Port Operations
Spain’s Boluda launches Canary Islands-Galicia freight service
Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain (Ports Europe) March 14, 2019 – Boluda Corporación Marítima has launched a new freight service between the Canary Islands...
Barcelona port’s Terminal Port Nou carries out project cargo operation
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) March 14, 2019 – Barcelona port’s Terminal Port Nou carried out on March 12 the unloading of a project cargo load of 96...
Seville port’s container traffic rises backed by rail freight services
Seville, Spain (Ports Europe) March 14, 2019 – Seville port has experienced an annual container traffic increase of 23% in January and February 2019, backed...
Luka Kotor approves port concession contract
Kotor, Montenegro (Ports Europe) March 14, 2019 – Montenegrin port operator Luka Kotor AD’s shareholders have given the green light to a 12-year...
Ceuta port joins SAMOA 2 project
Ceuta, Spain (Ports Europe) March 14, 2019 – Ceuta port has joined the project for the start-up of an innovative system of prediction of oceanic...
Sintraport in talks on working conditions to continue strike next week
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) March 14, 2019 – Spanish autonomous truck drivers association Sintraport is holding meetings with companies active...
Italy suspends process for termination of Contship’s Gioia Tauro port concession
Gioia Tauro, Italy (Ports Europe) March 14, 2019 – Italy’s Ministry of Infrastructure & Transport (MIT) has received a list of commitments by Gioia...
Bordeaux port to cooperate with Douala port in Cameroon
Bordeaux, France (Ports Europe) March 14, 2019 – Port Autonome de Douala (PAD – Port Authority of Douala) has signed an agreement with...
China considers a new Silk Road role for Italy’s Palermo port
Palermo, Sicily, Italy (Ports Europe) March 14, 2019 – Chinese President Xi Jinping is scheduled to visit Italy March 22-23, and after Rome will visit...
Shanghai-based investment fund eyes €5 billion port project in Palermo
Palermo, Italy (Ports Europe) March 13, 2019 – An unnamed Shanghai-based investment fund is interested in participating in a €5 billion ($5.7 billion)...
Cartagena port to double luxury cruise calls in 2019
Cartagena, Spain (Ports Europe) March 13, 2019 – Cartagena port expects to double the number of luxury cruise ships handled in 2019, exceeding the number of...
Cagliari port’s container traffic continues to decline
Cagliari, Italy (Ports Europe) March 13, 2019 – The container terminal of the industrial port of Cagliari continues to experience a period of crisis —...
Valencia port receives ‘GREEN4SEA Port Award’
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) March 13, 2019 – Valencia port has received the international prize ‘GREEN4SEA Port Award’ 2019 in environmental...
Italian trade unions call strike of CULMV employees at Genoa port
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) March 13, 2019 – Italian trade unions Filt Cgil, Fit Cisl and Uiltrasporti have called a strike of the employees of Genoa port...
Russia to sign agreement for industrial zone near Port Said in April
Suez, Egypt (Ports Europe) March 13, 2019 – Egypt’s government expects to sign an agreement with the Russian Export Centre (REC) to start the...
Naviera Armas to complete construction of Las Palmas port terminal in June
Las Palmas, Spain (Ports Europe) March 13, 2019 – Spanish shipping company Naviera Armas SA expects to complete the construction of its terminal at Nelson...
Pietro Verna, new commissioner of AdSP del Mar Tirreno Settentrionale (Livorno), introduces himself
Livorno, Italy (Ports Europe) March 12, 2019 – The new extraordinary commissioner of Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Tirreno Settentrionale (AdSP...
Portoferraio opens 2019 cruise season
Portoferraio, Elba, Italy (Ports Europe) March 12, 2019 – Portoferraio port has launched the cruise season with the M/N Arethusa ship that brought its 49...
Liguria port community delegation visits Barcelona port
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) March 12, 2019 – A delegation of the Genoa port community will visit Barcelona port to explore cooperation opportunities with...
Tuscany ports’ cargo traffic rises 7.3% in 2018
Livorno, Italy (Ports Europe) March 12, 2019 – Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Tirreno Settentrionale (AdSP – North Tyrrhenian Sea Port...