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All issues linked to planning and strategies of companies, organisations and governments which own ports. This includes plans to increase traffic and the capacity of ports and generate revenue.

Strategy of the Port of Huelva to get closer to the city focuses the interest of RETE

The Association for Collaboration between Ports and Cities (Asociación para la Colaboración entre Puertos y Ciudades) organizes a conference on May 11 to...

Trade unions discuss Palermo port issues with AdSP manager

Palermo, Sicily, Italy (Ports Europe) May 10, 2021 – Am eeting between trade union organizations and the president of Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del...

Vilagarcía Port Authority launches strategy aimed at attracting small and medium-sized cruise ships

The Vilagarcía Port Authority has launched a strategy aimed at attracting small and medium-sized cruise ships, which can make a stopover in Vilagarcía and...

The Port of Barcelona approves a Strategic Action Plan to increase rail capacity

At its meeting today, the Board of Directors approved the Strategic Action Plan to increase the Port of Barcelona’s current rail capacity until the new...

Port of Cartagena expects June return of cruise ships

Cartagena, Spain (Ports Europe) April 28, 2021 – The Mediterranean port of Cartagena is preparing for the June return of cruise ship activity with...

Port of Leixões will become the first port with zero emissions by 2035

The plan, which will be detailed this year, foresees decarbonisation and energy self-sufficiency, 15 years before the deadline set by the EU – April 26,...

Morocco considers FSRU vessel on Atlantic or Mediterranean coast

Nador, Morocco, (Ports Europe) April 26, 2021 – Local sources are reporting that the Moroccan government is considering establishing a floating storage...

Barcelona starts process to move container traffic away from the city

Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) April 25, 2021 – The Port Authority of Barcelona has issued a tender which is the first step in relocating the APM...

Port of Barcelona to intensify work in the social sphere of sustainability

The Port of Barcelona will establish strategic priorities in sustainability to balance the relevance of its different dimensions: environmental, economic and...

Russia looks to develop Astrakhan port facilities

Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) April 22, 2021 – The Minister of Transport, Vitaly Savelyev, has held discussions with Igor Babushkin, governor of the...

Six ideas, supported by Bilbao PortLab, will be financed in the first call by Puertos del Estado

Bilbao Portlab, the initiative of the Port Authority to position the Port of Bilbao in an innovative ecosystem, has supported or facilitated 6 of the 33...

Four ideas from the Port Community of Barcelona to receive funding from the Ports 4.0 Fund

A total of four ideas from the Port Community of Barcelona to which the Port gives support have been chosen by the Distribution Committee of the Interport...

Durrës Port Authority joins ESPO as an observer

Durrës, Albania (Ports Europe) April 17, 2021 – Durrës Port Authority has joined the European Sea Ports Organisation (ESPO) as an observer member....

Port of Bilbao: Energy transition plan

Autoridad Portuaria de Bilbao proceeds with energy transition – March 31, 2021 Autoridad Portuaria de Bilbao (APB – Port Authority of Bilbao)...

Uniport Bilbao: Multimodality – industry and logistics hand in hand

The Bilbao port logistics community ended 2020 making the most of their multimodal capacity according to the products that go through the port facilities,...

Valenciaport to tender update of the economic impact study

The port precincts of València, Sagunto and Gandia generated 2,500 million euros of added value and 39,000 jobs according to the data of the last report with...

Ports of Malaga and Ceuta discuss collaboration

The president of the Malaga Port Authority, Carlos Rubio, and the president of the Ceuta Port Authority, Juan Manuel Doncel, met this morning to strengthen...

11 of the 15 initiatives supported by the Malaga Port Authority have been admitted to the Ports 4.0 Funds

A total of 15 initiatives have participated in the first edition of Ports 4.0, with the support of the Port Authority, of which 11 have been provisionally...

Delo Group proposed to include containerization in the draft Strategy for the Social and Economic Development of Russia for the period up to 2030

Chairman of the Board of Directors of Delo Group, the largest transport and logistics holding in Russia, Sergey Shishkarev suggested including the...

Russia’s Delo Group approved strategy development until 2030

The Board of Directors of Delo Group, the largest transport and logistics holding in Russia, approved the Group’s development strategy for the medium...

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