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All news from Ports Europe categorised by searchable individual ports and articles feature hyperlinks to individual ports.
Ship circles for 24 hours off Bastia port due to poor weather conditions
Bastia, France (Ports Europe) January 24, 2017 – A total of 163 passengers were stranded in a ship off Bastia, Corsica, for 24 hours. The Mega Smeralda...
Valencia port container traffic rises 2.32% Y/Y in 2016
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) January 24, 2017 – Valencia port closed 2016 with a container traffic of 4.722 million TEUs, a figure that represents an...
Vigo port starts 80% of projects under Blue Growth strategy in less than one year
Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) January 24, 2017 – Vigo port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Vigo) has started about 80% of the 43 projects planned in the...
Vigo port strengthens cooperation with Celta Vigo football club
Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) January 24, 2017 – Vigo port plans to promote the image of the city through the city’s football club. At a meeting held...
Barcelona port awards contract for promotion of services in southern France
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) January 24, 2017 – Barcelona port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Barcelona) has awarded a contract for the promotion...
Valencia regional councillor praises Castellon port authority
Castellon, Spain (Ports Europe) January 24, 2017 – Valencia regional councillor for Agriculture, Environment, Climate Change and Rural Development, Elena...
Valencia port receives visit of Mexico’s Oaxaca region representatives
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) January 24, 2017 – Valencia port has received a visit of the representative of the Mexican region of Oaxaca to the Federal...
Cadiz port delegation visits Canary Islands to promote shipping line
Cadiz, Spain (Ports Europe) January 24, 2017 – A delegation from the port community of Cadiz headed by the president of the port authority, Jose Luis...
Spanish northern ports presidents meet to discuss cooperation, intermodality
Gijon, Spain (Ports Europe) January 24, 2017 – Competition and collaboration, competitiveness and efficiency, coordination and planning, are some of the...
Marseille port cargo traffic remains stable in 2016
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) January 24, 2017 – Marseille port generated a cargo traffic of 80.9 million tonnes in 2016, almost unchanged on the...
Marseille signs port agreement with Conakry
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) January 22, 2017 –Â Â The Autonomous Port of Conakry, the capital city of Guinea in west Africa, and the port of...
First train on TEN-T Adriatic-Baltic corridor to depart from Trieste port on Jan 25
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) January 23, 2017 – The first intermodal train scheduled on the Kiel-Gothenburg route will travel from Trieste port...
Palau International Ship Registry opens Piraeus office
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) January 23, 2017 – Houston-based Palau International Ship Registry (PISR) has announced it will open an office the Greek...
Portugal expects 60% rise in Setubal port cargo traffic
Setubal, Portugal (Ports Europe) January 23, 2017 – Portuguese Minister of the Sea Ana Paula Vitorino said that the Portuguese government expects a...
Cosiarma returns to Lisbon port on Jan 22
Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) January 23, 2017 – Italian shipping company Cosiarma S.p.a., which left Lisbon port in 2014, has resumed its maritime...
Puertos del Estado president says access construction to Punta Langosteira is essential
A Coruna, Spain (Ports Europe) January 23, 2017 – The access to the Punta Langosteira, the outer harbour of A Coruna port, is “a pending...
Motril port cargo traffic rises 10% Y/Y in 2016
Motril, Spain (Ports Europe) January 23, 2017 – With a total cargo traffic of 2.1 million tonnes and a growth of 10% on the year in 2016, Motril port...
Valencia port reduces sale price of yacht purchased for America’s Cup
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) January 23, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) has reduced the sale price of the yacht it...
Castellon port changes valuation of land plots in its area
Castellon, Spain (Ports Europe) January 23, 2017 – Castellon port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Castellón) has modified the valuation of the land in...
Kartesia takes control of Castellon port solid bulk cargo terminal operator
Castellon, Spain (Ports Europe) January 23, 2017 – Luxembourg-based investment fund Kartesia and Spain’s Gimeno Group have taken control of a...