Port Operations
Varroc Lighting Systems Celebrates Opening Of Greenfield Manufacturing Facility In Morocco
Tangier, Morocco (Ports Europe) March 10, 2019 – Varroc Lighting Systems has opened its new 17,000-m² facility in Tangier, Morocco, which produce...
Qingdao Port Group president visits Vado Ligure, Genoa ports
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) March 8, 2019 – A delegation from China’s Qingdao Port Group, led by chairman Li Fengli, has visited the construction...
Motril port’s new president takes office
Motril, Spain (Ports Europe) March 8, 2019 – Spain’s Official State Gazette (BOE) has published the appointment of José García Fuentes as president...
Sicily government opens tender for Sciacca port overhaul
Palermo, Italy (Ports Europe) March 8, 2019 – The Sicilian regional government has opened a tender for the completion of the overhaul of Sciacca port in the...
Spain’s Yecasa launches terminal at Arinaga port
Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain (Ports Europe) March 8, 2019 – Canary Islands business group Yesos Canarias SA (Yecasa) has launched a terminal and...
Koper, Rijeka, Trieste need to join forces against leading European ports
Koper, Slovenia (Ports Europe) March 8, 2019 – Croatia’s biggest port of Rijeka is lagging behind Koper in terms of growth, and the third large...
Montenegro’s Chamber of Commerce to support execution of Luka Bar’s business plan for 2019
Bar, Montenegro (Ports Europe) March 8, 2019 – Montenegro’s Chamber of Commerce plans to support the operator of Bar port, Luka Bar, to execute its...
Montenegro’s Luka Bar, trade union sign collective labour agreement
Bar, Montenegro (Ports Europe) March 8, 2019 – Representatives of the management and trade unions of Luka Bar, the operator of Bar port, have signed a new...
Thessaloniki Port Authority attends 4th Delphi Economic Forum
Thessaloniki, Greece (Ports Europe) March 8, 2019 – Sotirios Theophanis, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Thessaloniki Port Authority SA, has...
Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale dello Stretto di Messina seeks president
Messina, Italy (Ports Europe) March 7, 2019 – Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale dello Stretto di Messina (AdSP – Strait of Messina Port Authority)...
MSC to update service linking Mediterranean to Australia
La Spezia, Italy (Ports Europe) March 7, 2019 – The Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) plans to update its service between Australia, the Indian...
Cartagena port books record-high revenue in 2018
Cartagena, Spain (Ports Europe) March 7, 2019 – Autoridad Portuaria de Cartagena’s (APC – Port Authority of Cartagena) revenue has exceeded...
Spain’s Boluda breaks revenue record in 2018
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) March 7, 2019 – Boluda Corporación Marítima has broken its turnover and growth record in 2018. The company...
GNV, ABB launch energy efficiency project for ships
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) March 7, 2019 – Italian ferry company Grandi Navi Veloci (GNV) and Swiss-Swedish multinational corporation ABB have started a...
Melilla, Ceuta ports to develop joint projects
Melilla, Spain (Ports Europe) March 7, 2019 – The president of Melilla port authority, Miguel Marín, has met Ceuta counterpart, Juan Manuel Doncel to...
Rijeka port launches tender for container terminal construction
Rijeka, Croatia (Ports Europe) March 7, 2019 – Rijeka port has opened a tender for the concession of a new deep-water container terminal. Bids can be placed...
Málaga port to handle 90,000 new vehicles in 2019
Málaga, Spain (Ports Europe) March 7, 2019 – The traffic of new vehicles in the port of Málaga has set a new record with a movement of 3,737 units in just...
Kalmar to supply port equipment to DP World Marseille Fos facility
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) March 7, 2019 – Cargotec has reported that its subsidiary Kalmar will supply 20 Kalmar Hybrid Straddle Carriers to...
Kazak company starts cargo rail service from Vietnam to Europe
Duisburg, Germany (Ports Europe) March 7, 2019 – Kazakhstan Temir Zholy (KTZ), the national railway company, has launched the first railway transit...
International North-South Transport Corridor set to expand capacity
Baku, Azerbaijan (Ports Europe) March 7, 2019 – At a meeting of the International North-South Transport Corridor (INSTC) coordination council in Tehran,...