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EU Transport Commissioner announces launch of European Ports Forum
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) June 5, 2017 – European Transport Commissioner Violeta Bulc announced the creation of a European Ports Forum, a platform for...
Ireland’s Shannon port eyes cooperation with Algeciras harbour
Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) June 5, 2017 – Algeciras port closed its participation in Norshipping 2017 conference with a meeting with...
Spanish dockworkers complete first day of strike without accidents
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) June 5, 2017 – The first day of strike of Spanish dockworkers was completed without incident and with a massive follow-up,...
Spanish road freight companies estimate dockworkers strike to cost €2.4 million a day
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) June 5, 2017 – Truck drivers estimate that the stoppages called at ports by dockworkers will generate a loss of up to...
Valencia port to reduce CO2 emissions by 4% in 2015-2020 period
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) June 5, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) aims to reduce its carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by...
Algeciras port president expresses worries about losing traffic due to strike
Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) June 5, 2017 – Algeciras port authority (Autoridad Portuaria BahÃa de Algeciras) president, Manuel Morón, has expressed his...
La Spezia port to complete electrification of docks by 2025
La Spezia, Italy (PortSEurope) June 5, 2017 – La Spezia port docks will be completely electrified by 2025, allowing the reduction of the carbon dioxide (CO2)...
Port of Adria handles record-high 4,970 TEUs at Bar port in May
Bar, Montenegro (PortSEurope) June 5, 2017 – Port of Adria JSC Bar, the operator of the container terminal of Montenegro’s Bar port, handled a...
Italy’s Rina Consulting wins contracts to design three ports in Kuwait
Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) June 5, 2017 – Rina Consulting, a subsidiary of Genoa-based Rina S.p.A., has won a €1.5 million ($1.7 million) contract to...
Finnlines Group – Financial Review January–March 2017
Helsinki, Finland (PortSEurope) June 5, 2017 – Finnlines group, owned by the Napoli-based Grimaldi Group, has published its financial review for the...
UN report highlights achievements of Tangier port
Tangier, Morocco (PortSEurope) June 5, 2017 – The United Nations (UN) has produced a report entitled, “Economic Report on Africa 2017 –...
Barcelona and Melilla ports receive PERS certification
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) June 5, 2017 – The Port of Barcelona and the Autoridad Portuaria de Melilla (Port Authority) have been awarded PERS...
French Port of Sète gives concession for its fruit terminal to Conhexa
Sète, France (PortSEurope) June 2, 2017 – The French port of Sète has given a five-year concession to operate its fruit terminal to Groupe Conhexa, based...
Ukraine’s Asket Shipping acquires six mobile cranes for Berdyansk port
Berdyansk, Ukraine (PortSEurope) June 1, 2017 – Ukrainian company Asket Shipping, OOO plans to install six mobile cranes for the handling of grain at...
Las Palmas port president says dockworkers to meet minimum services during strike
Las Palmas, Spain (PortSEurope), June 2, 2017 – The president of Las Palmas port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Las Palmas), Luis Ibarra, expressed...
EC urges trade unions, employers to negotiate and avoid strikes at Spanish ports
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope), June 2, 2017 – European Transport Commissioner Violeta Bulc has urged the operators and stevedores’ trade unions at...
Tenerife installs electric vehicles recharge point at cruise terminal
Tenerife, Spain (PortSEurope), June 2, 2017 – Tenerife port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Tenerife) has installed the first quick recharge point for...
Tenerife says 20% of world cruise fleet passes through port every year
Tenerife, Spain (PortSEurope), June 2, 2017 – A total of 20% of the world’s cruise fleet, currently consisting of 458 vessels, passes through Tenerife...
Costa Crociere starts operating line from Tarragona
Tarragona, Spain (PortSEurope), June 3, 2017 – Italy-based Costa Crociere S.p.A. has started to operate from Tarragona port as a base port for a route that...
Las Palmas port authority asks Puertos del Estado to pronounce on future of Arrecife port
Las Palmas, Spain (PortSEurope), June 3, 2017 – Las Palmas port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Las Palmas) has asked the national port agency Puertos del...