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All news from Ports Europe categorised by searchable individual ports and articles feature hyperlinks to individual ports.
Vigo port foresees €14 million investment in 2017
Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) January 11, 2017 – Vigo port foresees investments of more than €14 million ($14.7 million) during this year, the port authority...
MSC appoints former Genoa port president as institutional relations manager
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) January 11, 2017 – Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) has appointed Luigi Merlo as institutional relations director. Merlo, a...
The Greens praise dialogue with Naples port president
Naples, Italy (Ports Europe) January 11, 2017 – Italian political movement The Greens has praised the dialogue started with the president of Naples port...
Trieste port agrees on Sea Park construction project
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) January 11, 2017 – Maximum effort will be employed to speed up the creation of Sea Park in Trieste. This was announced by the...
Balearic Islands ports to receive €42.3 million investment in 2017
Palma de Mallorca, Spain (Ports Europe) January 11, 2017 – The five state-owned ports on the Balearic Islands, Palma de Mallorca, Alcudia, Ibiza, Mahon and...
Abruzzo regional government discusses Pescara port development
Pescara, Italy (Ports Europe) January 11, 2017 – Recovery through a shared strategy at Pescara port was the main topic of the meeting at the headquarters of...
Rostov-on-Don port cargo traffic rises 13.3% Y/Y in 2016
Rostov-on-Don, Russia (Ports Europe) January 11, 2016 – Rostov-on-Don port handled 19.385 million tonnes of cargo in 2016, up 13.3% on the year,...
Azov port cargo traffic edges up 0.8% Y/Y in 2016
Azov, Russia (Ports Europe) January 11, 2016 – Azov port handled 9.755 million tonnes of cargo in 2016, up 0.8% on the year, harbourmaster Vladimir Bragin...
Former Odessa region governor says local ports are controlled by ex-prime minister
Odessa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) January 9, 2017 – The former governor of Ukraine’s Odessa region, Mikheil Saakashvili, has announced that people related to...
Port Yuzhniy cargo traffic declines by 19% Y/Y in 2016
Mykolaiv, Ukraine (Ports Europe) January 9, 2017 – Port Yuzhniy handled 39.292 million tonnes of cargo in 2016, down 19.12% on the year, Ukrainian national...
Navantia to export wind farm equipment through Aviles, Ferrol ports
Aviles, Spain (Ports Europe) January 10, 2017 – Spanish companies Navantia and Windar have concluded negotiations with Iberdrola and its UK subsidiary...
Huelva port awarded contract to operate Majarabique railway terminal
Huelva, Spain (Ports Europe) January 10, 2017 – Huelva port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Huelva) has been awarded a contract for the operation of the...
Castellon port southern road access offsets 1,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions in one year
Castellon, Spain (Ports Europe) January 10, 2017 – The new access to the south dock Castellon port has been in operation in one year now, improving road...
Barcelona port purchases two vans with X-ray scanners
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) January 10, 2017 – Barcelona port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Barcelona) has ordered the purchase of two vans with...
Livorno port gets EU financing for staff training projects
Livorno, Italy (Ports Europe) January 10, 2017 – Livorno port is set to become a national training centre with a team effort between trade unions and...
Gioia Tauro port trade unions say harbour depends entirely on MSC
Gioia Tauro, Italy (Ports Europe) January 10, 2017 – “The global crisis that hit the transshipment sector has been exacerbated by the gradual and...
Spanish government to invest €6.9 million in Almeria port in 2016-2020
Almeria, Spain (Ports Europe) January 10, 2017 – The Spanish government indicated Tuesday that Almeria port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de AlmerÃa) will...
Barcelona remains main contributor to Interport Compensation Fund
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) January 10, 2017 – Barcelona port remains the main contributor to the Spanish port system. According to data released by the...
Ponta Delgada port starts reinforcement works on main dock
Ponta Delgada, Portugal (Ports Europe) January 10, 2017 – The preparation works for the reinforcement of the main dock of Portugal’s Ponta Delgada port...
Mykolaiv port cargo traffic rises 0.6% Y/Y in 2016
Mykolaiv, Ukraine (Ports Europe) January 10, 2017 – Mykolaiv port cargo traffic edged up by 0.6% on the year in the first eleven months of 2016 to 23.37...