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A Coruña port cargo traffic rises in Jan-July 2017, beats monthly record

A Coruña, Spain (Ports Europe) September 12, 2017 – A Coruña port handled 8.4 million tonnes of cargo in the first seven months of 2017, up 7.67% on the...

Tenerife port expects 38,300 cruise passengers in September

Tenerife, Spain (Ports Europe) September 12, 2017 – Tenerife port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Tenerife) expects the number of cruise passengers handled...

Castellón port to become third most profitable in Spain in 2017

Castellón, Spain (Ports Europe) September 12, 2017 – Castellón port is expected to become the third most profitable in Spain in 2017 after completing its...

Vigo port to present “Blue Growth” strategy to EU institutions

Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) September 12, 2017 – Vigo port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Vigo) plans to present its “Blue Growth” strategy for...

Trieste port president calls on Europe to participate actively in China’s OBOR project

Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) September 12, 2017 – Europe needs to have an active role in China’s One Belt One Road (OBOR) initiative, the president of...

China’s CHEC starts second dredging project at Port Yuzhniy

Port Yuzhniy, Ukraine (Ports Europe) September 12, 2017 – China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) has started its second project at Ukraine’s Port...

Sardinian ports contribute €500 million in value added to Italy’s economy

Cagliari, Italy (Ports Europe) September 12, 2017 – Sardinian ports generate a combined gross value added of €500 million ($597.9 million) for the Italian...

Porto Marghera is not a problem but an opportunity for Venice & Veneto

Venice, Italy (Ports Europe) September 12, 2017 – The recent transformation of a conventional refinery into a new bio-refinery could mark a new start for...

Thomson Cruises to handle 92,000 passengers at Málaga port in 2018

Málaga, Spain (Ports Europe) September 11, 2017 – Thomson Cruises plans to handle 92,000 passengers at Málaga port aboard the “Thomson...

Spain’s Puertos del Estado to propose reduction of wharfage dues

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) September 11, 2017 – Spanish national ports agency Puertos del Estado will propose a reduction the wharfage dues by 10% in...

Puertos del Estado sets price of Delphi purchase at €3 million

Cádiz, Spain (Ports Europe) September 11, 2017 – The purchase of land in the former Delphi factory in Puerto Real will have to be €3 million ($3.59...

Ceuta port cruise traffic declines 17% y/y in Jan-July 2017

Ceuta, Spain (Ports Europe) September 11, 2017 – Ceuta port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Ceuta) has closed the first seven months of the year with a 17%...

Venice port handles third lot of river intermodal operation

Venice, Italy (Ports Europe) September 11, 2017 – Venice port has completed the handling of the third lot of an intermodal project cargo operation that...

Azores, Canary Islands to enhance port, air transport synergies

Ponta Delgada, Azores, Portugal (Ports Europe) September 11, 2017 – The Azores and Canaries Islands have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), which,...

Piraeus port awards €23.8 million contract for floating dock construction to Cosco

Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) September 11, 2017 – Piraeus Port Authority S.A. has awarded a €23.8 million ($28.5 million) contract for the construction...

Greek prime minister says government has real interest in developing Thessaloniki port

Thessaloniki, Greece (Ports Europe) September 11, 2017 – The interest of the Greek government in the development of Thessaloniki port and northern Greece, in...

Spain’s Boluda delivers four tugboats to German subsidiary

Hamburg, Germany (Ports Europe) September 11, 2017 – Spanish company Boluda Corporación Marítima has held a naming ceremony for four tugboats of its German...

Following its IPO in London, Global Ports Holding comments on the future

London, United Kingdom (Ports Europe) September 11, 2017 – Global Ports Holding (GPH) CEO Emre Sayin has said the IPO in London will enable the company...

Event: Our Ocean 2017 Conference: Malta, October 5-6, 2017

Valletta, Malta, September 11, 2017 – The European Union will host the fourth edition of Our Ocean conference in Malta, 5 – 6 October 2017. Our...

Silversea Cruises orders new vessel from Fincantieri

Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) September 11, 2017 – Silversea Cruises and Fincantieri S.p.A. have signed a contract worth about 310 million euros, for the...

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