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.
Delrio meets chairman of Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Ligure Occidentale
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) September 22, 2017 – Minister of Infrastructure and Transport Graziano Delrio has met with the Chairman of Autorita’ di...
Puglia aims for two Special Economic Zones
Bari, Italy (Ports Europe) September 26, 2017 – A working table chaired by Michele Mazzarano was set up this morning at the Department for Economic...
Spanish government to introduce environmental sustainability criteria in ports law
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) September 20, 2017 – Spain’s government plans to start working on the amendment of the Ports Law in the country in...
Spain’s Puertos del Estado president says port mergers are not needed
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) September 20, 2017 – Spain does not need any mergers of port authorities as the current management structure allows the...
Filyos Industrial Zone in Western Black Sea to attract $2 billion investment
Istanbul, Turkey (Ports Europe) September 21, 2017 – The groundbreaking ceremony for Filyos Port, which is going to be third largest port in Turkey, took...
Event: Mediterranean Coast And Macroregional Strategies Week, Slovenia, September 20-23, 2017
Koper, Slovenia (Ports Europe) September 19, 2017 – The “Mediterranean Coast and EU Macro-regional Strategies Week – Living with the sea” will be...
Catania-based port authority joins sustainable intermodality association
Catania, Italy (Ports Europe) September 18, 2107 – Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mare di Sicilia Orientale (the port authority of eastern Sicily),...
Italian government to launch special economic zone at Gioia Tauro port
Gioia Tauro, Italy (Ports Europe) September 18, 2107 – The Italian government plans to set up a special economic zone at Gioia Tauro port, due to its crucial...
Basque Country insists on receiving ownership of Bilbao, Pasaia ports
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) September 18, 2107 – The government of the Basque Country plans to keep requesting the transfer of the ownership of Bilbao and...
Conferenza Nazionale delle Autorità di Sistema Portuale meets in Rome
Rome, Italy (Ports Europe) September 17, 2017 – The first Conferenza Nazionale delle Autorità di Sistema Portuale, the national body of port...
Puertos del Estado says Seville port does not need 16 metres draft
Seville, Spain (Ports Europe) September 15, 2017 – Spanish national port agency Puertos del Estado’s president Jose Llorca has said that Seville port...
Puertos del Estado president says docking labour contract should meet rules
Seville, Spain (Ports Europe) September 15, 2017 – Spanish national ports agency Puertos del Estado’s president Jose Llorca Ortega has warned trade...
Basque government not to privatise ports
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) September 14, 2017 – The Basque Government has no plans to privatise the ports under its management, an official of the...
Ukrainian Prime Minister: Logistics infrastructure to be overhauled
Kiev, Ukraine (Ports Europe) September 14, 2017 – Last August, Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman said that the country’s logistics infrastructure...
Prime Minister claims reduction of port charges to raise Ukraine’s ports competitiveness
Odessa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) September 14, 2017 – The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, under the policy of development of transit potential of Ukraine...
Cypriot Minister cites ports as examples of international investment opportunities
Limassol, Cyprus (Ports Europe) September 13, 2017 – Cypriot Minister of Transport Marios Demetriades has opened the 2nd Cyprus International Investors...
Croatian government cuts stake in Luka Rijeka to 25%
Rijeka, Croatia (Ports Europe) September 13, 2017 – Croatia’s government saw its stake in the capital of Luka Rijeka d.d., the operator of Rijeka port,...
Copelouzos group interested in Alexandroupolis port
Thessaloniki, Greece (Ports Europe) September 12, 2017 – The Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund (HRADF/TAIPED) has been attending the Thessaloniki...
Spain’s Puertos del Estado to propose reduction of wharfage dues
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) September 11, 2017 – Spanish national ports agency Puertos del Estado will propose a reduction the wharfage dues by 10% in...
Puertos del Estado sets price of Delphi purchase at €3 million
Cádiz, Spain (Ports Europe) September 11, 2017 – The purchase of land in the former Delphi factory in Puerto Real will have to be €3 million ($3.59...