Planning/Strategy
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.
AdSP del Mar Tirreno Settentrionale (Livorno) approves design for new “Porto Prodotti Forestali e Cellulosa”
Livorno, Italy (PortSEurope) July 14, 2020 – The Management Committee of Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Tirreno Settentrionale (AdSP –...
Puertos del Estado and Cartagena Port Authority analyze a three-year €200 million investment plan
Cartagena, Spain (Ports Europe) July 14, 2020 – The President of Puertos del Estado, Francisco Toledo, and the President of Autoridad Portuaria de...
Government seeks to end chronic problems at Alexandroupolis port
Alexandroupolis, Greece (Ports Europe) July 14, 2020 – The Ministers of Finance Christos Staikouras, Infrastructure & Transport Costas Karamanlis and...
New Strategic Plan of Valenciaport prioritizes sustainability, citizen participation and digitalization
Valenciaport will tender this month for €511,000 the development of the new Strategic Plan – July 13, 2020 The new Plan also contemplates the...
Spain’s Puertos del Estado announces reorganisation
Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) July 5, 2020 – The Governing Council of the Public Authority Puertos del Estado (PdE), meeting for the first time under the...
Turkey’s Ünye Port receives Hazardous Goods Compliance Certificate
Trabzon, Turkey (Ports Europe) July 5, 2020 – Ordu Metropolitan Municipality, in Northwest Turkey has received a Hazardous Goods Compliance Certificate...
Port of Barcelona port renews QualiCert certification
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) July 1, 2020 – The Port of Barcelona has renewed its QualiCert certification, issued by the SGS company and which...
İMEAK Chamber of Shipping, İzmir Branch, promotes local port
Izmir, Turkey (Ports Europe) July 1, 2020 – At an event celebrating Maritime and Cabotage Day, Yusuf Öztürk, Chairman of the Board of İMEAK Chamber of...
Burgas port management meets Turkish representatives
Burgas, Bulgaria (Ports Europe) July 1, 2020 – Managers of Port of Bourgas EAD and representatives of the Turkish Consulate General in the city and the...
Tanger Med Special Agency to set up Fnideq, a new free zone
Tanger Med, Morocco (Ports Europe) June 30, 2020 – Tanger Med Special Agency (TMSA), manager of Tanger Med Port, is to establish Zone d’Activité...
Ukraine decides the territory and water area of the seaport Chornomorsk
Today, June 25, at its meeting, the Government approved a decision on the boundaries of the territory and waters of the Black Sea port of Chornomorsk. The...
Valenciaport begins studies for third dock of Sagunto port
The Port Authority of Valencia is responding to the request of the Mayor of Sagunto to begin studying this infrastructure. Aurelio Martinez has put in value...
CLIA announces voluntary suspension of cruise operations from U.S. ports
Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA) issued the following statement today to announce that the association’s ocean-going cruise line members will...
Valencia port: Large infrastructures are key to maintaining the international presence
The president of the Port Authority of Valencia assures that “it is necessary to support the large operational hubs and the strategic infrastructures to...
Russia’s Caspian ports continue to increase cargo volumes in January-May 2020
Makhachkala, Russia (Ports Europe) June 11, 2020 – Cargo volumes handled by the three Russian ports in the Caspian Sea in the first five months of 2020...
Global Ports Holding says it can trade with no cruise ships until 2022
Istanbul, Turkey (Ports Europe) June 10, 2020 – Global Ports Holding Plc (GPH), the world’s largest independent cruise port operator, has today...
Valenciaport management holds first working meeting with CEO of APM Terminals Gateways Spain
Valenciaport and APM Terminals Gateways Spain have held a meeting to continue and develop the challenges that the sector and the port community have ahead in...
Tanger Med continues port activities – Covid-19
News COVID 19 – Tanger Med continues its port activities – May 8, 2020 All of the Tanger Med port’s services are operational, including...
Taranto port adopts new Triennial Operational Plan 2020-2022
Taranto, Italy (Ports Europe) May 25, 2020 – Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Ionio (AdSP – Port Authority of the Ionian Sea-Port of...
Black Sea ports cruise working group meeting held
Istanbul, Turkey (Ports Europe) May 19, 2020 – Managers of the leading Black Sea ports have held a virtual “meeting” to discuss the impact of...