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Genoa

Genoa is a seaport in Northwest Italy, South of Milan; one of the most important seaports in Italy, in competition with the ports of Marseille and Barcelona; managed by Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Ligure Occidentale (AdSP – Western Ligurian Sea Port Authority) which includes the ports of Genoa, Savona, Pra’ and Vado; the organisation is also known as “Ports of Genoa”; together the ports are Italy’s pre-eminent port range in terms of traffic volumes, product diversity and economic output, and play a pivotal role in the Mediterranean, in a global shipping industry characterised by carrier upsizing and mega liner alliances.

Eurogate Intermodal reinforces south-east services to Istanbul

Hamburg, Germany (Ports Europe) March 28, 2017 – Eurogate Intermodal (EGIM) is expanding its intermodal transport network and reinforcing Munich as a hub...

Israel’s Zim to introduce new network of transatlantic services in April

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) March 21, 2017 – Israeli company Zim Integrated Shipping Services plans to introduce its new network of transatlantic...

Coal, steel traffic disappearing from Ligurian ports

Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) March 20, 2017 – Declining maritime freight rates, the closure of coal-fired power plants, industrial transformation: the...

Savona, Genoa ports to become backbone of Italian harbour system

Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) March 16, 2017 – The port system of Genoa and Savona will be the backbone of the Italian harbour sector, as guaranteed by...

Northern Ligurian Sea port system to support Maersk container terminal in Vado Ligure

Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) March 13, 2017 – The Port System of the Northern Ligurian Sea plans to support the construction of the container terminal...

Cruise traffic at Italian ports to decline in 2017

Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) March 13, 2017 – The cruise industry keeps expanding globally, but a beneficiary will not be Italy, which will face a...

Tugboat operator Rimorchiatori Riuniti to increase fleet

Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) March 10, 2017 – Italian tugboat operator Rimorchiatori Riuniti S.p.A. said it plans to increase the size of its fleet, as it...

GNV launches Barcelona-Nador ferry service

Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) March 4, 2017 – Starting next June, the Italian shipping company Grandi Navi Veloci (GNV) S.p.A. will launch a new maritime...

Trieste, Genoa promoted as gateway for Chinese exports to Italy

Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) February 27, 2017 – Italian Infrastructure and Transport Minister Graziano Delrio has held a meeting with representatives...

Med ports unite on southern gateway alternative

Marseille, France (Ports Europe) February 25, 2017 – Ports from around the Mediterranean coast have agreed to form a specific organisation to promote the...

Ignazio Messina’s employees at Genoa port agree labour deal

Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) February 22, 2017 – The employees of Italian company Ignazio Messina & C at Genoa port have signed an agreement changing...

AEW acquires logistics asset in northern Italy

Milan, Italy (Ports Europe) February 7, 2017 – AEW, a leading European real estate investment and asset manager, announces that it has acquired the DSV...

Infracapital to take control of Gruppo Investimenti Portuali

Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) February 6, 2017 – Infracapital, a leading investor in European infrastructure, is set to take control of GIP (Gruppo...

Barcelona port operates first call of HDASCO ship as part of Mediterranean service

Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) January 27, 2017 – Iranian shipping company Hafez Darya Arya (HDAS Co), belonging to the Islamic Republic of Iran...

Liguria court requests compensation from former Genoa port president

Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) January 26, 2017 – The prosecutor of the Court of Auditors of Liguria has demanded compensation of €88,000 ($93,960) from...

Event – European Maritime Day – Poole, UK, May 18-19, 2017

Brussels, Belgium (Ports Europe) January 25, 2017 -The European Maritime Day (EMD) is the annual meeting point for Europe’s community of maritime...

Court orders Genoa port to change way of granting access to dry docks

Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) January 19, 2017 – Genoa port authority will have to reconsider the access of operators to dry docks. This was ruled by the...

Enel to operate coal-fired power plant at Genoa port for few months in 2017

Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) January 17, 2017 – Italian power utility Enel Spa has announced that it can reopen the coal-fired power plant at Genoa port...

Italian, Catalan logistics, maritime companies meet at Barcelona port

Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) January 17, 2017 – Representatives of several Italian and Catalan companies from the logistics and maritime sector met on...

Italian ports boost recovery of container traffic in Mediterranean region

Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) January 17, 2017 – For once the ports of northern Europe are not the best on the continent, the ones that drive the...

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