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Málaga port to sell 20% stake in Cruceros Málaga

Málaga, Spain (Ports Europe) October 4, 2017 – Málaga port returns to the market by trying to sell a 20% stake in the capital of cruise company...

Cruise ships change routes to avoid calls in Barcelona

Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) October 4, 2017 – Demonstrations and riots in Barcelona have had a side effect in Valencia. Two cruise ships, Mein Schiff 3...

Canary Islands government promotes ports at ICHCA conference

Las Palmas, Spain (Ports Europe) October 4, 2017 – The Director-General of Economic Affairs with Africa of the Government of the Canary Islands, Pablo...

Italy’s Fedespedi asks for clearer container weighing rules

Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) October 4, 2017 – Italian national freight forwarders association Fedespedi (Federazione Nazionale delle Imprese di Spedizioni...

Livorno port to launch Darsena Europa tender in 48 hours

Livorno, Italy (Ports Europe) October 4, 2017 – The port authority of Italy’s Northern Tyrrhenian Sea plans to launch a tender for the construction of...

Genoa’s PSA Voltri-Pra achieves 1 million TEUs in 2017

Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) October 4, 2017 – On September 5, the PSA Voltri-Pra Terminal reached a goal of handling 1 million TEUs since the start of...

Pino Musolino calls for northern Adriatic ports to cooperate

Venice, Italy (Ports Europe) October 3, 2017 – The president Porto di Venezia (Venice Port Authority), Pino Musolino, has written to colleagues of...

Siracusa port to start operating cruise dock on October 4

Siracusa, Italy (Ports Europe) October 3, 2017 – Italy’s Siracusa port will start operating a new dock with a length of some 300 metres for the...

Seville port Free Zone starts operating

Seville, Spain (Ports Europe) October 3, 2017 – The Free Zone of Seville port went into operation on October 2 with the launch of the command post of the...

Barcelona port closed on October 3

Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) October 3, 2017 – Barcelona port remained practically closed on October 3, with no trucks moving and the doors of its...

Vigo port traffic rises in August

Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) October 3, 2017 – Vigo port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Vigo) is moderately optimistic about the growth of port traffic,...

Andalusia government names president of Huelva port authority

Huelva, Spain (Ports Europe) October 3, 2017 – The government of the Spanish region of Andalusia has appointed José Luis Ramos Rodríguez as president of...

Valencia port starts handling PSA cars shipped by train

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) October 3, 2017 – Today, Valencia port has received the first train loaded with cars from the Figueruelas factory of PSA...

Bilbao port awards €2.74 million ro-ro ramp construction contract to Astilleros Zamakona

Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) October 3, 2017 – Bilbao port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Bilbao) has awarded a €2.74 million ($3.22 million) contract...

Commission clears acquisition of Mersin International Port by IFM and PSA

Brussels, Belgium (Ports Europe) October 3, 2017 – The European Commission has approved, under the EU Merger Regulation, the acquisition of Mersin...

Graziano Delrio supports Taranto-Matera Special Economic Zone

Taranto, Italy (Ports Europe) September 28, 2017 – “The ZES (Special Economic Zone) Taranto-Matera seems to me a great idea”, said Minister...

Spain’s Ardentia Marine starts removal of sunken ship at Algeciras port

Algeciras, Spain (Ports Europe) October 2, 2017 – Spanish company Ardentia Marine S.R.L. has started the removal of the vessel ‘Panagia Parou’,...

Salerno gets award from Grimaldi Lines

Salerno, Italy (Ports Europe) October 2, 2017 – Salerno is the best Italian port. At least for Grimaldi Lines, the Italian giant of passenger and freight...

WEC Lines starts operating regular calls at Huelva port 

Huelva, Spain (Ports Europe) October 1, 2017 – WEC Lines has started operating a regular call at Huelva port together with the ports of Leixoes, Vigo,...

Cádiz port awards road construction contract to Acciona

Cádiz, Spain (Ports Europe) October 1, 2017 – Cádiz port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Bahía de Cádiz) has awarded the company Acciona Construcción...

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