Port Operations
Puertos Canarios awards Arguineguín port concession
Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain (Ports Europe) July 20, 2018 – The board of directors of ports agency Puertos Canarios approved yesterday the...
Luka Kotor to apply with Transport Ministry for a 12-year concession
Kotor, Montenegro (Ports Europe) July 19, 2018 – Luka Kotor AD, the operator of Montenegro’s Kotor port, plans to submit this month to the Ministry of...
Spain’s Ría de Arousa positions tugboat in Motril port
Motril, Spain (Ports Europe) July 19, 2018 – Spanish shipping company Naviera Ría de Arousa has positioned the Paula S tugboat in Motril port,...
Constanta port issues quay tender
Constanta, Romania (Ports Europe) July 19, 2018 -The National Company Maritime Port Administration SA Constanta is inviting applications for the environmental...
Ayamonte port communities to be consulted on developments
Huelva, Spain (Ports Europe) July 19, 2018 – The Ministry of Development and Housing has agreed with the different socio-economic groups and citizens of...
Piraeus port hosts security in the Mediterranean event
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) July 19, 2018 – Piraeus Port Authority SA (PPA) has organised an event which takes place at the port today...
Leixões port to invest €1.6 million in improving Douro river navigation
Leixões, Portugal (Ports Europe) July 18, 2018 – APDL – Administração dos Portos do Douro e Leixões SA has signed an order for the project in the...
Government officials meet to discuss future of Gioia Tauro port
Gioia Tauro, Italy (Ports Europe) July 18, 2018 – The extraordinary commissioner of the Port Authority of Gioia Tauro Andrea Agostinelli has met with...
Sète port sees new facilities inaugurated
Sète, France (Ports Europe) July 18, 2018 – Carole Delga, President of Région Occitanie/Pyrénées-Méditerranée and Jean-Claude Gayssot, President of...
Spain’s CYES wins contract for Trelleborg port expansion
Trelleborg, Sweden (Ports Europe) July 17, 2018 – Spanish company CYES Maritime Works, a subsidiary of the Rover Alcisa group, has been awarded a €33...
Marsa Maroc started operating a new information system at Casablanca port
Casablanca, Morocco (Ports Europe) July 17, 2018 – Marsa Maroc started operating a new information system at Casablanca port on July 2 which caused a...
Sagunto local authorities approve urbanisation of port’s northern area
Sagunto, Spain (Ports Europe) July 17, 2018 – Sagunto local authorities have approved unanimously the agreement of Valencia port authority for the urban...
Bilbao port’s new president takes office
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) July 17, 2018 – The new president of Autoridad Portuaria de Bilbao (APB – Port Authority of Bilbao), Ricardo Barkala, has...
Cádiz port, Free Trade Zone to deepen cooperation
Cádiz, Spain (Ports Europe) July 17, 2018 – The president of the Cádiz port authority, José Luis Blanco Romero, received an institutional visit of the...
Palermo port starts dismantling silos to open space for new ro-ro terminal
Palermo, Italy (Ports Europe) July 17, 2018 – Palermo port has started works for the dismantling of the silos at the Piave pier. The port plans to build a...
Bar port expects €600,000 profit in H1 2018
Bar, Montenegro (Ports Europe) July 17, 2018 – Montenegro’s Luka Bar, the operator of Bar port’s cargo terminal, expects its profit for the first...
Thessaloniki port railway connections to benefit from NSRF investment
Thessaloniki, Greece (Ports Europe) July 17, 2018 – By 2022, Thessaloniki’s commercial harbour will be accessible via a modernized rail link to...
List of projects to be considered in the framework of the EU-China Connectivity platform
Beijing, China (Ports Europe) July 16, 2018 – The 20th Summit between the European Union and the People’s Republic of China took place in Beijing...
Barcelona port has applied a reduction of 10% in T3 tax
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) July 16, 2018 – Once published the State General Budget Law, the Port of Barcelona will apply a 10.17% reduction in the...
Closure of coal-fired power plants to have negative impact on Gijón port
Gijón, Spain (Ports Europe) July 16, 2018 – Six of the seven coal-fired thermal plants that could close by 2020 receive their ore through Gijón port. In...