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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.

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...

China’s CHEC starts second dredging project at Port Yuzhniy

Port Yuzhniy, Ukraine (Ports Europe) September 12, 2017 – China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) has started its second project at Ukraine’s Port...

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...

Piraeus port awards €23.8 million contract for floating dock construction to Cosco

Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) September 11, 2017 – Piraeus Port Authority S.A. has awarded a €23.8 million ($28.5 million) contract for the construction...

Spain’s Boluda delivers four tugboats to German subsidiary

Hamburg, Germany (Ports Europe) September 11, 2017 – Spanish company Boluda Corporación Marítima has held a naming ceremony for four tugboats of its German...

Silversea Cruises orders new vessel from Fincantieri

Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) September 11, 2017 – Silversea Cruises and Fincantieri S.p.A. have signed a contract worth about 310 million euros, for the...

Baleària plans to stay and improve the ships in Melilla

Melilla, Spain (Ports Europe) September 11, 2017 – Deputy Minister of Tourism, Javier Mateo that said that Baleària Eurolínias Marítimas...

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...

Cosco awarded floating dock contract in Piraeus

Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) September 9, 2017 – Piraeus Port Authority S.A. (PPA SA) has announced the completion of the tender and the finalisation...

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...

Boskalis Nederland wins dredging contract at Cádiz port

Cádiz, Spain (Ports Europe) September 7, 2017 – Cádiz port authority (Autoridad Portuaria Bahía de Cádiz) has awarded a contract to company Boskalis...

Hellespont set for contract with Cosco

Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) September 6, 2017 – Athens-based Hellespont Group, headed by Greek shipowner Phrixos Papachristidis is in talks with the...

Spain’s Paceco to deliver two RTGs to Lithuania’s Klaipeda port

Klaipeda, Lithuania (Ports Europe) September 6, 2017 – Madrid-based, Spanish company Paceco España S.A. has recently signed a contract for the supply of...

The floating dock Marco Polo christened in Marseille

Marseille, France (Ports Europe) September 6, 2017 – The floating dock or “caissonier” Marco Polo received a blessing on 29 August 2017...

Aegean Shipping Management enters dry bulk market

Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) September 5, 2017 – Piraeus-based company Aegean Shipping Management has announced the signing of a new building order of a...

Las Palmas port awards contract for accounting services to Spanish consortium

Las Palmas, Spain (Ports Europe) September 4, 2017 – Las Palmas port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Las Palmas) has awarded a contract for the...

Motril port, BMN-Caja Granada sign cooperation deal

Motril, Spain (Ports Europe) September 4, 2017 – Spanish bank BMN-Caja Granada has signed a cooperation agreement with Motril port. During the signing of...

Bilbao port handles export of turbine pieces for offshore wind farm

Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) September 4, 2017 – The “CC Biscay” pontoon left the port of Bilbao on August 31 carrying on its deck two large...

Bordeaux port expects bids for TCSO terminal operation

Bordeaux, France (Ports Europe) September 4, 2017 – Bordeaux port invited bids for the operation of the Terminal Conteneurs du Sud-Ouest (TCSO)...

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