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Investment

Investment – Capital outlay in ports assets and businesses by companies, organisations and governments. Usually to increase capacity and implement upgrades to to port equipment.

Interporto di Trieste agrees €14.5 million loan from UniCredit 

Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) February 27, 2018 – Dry port operator Interporto di Trieste and UniCredit have signed an agreement for a loan of €14.5...

Private companies invest €71 million in Bilbao port in 2017

Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) February 27, 2018 – The Port of Bilbao has reached an occupancy rate of nearly 83% in 2017 and private enterprise is...

Bilbao port invests €61.5 million in 2017

Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) February 27, 2018 – In 2017, the Port Authority of Bilbao invested €61.5 million ($75.87 million), with the sum set to...

EU finances overhaul of ports in Spain, Ireland

Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) February 26, 2018 – The action plan of the European Union for the Atlantic countries has raised some €2.4 billion ($2.95...

European Commissioner Bulc to attend Portuguese transport launches

Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) February 25, 2018 – The Government is preparing for three ceremonies in the first week of March three ceremonies, which...

Andalusia proposes €5.2 million investment in Ayamonte

Huelva, Spain (Ports Europe) February 22, 2018 – The Ministry of Development and Housing, via la Agencia Pública de Puertos de Andalucía (APPA –...

Yilport announces Lisbon and Leixões port container terminal investments

Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) February 22, 2018 – Yilport, an operator of several port terminals in Portugal, intends to invest around €200 million...

MSC calls for construction of road link of Valencia port to Sagunto

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) February 21, 2018 – The future of the northern extension of the port of Valencia is conditioned to the development of a new...

Leixões port to receive €510 million investment

Leixões, Portugal (Ports Europe) February 21, 2018 – The port of Leixões, in Matosinhos, Porto district, will receive an investment of €510 million...

International Fashion Centre MIF68 opens in Marseille

Marseille, France (Ports Europe) February 21, 2018 – The International Fashion Center MIF68 has been inaugurated in the 16th arrondissement of Marseille...

IMO and EBRD to promote investment projects in Ukrainian port sector

Odessa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) February 21, 2018 – The International Maritime Organization ( IMO) and the European Bank for Reconstruction and...

Israel looks at Anaklia port as business location

Anaklia, Georgia (Ports Europe) February 21, 2018 – Georgian and Israeli officials have discussed the potential of Anaklia deep-sea port, currently...

Ceuta port invests €900,000 to improve security

Ceuta, Spain (Ports Europe) February 20, 2018 – The constant demands of citizens in matters of security in Ceuta port area have been answered by the port...

Constanta port to benefit from EU Cohesion funding

Constanta, Romania (Ports Europe) February 20, 2018 – €1.3 billion ($1.61 billion) from the EU Cohesion Fund is to be invested in the modernisation of...

Italy allocates €262 million for renewal of naval fleets for public transport

Rome, Italy (Ports Europe) February 20, 2018 – At the proposal of the Minister of Infrastructures and Transport (MIT), Graziano Delrio, the government...

Netherlands Development Finance Company visits NIBULON in Ukraine

Mykolaiv, Ukraine (Ports Europe) February 15, 2018 – Representatives of the Netherlands Development Finance Company (FMO) visited to NIBULON. FMO is a...

Vigo port to launch project for construction of car dock

Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) February 12, 2018 – The Infrastructure Master Plan will design all the actions that Vigo port needs to carry out until 2030 to...

Piraeus port set to receive 20,000-TEU Cosco Shipping Taurus vessel

Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) February 12, 2018 – COSCO Shipping Taurus, one of the largest container ships in the world, is scheduled to visit...

Italian government cancels landscape authorisation for industrial harbour in Cagliari

Cagliari, Italy (Ports Europe) February 8, 2018 – The Italian Council of State has cancelled the landscape authorisation of Cagliari port for the...

Repsol to invest €125 million in transfer of activities to A Coruña port’s outer harbour

A Coruña, Spain (Ports Europe) February 8, 2018 – Spanish oil and gas giant Repsol plans to invest some €125 million ($153.3 million) in the transfer of...

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