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.
Valencia port’s Ecoport II project members hold semiannual meeting
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) July 27, 2018 – The group of companies that make up the Ecoport II project of Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia (APV –...
Atlantic Copper passes environmental auditÂ
Huelva, Spain (Ports Europe) July 27, 2018 – Spain-based company Atlantic Copper, handling its exports through two terminals at Huelva port, has passed an...
Spain’s Puertos del Estado includes 25 ports in SAMOA project
Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) July 25, 2018 – The new president of Spanish national ports agency Puertos del Estado, Ornella Chacón, informed the members of...
Motril port concludes works to reduce noise, greenhouse gas emissions by ferries
Motril, Spain (Ports Europe) July 25, 2018 – Motril port has concluded the works to reduce the noise, especially at night, the greenhouse gases and the...
Enel X to install 300 electric vehicle chargers at Italian portsÂ
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) July 23, 2018 – Italian ports association Assoporti and innovative and technological solutions company Enel X Srl have signed a...
Cartagena port increases use of hybrid vehicles
Cartagena, Spain (Ports Europe) July 20, 2018 –Â Autoridad Portuaria de Cartagena (APC – Port Authority of Cartagena) has replaced current diesel...
Universitat de les Illes Balears presents Palma port environment study
Palma, Mallorca, Spain (Ports Europe) July 20, 2018 –Â Autoridad Portuaria de Balears (APB – Port Authority of the Balearic Islands)Â and...
EU and China sign landmark partnership on oceans
Beijing, China, July 16, 2018 On 16 July, the European Union has signed a unique ocean partnership agreement with China. Two of the world’s largest ocean...
Gijón port president says coal industry plays vital role for the harbour
Gijón, Spain (PortSEurope) July 11, 2018 – The president of Autoridad Portuaria de Gijón (APG – Port Authority of Gijón), Laureano Lourido, has...
Spain’s Inditex takes part in marine garbage reuse project of Vigo port
Vigo, Spain (PortSEurope) July 2, 2018 – The participation of Spanish textile group Inditex (Industria de Diseño Textil, SA) in the ML-Style project for the...
Cartagena port authority pushes carbon footprint credentials
Cartagena, Spain (PortSEurope) June 28, 2018 –Â The president of Autoridad Portuaria de Cartagena (APC – Port Authority of Cartagena), JoaquÃn...
Marseille port discusses its environmental ship index awards
Marseille, France (PortSEurope) June 28, 2018 – The Grand Port of Marseilles (GPMM) has presented its ESI (Environmental ship index) awards. Set up by...
Cartagena port authority participates in ports meeting
Cartagena, Spain (PortSEurope) June 28, 2018 –Â Autoridad Portuaria de Cartagena (APC – Port Authority of Cartagena)a has participated in the...
Port companies and authorities sign Civitavecchia Blue Agreement
Civitavecchia, Italy (PortSEurope) June 28, 2018 – The Harbour Authority, the Municipality, Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Tirreno...
AdSP Naples funds Trentaremi Bay environment work
Naples, Italy (PortSEurope) June 25, 2018 – Works to secure the beach and the marine area in front of the Trentaremi Bay in Posillipo, Naples, have been...
Livorno AdSP receives RINA environmental recertification
Livorno, Italy (PortSEurope) June 25, 2018 – The RINA certification organisation has renewed the environmental certificate and EMAS registration...
Ceuta port detects potable water contamination
Ceuta, Spain (PortSEurope) June 19, 2018 – Ceuta port has detected a diesel contamination of the potable water supplied by the company Acemsa in its area....
La Luz Market to install wind turbines at Granadilla port, Tenerife
Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain (PortSEurope) June 18, 2018 – Granadilla port will become a logistics area for wind turbines in the Canary Islands, under...
RePort project drives natural gas as fuel alternative trucks in Barcelona port
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) June 12, 2018 –Â 26 vehicles have been adapted for the use of natural gas thanks to this led initiative by the port of...
GNV receives environmental certification
Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) June 11, 2018 –Â The Italian company Grandi Navi Veloci (GNV) has received from the Italian Naval Registry (Registro Italiano...