Port Operations
Aveiro port’s new board of directors enters office
Aveiro, Portugal (Ports Europe) April 19, 2019 – The new board of directors of Porto de Aveiro and Figueira da Foz, chaired by Fátima Alves, began...
Italian company signs €880,000 contract for Livorno port rail reorganisation
Livorno, Italy (Ports Europe) April 19, 2019 – D.R. Ferroviaria Italia Srl has signed a €880,000 ($989,500) contract for the redevelopment of the railway...
Spain’s competition watchdog launches study on national port network
Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) April 18, 2019 – Spain’s competition watchdog Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia (CNMC) has launched a...
Malta’s Valletta expects record-high cruise passenger numbers in 2019
Valletta, Malta (Ports Europe) April 18, 2019 – Malta’s Valletta Cruise Port is preparing for a record number of 800,000 cruise passengers...
Balearic Islands port authority awards €16.3 million contract for Ibiza port maritime station
Ibiza, Spain (Ports Europe) April 18, 2019 – Autoridad Portuaria de Balears (APB – Port Authority of the Balearic Islands) has awarded a €16.3...
SCA to increase Suez Canal annual revenues by $1 billion
Suez, Egypt (Ports Europe) April 18, 2019 – Suez Canal Authority (SCA) aims to increase the annual revenues of the Suez Canal by $1 billion (€888 million),...
Rijeka port stays open to potential Chinese investments
Rijeka, Croatia (Ports Europe) April 18, 2019 – China’s potential participation in the construction of a railway line linking Croatia’s Rijeka...
Santander port reopens its Border Inspection Post
Santander, Spain (Ports Europe) April 18, 2019 – Santander port authority has reopened its Border Inspection Post (BIP), which means that it...
Valencia port incorporates two sub-indices to VCFI
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) April 18, 2019 – Valencia port authority has incorporated two additional sub-indices this month to the Valencia Containerized...
Catalonia automotive cluster visits Barcelona port
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) April 18, 2019 – A delegation from Clúster de la Indústria d’Automoció de Catalunya (CIAC – the Automotive...
Kyriakos Mitsotakis, New Democracy politician visits Piraeus Port Authority
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) April 18, 2019 – Kyriakos Mitsotakis, President of the New Democracy political party and Leader of the Opposition, has...
Bulgaria and Georgia to establish twice daily ferry services between their Black Sea ports
Sofia, Bulgaria (Ports Europe) April 18, 2019 – Bulgaria and Georgia will increase ferry services between their Black Sea ports from twice weekly to twice...
Aktor Concessions declared preferred investor for Alimos marina
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) April 17, 2019 – Aktor Concessions SA has been nominated as the preferred bidder for the contract to operate the marina of...
Royal Caribbean presents its first ship for Asia in Málaga
Málaga, Spain (Ports Europe) April 17, 2019 – Royal Caribbean has chosen Málaga to present its first cruise designed for the Asian market and which is...
Italian deputy transport minister discusses Cagliari port crisis
Cagliari, Italy (Ports Europe) April 17, 2019 – Italy’s deputy transport minister Edoardo Rixi has held a meeting with the management of...
Genoa port not threatened by Chinese investment
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) April 17, 2019 – Genoa and Savona ports are not threatened by a potentially dominant position of China in the Italian ports...
Italy’s DBA Group to install Port Community System (PCS) in Rijeka
Rijeka, Croatia (Ports Europe) April 17, 2019 – DBA Group SpA, the network infrastructure telematics specialist, has signed an agreement with Rijeka port...
Portugal to invest €6.1 billion in its ports by 2023
Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) April 17, 2019 – Portugal’s government has presented a Stability Program that foresees investments of more than €8.6...
Motril port specialising in luxury cruise niche to attract more tourist spending
Motril, Spain (Ports Europe) April 17, 2019 – Motril port, far from wanting to attract the big cruise ships that visit large city ports, has specialised in...
Onorato and ARS Altmann to relaunch auto logistics hub at Piombino port
Piombino, Italy (Ports Europe) April 17, 2019 – The Onorato Group is to build a 300,000 m² terminal for storing cars on the north dock of Piombino port....