Port Operations
Alicante port to approve bulk terminal project in April
Alicante, Spain (Ports Europe) March 12, 2019 – Autoridad Portuaria de Alicante (APA – Port Authority of Alicante)e is completing the technical...
Court confirms fine on Vilagarcía port for environmental rules violation
Vilagarcía, Spain (Ports Europe) March 12, 2019 – The Pontevedra administrative court has confirmed the sanction imposed by the Galicia regional government...
Strike blocks container trucks at Barcelona port
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) March 12, 2019 – The autonomous container transporters of the port of Barcelona started their first day of work stoppages,...
Las Palmas port installs 72 photovoltaic panels
Las Palmas, Spain (Ports Europe) March 12, 2019 – Autoridad Portuaria de Las Palmas (APP – Port Authority of Las Palmas) has just put into operation 72...
Delta Wilmar signs for public-private partnership project in Yuzhny port
Yuzhny, Ukraine (Ports Europe) March 12, 2019 – Delta Wilmar CIS LLC and Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority (USPA) have signed amendments to a...
Georgian prime minister challenges Anaklia port critics
Anaklia, Georgia (Ports Europe) March 12, 2019 – At a press briefing on March 8, Georgian Prime Minister Mamuka Bakhtadze called the Anaklia Deep Sea...
Kalmar to supply Servicios Logisticos Portuarios SLP in Bilbao port with forklift trucks
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) March 11, 2019 – Kalmar, part of Cargotec, has an agreement to supply Servicios Logisticos Portuarios SLP, a leading...
Dubrovnik airport and port authority cooperate in EU ADRIGREEN environment project
Dubrovnik, Croatia (Ports Europe) March 11, 2019 – Dubrovnik’s airport (ZLD – Zračna luka Dubrovni) and port authority (LUC – Lucke...
Genoa port, CCCC to sign joint venture deal on March 23
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) March 11, 2019 – Genoa port is expected to sign a memorandum for the establishment of a joint venture with China Communications...
SCZone to present investment opportunities to Indian companies
Suez, Egypt (Ports Europe) March 11, 2019 – Suez Canal Economic Zone (SCZone) managers plan to visit India to meet representatives of local companies...
Pula port launches preparatory work for cruise terminal construction
Pula, Croatia (Ports Europe) March 11, 2019 – Croatia’s Pula port authority has launched a tender for geomechanical explorations of the marine...
Vigo port seeks compensation for exclusion from Europe’s main transport network
Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) March 11, 2019 – Vigo port is demanding compensation for the decision of the European Commission not to include the railway with...
Tenerife is Spain’s only large cruise port with traffic decline in January
Tenerife, Spain (Ports Europe) March 11, 2019 – In the first month of 2019, of the seven port authorities with the highest traffic of cruise passengers, in...
Libya relaunches exports of Sharara oil from Zawiya port
Zawiya, Libya (Ports Europe) March 11, 2019 – The first export of crude oil produced in Libya’s Sharara field after the lifting of the force majeure...
Valencia to soon become Europe’s 4th largest container port
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) March 11, 2019 – For the first time in history, Valencia port surpassed that of Bremen for three months of the previous year...
Trieste port to handle largest freight ferry on March 13
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) March 11, 2019 – The “Ephesus Seaways” vessel, delivered to the Danish DFDS shipowner on January 31, will become...
Chinese development of Haifa port faces delays
Haifa, Israel (Ports Europe) March 11, 2019 – Haifa Municipality has registered an objection against the Haifa District Planning and Building Commission...
Thessaloniki Port Authority partners approve investment strategy
Thessaloniki, Greece (Ports Europe) March 11, 2019 – The owners of Thessaloniki Port Authority (ThPA) have approved the company’s €180 million...
Thessaloniki is first port in Greece to be member of Green Award network
Thessaloniki, Greece (Ports Europe) March 11, 2019 – Thessaloniki Port Authority SA is to participate in the Green Award network as the Incentive...
Navis acquires Miami-based Octopi
Helsinki, Finland (Ports Europe) March 11, 2019 – Navis, a part of Cargotec Corporation, and the provider of operational technologies and services for...