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Algeciras port cargo traffic declines 4.65% y/y in Jan-Sep 2017

Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) October 23, 2017 – Algeciras port handled 73.81 million tonnes of cargo in the first nine months of 2017, down 4.65% on...

France’s CMA CGM launches line linking Algeciras to South America

Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) October 23, 2017 – French shipping group CMA CGM has announced the launch of a regular line connecting the east coast of...

Castellón cargo traffic rises 10% y/y in Jan-Sep 2017

Castellón, Spain (PortSEurope) October 23, 2017 – Castellón port’s cargo traffic rose by 10% on the year in the first nine months of 2017 to...

Huelva port operates 30 trains monthly at Majarabique railway hub

Huelva, Spain (PortSEurope) October 23, 2017 – Huelva port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Huelva) president José Luis Ramos has said the Majarabique...

Groupe PSA exports first C3 Aircross cars through Vigo port

Vigo, Spain (PortSEurope) October 23, 2017 – French carmaker Groupe PSA has exported the first C3 Aircross car produced at the Opel factory in Zaragoza...

Road transport associations to block truck traffic at Genoa port on Nov 2, 3

Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) October 23, 2017 – Italian freight road transport associations Cna-Fita, Confartigianato Trasporti, Fai-Conftrasporto and...

Razel-Bec will build a bridge near future terminal of Cape Janet

Marseille, France (PortSEurope) October 23, 2017 – The Grand Port Maritime of Marseille (GPMM) is preparing for the development of the new Cape Janet...

Ukrainian minister visits Mykolaiv port

Odessa, Ukraine (PortSEurope) October 23, 2017 – Minister of Infrastructure of Ukraine Volodymyr Omelyan has visited the Mykolayiv region and met with...

Carole Delga president to Occitanie region visits Rabat

Rabat, Morocco (PortSEurope) October 21, 2017 – Carole Delga, regional president of the Occitanie, an administrative region of France, has visited...

Estonia and Italy to develop transport corridor via Odessa

Trieste, Italy (PortSEurope) October 20, 2017 – EVR Cargo, the Estonian state-owned rail cargo operator, is in negotiations with the port of Trieste to...

Bids received for Krk floating terminal

Krk, Croatia (PortSEurope) October 20, 2017 – A total of 27 bids have been submitted for the purchase of an LNG floating terminal (FSRU) to be located on...

Bordeaux Port Authority, VNF and EPIDOR sign a charter for development of river tourism

Bordeaux, France (PortSEurope) October 21, 2017 – Whilst the port of Bordeaux (Grand Port Maritime de Bordeaux) has developed a cruise industry, there...

Balearic ports oust Barcelona from leadership in cruise sector in August

Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) October 19, 2017 – Although for a small margin, for the first time in its history the ports of the Balearic Islands have...

D’Amico to invest $131 million in construction of three LR1 tankers

Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) October 20, 2017 – d’Amico International Shipping plans to invest $131 million (€111 million) in the construction of its...

MSC Cruises upgrates Mediterranean offer with Venice itinerary

Venice, Italy (PortSEurope) October 20, 2017 – MSC Cruises has enriched its offer in the Eastern Mediterranean for the summer of 2018 with a new itinerary of...

Leixões port passenger traffic rises 42% y/y in Jan-Sep 2017

Leixões, Portugal (PortSEurope) October 20, 2017 – Leixões port handled 83,120 passengers in the first nine months of 2017, up 42% on the year, recording...

Italy’s Fincantieri starts building sixth cruise ship for Viking

Ancona, Italy (PortSEurope) October 20, 2017 – Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri S.p.A. has started the construction in Ancona of the sixth unit of a series of...

Court orders Trieste port to pay €645,000 compensation

Trieste, Italy (PortSEurope) October 20, 2017 – Trieste-based court has imposed a fine of €645,000 ($760,788) to Trieste port to compensate the family of a...

Livorno port experiences rise in traffic of new cars

Livorno, Italy (PortSEurope) October 20, 2017 – Livorno port has seen a significant increase in the traffic of new cars, as the two operators active in the...

Tenerife port to handle six cruise vessels this weekend

Tenerife, Spain (PortSEurope) October 20, 2017 – Tenerife port will handle six cruise vessels this weekend, with a total of 13,000 passengers. On October 20,...

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