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.
Portuguese ports delegation visits China
Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) October 29, 2017 – The Minister of the Sea, Ana Paula Vitorino, is leading a delegation of 39 Portuguese companies...
Solutions sought for Manfredonia port issues
Manfredonia, Italy (PortSEurope) October 29, 2017 – Several steps have been taken to address a number issues of concern to users and operators of...
Tarragona business requests pharmacy inspection service at port
Tarragona, Spain (PortSEurope) October 26, 2017 – Tarragona Chamber of Commerce has submitted a request to the Spanish healthcare ministry for a pharmacy...
Italy’s logistics system should be promoted as single platform, transport minister says
Venice, Italy (PortSEurope) October 26, 2017 – Italy’s logistics system should be promoted as a single system to investors, in order to attract more of...
Ukrainian minister visits Mykolaiv port
Odessa, Ukraine (PortSEurope) October 23, 2017 – Minister of Infrastructure of Ukraine Volodymyr Omelyan has visited the Mykolayiv region and met with...
Carole Delga president to Occitanie region visits Rabat
Rabat, Morocco (PortSEurope) October 21, 2017 – Carole Delga, regional president of the Occitanie, an administrative region of France, has visited...
Delrio – we will discuss with Fincantieri strengthening Palermo
Palermo, Italy (PortSEurope) October 18, 2017 – “We are ready to discuss with Fincantieri the upgrading of the port of Palermo, I think there are...
Venice port 2018-2020 plan approved
Venice, Italy (PortSEurope) October 17, 2017 – Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mare Adriatico Settentrionale (Port Authority System Management Board...
Minister of Transport Delrio to visit Palermo
Palermo, Italy (PortSEurope) October 16, 2017 – The Italian Minister of Transport Graziano Delrio will visit Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mare di...
Turkey closes ports to vessels from Crimea
Istanbul, Turkey (Ports Europe) October 16, 2017 – The Turkish government is to prohibit its ports from taking ships arriving from Crimea and its ports....
Italian port reform enters final stage
Rome, Italy (Ports Europe) October 12, 2017 – The Italian port system reform, aimed to make the country a hub for transport in the Mediterranean, has reached...
Conftrasporto association says new port system slows down overall freight traffic
Rome, Italy (Ports Europe) October 11, 2017 – The president of Conftrasporto business association, has said that the new Italian port system is not...
Ortona GPL depot proposal receives negative response
Pescara, Italy (Ports Europe) October 7, 2017 – Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mare Adriatico Centrale (Port Authority of the Central Adriatic Sea)...
Graziano Delrio supports Taranto-Matera Special Economic Zone
Taranto, Italy (Ports Europe) September 28, 2017 – “The ZES (Special Economic Zone) Taranto-Matera seems to me a great idea”, said Minister...
Friuli Venezia Giulia approves €1.8 million financing for intermodality projects
Venice, Italy (Ports Europe) October 2, 2017 – The government of the Italian region of Friuli Venezia Giulia has given the green light to a €1.8 million...
Spanish Chamber of Commerce sets up ports commission
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) October 2, 2017 – Spanish Chamber of Commerce (La Cámara de Comercio de España) has set up a Ports Commission with the aim...
Genoa port president calls on government to change structure of port authorities
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) October 2, 2017 – The president of the port authority of Genoa and Savona, Paolo Emilio Signorini, has called on the government...
Trieste Porto Vecchio renovation under way
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) October 1, 2017 – Work has started on the renovation of Porto Vecchio, an old port area of Trieste. President of the Region...
Algeria announces plan to develop ports and logistics
Algiers, Algeria (Ports Europe) September 30, 2017 – The Minister of Public Works and Transport, Abdelghani Zaalane, that a national plan was being...
President of Aktau Port attends business forum in Tashkent
Aktau, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) September 28, 2017 –Â Aktau Port President A. Turikpenbayev attended an exhibition of Kazakh goods and Uzbek-Kazakh...