Port Operations
Italy’s Uiltrasport warns of potential strike at ports
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) April 30, 2019 – Italian trade union Uiltrasporti has warned agains a potential strike at ports in the country agains the slow...
Kalmar to supply 32 diesel-electric straddle carriers to Gioia Tauro port
Gioia Tauro, Italy (Ports Europe) April 30, 2019 – Kalmar, part of Cargotec, is to supply a total of 32 diesel-electric straddle carriers to...
Algeciras port to recover rail freight traffic on May 13
Algeciras, Spain (Ports Europe) April 30, 2019 – Algeciras port plans to recover rail freight traffic on May 13 after the completion of the rehabilitation...
Livorno port to launch Europa platform design surveys in June
Livorno, Italy (Ports Europe) April 30, 2019 – In June, Livorno port plans to launch in a geognostic, geophysical and environmental survey for the design of...
Luka Koper to pay gross dividend of €1.33 per share
Koper, Slovenia (Ports Europe) April 30, 2019 – Luka Koper, d.d., the operator of Slovenia’s Koper port, has approved the payment of...
Baku Port signs agreement with Venlo transport hub in the Netherlands
Venlo, Netherlands (Ports Europe) April 30, 2019 – Baku International Sea Trade Port (BISTP) has signed a memorandum of understanding with companies and...
Analysis – Chinese investment in Piraeus port facing local challenges
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) April 30, 2019 – Greece’s Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has visited China and attended the Second Forum of the Silk...
Madeira regional government plans to invest €989,000 in Porto Santo
Funchal, Madeira, Portugal (Ports Europe) April 29, 2019 – The Madeira regional government plans to invest €989,000 ($1.1 million) in the rehabilitation of...
Switzerland and China sign Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) agreement
Beijing, China (Ports Europe) April 29, 2019 – Swiss President Ueli Maurer has visited China and held discussions with President Xi Jinping. A Memorandum...
Luka Rijeka dismisses CEO
Rijeka, Croatia (Ports Europe) April 29, 2019 – Polish manager Jedrzej Mierzewski is no longer the CEO of Luka Rijeka d.d., with Duško Grabovac, who...
Ports of Madeira: cruise results for 2018
Funchal, Portugal (Ports Europe) April 29, 2019 – The number of stopovers of the cruise ships in the Madeira ports of Funchal and Porto Santo in 2018 was...
TEN-T Rhine-Alps Corridor coordinator to take part in ESPO conference in Livorno
Livorno, Italy (Ports Europe) April 29, 2019 – The coordinator of the TEN-T Rhine-Alps Corridor, Pawel Wojciechowski, and Deputy Executive Director Marketing...
Sacyr, Puentes Infraestructuras start works on Punta Langosteira outer harbour project
A Coruña, Spain (Ports Europe) April 29, 2019 – A consortium of Sacyr Infraestructuras and Puentes Infraestructuras have started the work on the extension...
Cádiz port signs contract for installation of absorbent piles system
Cádiz, Spain (Ports Europe) April 29, 2019 – Autoridad Portuaria de la BahÃa de Cádiz (APBC – Port Authority of Cadiz) president Teófila MartÃnez...
C. Steinweg-GMT applies for extension of Trieste Adriaterminal concession
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) April 29, 2019 – Dutch company C.Steinweg-GMT S.r.l., the current operator of Adriaterminal, the only operational quay in the...
Puertos del Estado to establish HQ of Galician unit of business accelerator in Vigo
Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) April 28, 2019 – Spanish national ports agency Puertos del Estado has chosen Vigo to establish the Galicia regional...
Montenegro’s Bar port operator sees €22.1 million loss in 2018, seeks investment
Bar, Montenegro (Ports Europe) April 26, 2019 – Montenegrin port operator Luka Bar recorded a €22.1 million ($24.7 million) loss in 2018, due to the...
Serbia and China sign contracts for construction of Preljina-Pozega highway, Novi Sad-Subotica section
Beijing, China (Ports Europe) April 28, 2019 – The Serbian Ministry of Construction, Transport and Infrastructure has announced that contracts were...
Chinese President Xi Jinping meets with Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte in Beijing
Beijing, China (Ports Europe) April 28, 2019 – Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has attended the second Belt and Road Forum for International...
Barcelona port handles its first LNG-fired cruise ship
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) April 26, 2019 – Barcelona port handled on April 26 its first cruise ship powered by liquefied natural gas (LNG), the...