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.
Motril port launches largest Wi-Fi zone in Granada province
Motril, Spain (PortSEurope) July 7, 2017 – Motril port has enabled the largest free Wi-Fi zone in the province of Granada through an internet access platform...
Las Palmas port discusses project for transforming into cargo hub with Morocco’s Mass
Las Palmas, Spain (PortSEurope) July 7, 2017 – Las Palmas port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Las Palmas) has met representatives of Moroccan company...
Balearic Islands port authority starts La Savina harbour project
Ibiza, Spain (PortSEurope) July 7, 2017 – Balearic Islands port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Baleares) has begun the drafting of the project of...
Port of Trieste, new decree for the duty free area has been signed
Trieste, Italy (PortSEurope) July 9, 2017 – Authorizations for industrial activities, reorganization of the area based on international trade needs and...
Spanish government approves spaces delimitation plan of Málaga port
Málaga, Spain (PortSEurope) July 6, 2017 – Spanish Public Works Minister Íñigo de la Serna signed a document on the Delimitation of Spaces and Port Uses...
Valencia port develops smartphone app for terrestrial transport users
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) July 6, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) has developed an application for mobile devices that...
Spain to build Valencia-Castellón line of Mediterranean Corridor with standard gauge track
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) July 6, 2017 – Spanish Public Works Minister Íñigo de la Serna has said the government plans to build the stretch of the...
Reganosa to launch LNG bunkering project at Ferrol port in June 2018
Ferrol, Spain (PortSEurope) July 6, 2017 – Spanish regasification terminal Reganosa is investing €2 million ($2.3 million) in transforming Ferrol port in...
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...