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Basque government, Public Works Ministry approve deal to improve Bilbao port railway

Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) March 17, 2017 – Basque Country government and the Spanish Ministry of Public Works signed an agreement on the construction...

Spanish trade unions call off strikes of dockers

Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) March 17, 2017 – Spanish trade unions have called off the strikes of dockworkers in the country, envisaged for March 17,...

Moroccan government to invest MAD 2.5 billion in port infrastructure this year

Casablanca, Morocco (Ports Europe) March 17, 2017 – This year will be marked by the launch of new infrastructure projects at Moroccan ports, l’Agence...

France’s Wlife to build warehouse at Marseille port

Marseille, France (Ports Europe) March 17, 2017 – Wlife, a property development and rehabilitation company based in Lyon, signed in January 2017 a...

UK could take advantage of Brexit to boost port sector

Marseille, France (Ports Europe) March 17, 2017 – The logistics sector generates nearly 10% of the French annual gross domestic product (GDP) and ports...

Seville port suspends Guadalquivir channel dredging project

Seville, Spain (Ports Europe) March 17, 2017 – Seville port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Sevilla) has suspended the project for the dredging of the...

ETF applauds rejection of liberalisation plan for Spanish port labour

Madrid, Spain, March 16, 2017 – The Spanish Parliament has rejected the controversial Real Decreto-Ley presented by the government to liberalise port...

BPA: UK needs frictionless trade deal with EU after Brexit

London, United Kingdom, March 17, 2017 – The British Ports Association (BPA) has called for a frictionless trade agreement between the UK and EU...

Castellon port analyses potential to attract cruise traffic

Castellon, Spain (Ports Europe) March 16, 2017 – Castellon port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Castellón) is working on an analysis that allows it to...

Savona, Genoa ports to become backbone of Italian harbour system

Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) March 16, 2017 – The port system of Genoa and Savona will be the backbone of the Italian harbour sector, as guaranteed by...

Spanish minister highlights growth potential of Portugal’s Sines port

Sines, Portugal (Ports Europe) March 16, 2017 – At the end of February, Inigo de la Serna, Spanish Minister of Public Works, received the Minister of...

Barcelona port receives award at Seatrade Cruise Global fair

Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) March 16, 2017 – Barcelona port has received the “Best port for turnaround operations” award of Cruise...

Alicante port forecasts cruise traffic growth in 2017

Alicante, Spain (Ports Europe) March 16, 2017 – The joint promotion work carried out in recent years by Alicante port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de...

Bilbao port to officially open cruise passenger station by end-March

Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) March 16, 2017 – Bilbao port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Bilbao) said it plans to officially open its new cruise...

Montenegro to conclude contract for Bar port sale by end-March

Bar, Montenegro (Ports Europe) March 16, 2017 – Montenegro’s government expects to complete the talks on the privatisation of Luka Bar a.d. Bar,...

Tenerife port is among top five Spanish ports for container traffic productivity

Tenerife, Spain (Ports Europe) March 16, 2017 – Tenerife port is among the top five in Spain in terms of daily container traffic. At present, the dockers...

Government to propose public-public partnership for Koper port railway project

Koper, Slovenia (Ports Europe) March 16, 2017 – The expansion of the rail track between Divaca and Koper port is to be financed in a public-public...

Trade unions accuse Sète port of “organised precarisation” of dockers

Sète, France (Ports Europe) March 16, 2017 – Trade unions accused Sète port of an “organised precarisation” of dockers. Serge...

Spanish Congress rejects decree on stowage sector reform

Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) March 16, 2017 – Spanish Congress has rejected the government’s decree regulating the reform in the country’s...

Ocean Alliance maiden voyage to Adriatic: new routing from April

Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) March 16, 2017 – With effect from the first week of April (departures from Far East), the Ocean Alliance service to the...

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