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News about the involvement of government in port activities. Includes government laws applicable to ports, state-owned ports including European Union issues with national government implications. Also includes inter-government meetings, agreements and visits of government officials.
Italian port authorities meet to discuss EU tax issues
Rome, Italy (Ports Europe) August 1, 2018 – Yesterday, the coordination group of the General Secretaries of the authorities of port system (AdSPs) in...
Spain may not transfer Pasaia port management to Basque Country
Pasaia, Spain (Ports Europe) July 24, 2018 – Spain’s Public Works Ministry has cooled the optimism of the Basque Government in relation to its request...
Sète port sees new facilities inaugurated
Sète, France (Ports Europe) July 18, 2018 – Carole Delga, President of Région Occitanie/Pyrénées-Méditerranée and Jean-Claude Gayssot, President of...
Interested parties discuss development of Augusta port
Augusta, Italy (Ports Europe) July 15, 2018 – Programs and strategies on the port of Augusta were the topics of a meeting between the president of...
Galician ports set up forum to review port spaces
A Coruña, Spain (Ports Europe) July 14, 2018 – The Xunta (the autonomous government of Galicia) and the Galician Federation of Municipalities and...
Assoporti to present study on the Mediterranean Sea 19 July in Rome
Rome, Italy (Ports Europe) July 14, 2018 – Assoporti, the ports association, will present a study on the geo-strategic scenarios of the Mediterranean...
AdSP Sardegna considers LNG facility at Porto Torres
Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy (Ports Europe) July 13, 2018 – The Management Committee of Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mare Di Sardegna (AdSP –...
Calabrian ports allocated central development funds
Gioia Tauro, Italy (PortSEurope) July 12, 2018 – An agreement between administrations for the port infrastructure system of national and international...
Greece looks at pubic-private partnership model for regional port privatisation
Piraeus, Greece (PortSEurope) July 11, 2018 – At the Jean Monnet symposium on “The Future of European Port Policy” on the island of Chios,...
Because the marriage between ports and airports does not have to be done
Livorno, Italy (PortSEurope) July 7, 2018 – Stefano Corsini, president of Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Tirreno Settentrionale (AdSP –...
Privatize ports and integrate them with airports?
Livorno, Italy (PortSEurope) July 5, 2018 – In an article published in Port News , Pierluigi Di Palma, the State Attorney and President of the Demetra...
Port Authority of Gioia Tauro holds talks with Ministry of Transport
Gioia Tauro, Italy (PortSEurope) July 4, 2018 – The extraordinary commissioner of L’autorità Portuale di Gioia Tauro (Port Authority of Gioia Tauro),...
Madeira government calls for government support for Portimão link
Funchal, Madeira, Portugal (PortSEurope) July 2, 2018 – The president of the Madeira regional government, Miguel Albuquerque, has called on the central...
Turkish ports introduce the Port Single Window System
Istanbul, Turkey (PortSEurope) July 2, 2018 – The Port Single Window System was put into service nationwide yesterday, said Transportation, Maritime and...
Spanish government advances in studies of transfer of Pasaia port management to Basque Country
Pasaia, Spain (PortSEurope) June 27, 2018 – The management of Pasaia port is one of the three subjects whose study is most advanced in the negotiation...
Palermo port to develop Vittorio Veneto quay into new terminal facility
Palermo, Italy (PortSEurope) June 22, 2018 – After seven years of clashes and administrative disputes, future works have been agreed to develop Palermo...
Ukrainian ports successfully pass the IMO audit
Odessa, Ukraine (PortSEurope) June 20, 2018 – The Ministry of Infrastructure has confirmed that Ukraine has passed the International Maritime...
Angopi holds national meeting in Naples port
Naples, Italy (PortSEurope) June 18, 2018 – At a meeting in Naples port, Angopi (Associazione nazionale Gruppi Ormeggiatori e Barcaioli Porti Italiani...
RePort project drives natural gas as fuel alternative trucks in Barcelona port
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) June 12, 2018 – 26 vehicles have been adapted for the use of natural gas thanks to this led initiative by the port of...
European Commission accepts the Spanish proposal for the expansion of the Atlantic and Mediterranean transport corridors
Brussels, Belgium (PortSEurope) June 8, 2018 – The European Commission has included in its proposal to review the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) the...