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Puertos del Estado net profit rises 8% Y/Y in 2016

Seville, Spain (Ports Europe) January 9, 2017 – Spanish national ports agency Puertos del Estado, managed by the Public Works Ministry, booked a net profit...

Vigo port completes design of Bouzas ro-ro terminal

Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) January 9, 2017 – Vigo port has completed the design of the extension of Bouzas ro-ro terminal. The space gained for the parking...

Novorossiysk oil traffic at KTK terminal increases in 2016

Novorossiysk, Russia(Ports Europe) January 9, 2017 – Novorossiysk port saw oil traffic at its Caspian Pipeline Consortium (KTK) terminal rise by 3.6% on the...

2016 year of growth for Gibraltar port

Gibraltar (Ports Europe) January 9, 2017 – The Gibraltar Port Authority (GPA) has announced another year of growth across most areas of activity...

Cartagena port to handle 145 cruise ships in 2017

Cartagena, Spain (Ports Europe) January 9, 2017 – Cartagena port expects to receive a total of 145 cruise ships in 2017, of which ten will enter the harbour...

Spanish government presents investment plan for ports

Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) January 9, 2017 – Spanish Public Works Minister Inigo de la Serna presented an investment plan of €1.418 billion ($1.5...

South Korea parliamentary delegation visits Sines port

Sines, Portugal (Ports Europe) January 6, 2017 – A parliamentary delegation from the National Assembly of the Republic of Korea visited the Sines port on...

Madeira port to consolidate number of calls in 2017

Funchal, Portugal (Ports Europe) January 6, 2017 – Madeira port authority (Administração dos Portos da Região Autónoma da Madeira) plans to consolidate...

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...

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