Port Operations
Seville port presents logistics offer at agricultural raw materials fair
Seville, Spain (Ports Europe) April 26, 2019 – Seville port authority president Rafael Carmona has participated along with a delegation of businessmen...
Vigo port’s Bouzas terminal expansion not to have negative environmental consequences
Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) April 26, 2019 – Vigo port authority president Enrique López Veiga has said that the extension of the Bouzas terminal is...
Alicante port offsets 1,177 tonnes of CO2 emissions in 2018
Alicante, Spain (Ports Europe) April 26, 2019 – Alicante port avoided the emission of 1,177 tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) in 2018 as a result of its...
Gijón port to start cruise season in 2019
Gijón, Spain (Ports Europe) April 26, 2019 – Gijón port will start its 2019 cruise season, which is expected to have a total of 17 calls,...
Taranto port recovers part of lost bulk traffic, backed by steel industry stabilisation
Taranto, Italy (Ports Europe) April 26, 2019 – Taranto port’s bulk cargo traffic rose 19.2% in 2018 to 1.5 million tonnes, while the number of bulk...
Setúbal port approves extension of collective labour deal talks deadline
Setúbal, Portugal (Ports Europe) April 26, 2019 – Setúbal port dockworkers have approved the extension until May 8 of the negotiation period for the new...
Russia keeps harassing ships heading to Ukrainian ports of Mariupol and Berdyansk
Mariupol, Ukraine (Ports Europe) April 26, 2019 – Russian customs officials and border guards are inspecting practically all ships entering the Azov Sea via...
duisport intensifies cooperation with Chongqing – developing rail traffic
Duisburg, Germany (PortSEurope) April 26, 2019 – Duisburger Hafen AG (duisport) is expanding its cooperation with the Chinese city of Chongqing. During a...
China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation delegation to visit Pula and Rijeka shipyards
Rijeka, Croatia (Ports Europe) April 26, 2019 – A delegation of China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (CSIC), will visit the Croatian shipyards in Pula...
Russia, Turkey, USA ports account for 55% of Durrës port trade
Durrës, Albania (Ports Europe) April 26, 2019 – Russia, Turkey and the USA are the leading trading partners of Durrës port, according to statistics...
Analysis – Syria signs 49-year contract for operation, overhaul of Tartus port with Russia’s Stroytransgaz
Tartus, Syria (Ports Europe) April 25, 2019 – The Syrian authorities have concluded a 49-year investment contract with Russian company Stroytransgaz for the...
Barcelona port extends concession of Cilsa
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) April 25, 2019 – Barcelona port has approved the extension of the concession of Cilsa by 62,169 m², a land where it has...
Alicante port receives special status, sees reduced tax burden
Alicante, Spain (Ports Europe) April 25, 2019 – Alicante City Council has granted the local port the status of an entity of special interest or...
Gijón harbour’s exports outside EU nearly halve since 2015
Gijón, Spain (Ports Europe) April 25, 2019 – The exports from Gijón port, which in 2015 were destined mainly outside the European Union, have shifted and...
CILSA, the ZAL Port’s management company, increases revenues by 12.6% to reach €50.1 million
News – ZAP Port – April 8, 2019 CILSA has finished 2018 with the best economic results in its history: it has registered a total revenue of €50.1...
Suez Canal Authority, China’s Tianjin to develop 2nd phase of TEDA Industrial Zone
Suez, Egypt (Ports Europe) April 25, 2019 – The Suez Canal Authority (SCA) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with China’s...
APM Terminals to announce Vado Ligure terminal’s official opening date on April 29
Vado Ligure, Italy (Ports Europe) April 25, 2019 – APM Terminals plans to announce the the official opening date of its container terminal...
Spain’s CCOO calls off ports strike scheduled for April 26
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) April 25, 2019 – Spanish trade union CCOO (Confederacion Sindical de Comisiones Obreras) has called off the strike...
Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev seeks investment during China visit
Baku, Azerbaijan (Ports Europe) April 25, 2019 – Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev is in China and has met with Chinese President Xi Jinping, ahead of...
Trieste Marine Terminal traffic increases 16.7% in Q1 2019
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) April 24, 2019 – In the first three months of 2019 container traffic moved by Trieste Marine Terminal srl (TMT) increased...