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Augusta

Augusta is a seaport in Eastern Sicily, Italy. It is included in the European Union’s TEN-T core transport network as a strategic port for its central position along the routes of international traffic. It is the largest natural port in the lower Mediterranean where within it there is an important industrial pole with an oil and commercial port, a military base and a port with two docks. It is managed by Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mare di Sicilia Orientale (AdSP – Eastern Sicilian Sea Port Authority).

Augusta port suspends €47 million contract

Augusta, Sicily, Italy (Ports Europe) October 10, 2018 – The European call for tenders for the acquisition of areas and the construction of new equipped...

AdSP Augusta employees plan to strike July 20

Augusta, Italy (Ports Europe) July 15, 2018 – A new strike by employees of Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mare di Sicilia Orientale (AdSP –...

Interested parties discuss development of Augusta port

Augusta, Italy (Ports Europe) July 15, 2018 – Programs and strategies on the port of Augusta were the topics of a meeting between the president of...

Catania and Augusta port workers strike

Catania, Italy (PortSEurope) July 3, 2018 – The port workers of Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mare di Sicilia Orientale (AdSP – Eastern...

Augusta and Catania ports face labour disruptions

Catania, Sicily, Italy (PortSEurope) June 6, 2018 – The provincial secretariats of Syracuse and Catania of Filt Cgil, Fit Cisl and Uiltrasporti have...

Catania and Augusta ports to be represented at Transport Logistic China trade fair

Augusta, Italy (PortSEurope) May 6, 2018 – Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mare di Sicilia Orientale (AdSP – Eastern Sicilian Sea Port...

Siracusa port expects 75 cruise calls in April-November

Siracusa, Italy (PortSEurope) May 2, 2018 – Siracusa port expects 75 cruise calls in the period between April and November, with over 130,000 tourists in...

Andrea Annunziata to head new Sicilian port association

Augusta, Sicily, Spain (Ports Europe) April 3, 2018 – Following a meeting between Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mare di Sicilia Occidentale (AdSP...

Sicily ports join forces to exchange know-how

Palermo, Italy (Ports Europe) March 30, 2018 – The port authorities of the Italian island of Sicily have signed a cooperation agreement to guarantee the...

Sicilian port authorities sign agreement

Messina, Sicily, Italy (Ports Europe) March 29, 2018 – At a meeting in Messina, the two Sicilian port system authorities signed an agreement to cooperate of...

Sicilian port authorities look at synergy opportunities

Messina, Sicily, Italy (Ports Europe) March 27, 2018 – A meeting will take place tomorrow of the two Sicilian port system authorities to establish a...

AdSP del Mare di Sicilia Orientale president visits Augusta port

Augusta, Sicily, Italy (Ports Europe) March 21, 2018 – President of Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mare di Sicilia Orientale (AdSP – Eastern...

Little progress in LNG facility at Augusta port, Sicily

Augusta, Italy (Ports Europe) March 14, 2018 – Whilst an agreement has been signed between the Ministry of Infrastructures and Transport and relevant...

Augusta port holds talks with local AdSP

Augusta, Italy (Ports Europe) March 12, 2018 – Discussions between the general secretary of the harbor agency, Carlo Guglielmi, and president of...

Unionports – Maritime Cluster Board of Augusta meets local AdSP president

Augusta, Italy (Ports Europe) March 3, 2018 –  Yesterday at the commercial port of Augusta, the Unionports – Maritime Cluster Board was officially...

European parliamentary delegation visits the port of Naples, Catania and Augusta

Naples, Italy (Ports Europe) February 8, 2018 – On February 13-15, 2018, a delegation of deputies of the European Parliament’s Committee on...

Labour organisation questions raised about Sicilian port system

Palermo, Sicily (Ports Europe) February 2, 2018 – The secretary of the Federazione Italiana Lavoratori Trasporti (FILT) of Syracuse, Vera Uccello, has...

Event: Mediterranean ports to attend Fruit Logistica in Berlin – February 7-9, 2017

Berlin, Germany (PortSEurope) January 18, 2018 – The annual Fruit Logistica show covers all sectors of the fresh produce business and provides a complete...

Augusta port authority to attend Fruit Logistica event in Berlin

Augusta, Italy (PortSEurope) January 8, 2018 – Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mare di Sicilia Orientale (AdSP – Eastern Sicilian Sea Port...

Catania-based port authority joins sustainable intermodality association

Catania, Italy (Ports Europe) September 18, 2107 – Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mare di Sicilia Orientale (the port authority of eastern Sicily),...

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