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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.

Vilagarcía port to invest €650,000 in capacity overhaul works

Vilagarcía, Spain (PortSEurope) July 4, 2017 – Vilagarcía port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Vilagarcía) plans to invest €650,000 ($737,283) in...

Spain’s Railsider Mediterráneo to build container storage facility in Sagunto

Sagunto, Spain (PortSEurope) July 4, 2017 – Spanish company Railsider Mediterráneo has announced plans to build a container storage facility in Sagunto,...

Barcelona, Shanghai free trade zones sign cooperation deal

Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) July 4, 2017 – The free zones of Barcelona and Shanghai ports have signed a cooperation agreement to enhance the relations...

SRM – The 2017 Report on the Maritime Economy

Naples, Italy (PortSEurope) July 5, 2017 – Studi e Ricerche per il Mezzogiorno (SRM) has published the fourth issue of the Report on the Maritime...

Luka Rijeka comments further on CEF fund allocation

Rijeka, Croatia (PortSEurope) July 4, 2017 – Further to the stock exchange notification of June 26, 2017, with the subject, “The Port of Rijeka was...

Mayor promotes “Invest in Venice”

Venice, Italy (PortSEurope) July 4, 2017 – The Mayor of Venice, Luigi Brugnaro, has been speaking about the future of the city, on the occasion of...

Italian MP recommends special economic zone for Cagliari port

Cagliari, Italy (PortSEurope) July 4, 2017 – Italian Member of Parliament (MP) Mauro Pili has proposed the launch of a strategic plan for the recovery of...

Sagunto-Zaragoza railway corridor can be used by up to 54 trains weekly

Sagunto, Spain (PortSEurope) July 3, 2017 – The railway corridor between Sagunto and Zaragoza could accommodate between 48 and 54 trains per week if the...

Genoa-based port authority, Eni in talks for construction of LNG facility

Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) July 3, 2017 – Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Ligure Occidentale (The Authority of the Western Ligurian Sea Port System)...

Porto Torres port opens Alti Fondali basin 

Porto Torres, Italy (PortSEurope) July 3, 2017 – Italian transport minister Graziano Delrio has officially opened the Alti Fondali basin for the handling...

Algerian new port of El Hamdania construction to be completed by 2024

Cherchell, Algeria (PortSEurope) July 2, 2017 – The Algerian new commercial port of El Hamdania (near the town of Cherchell, in the province of Tipaza) will...

EU CEF allocates €3.5 million to Venice port development

Venice, Italy (PortSEurope) July2, 2017 – The European Union’s Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) has allocated €3.5 million ($4 million) to...

Mozambique to cooperate with Portugal in maritime transport and ports

Porto, Portugal (PortSEurope) July 3, 2017 – A memorandum of understanding has been signed by the Mozambique Minister of Transport and Communications,...

Japan’s JTEKT to build plant in Tangier

Tanger Med, Morocco (PortSEurope) July 2, 2017 – The Japanese group JTEKT Corporation is to build its first plant in Africa and the Middle East in Tanger...

Marseille to host data and co-location centre

Marseille, France (PortSEurope) July 2, 2017 – The World War Two German submarine base Martha at Cap Janet in Marseille will soon host a new data and...

Over €51 million invested in two terminals of port of Burgas since 2012

Burgas, Bulgaria (PortSEurope) June 30, 2017 – BMF Port Burgas, the private port operator of terminal Burgas East 2 and terminal Burgas West (former...

Castellón port approves two investment projects

Castellón, Spain (PortSEurope) June 29, 2017 – Castellón port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Castellón) approved two major investments for the port of...

Entrepreneur withdraws from project for reconstruction of Gijón port building

Gijón, Spain (PortSEurope) June 28, 2017 – Spanish entrepreneur Nacho Santiago Pereiras said he has withdrawn from the project for transforming the old...

Investors interested in Trieste’s Porto Vecchio

Trieste, Italy (PortSEurope) June 28, 2017 – Various investors are interested in the planned renovation of Porto Vecchio, the old port in Trieste. The...

KMG International to develop Midia Marine Terminal into Black Sea energy hub

Midia, Romania (PortSEurope) June 28, 2017 – Shareholders of Midia Marine Terminal (MMT), part of KazMunaiGaz International Group, plan to transform the...

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