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News about contracts and tenders linked to port activity. Includes agreements to buy and sell goods, contracts to buy port equipment and construction products, protocols and memorandum of understandings (MoU). Also, agreements with shipping lines.

U.N. Ro-Ro extends Trieste port contract

Istanbul, Turkey (Ports Europe) March 14, 2018 – Turkey’s U.N. Ro-Ro has signed a contract to extend its use of Trieste port until 2041, providing...

China Harbor Engineering Company wins Chornomorsk port dredging contract

Odessa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) March 14, 2018 – China Harbor Engineering Company Ltd. has won two lots of the contract to dredge Chornomorsk sea port....

Ancona port receives 17 applications for fish market renewal project

Ancona, Italy (Ports Europe) March 13, 2018 –  A total of 17 parties have responded to a tender by Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mare Adriatico...

Spinelli extend Terminal Rebora concession period

Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) March 13, 2018 – The Spinelli Group has been awarded an extension to the concession to Terminal Rebora, extended to 2054....

Qingdao port to advise Cartagena on terminal digitisation

Cartagena, Spain (Ports Europe) March 13, 2018 – China’s Qingdao port, the eighth biggest port globally in terms of traffic and the first fully...

Barcelona CARES Foundation and the AEUTRANSMER association sign collaboration agreement

Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) March 13, 2018 – The CARES Foundation and the Spanish Association of Freight Transport Users (Aeutransmer Asociación...

Cádiz port calls tender for preparation of archaeological project

Cádiz, Spain (Ports Europe) March 12, 2018 – Cádiz port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de la Bahía de Cádiz) has called a tender for the preparation of...

Vado Ligure port receives 13th largest crane globally

Vado Ligure, Italy (Ports Europe) March 12, 2018 – The 13th largest crane in the world arrived to the Ligurian port of Vado Ligure. The crane, owned by...

Brodosplit successfully completes construction of the gates to prevent Venice flooding

Venice, Italy (Ports Europe) March 10, 2018 – Brodosplit, the Croatian shipyard based in Split, has delivered 63 flood gates to Venice as part of a...

Vard awarded contract to build two vessels for Ponant

Tulcea, Romania (Ports Europe) March 10, 2018 – Vard Holdings Limited, a Norwegian company active in the design and construction of special ships, has...

Cádiz port to invest about €579,000 in paving of Marqués de Comillas dock

Cádiz, Spain (Ports Europe) March 7, 2018 – Cádiz port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de la Bahía de Cádiz) has announced that it will invest about...

Cartagena port to cooperate with China’s Qingdao

Cartagena, Spain (Ports Europe) March 6, 2018 – Murcia region plans to intensify maritime traffic with China thanks to a collaboration agreement with the...

All bidders in the dredging tender for Chornomorsk port admitted to the auction

Odessa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) March 6, 2018 – The following companies, having shown interest in the tender to dredge Chornomorsk port, will go forward...

Marbella city government applies with Málaga port for lighthouse concession

Málaga, Spain (Ports Europe) March 5, 2018 – The City Council of Marbella municipality has applied with Málaga port authority (Autoridad Portuaria...

Livorno port reissues dry dock tender

Livorno, Italy (Ports Europe) March 2, 2018 – President of Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Tirreno Settentrionale (AdSP – North Tyrrhenian...

Portuguese government sets time limit on Lisbon port concession renegotiations

Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) March 2, 2018 – The Minister of the Sea, Ana Paula Vitorino, has signed the order, published on December 28 in Diário...

VARD reports high activity in Romanian shipyards

Tulcea, Romania (Ports Europe) March 2, 2018 – Vard Holdings Limited, part of Fincantieri S.p.A., has reported its financial results for q4 2017. Higher...

The world’s largest container-handling cranes arrive at APM Terminals MedPort Tangier

Tangiers, Morocco – APM Terminals MedPort Tangier has announced the arrival of three of the newest and largest ship-to-shore (STS) cranes in the world,...

TransNatur carries out logistics works to expand its facilities in Valencia

Castellón, Spain (Ports Europe) March 2, 2018 – Spanish company TransNatur S.A. has confirmed that it is carrying out logistics works to expand its...

Vilagarcía port awards concessions of two lighthouses

Vilagarcía, Spain (Ports Europe) March 2, 2018 – Vilagarcía port has awarded contracts for the operation of the lighthouses of Corrubedo and Punta Insua....

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