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Shipbuilding/Repair

Port activities associated with shipbuilding and ship repair. Includes both military vessels and cruise ship building. Also covered is ship repair and oil platform servicing.

Port of Genoa handles largest ferry in the Mediterranean

Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) February 20, 2024 – The Port of Genoa has welcomed the Moby Fantasy ship, the largest ferry in the Mediterranean region. The...

Mersin International Port utilises MIP-5 Sanmar tugboat

Mersin, Turkey (Ports Europe) February 16, 2024 – Mersin International Port (Mersin) is utilising MIP-5 tugboat, which arrived from Sanmar Shipyards...

Baku Shipyard adopts SSI ShipConstructor design solution

Baku, Azerbaijan (Ports Europe) February 15, 2024 –  Baku Shipyard (BSY Engineering) has adopted the ShipConstructor design and modelling solution of...

Montenegrin government to back payment to Chinese bank by shipbuilder

Kotor, Montenegro (Ports Europe) February 12, 2024 – The government said it will cover a €2.3 million instalment owed by state-owned shipbuilder...

Tankoa Yachts has new concession in Port of Civitavecchia

Civitavecchia, Italy (Ports Europe) February 7, 2024 – Tankoa Yachts has a new concession in the Port of Civitavecchia. it will develop a warehouse and a...

Turkmenistan to build ships for shrinking Caspian Sea

Turkmenbashi, Turkmenistan (Ports Europe) February 1, 2024 – Under pressure from the shrinking Caspian Sea, Turkmenistan’s Balkan shipbuilding and ship...

Azerbaijan’s ASCO handled 4.9 mln tons of cargo in 2023

Baku, Azerbaijan (Ports Europe) January 31, 2024 – In 2023, tankers of Azerbaijan Caspian Sea Shipping CJSC handled 4.9 million tons of cargo. Dry cargo...

Port of Genoa extends concession for Amico & Co

Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) January 31, 2024 – The port of Genoa has extended the concession of Amico & Co until the end of 2060. Amico & Co...

Ferretti Spa set for Port of Taranto development

Taranto, Italy (Ports Europe) January 26, 2024 – Ferretti Spa is set to develop a new industrial facility in the Port of Taranto. This was announced by...

Attica Group signs Mou with ONEX Shipyards

Athens, Greece (Ports Europe) December 21, 2023 – The Attica Group and ONEX Shipyards have signed a memorandum of cooperation (MoC) for the repair and...

Baleària launches its second gas-powered ‘fast ferry’

Gijón, Spain (Ports Europe) December 15, 2023 – Baleària has yesterday launched the fast ferry Margarita Salas at the Armon Shipyard in Gijón, where...

EU updates list of ship recycling facilities

Brussels, Belgium (Ports Europe) December 11, 2023 – The European Commission has adopted the 12th edition of the European List of ship recycling...

Turkish shipbuilder Med Marin signs tugboat contract in Tunisia

Tunis, Tunisia (Ports Europe) November 24, 2023 – Turkish shipbuilder Med Marine has signed a contract to build six state-of-the-art azimuth stern drive...

€80 million for Ancona port and Fincantieri’s shipyard

Ancona, Italy (Ports Europe) November 14, 2023 – Italy’s Central Adriatic Sea Port System Authority (ADSP) and Trieste-based Fincantieri, one of the...

DFC signs deal to invest $125 mln in Elefsina Shipyards, Greece

Piraeus, Greece (PortSEurope) November 7, 2023 – The U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) has signed a financing agreement for a $125...

Fincantieri’s VARD to build two vessels for Windward Offshore

Trieste, Italy (PortSEurope) October 24, 2023 – Fincantieri’s VARD division will build two hybrid Commissioning Service Operation Vessels (CSOV)...

Government withdraws €5 mln from Ferretti project in Taranto

Taranto, Italy (PortSEurope) October 22, 2023 – The Ministry of Infrastructures and Transport has cut €5 million of public funding for securing and...

Fincantieri Palermo shipyard to build new ferry

Palermo, Sicily, Italy (PortSEurope) October 19, 2023 – Fincantieri has signed a circa €120 million contract to build a Ropax Class A ferry for Regione...

Baku Shipyard, Damen Shipyards Gorinchem sign dredger contract

Baku, Azerbaijan (PortSEurope) October 18, 2023 – Baku Shipyard LLC and the Dutch Damen Shipyards Gorinchem have signed a contract for the construction...

Sanctions busting: Russia to buy a “friendly fleet”

Vladivostok, Russia (Ports Europe) September 15, 2023 – Cornered by Western sanctions, Russia is planning to start subsidising the purchase of a...

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