Venice
Venice is a seaport in North Adriatic Sea in Northeast Italy, and built on numerous small islands in the Lagoon of Venice. Commercial, passenger and other terminals form the Ports of Venice and Chioggia. They handle any kind of traffic, from containers, to liquid and solid bulk, steel products, Ro-Ro/Ro-Pax, general and project cargo. It has a developed cruise ship industry which is having to change after large cruise ship were banned from the lagoon for environmental reasons. The two ports are managed by Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mare Adriatico Settentrionale (AdSPMAS – Northern Adriatic Sea Port Authority).
Italy receives European Commission letter regarding taxing port authorities
Trieste, Italy (PortSEurope) May 5, 2018 – Zeno D’Agostino, President of Assoporti, has received a letter from the European Commission which...
Venice port rethinks VOOPS project
Venice, Italy (PortSEurope) May 4, 2018 – It was to be the largest offshore platform in the Mediterranean, to be built 15 kilometres off Venice coast with...
Italian port workers to stage strike on May 11
Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) May 2, 2018 – On May 11, there will be a 24-hour national strike of Italian port workers on issues of security. According to the...
Italy’s Confindustria hopes next government will have Ministry of the Sea
Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) May 2, 2018 – Italian business confederation Confindustria hopes that the next government will establish a Ministry of the Sea...
Yang Ming starts Koper port service
Koper, Slovenia (PortSEurope) May 2, 2018 – Yang Ming, a Taiwan-based shipper, has set up a new weekly service between Koper and the ports of Piraeus...
Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport publishes information on “Connecting Italy”
Rome, Italy (PortSEurope) May 1, 2018 – The Ministry of Infrastructures and Transport (MIT) has published the an annex to “Connecting Italy: the...
Italian Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport launches open data on maritime state property concessions
Rome, Italy (PortSEurope) May 1, 2018 – The Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport (MIT) has made a huge data set publicly available for anyone...
Venice port records €31.8 million surplus in 2017
Venice, Italy (PortSEurope) April 24, 2018 – Italy’s Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mare Adriatico Settentrionale (AdSP – Northern Adriatic...
Assoporti reports cruise passenger figures for 2016-2017 for Italian ports
Rome, Italy April 23, 2018 – Assoporti, the Italian ports association, has published cruise passenger figures for 2016-2017 for the leading Italian...
Venice port handles export of 4 hydrotreating reactors to Iran
Venice, Italy (PortSEurope) April 20, 2018 – An exceptional transport consisting of four hydrotreating reactors, for a total of 1,532 tonnes, has passed...
Call for investment in Venice port shipyards
Venice, Italy (Ports Europe) April 8, 2018 – The Carnival Horizon cruise ship was built at the Fincantieri shipyard in Porto Marghera, but was presented...
Venice port, 40 shipping companies renew ‘Blue Flag’ agreement
Venice, Italy (Ports Europe) March 30, 2018 – Venice port and 40 shipping companies operating in the Venetian lagoon have renewed the ‘Blue...
Italy needs a Ministry of the Sea
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) March 27, 2018 by Pier Luigi Penzo The recent elections have given me an important message: Italians are fed up with talk and...
China’s investments in Piraeus not to affect links to Trieste port
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) March 27, 2018 – Chinese investment in the port of Piraeus will not affect the future cooperation with the port of Trieste, the...
Pilkington Italia Spa signs concession until 2024 with Venice port
Venice, Italy (Ports Europe) March 26, 2018 – Pilkington Italia Spa, which restarted glass production in Marghera last year, has signed a...
Venice to receive central funds for development
Venice, Italy (Ports Europe) March 25, 2018 – Earlier in March, the Ministry of Infrastructures and Transport announced that the 2018 budget would...
Venice Blue Flag agreement renewed for 2018
Venice, Italy (Ports Europe) March 25, 2018 – The “Venice Blue Flag” agreement will also be renewed for 2018, following agreement of the...
Venezia Terminal Passeggeri wins Smau innovation award
Venice, Italy (Ports Europe) March 24, 2018 – Venezia Terminal Passeggeri S.p.A. (VTP), terminal manager at Venice port, has been awarded the Premio...
Italy creates “partnerships for logistics and transport”
Rome, Italy (Ports Europe) March 15, 2018 – The Partnership for Logistics and Transport is born. In implementation of the Budget Law 2018, in fact, the...
Italian associations to cooperate in promoting usage of LNG at ports
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) March 15, 2018 – Italian sector associations have signed an agreement to cooperate in the expansion of the use of liquefied...