (Ports Europe) August 15, 2018 – Rijeka port operator Luka Rijeka d.d. has started a project for the overhaul of the railway line leading to...
Minimum service maintained in Portuguese port strike
Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) August 15, 2018 – Minimum service is operating at Portuguese ports during the labour strike organised for August 13 to...
New ferry complex of the Kuryk port, Kazakhstan
Aktau, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) August 14, 2018 –Â A ferry complex at Kuryk Port has been inaugurated and will function as a multimodal hub on the Kazak...
Bordeaux port needs new management model to avoid total decline
Bordeaux, France (Ports Europe) August 14, 2018 – Is Bordeaux port, offering some 8,000 jobs and generating an economic activity of about €3 billion ($3.4...
Algeria launches dry port to back Algiers harbour
Algiers, Algeria (Ports Europe) August 14, 2018 – Algeria’s government has launched a dry port in the area of the Rouïba industrial zone, which will...
France deems unacceptable EU Commission’s post-Brexit port plan
Calais, France (Ports Europe) August 14, 2018 – France has deemed unacceptable the European Commission’s proposal to exclude French ports from a...
Moroccan entrepreneurs praise closure of customs at Melilla port
Nador, Morocco (Ports Europe) August 14, 2018 – Moroccan entrepreneurs has praised the decision of the authorities of the country to close the customs...
Associated British Ports to work with Rolls Royce and Svitzer to develop the next generation of technologies
London, United Kingdom, August 13, 2018 Associated British Ports, the UK’s leading port operator, today announces that it has invited Rolls Royce and...
Piraeus port masterplan talks are slowing
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) August 13, 2018 – The negotiations on the master plan of Piraeus Port Authority SA (PPA) remain behind schedule, due to...
Ecological and radiological inspection of ships in ports of Ukraine to become easier
Odessa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) August 13, 2018 – The procedure of ecological and radiological inspection of ships in ports of Ukraine in the...
Spanish trade union signs working conditions deal with Algeciras port
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) August 13, 2018 – Spanish trade union Coordinadora Estatal de Trabajadores de los Puertos (CETP) has reached an agreement...
Chinese state media reports on Bilbao port advantages
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) August 13, 2018 – Chinese journalists from eight media outlets visited Bilbao port to report on the characteristics...