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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.

Mexico’s Cemex applies for concession in Gijón port

Gijón, Spain (Ports Europe) February 15, 2019 – Mexican multinational cement producer Cemex has requested a 2,500 m² concession in the port of Gijón, for...

Proposed new dry port west of Cairo attracts international consortia

Cairo, Egypt (Ports Europe) February 13, 2019 – The Egyptian Finance Ministry has announced plans to build a $100 million dry port west in the 6th of...

Blue Water Shipping awarded Anaklia port contract

Anaklia, Georgia (Ports Europe) February 13, 2019 – Blue Water Shipping has been appointed as the local freight forwarding agent by Van Oord, contractor...

Pescara approves €552,000 port overhaul tender

Pescara, Italy (Ports Europe) February 13, 2019 – Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mare Adriatico Centrale (Central Adriatic Sea Port Authority) has...

A Coruña port to soon tender €150 million railway project

A Coruña, Spain (Ports Europe) February 12, 2019 – A Coruña port will soon tender a €150 million ($169.4 million) project for the construction of a rail...

Italy’s Fincantieri launches Seven Seas Splendor ship

Ancona, Italy (Ports Europe) February 12, 2019 – Italian shipping group Fincantieri SpA has launched the Seven Seas Splendor ship at its Ancona port...

COSCO signs agreement with another Mediterranean port

Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) February 12, 2019 – As well as high profile contracts to manage entire ports and port terminals around the Mediterranean...

Memorandum of Understanding between Piraeus and ports of Venice and Chioggia to strengthen cargo flows

Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) February 11, 2019 – The CEO of Piraeus Port Authority Sa (PPA), Captain Fu Chengqiu, and the President of Autorita’ di...

Administrative problems slow Repsol’s pipeline project at A Coruña port

A Coruña, Spain (Ports Europe) February 11, 2019 – Spanish oil and gas group Repsol SA’s project for the construction of a liquid bulk pipeline to the...

Tender results for Rijeka new container terminal disputed

Rijeka, Croatia (Ports Europe) February 11, 2019 – SŽ – ŽelezniÅ¡ko Gradbeno Podjetje Ljubljana, a subsidiary of the Slovenian national railways...

Decathlon doubles logistics area in ZAL, Barcelona port

Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) February 11, 2019 – Decathlon SA, the French seller of sports equipment, is to rent a site of 96,000 m² in ZAL (La Zona...

Las Palmas port to approves change in Astican project

Las Palmas, Spain (Ports Europe) February 8, 2019 – Las Palmas port approved an extension in the term of beginning and end of the works that Astican has...

Cyes to build extension of Santa Catalina dock at Las Palmas port

Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain (Ports Europe) February 7, 2019 – Las Palmas port has awarded a contract for building the extension of the Santa Catalina...

France’s Decathlon rents land plot at Barcelona port’s logistics zone

Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) February 6, 2019 – French fashion and sports equipment retailer Decathlon has rented an area of 96,000 m² in Barcelona...

Marseille Fos and Strasbourg port authorities agree to develop multi modal links

Marseille, France (Ports Europe) February 6, 2019 – The Marseille Fos and Strasbourg port authorities have signed an agreement to strengthen the...

DP World renews Constanta port concession

Constanta, Romania (Ports Europe) February 6, 2019 – DP World Constanta has signed a 30-year extension to its concession agreement with Compania...

AdSP del Mare Adriatico (Ancona port) to decide on two bids for new port system plan

Ancona, Italy (Ports Europe) February 5, 2019 – Two consortia have applied to participate in the European call for tender for the drafting of the Port...

Castellón port awards liquid bulk terminal construction contract

Castellón, Spain (Ports Europe) February 5, 2019 – Castellón port has awarded the project for the construction of a liquid bulk terminal to a consortium of...

Spain’s Gran Canaria Subsea & Offshore renounces concession at Arinaga port

Arinaga, Canary Islands, Spain (Ports Europe) February 5, 2019 – Spanish company Gran Canaria Subsea & Offshore Base SL has renounced its concession...

Fincantieri to establish shipbuilding hub in Palermo

Palermo, Sicily, Italy (Ports Europe) February 5, 2019 – Fincantieri SpA and Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mare di Sicilia Occidentale (AdSP –...

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