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Figueira da Foz cargo traffic rises 3.5% Y/Y in 2016
Figueira da Foz, Portugal (Ports Europe) January 6, 2017 – Figueira da Foz port handled 2.07 million tonnes of cargo in 2016, up 3.5% on the year. The...
Lisbon port close to half million cruise passengers in Jan-Nov 2016
Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) January 6, 2017 – At the end of November, Lisbon port was close to half a million cruise passengers, 498,792, which was the...
Portugal to support Figueira da Foz port upgrade
Figueira da Foz, Portugal (Ports Europe) January 6, 2017 – Portuguese Minister of the Sea, Ana Paula Vittorino, has included the projects for the upgrade of...
TecnoAranda to build wind towers production plant in Bilbao
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) January 6, 2017 – Spanish company TecnoAranda plans to set up a plant for the production of wind towers at Bilbao port which...
Vigo port praises changes in stevedoring activity rules
Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) January 6, 2017 – Vigo port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Vigo) has praised the changes adopted by dockworkers, which, in its...
Transneft oil traffic through Novorossiysk port rises in 2016
Novorossiysk, Russia (Ports Europe) January 9, 2017 – Russian oil transport group Transneft handled 30.6 million tonnes of oil through Novorossiysk port in...
Varna port sees rising wheat exports
Varna, Bulgaria (Ports Europe) January 9, 2017 – Varna port handled 1.286 million tonnes of wheat in the period between the start of the 2016/17 season, on...
NCSP consolidated cargo traffic rises by 5.3% Y/Y in Jan-Nov 2016
Novorossiysk, Russia (Ports Europe) January 5, 2016 – The consolidated cargo traffic of Novorossiysk Commercial Sea Port (NCSP) Group, the operator of...
Ukrainian ports cargo traffic declines by 8.8% Y/Y in 2016
Odessa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) January 5, 2017 – Ukrainian commercial seaports saw their cargo traffic decline by 8.8% on the year to 132 million tonnes in...
Bordeaux is most important French port for ship dismantling, EU says
Bordeaux, France (Ports Europe) January 5, 2017 – Bordeaux port is the most important in France for the ship dismantling industry, a study by the European...
Valencia port authority to make €56 million investments in 2017
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) January 4, 2017 – The Business Plan approved at the latest board meeting of Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de...
Kherson port cargo traffic declines by 10.5% Y/Y in Jan-Nov 2016
Kherson, Ukraine (Ports Europe) January 5, 2017 – Kherson port handled 3.37 million tonnes of cargo in the first eleven months of 2016, down by 10.5% on the...
Bilbao port expects rise in 2017 cargo traffic
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) January 3, 2017 – In the absence of the final port traffic data for the month of December, the final balance for the 2016...
Central Tyrrhenian Sea port system board to meet on Jan 13
Naples, Italy (Ports Europe) January 3, 2017 – The first meeting of the management committee of the Central Tyrrhenian Sea Port System will be held on...
Kotor port passenger traffic rises by 18.4% Y/Y in 2016
Kotor, Montenegro (Ports Europe) January 3, 2017 – Montenegro’s Kotor port handled 488 ships in 2016, up 18.4% on the year, the managing director of port...
Valencia is most used port for Spanish exports, imports
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) January 2, 2017 – Valencia port handled over 70 million tonnes of goods with countries on five continents in 2016. Therefore,...
Blohm+Voss to open refit facility for megayachts in the Mediterranean
Hamburg, Germany (Ports Europe) June 30, 2016 – Blohm+Voss has announced today that it has won the tender for the set-up of a new maintenance and refit...