Port Operations
Chinese bank opens Vienna branch with new Silk Road focus
Vienna, Austria (PortSEurope) May 22, 2019 – The Chinese bank ICBC has opened a subsidiary branch in Vienna, ICBC Austria Bank GmbH, operating as a...
Chinese cargo trade with Portugal’s Sines port increases
Sines, Portugal (PortSEurope) May 21, 2019 – The movement of containerized goods between Sines port and Chinese ports grew 19.7% between 2015 and 2018....
Alexandria Container and Cargo Handling Company net profit declines 21% in 9-mo FY 2018/19
Alexandria, Egypt (PortSEurope) May 21, 2019 – Alexandria Container and Cargo Handling Company SAE recorded a 21% decline in net profit...
Algerian port’s cargo traffic rises 7% y/y in Q1
Algiers, Algeria (PortSEurope) May 21, 2019 – Algeria’s port activity registered growth of around 7% in the first quarter of 2019. The cargo...
Italy to entrust Gioia Tauro port management to extraordinary commissioner
Gioia Tauro, Italy (PortSEurope) May 21, 2019 – Gioia Tauro port’s management needs to be assumed by an extraordinary commissioner who...
Valencia port to handle 435,000 cruise passengers in 2019
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) May 21, 2019 – Valencia port has scheduled 199 cruises calls in 2019 and plans to handle 435,000 passengers, the...
Huelva port renews Kosher Halal certification
Huelva, Spain (PortSEurope) May 21, 2019 – Huelva port has renewed the Kosher certificate and has passed the follow-up audit for the Halal certificate,...
Lisbon port’s passenger traffic declines in Q1
Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) May 21, 2019 – Lisbon port handled 49,985 passengers in the first quarter of 2019, down 4.9% on the year, with cruise...
Madeira government to inject €16.6 million into port operator
Funchal, Portugal (PortSEurope) May 21, 2019 – The Madeira government plans to inject €16.6 million ($18.5 million) into port operator APRAM –...
Black Sea ministers to endorse Common Maritime Agenda
Black Sea ministers to endorse Common Maritime Agenda Brussels, Belgium, May 21, 2019 Ministers from seven Black Sea countries – Bulgaria, Georgia, the...
Cagliari and Cadiz ports discuss cooperation to tackle North African port competition
Cadiz, Spain (PortSEurope) May 21, 2019 – Last weekend, Cadiz hosted the first International Maritime Law Congress, held in the Iberian port city, an...
China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation visits Rijeka port
Zagreb, Croatia (PortSEurope) May 21, 2019 – Minister of Economy, Entrepreneurship and Crafts Darko Horvat reported that a delegation of the China...
Damietta Port is ready to accommodate larger vessels
Damietta, Egypt (PortSEurope) May 21, 2019 – The Damietta Port authority (DPA) has completed dredging works to deepen the navigational channel and is now...
Huelva port establishes conditions for shipyards concession tender
Huelva, Spain (PortSEurope) May 20, 2019 – Huelva port has published the list of conditions of the tender for the granting of an administrative concession...
Las Palmas port tenders infrastructure works worth €38 million since January
Las Palmas, Spain (PortSEurope) May 20, 2019 – Las Palmas port authority has tendered infrastructure works worth €37.8 million ($42.2...
Bilbao port to take part in Breakbulk Europe
Bilbao, Spain (PortSEurope) May 20, 2019 – Bilbao port plans to participate at the Breakbulk Europe fair, which takes place in Bremen from May 21 to 23,...
ALIS members to eliminate contamination emissions at ports
Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) May 20, 2019 – The Logistic Association of Sustainable Intermodality (ALIS) is pursuing its goal for zero emissions at...
Italy’s ANAS completes study for Ancona port motorway construction
Ancona, Italy (PortSEurope) May 20, 2019 – Italian government-owned company motorway maintenance company ANAS S.p.A. has completed the technical-economic...
Ceuta port to introduce measures to attract container transshipment
Ceuta, Spain (PortSEurope) May 20, 2019 – Ceuta port plans to shortly launch a package of measures to encourage and capture transshipment of containers,...
Seven companies interested in Rijeka container terminal construction
Rijeka, Croatia (PortSEurope) May 20, 2019 – Seven companies from Europe, the Middle East and the Far East have expressed interest in the construction...