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.
EU-China Summit: moving forward with our global partnership
Brussels, Belgium, June 2, 2017 The 19th Summit between the European Union and the People’s Republic of China held today in Brussels has brought a number...
Spain’s Docks Logistics launches container storage complex in Algeciras
Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) June 1, 2017 – Spanish company Docks Logistics Spain, S.A. said it has launched a complex for the storage of containers at the...
Italian GNV to intensify links Sète-Morocco from June 1
Sète, France (PortSEurope) June 1, 2017 – Italian shipping company Grandi Navi Veloci s.p.a. (GNV) will intensify the links between French Mediterranean...
Ukraine’s UDP to invest $50 million in fleet modernisation
Odessa, Ukraine (PortSEurope) May 31, 2017 – Ukrainian Danube Shipping Company (PJSC UDP) plans to invest $50 million (€44.5 million) in the renovation of...
Barcelona port launches two projects for promotion of LNG as alternative fuel
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) May 29, 2017 – Barcelona port has launched two projects to promote liquefied natural gas (LNG) as an alternative fuel, which...
Spanish Public Works Ministry expects Mediterranean Corridor to be completed in three years
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) May 29, 2017 – Spanish Public Works Ministry has assured that “most of the works” of the Mediterranean Corridor...
Dry ports, railway line to boost Bilbao port growth
Bilbao, Spain (PortSEurope) May 29, 2017 – The railway line and the dry ports in Burgos and Álava represent a boost for the development of Bilbao port, the...
Rosneft looks at business opportunities in Spain
Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) May 29, 2017 – Rosneft, a leading Russian oil company, is looking at two potential projects in Spanish ports. Firstly,...
Trieste port’s Pier VII receives crane upgrade
Trieste, Italy (PortSEurope) May 28, 2017 – The upgrading phase of the second crane of Trieste’s container terminal has been carried out in the past...
Reconstruction works at Tanger Port completed at 70% as of May 2017
Tangier, Morocco (PortSEurope) May 28, 2017 – Reconstruction works for the transformation of the Tanger Med Port in a port of pleasure and a terminal for...
Spanish government approves Sagunto port railway access project
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) May 26, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) announced the approval by the Spanish Ministry of...
Seville port’s main advantages are intermodality, location – port authority president
Seville, Spain (PortSEurope) May 26, 2017 – The most important advantages of Seville port are its intermodality services and its location, the president of...
Greece to capitalise on sea tourism’s growth via concession and PPP investment models
Piraeus, Greece (PortSEurope) May 26, 2017 – Elena Kountoura, Greek Minister of Tourism, has addressed delegates at the 4th Posidonia Sea Tourism Forum,...
French Port of Sète eyes €130 million of investment by 2020
Sète, France (PortSEurope) May 26, 2017 – French Mediterranean port of Sète expects €130 million ($145.18 million) of investments by 2020. The port...
Huelva port, mayor discuss integration strategy
Huelva, Spain (PortSEurope) May 25, 2017 – Huelva port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Huelva) and local mayor Gabriel Cruz have met to analyse the...
Piraeus Port Authority investment plans tabled at 4th Posidonia Sea Tourism Forum
Piraeus, Greece (PortSEurope) May 25, 2017 – Piraeus Port Authority S.A. (PPASA) is investing €294 million ($330.5 million) over a five-year period to...
Adif expresses support for railway projects of Sagunto port
Sagunto, Spain (PortSEurope) May 23, 2017 – The mayor of Sagunto, Quico Fernández, has held a meeting with the president of Spanish state-run railway...
Gijón port looks for companies to operate Motorway of the Sea line
Gijón, Spain (PortSEurope) May 23, 2017 – Gijón port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Gijón) is studying the interest of companies regarding the launch...
Trieste port takes advantage of Italy’s economy digitalisation strategy
Trieste, Italy (PortSEurope) May 23, 2017 – Italian regional government of Friuli Venezia Giulia said it became the first regional authority to participate...
Bulgaria to invest €15 million in Burgas port
Burgas, Bulgaria (PortSEurope) May 23, 2017 – Bulgarian transport minister Ivaylo Moskovski said the government plans to invest BGN 30 million ($17.2...