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Italy’s Adria Ferries to add new vessel to Durres service

Ancona, Italy (PortSEurope) May 20, 2019 – Adria Ferries, a unit of the Frittelli Maritime Group, plans to launch this autumn a new vessel on the...

Algeciras and Ningbo Zhoushan ports specify collaboration in training

Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) May 20, 2019 – A delegation from Autoridad Portuaria de la Bahía de Algeciras (APBA – Port Authority of Algeciras)...

COSCO Shipping Specialized opens European head office in Rotterdam

Rotterdam, Netherlands (PortSEurope) May 20, 2019 – Chinese news agencies are reporting that COSCO Shipping Specialized, one of the core members of...

Uzbekistan dispatches first transit cargo through Aktau Port

Aktau, Kazakhstan (PortSEurope) May 18, 2019 – A cargo train belonging to  the Uzbekistan Railways (Uzbekiston Temir Yollari), carrying 20-foot TEU...

MedCruise General Assembly in Kuşadası shaped the future of the cruise activities in the Med

May 15, 2019 Hosted by MedCruise members Ege Ports Kusadasi and Global Ports Holding, the 54th MedCruise General Assembly has established itself as a major...

Motril port grants five concession involving €2.1 million of private investment

Motril, Spain (PortSEurope) May 17, 2019 – Motril port authority has granted five concessions on land in the public domain to different...

Appointment of Pasaia port director gets complicated

Pasaia, Spain (PortSEurope) May 17, 2019 – The election of the new director of Pasaia port is getting complicated as Aitor Aicha is shaping up...

Valencia port climbs one spot in Europe’s container ports ranking

Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) May 17, 2019 – Valencia port has climbed one place in the European ranking of container ports and, according to...

Grupo Onorato says Livorno port authority ignores Piombino

Piombino, Italy (PortSEurope) May 17, 2019 – Livorno port authority, which has done so much in recent years in favour of some shipowners, releasing...

Vigo, Nantes ports wish to extend Motorway of the Sea to Dublin

Vigo, Spain (PortSEurope) May 17, 2019 – Ireland is the third connection that most interests the ports of Vigo and Nantes-Saint Nazaire for a possible...

Spanish court dismisses claim by Noatum against Valencia port

Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) May 17, 2019 – The Spanish Administrative Court has dismissed a claim by Noatum Maritime for the payment of a €14 million...

Barcelona port’s cruise passengers decline 10.7% in Jan-Apr 2019

Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) May 17, 2019 – Barcelona port recorded a 10.7% decline in the number of cruise passengers in the first four months of...

Croatia’s Pazin court launches bankruptcy proceedings against Uljanik Group

Rijeka, Croatia (PortSEurope) May 17, 2019 – Croatia’s Pazin court has launched bankruptcy proceedings against the Uljanik Group, the parent of...

Ukrainian ports see reduced profit in Q1 2019, but higher investment

Odessa, Ukraine (PortSEurope) May 17, 2019 – The Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority (USPA), the state agency which manages the country’s ports, has...

Gioia Tauro optimistic with start of port developments

Gioia Tauro, Italy (PortSEurope) May 17, 2019 – Gioia Tauro Port Authority commissioner, Andrea Agostinelli, has reported a number of developments which...

Luka Koper wins Daimler’s car transit tender for third time in a row

Koper, Slovenia (PortSEurope) May 16, 2019 – The Port of Koper has proved successful also in the third international invitation to tender launched by the...

Costruzioni Bruno Teodoro wins contract to extend Palermo port’s cruise dock

Palermo, Italy (PortSEurope) May 16, 2019 – Italian company Costruzioni Bruno Teodoro SpA has won a €868,500 ($972,116) contract for the extension of...

Tarragona port, ChemMed to hold “Mediterranean Refining & Petrochemicals Summit” in June

Tarragona, Spain (PortSEurope) May 16, 2019 – Tarragona and ChemMed are organising on June 26, 27 and 28, locally, the “Mediterranean Refining &...

EIB approves €250 million loan for second railway track to Koper port

Koper, Slovenia (PortSEurope) May 16, 2019 – The European Investment Bank (EIB) has approved a €250 million ($280 million) loan for the construction of a...

Italy co-finances project to promote green ports in Caspian Sea

Turkmenbashi, Turkmenistan (PortSEurope) May 16, 2019 – Italy is cofinancing an OSCE project to promote the green ports and...

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