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Pasaia port’s board of directors may dismiss president at extraordinary meeting on April 11

Pasaia, Spain (Ports Europe) April 11, 2019 – Pasaia port authority board will analyse today in extraordinary session the conflict...

Koper port to participate in 16+1 summit as Slovenia eyes improvement of ties with China

Koper, Slovenia (Ports Europe) April 11, 2019 – Port operator Luka Koper d.d. will participate in the Dubrovnik summit of the 16+1 initiative, which...

Spanish trade union CCOO calls port workers strike on April 17

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) April 11, 2019 – Spanish trade union CC OO union has called a strike of 21 hours of port workers on April 17. The reason is...

La Spezia port’s cruise traffic to soar 48% in 2019

La Spezia, Italy (Ports Europe) April 11, 2019 – La Spezia port expects to handle about 700,000 cruise passengers in 2019, up 48% compared to last year,...

Ecoslops announces its results for the year ended December 31, 2018

Press Release – Ecoslops, the cleantech that brings oil into the circular economy, announces its results for the year ended December 31, 2018, approved...

IT Partner receives a new order from Port St. Maarten

Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht, the Netherlands, March 26, 2019 – IT Partner is excited to announce that they signed an agreement with Port St. Maarten for developing...

Koper port attends Seatrade Cruise Global event in Miami

Koper, Slovenia, April 11, 2019 – The Seat Seatrade Cruise Global is attended by representatives of key stakeholders of nautical tourism: shipowners,...

Spain’s ICL Iberia investing €77.3 million in terminal at Barcelona port

Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) April 10, 2019 – The new terminal of ICL Iberia in the port of Barcelona will start operating later this year after an...

Spain’s Tradebe to recycle fuel extracted from Bay of Biscay leak

Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) April 10, 2019 – The tugboat ‘Ría de Vigo’ has unloaded in the port of Bilbao 333 tonnes of fuel collected in...

Spain’s government approves resignation of Cartagena port president

Cartagena, Spain (Ports Europe) April 10, 2019 – Spain’s government has approved the termination at Joaquín Segado’s term as president of...

Genoa, Savona ports to handle 2.1 million cruise passengers in 2019

Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) April 10, 2019 – Genoa and Savona ports expect to handle a total of 2.1 million cruise passengers in 2019, up 13%, according to...

MSC leads container ranking in Vigo port in 2018

Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) April 10, 2019 – The Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) led for the first time in 2018 the movement of containers at...

A Coruña to host next edition of Excellence Awards

A Coruña, Spain (Ports Europe) April 10, 2019 – The next edition of the Excellence Awards, an internationally-recognised event that rewards the quality of...

Puertos del Estado reports February 2019 cargo figures by port authority

Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) April 10, 2019 – Puertos del Estado, the state-run ports system, reports February 2019 cargo traffic (tonnes) statistics by port...

Messina port to issues cruise terminal contract worth almost €7 million

Messina, Italy (Ports Europe) April 9, 2019 – Messina Port Authority is set to issue a tender for a new cruise terminal worth €6.75 million ($7.61...

Italy’s cruise traffic to rise 7.13% in 2019

Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) April 9, 2019 – Italy’s cruise traffic is expected to rise 7.13% to 11.9 million passengers in 2019, the president of Cemar...

Royal Caribbean, MSC Cruises, Costa Cruises to build €41 million cruise terminal in La Spezia

La Spezia, Italy (Ports Europe) April 9, 2019 – Royal Caribbean, MSC Cruises and Costa Cruises plan to invest a total of €41 million ($46.2 million)...

Huelva port’s cargo traffic rises 14% y/y in Q1

Huelva, Spain (Ports Europe) April 9, 2019 – Huelva port closed the first quarter of 2019 with a total traffic of 8.9 million tonnes, up 14% on the...

Germany’s Kombiverkehr to launch new intermodal service to Italy in May

Verona, Italy (Ports Europe) April 9, 2019 – Germany’s Kombiverkehr plans to launch an intermodal service linking the Interporto Quadrante...

Motril port to handle 43,000 tonnes of celestine mineral export this week

Motril, Spain (Ports Europe) April 9, 2019 – Motril port is surpassing this week a record in its statistics of cargo with the load of 43,000 tonnes of the...

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