Environment/Green Issues
News associated with environmental, green and reneable energy issues linked to ports. Includes efforts to reduces port and ship emissions such as cold ironing. Application of national and European Union environmental and renewable energy policies. This includes new facilities for the production of ammonia, biofuels, hydrogen and vegetable oils.
ENI receives go-ahead for €30 million plant in Porto Torres
Porto Torres, Sardinia, Italy (Ports Europe) September 26, 2018 – Eni SpA, an Italian multinational oil and gas company, has received permission for...
Constanta port issues environment tender
Constanta, Romania (Ports Europe) September 26, 2018 – The National Company Maritime Ports Administration SA Constanta has announced a tender for an...
La Méridionale experiments LNG electrical supply for its ships at Corsican ports
Ajaccio, Corsica, France (Ports Europe) September 21, 2018 РMarseille-based La M̩ridionale SA, a French passenger and freight shipping company, is...
Thessaloniki Port Authority extends deadline for SUPAIR tender
Thessaloniki, Greece (Ports Europe) September 24, 2018 – Thessaloniki Port Authority SA (ThPA) has modified the terms and extension of the tender...
Taranto port signs agreement to improve energy efficiency
Taranto, Italy (Ports Europe) September 21, 2018 – Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Ionio (AdSP – Ionian Sea Port Authority) has signed a...
European Commission to review the Atlantic Strategy Action Plan
Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) September 20, 2018 –Â The European Commission is reviewing the Atlantic Strategy Action Plan in cooperation with the five...
Barcelona joins forces with six major ports to address global warming
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) September 18, 2018 – The ports of Barcelona, Hamburg, Antwerp, Los Angeles, Long Beach, Vancouver and Rotterdam have...
AdSP Ravenna to attend RemTech
Ravenna, Italy (Ports Europe) September 17, 2018 – Ravenna-based Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mare Adriatico Centro-Settentrionale (AdSP –...
International Maritime Organisation: Training for reducing emissions in ports
London, United Kingdom (Ports Europe) September 15, 2018 – The International Maritime Organisation (IMO) has held a workshop in Batumi, Georgia, to...
Cartagena port invests in Samoa system
Cartagena, Spain (Ports Europe) September 16, 2018 –Â Autoridad Portuaria de Cartagena (APC – Port Authority of Cartagena) has held a day at its...
United Nations Development Programme visits Durrës port
Durrës, Albania (Ports Europe) September 16, 2018 – A United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) mission has visited the port of Durrës following...
Corsica Linea to sign environment agreement with Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur in France
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) September 12, 2018 – Corsica Linea and the southern French region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur (Paca) will sign an...
Castellón port installs dust protection barriers
Castellón, Spain (Ports Europe) September 11, 2018 – Castellón port has installed two new windshields in order to protect the residential areas around...
Vigo port continues advancing in its energy self-sufficiency strategy
Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) September 11, 2018 – Vigo port continues to advance its goal of achieving energy self-sufficiency of all its buildings and...
Galician ports clear waste from port seabeds
Coruña, Spain (Ports Europe) September 9, 2018 – In recent weeks, Portos de Galicia has cleared about 14,000 kilos of waste from the seabed of the...
Barcelona port collects 50 tonnes of floating waste in 2017
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) September 7, 2018 – Barcelona port collected over 50 tonnes of floating waste from its water sheet in 2017, 45% of which were...
University of Cagliari presents port noise pollution study
Cagliari, Italy (Ports Europe) September 6, 2018 – Yesterday say the presentation of a project called “List Port – Traffic noise pollution...
Implementation of Taganrog Sea Commercial Port’s environmental programme in the first half of 2018
Taganrog, Russia (Ports Europe) September 4, 2018 –Â In the first half of 2018, AO Taganrog Sea Commercial Port (TagSCP), part of Netherlands-registered...
Fiumicino port starts waste cleaning project
Fiumicino, Italy (Ports Europe) September 5, 2018 – Civitavecchia port authority has launched a project for the cleaning of Fiumicino harbour docks seabed on...
Cartagena port to study Escombreras island fauna
Cartagena, Spain (Ports Europe) August 31, 2018 – Cartagena port has commissioned a study of the fauna of Escombreras island, where it operates a solid bulk...