Ro-Ro
Port activities related to Ro-Ro (roll on, roll off) – ships or ferries designed which carry vehicles that can be driven straight on and straight off. Includes passenger ferries and vessels with lorries and trailers carrying cargo.
Turkey’s Karasu Port to start Ro-Ro operations
Istanbul, Turkey (PortSEurope) August 5, 2019 – Ro-Ro services have started at Karasu Port in Sakarya, located just over 150km east of Istanbul on...
Almeria port considers fruit and vegetable transport service with Sète
Almería, Spain (PortSEurope) July 26, 2019 – The President of the Port Authority, Jesús Caicedo, is leading a series of meetings with all business...
Vigo port’s ro-ro terminal expansion drafting tender attracts engineering firms
Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) April 23, 2019 – The tender for the drafting of the construction project for the expansion of the ro-ro terminal in Vigo has...
AdSP del Mare di Sicilia Occidentale launches restyling of passenger station at Trapani port
Trapani, Sicily, Italy (Ports Europe) March 28, 2019 – Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mare di Sicilia Occidentale (AdSP – Western Sicilian Sea...
Vigo port establishes conditions for Bouzas terminal extension drafting tender
Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) March 14, 2019 – Vigo port has established the tender conditions for the provision of technical assistance for the drafting of the...
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...
Italy’s Tirrenia ro-ro traffic to Sicily rises 35% in 2018
Catania, Italy (PortSEurope) January 7, 2019 – Italian shipping company Tirrenia has recorded a 35% increase of total ro-ro traffic transported in 2018...
Portugal to invest €12 million in ro-ro ramp at Porto das Pipas harbour
Porto das Pipas, Azores Islands, Portugal (PortSEurope) December 26, 2018 – The capacity overhaul project at Porto das Pipas in Portugal’s Azores...
Vigo port to receive €13 million EU funding for Ro-Ro terminal overhaul
Vigo, Spain (PortSEurope) December 19, 2018 – Vigo port will receive €13 million ($14.9 million) of financing from the European Union (EU) to upgrade its...
Arkas and Cosco set up Mediterranean-Black Sea reefer service
Mersin, Turkey (PortSEurope) October 12, 2018 – Turkish shipping company Arkas and China’s Cosco are to set up a reefer service between the ports...
Italy’s Grimaldi Lines to launch Porto Torres-Genoa ro-ro line on Oct 14
Porto Torres, Sardinia, Italy (Ports Europe) October 11, 2018 – Italian company Grimaldi Lines has received approval for the launch of a Ro-Ro shipping line...
Huelva port receives 40 bids for tender to build new esplanade for Ro-Ro traffic
Huelva, Spain (Ports Europe) September 18, 2018 – A total of 40 companies have submitted bids to carry out works to enable an esplanade for intermodal...
Kumport increases Ro-Ro services
Kumport, Turkey (Ports Europe) September 18, 2018 – Kumport Liman Hizmetleri ve Lojistik Sanayi ve Ticaret A.Ş is expanding its target in Ro-Ro...
Cartagena port calls tender for two ro-ro ramps
Cartagena, Spain (Ports Europe) September 4, 2018 – Cartagena port has called a tender for the construction of two ro-ro ramps, to encourage the departure of...
Presidents of the AdSP South Adriatic Sea and AdSP Mar Tirreno Centro Nord agree to a collaboration agreement
Brindisi, Italy (Ports Europe) September 2, 2018 – The president of Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mare Adriatico Meridionale (AdSP –...
AdSPs of Bari and Civitavecchia to sign transport corridor agreement
Bari, Italy (Ports Europe) August 29, 2018 – The presidents of the AdSPs of the Southern Adriatic Sea and the North Central Tyrrhenian Sea, Ugo Patroni...
AdSP del Mar Tirreno Settentrionale (Livorno) sees improved first half figures
Livorno, Italy (Ports Europe) August 29, 2018 – Ports of Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Tirreno Settentrionale (AdSP – North Tyrrhenian...
Norway’s Höegh celebrates 10th anniversary of Spanish unit at Valencia port
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) August 24, 2018 – Norwegian ro-ro company Höegh Autoliners has celebrated the tenth anniversary of the constitution of its...
U.N. Ro-Ro extends storage licence at Patras port
Patras, Greece (Ports Europe) August 14, 2018 – Turkish shipper U.N. Ro-Ro has requested to the Patras Port Authority to extend its license to use the...
Ekol starts regular Ro-Ro service between Lavrio and Sète ports
Lavrio, Greece (Ports Europe) August 12, 2018 – Ekol, the Turkish logistics company, is to begin a regular Ro-Ro service between Lavrio port, Greece,...