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Leixões port books best ever cruise traffic in May

Leixões, Portugal (Ports Europe) July 20, 2017 – Leixões port continues to book records surpassing the 29,000 passengers in 31 ship stopovers in the first...

Alternative Transport firm to buy new ship with EBRD loan

Istanbul, Turkey (Ports Europe) July 20, 2017 – The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is to loan €27.5 million loan to...

Conductix-Wampfler to supply equipment to APM in Tangier

Tangier, Morocco (Ports Europe) July 2017 – Hans Künz GmbH, a specialist supplier of container cranes, and Conductix-Wampfler, are to supply 32...

ADM expands business in Ashdod

Ashdod, Israel (Ports Europe) July 20 , 2017 – Archer Daniels Midland company has announced that it has completed its acquisition of a controlling...

Castellón port already applies reduced fees

Castellón, Spain (Ports Europe) July 19, 2017 – Castellón port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Castellón) has started applying the fees that came into...

Oryx to operate normally at Las Palmas port by end-September

Las Palmas, Spain (Ports Europe) July 19, 2017 – Swiss multinational company Oryx Energies, which operates in Las Palmas port as fuel supplier, will be...

Barcelona port calls on community to adhere to Sectorial Sustainability Plan

Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) July 19, 2017 – Barcelona port has called on the port community to adhere to the Sectorial Sustainability Plan. This...

Asturiana de Zinc to start building warehouse in Gijón port by end-2017

Gijón, Spain (Ports Europe) July 19, 2017 –Before the end of the year Spanish miner Asturiana de Zinc S.A. plans to start construction of its second...

Avilés port cargo traffic slightly declines in H1 2017

Avilés, Spain (Ports Europe) July 19, 2017 – Avilés port closed the first half of 2017 with a traffic increase of 1% in relation to the same period of the...

Two consortia bid for bridge reconstruction at Seville port

Seville, Spain (Ports Europe) July 19, 2017 – Seville port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Sevilla) closed on July 18 the public competition for the...

Strikes have limited effect on Santander port’s car traffic 

Santander, Spain (Ports Europe) July 19, 2017 – The seven days of strikes that took place in June in the port of Santander during the conflict of stevedores...

Maderas Villapol, Global Timber Trading carry out largest pine loading in Spain

Ferrol, Spain (Ports Europe) July 19, 2017 – Spanish companies Maderas Villapol S.A. and Global Timber Trading S.L. have carried out the largest bulk loading...

Ferrol port profit rises 53% y/y in H1 2017

Ferrol, Spain (Ports Europe) July 19, 2017 – Ferrol port booked €4.29 million ($4.95 million) of profit last year, 53.2% more than in 2015. It is the first...

Government okays appointment of Cagliari-based port authority president

Cagliari, Italy (Ports Europe) July 19, 2017 – Massimo Deiana has been appointed as president of the Authority of Sardinia port system (Autorità di Sistema...

Livorno port’s Darsena Europa construction to start in 2018

Livorno, Italy (Ports Europe) July 19, 2017 – Tuscany regional government president Enrico Rossi has said the construction of Darsena Europa complex at...

Valencia port to adapt container terminals to large vessels

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) July 19, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) plans to adapt its three container terminals so that...

Eleftherios Hadjizacharias resigns from Cyprus Ports Authority Board

Limassol, Cyprus (Ports Europe) July 19, 2017 – The Cyprus Ports Authority has accepted the resignation of Board Chairman Eleftherios Hadjizacharias....

Palma Paseo Marítimo redevelopment will cost €8 million

Palma, Mallorca, Spain (Ports Europe) July 19, 2017 – A plan to develop Palma’s Paseo Marítimo is estimated to cost €8 million ($9.23 million)....

Piraeus Port Authority set for new labour agreement

Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) July 19, 2017 – Piraeus Port Authority S.A. (PPA SA) is set to agree a new general labour code with local unions who...

Piraeus Container Terminal S.A.- June 2017 container terminal statistics

Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) July 19, 2017 – Piraeus Container Terminal S.A., part of the Chinese Cosco shipping group, has reported June 2017 container...

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