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Nidec signs shore-to-ship power supply contract with Genoa port

Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) April 2, 2018 – Nidec Industrial Solutions has signed a contract worth €8 million with Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del...

Greece amends Pylos marina privatisation terms

Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) March 31, 2018 – The Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund S.A., the Greek privatisation agency, launched on 19 July...

Ukraine prepares for IMO audit

Odessa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) March 31, 2018 – The Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority (USPA) is preparing for an audit of the International Maritime...

Bilbao opens port center

Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) March 30, 2018 – Autoridad Portuaria de Bilbao (Port Authority of Bilbao) has opened the new Port Center, designed as an...

Sicily ports join forces to exchange know-how

Palermo, Italy (Ports Europe) March 30, 2018 – The port authorities of the Italian island of Sicily have signed a cooperation agreement to guarantee the...

Italy’s CIPE to invest €26 million in Messina port 

Messina, Italy (Ports Europe) March 30, 2018 – Italy’s Interministerial Committee for Economic Planning CIPE (Il Comitato Interministeriale per la...

Algeciras port stowage company signs deal to improve harbour’s competitiveness 

Algeciras, Spain (Ports Europe) March 30, 2018 – The Algeciras port stowing company, Sociedad Anónima de Gestión de Estibadores Portuarios (SAGEP), has...

Barcelona port promotes World Ports Sustainability Programme (WPSP)

Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) March 29, 2018 – Barcelona port is one of the promoters of the World Ports Sustainability Programme (WPSP), a project whose...

Barcelona port launches electronic public bidding platform

Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) March 29, 2018 – Barcelona port has launched an electronic public bidding platform with the aim of facilitating and speeding...

UK Government publishes Maritime 2050: call for evidence

London, United Kingdom (Ports Europe) March 29, 2018 – The UK government has published Maritime 2050: call for evidence. Maritime 2050 is a long term...

U.S. consul general visits Genoa port

Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) March 29, 2018 – The Consul General of the United States at the Consulate General of Milan, Elizabeth Lee Martinez, and...

Sicilian port authorities sign agreement

Messina, Sicily, Italy (Ports Europe) March 29, 2018 – At a meeting in Messina, the two Sicilian port system authorities signed an agreement to cooperate of...

Las Palmas port to repay €15 million debt in 2018

Las Palmas, Spain (Ports Europe) March 28, 2018 – Las Palmas port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Las Palmas) reduced its debt by €21 million ($25.1...

Valencia port sets traffic conditions for investors in intermodal platform

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) March 28, 2018 – The board of directors of Valencia Intermodal and Logistics Platform (VPI), subsidiary of Autoridad...

Luka Koper looks at outsourcing work

Koper, Slovenia (Ports Europe) March 28, 2018 – Luka Koper d.d.’s supervisory board has discussed the progress of the company’s business...

Andreia Ventura appointed president of Associação dos Operadores do Porto de Lisboa

Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) March 28, 2018 – Andreia Ventura has been elected president of Associação dos Operadores do Porto de Lisboa (AOPL...

Sicilian port authorities look at synergy opportunities

Messina, Sicily, Italy (Ports Europe) March 27, 2018 – A meeting will take place tomorrow of the two Sicilian port system authorities to establish a...

Thessaloniki Port Authority S.A. – Notification of significant change of voting rights

Thessaloniki, Greece (Ports Europe) March 27, 2018 – Τhe Ministry of Finance of the Greek Government has announced that as a result of the stock market...

After Thessaloniki port, Greece plans further port privatisations

Athens, Greece (Ports Europe) March 27, 2018 – Following the privatisation of Thessaloniki Port Authority S.A., now operated by South Europe Gateway...

Italy needs a Ministry of the Sea 

Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) March 27, 2018 by Pier Luigi Penzo The recent elections have given me an important message: Italians are fed up with talk and...

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