Port Operations
Bilbao port hosts meeting of the Port Community System Association (IPCSA)
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) February 17, 2019 – Autoridad Portuaria de Bilbao (APB – Port Authority of Bilbao) has hosted a meeting of the...
Italy’s TSG extends concession at Genoa port
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) February 15, 2019 – Terminal San Giorgio (TSG), a company of the Gavio group that manages a multipurpose terminal in the port of...
Almería port’s passenger traffic rises 2.5% in January
Almería, Spain (Ports Europe) February 15, 2019 – Almería port started 2019 with an increase of 2.5% in the movement of passengers while the number of...
Spain reiterates need to impose protectionist towing rules
Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) February 15, 2019 – Spain’s Public Works Ministry has informed the European Commission that it considers necessary...
Suez Canal to double annual revenue by 2023
Suez, Egypt (Ports Europe) February 15, 2019 – The new channel of the Suez Canal, opened in August 2015, has paid off in the shortest possible time, the...
Valencia port handles one of every three containers that move through Spain
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) February 15, 2019 – A total of 30.12% of the containers that are loaded and unloaded in the 46 state-owned ports in Spain...
Mexico’s Cemex applies for concession in Gijón port
Gijón, Spain (Ports Europe) February 15, 2019 – Mexican multinational cement producer Cemex has requested a 2,500 m² concession in the port of Gijón, for...
Avilés port launches mobile management system
Avilés, Spain (Ports Europe) February 15, 2019 – Avilés port has launched an internal management system that will allow customers and operators to...
Augusta port may become Italy’s LNG hub
Augusta, Italy (Ports Europe) February 15, 2019 – Liquefied natural gas (LNG) is a competitive lever for the industrial and logistic system of...
Three binding offers for the marina of Alimos, Greece
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) February 15, 2019 – The Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund (HRADF) has received three binding offers for the tender...
Piraeus Port Authority reports 19.2% revenue increase in 2018
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) February 15, 2019 – Piraeus Port Authority SA, operated by China’s COSCO Shipping Ports Limited, has reported revenue of...
Georgia’s Black Sea ports seek role in new international trade corridors
Tbilisi, Georgia (Ports Europe) February 14, 2019 – The Caucasus country of Georgia has three leading ports alongside its Black Sea coastline, Anaklia,...
ICTSI inaugurates expansion of Batumi International Container Terminal
Batumi, Georgia (Ports Europe) February 14, 2019 – International Container Terminal Services Inc. (ICTSI), a global port terminal operator, has...
Spain: Puertos del Estado – 2018 cargo traffic by port authority
Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) February 14, 2019 – Puertos del Estado, the state-run ports system, reports December 2018 cargo traffic (tonnes) statistics...
Marseille port develops maritime digital gateway
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) February 14, 2019 – The port of Marseille-Fos has announced the construction of new subsea cable landing infrastructure...
Israeli ambassador visits Naples port
Naples, Italy (Ports Europe) February 14, 2019 – The Israeli ambassador to Italy, Ofer Sachs, with the two delegates Yigal Maor and Shlomo Brieman, has...
Italy’s Marini – Fayat exports asphalt plant via Ravenna port
Ravenna, Italy (Ports Europe) February 14, 2019 – The Ravenna terminal of Contship Italia Group was chosen for the shipment of an oversize cargo, the latest...
Italian transport minister visits northern Sardinia ports
Olbia, Italy (Ports Europe) February 14, 2019 – Italy’s Minister of Infrastructures and Transport, Danilo Toninelli, has visited the ports of Olbia and...
Gijón port records highest percentage decline in cargo traffic in Spain last year
Gijón, Spain (Ports Europe) February 14, 2019 – Gijón port was the Spanish port with the highest percentage decline in cargo traffic, of -9.8%, surpassed...
Salerno port’s ro-ro traffic declines in 2018 but prospects are positive
Salerno, Italy (Ports Europe) February 14, 2019 – Salerno port’s ro-ro traffic declined by 5% to 7.73 million units in 2018, down from 8.175...