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Brindisi

Brindisi is a port city on the Adriatic Sea, in southern Italy’s Apulia region. It is used for tourism, commercial and industrial shipping on the Adriatic Sea. Tourist traffic offer connections with the Balkan Peninsula and Turkey, while commercial concerns include coal, fuel oil, natural gas, and chemicals. It is operated by Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mare Adriatico Meridionale (AdSPMAM – Southern Adriatic Sea Port Authority).

Edison in Brindisi port to promote LNG project

Brindisi, Italy (Ports Europe) August 27, 2023 – Representatives of the Edison group will be in Brindisi next week to meet port officials and local...

Powerful trade unions get involved in the Brindisi FSRU project

Brindisi, Italy (PortSEurope) March 22, 2023 – The two main trade unions in Italy clashed about the Edison project for the construction of an liquefied...

Italy’s Southern Adriatic ports report record cargo traffic in 2022

Bari, Italy (Ports Europe) January 19, 2023 – Italy’s ports of the Southern Adriatic have reported record cargo traffic in 2022. They are the ports...

Italy’s Bari, Brindisi ports to invest in agri-food logistics

Bari, Italy (Ports Europe) January 11, 2023 – Italy’s Bari, Brindisi ports will invest in agri-food logistics with €8 million in funding from the...

Italy: Top 10 container ports by TEU traffic – Jan-Sep 2022

Rome, Italy (PortSEurope) December 16, 2022 – Assoporti, the Italian ports organisation, has published total cargo figures for January-September 2022,...

Grimaldi increases services from Bari, Brindisi ports

Bari, Italy (PortSEurope) December 8, 2022 – The Grimaldi shipping group is to increase services from the Southeastern Italian ports of Bari and...

Ports of Bari and Brindisi tender design for dock electrification

Bari, Italy (PortSEurope) November 28, 2022 – The Ports of Bari and Brindisi have issued a tender for the design for dock electrification. Also known as...

Italy: Ranking – Top container ports – January-June 2022

Rome, Italy (Ports Europe) September 6, 2022 – Assoporti, the Italian port association, has reported cargo figures for the first half of 2022, including...

Offshore wind farm planned off the coast of Bari and Brindisi

Bari, Italy (PortSEurope) July 13, 2022 – An offshore wind farm is planned for the coastline off Bari and Brindisi in the southern Puglia region of...

Ports of the Southern Adriatic in Italy see good Q1 2022 growth

Bari, Italy (PortSEurope) May 5, 2022 – In the first quarter of 2022, in the ports of the Southern Adriatic handled more than 4.6 million tons of goods,...

Port of Brindisi interested in hosting FSRU vessel

Bari, Italy (PortSEurope) May 4, 2022 – The port authority for Puglian ports has indicated an interest in the port of Brindisi hosting a vessel to act as...

Grimaldi Group will deploy the vessel Igoumenitsa on the daily ro-pax line Brindisi-Igoumenitsa

Naples, 27 April 2022: The Grimaldi Group will deploy the vessel Igoumenitsa on the daily ro-pax line Brindisi-Igoumenitsa. The ship is already in the Greek...

AdSP del Mare Adriatico Meridionale (Bari) forecasts cruise ship business recovery

Bari, Italy (Ports Europe) February 17, 2022 – The Southern Italian Adriatic ports of Brindisi and Monopoli are expecting record cruise passenger seasons...

Grimaldi strengthens the Ravenna-Brindisi-Catania with Eco Catania and Eco Livorno

Ravenna, Italy (PortSEurope) November 1, 2021 – The Grimaldi group is including two new super Ro-Ro vessels on its Ravenna-Brindisi-Catania service. The...

Three of Europe’s poorest countries struggle to open pan-European corridor VIII connecting Adriatic and Black Seas

Sofia, Bulgaria (PortSEurope) October 19, 2021 – After years of neglect and inactivity, the transport ministers of Bulgaria, North Macedonia and Albania...

Falck Renewables planning investment in Brindisi & talks to port authority

Brindisi, Italy (Ports Europe) September 30, 2021 – Milan-based Falck Renewables SpA has held talks with local interests, including the port authority,...

VTG and Lotras introduce intermodal north-south rail service

Brindisi, Italy (Ports Europe) September 13, 2021 – Using the RoadRailLink (R2L) technology, Hamburg-based VTG and the local transport company Lotras...

AdSP del Mare Adriatico Meridionale (Bari) sees cargo traffic up over 8% in Q2 2021

Bari, Italy (Ports Europe) August 4, 2021 – In the second quarter of 2021 the ports of Bari, Brindisi, Manfredonia, Barletta and Monopoli, handled 3.33...

Will European Corridor VIII ever connect Bari and Brindisi to Durres and Vlora, and to Burgas and Varna?

Varna, Bulgaria (Ports Europe) June 11,2021 – The reconstruction works in Bulgaria for the key railway element of Pan-European corridor VIII that started...

Port of Brindisi see rise in cargo in March

Brindisi, Italy (Ports Europe) April 9, 2021 – Cargo statistics relating to March 2021 show growth in the port of Brindisi in commercial traffic, despite...

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