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A category including news related to increasing output and production of ports. Additional port equipment adding capacity; port expansion adding cargo capacity, shipping lines adding larger vessels and increased land traffic capacity by rail and road.

Luka Ploče holds talks about Bosnia and Herzegovina interests

Ploče, Croatia (Ports Europe) September 17, 2017 – President of the Management Board of Luka Ploče d.d. Captain Ivan Pavlovic met in Mostar with Bosnia...

Ravenna announces the “Hub portuale Ravenna 2017” development plan

Ravenna, Italy (Ports Europe) September 17, 2017 – Daniele Rossi, chairman of Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mare Adriatico Settentrionale (Port...

Cyprus to invest in Vassilikos port LNG facility

Limassol, Cyprus (Ports Europe) September 17, 2017 – Vassilikos port is to build a jetty to enable the port to develop an LNG floating storage capacity...

Puertos del Estado says Seville port does not need 16 metres draft

Seville, Spain (Ports Europe) September 15, 2017 – Spanish national port agency Puertos del Estado’s president Jose Llorca has said that Seville port...

Logistics association Alsea complains of double fee charging at Genoa port

Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) September 15, 2017 – Lombardy freight forwarders and road transport operators Alsea (Associazione Lombarda Spedizionieri e...

Maersk explores options to reduce ship congestion at Algeciras, Tanger Med ports

Algeciras, Spain (Ports Europe) September 14, 2017 – Danish shipping giant Maersk is exploring options for the minimisation of the congestion of ships at the...

Spanish govt speeds project for construction of southern road access to Gandía port 

Gandía, Spain (Ports Europe) September 14, 2017 – Spanish Ministry of Public Works has accelerated the project for the construction of a southern road...

Anaklia and Alat ports intend to establish close cooperation

Anaklia, Georgia (Ports Europe) September 14, 2017 – The CEO of the Anaklia Development Consortium Levan s interview to has given an interview...

Bilbao port okays Progeco concession amendment

Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) September 13, 2017 – Bilbao port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Bilbao) has given the green light to the modification of the...

Italy’s Costa Cruises starts construction of its first LNG-fired ship

Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) September 13, 2017 – Italian company Costa Cruises, a subsidiary of Carnival Corporation, has said it started the construction of...

LNG Croatia seeks partners for gas project

Rijeka, Croatia (Ports Europe) September 12, 2017 – LNG Croatia LLC, the company responsible for the development of LNG import terminal Project on the...

Thomson Cruises to handle 92,000 passengers at Málaga port in 2018

Málaga, Spain (Ports Europe) September 11, 2017 – Thomson Cruises plans to handle 92,000 passengers at Málaga port aboard the “Thomson...

Venice port handles third lot of river intermodal operation

Venice, Italy (Ports Europe) September 11, 2017 – Venice port has completed the handling of the third lot of an intermodal project cargo operation that...

Following its IPO in London, Global Ports Holding comments on the future

London, United Kingdom (Ports Europe) September 11, 2017 – Global Ports Holding (GPH) CEO Emre Sayin has said the IPO in London will enable the company...

Italiana Coke and Fratelli Cosulich cooperate on Savona logistics development

Savona, Italy (Ports Europe) September 9, 2017 – Italiana Coke and Fratelli Cosulich SpA have agreed to cooperate on a development of logistics-related...

Algerian Minister visits El-Hamdania port project

Algiers, Algeria (Ports Europe) September 9, 2017 – The Minister of Public Works and Transport, Abdelghani Zaalane has paid a working visit to the...

EBRD lends funds for Izmir ferry project

Istanbul, Turkey (Ports Europe) September 8, 2017 – The Izmir Metropolitan signed a €33 million loan ($39.79 million) from the European Bank for...

The ship Hai Yang Shi You 721 in Marseille

Marseille, France (Ports Europe) September 8, 2017 – For the first time, the scientific vessel Hai Yang Shi You 721 of the Chinese shipowner COSL (China...

PSA Voltri-Pra opens new One-Stop Office

Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) September 7, 2017 – On August 3, 2017, PSA Voltri-Pra officially inaugurated its new One-Stop Office. With a total investment...

MSC to increase cargo traffic at Trieste port

Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) September 7, 2017 – Gianluigi Aponte, chairman of Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC), which operates the second largest cargo...

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