Port Operations
Italy’s Barilla Group starts operating logistics hub at Cagliari port
Cagliari, Italy (Ports Europe) April 15, 2019 – Italian food company Barilla Group has started operating a logistics hub at Cagliari port, located in the...
Koper port’s cargo traffic falls slightly in Q1
Koper, Slovenia (Ports Europe) April 15, 2019 – Koper port handled 5.919 million tonnes of cargo in the first quarter of 2019, down from 6.077 million...
Austria’s RCG establishes China-Hungary rail freight connection
Budapest, Hungary (Ports Europe) April 15, 2019 – Austria’s Rail Cargo Group (RCG) has established a regular connection the Chinese province...
Sète port to invest €6 million in rail platform overhaul
Sète, France (Ports Europe) April 15, 2019 – Sète port plans investments worth €6 million ($6.8 million) to expand its railway platform, managing...
Civitavecchia port faces a dramatic crisis
Civitavecchia, Italy (Ports Europe) April 15, 2019 – Civitavecchia port is facing a dramatic crisis, the vice president of dockworker firm Compagnia Portuale...
Croatia and China sign bilateral agreements, issue joint Silk Road statement
Zagreb, Croatia (Ports Europe) April 15, 2019 – Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic and his Chinese counterpart Li Keqiang have issued a joint...
Galataport Istanbul will host cruise ships in March 2020
Istanbul, Turkey (Ports Europe) April 13, 2019 – Galataport Istanbul Cruise Port plans to start receiving cruise ships in March 2020. The company...
Seville port launches Guadalquivir estuary maintenance dredging tender
Seville, Spain (Ports Europe) April 12, 2019 – Autoridad Portuaria de Sevilla (APS – Port Authority of Seville) has launched a tender for the...
Italy’s Technital wins tender for design of Genoa port’s breakwater
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) April 12, 2019 – A consortium led by Italian company Technital S.p.A. has won the tender for the design of a breakwater...
A Coruña port to keep cruise sector leadership in northern Spain in 2020
A Coruña, Spain (Ports Europe) April 12, 2019 – A Coruña port will maintain its leadership in 2020 in the sector of cruises in northern Spain with more...
Valencia port promotes shortsea shipping services to Navarre businessmen
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) April 12, 2019 – Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia (APV – Valenciaport, Port Authority of Valencia) has promoted the short...
Gijón port books €7 million net profit in 2018
Gijón, Spain (Ports Europe) April 12, 2019 – Autoridad Portuaria de Gijón (APG – Port Authority of Gijón) recorded a net profit of about €7...
Bilbao port expects about 50 cruise calls this year
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) April 12, 2019 – The Hamburg cruise ship of the German company Phoenix Reisen opens on April 14 the cruise season...
Bilbao port’s LNG regasification plant increases output in 2018
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) April 12, 2019 – BahÃa de Bizkaia Gas (BBG), owner of the liquefied natural gas (LNG) regasification plant located in Bilbao...
Chinese investors show interest in Rijeka port rail project
Rijeka, Croatia (Ports Europe) April 12, 2019 – Chinese companies are interested in participating in the project for the modernisation of the...
The Dubrovnik Guidelines for Cooperation between China and Central and Eastern European Countries
Dubrovnik, Croatia (Ports Europe) April 13, 2019 – A Chinese delegation headed by Prime Minister Li Keqiang is in Dubrovnik to take part in the 16 + 1...
Spain to launch GandÃa port’s southern road access on April 11
GandÃa, Spain (Ports Europe) April 11, 2019 – Spain’s Public Works Ministry plans to launch the southern road access to GandÃa port on April 11...
Las Palmas port, Costa Cruises discuss 2019/2020 cruise season objectives
Las Palmas, Spain (Ports Europe) April 11, 2019 – Las Palmas port and Costa Cruises have discussed the objectives for the 2019/2020 cruise...
Vopak Terquimsa completes second phase of Tarragona port terminal development
Tarragona, Spain (Ports Europe) April 11, 2019 – Vopak Terquimsa has said it completed the second phase of expansion of its facilities at the Chemistry Wharf...
Puertos del Estado approves sale of Naval Gijón shipyards by Gijón port
Gijón, Spain (Ports Europe) April 11, 2019 – Gijón port authority’s board of directors has received the approval of the national ports agency Puertos...