Government
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.
Tunisian transport budget includes port development funding
Tunis, Tunisia (PortSEurope) November 20, 2017 – The budget of the Ministry of Transport for the year 2018 was set at TND 640.5 million (€216.99...
IFC, Ukraine’s Infrastructure Ministry to launch PPPs in ports development
Odessa, Ukraine (PortSEurope) November 19, 2017 – IFC, part of the World Bank Group, and Ukraine’s Ministry of Infrastructure signed a Memorandum of...
Russia approves strategy for the development of sea ports in the Caspian Sea
Moscow, Russia (PortSEurope) November 19, 2017 – The main goal of the Strategy is to consolidate the economic and geopolitical presence of Russia in the...
Sardinian Sea Port Authority meets for first time
Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mare Di Sardegna (The Sardinian Sea Port Authority) has held its first meeting in Cagliari. The AdSP is responsible for the...
Assoporti to meet in Rome December 12, 2017
Rome, Italy (PortSEurope) November 15, 2017 – Assoporti, the Italian association of ports, will hold an assembly in Rome on December 12, 2017. The event...
Ashdod port praises sea port competition
Ashdod, Israel (PortSEurope) November 14, 2017 – Ashdod Port CEO Yitzhak Blumenthal has participated in a conference on technological innovation for the...
Sines port promotes sardine sustainability
Sines, Portugal (PortSEurope) November 11, 2017 – The Portuguese Secretary of State for Fisheries has said in the port of Sines that Portugal is...
Event: Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Tirreno Centrale – ZES opportunities, November 16, 2017, Naples
Naples, Italy (PortSEurope) November 10, 2017 – On November 16, 2017, “the ZES – Special Economic Zone: New Opportunities for the...
Liguria regional government insists on autonomy of its ports
Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) November 10, 2017 – Italy’s Liguria regional government president Edoardo Rixi has called on the central government to...
Venice issues cruise ships restrictions
Venice, Italy (PortSEurope) November 8, 2017 – An Italian government committee has ruled that ships weighing 100,000 tonnes or more will no longer be...
Qatar plans direct shipping links with Morocco
Doha, Qatar (PortSEurope) November 8, 2017 – The government of Qatar has plans to establish direct shipping links between its new Hamad port and ports in...
Chamber of Greek-Chinese Economic Cooperation directors meet in Piraeus port
Piraeus, Greece (PortSEurope) November 8, 2017 – Members of the board of directors of Chamber of Greek-Chinese Economic Cooperation have held a meeting...
Valencia port president says he does not understand reasons for northern access rejection
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) November 7, 2017 – The president of Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia), Aurelio Martinez, has...
WGCATCH fisheries meeting in Kavala this week
Kavala, Greece (PortSEurope) November 6, 2017 – From November 6-10, 2017, the Annual Meeting of the Pan-European WGCATCH, the International Council for...
Venice Maritime Cluster to be officially presented
Venice, Italy (PortSEurope) November 3, 2017 – The Venice Maritime Cluster will be officially presented today 3 November at 10.00 at l’Arsenale della...
Portuguese port authority signs agreement with Logink of China
Sines, Portugal (PortSEurope) November 3, 2017 – Administração dos Portos de Sines e do Algarve (APS – the Ports Authority of Sines and Algarve)...
Messina port to join Sicily’s special economic zone
Messina, Italy (PortSEurope) November 2, 2017 – Italy’s government plans to include Messina port in the special economic zone (SEZ) that it plans...
Ukraine conference discusses port fees
Odessa, Ukraine (PortSEurope) November 1, 2017 – During the first international conference “Money and Ports”, which took place on October...
Liguria regional government wants more autonomy of Genoa, Savona, La Spezia ports
Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) November 1, 2017 – Liguria regional government president Giovanni Toti has said he wishes to initiate talks for increasing the...
Croatian president visits Luka Ploče
Ploče, Croatia (PortSEurope) October 31, 2017 – Croatian President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic has visited the Adriatic port of Ploče, where she met the...