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.
Puertos del Estado president hosts Commercial Counselor of Chinese embassy in Spain
Madrid, Spain (PortSEurope) May 22, 2019 – Puertos del Estado President, Salvador de la Encina, has met with the Commercial Counselor of the Embassy of...
Algeciras and Ningbo Zhoushan ports specify collaboration in training
Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) May 20, 2019 – A delegation from Autoridad Portuaria de la BahÃa de Algeciras (APBA – Port Authority of Algeciras)...
Consultative Meeting on Valletta Grand Harbour Regeneration Plan
Valletta, Malta (Ports Europe) May 6, 2019 – The Malta Maritime Forum has hosted an event to discuss growth in Grand Harbour operations and its immediate...
Spain’s competition watchdog launches study on national port network
Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) April 18, 2019 – Spain’s competition watchdog Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia (CNMC) has launched a...
Boluda family establishes subsidiary for mergers and acquisitions
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) April 16, 2019 – The Boluda family is preparing to purchase new companies under the umbrella of Grupo Boluda...
Potential Chinese investments in Rijeka, Trieste may threaten Slovenia’s Koper port
Koper, Slovenia (Ports Europe) April 16, 2019 – Koper port may lose its leading role in the northern Adriatic and become a port of regional importance if...
Las Palmas port, Costa Cruises discuss 2019/2020 cruise season objectives
Las Palmas, Spain (Ports Europe) April 11, 2019 – Las Palmas port and Costa Cruises have discussed the objectives for the 2019/2020 cruise...
Motril port, Comotrans discuss synergies to gain competitiveness
Motril, Spain (Ports Europe) April 5, 2019 – Autoridad Portuaria de Motril (APM – Port Authority of Motril) and the road transport cooperative...
Venice, Trieste and Koper ports sign SECNET agreement
Koper, Slovenia, March 28, 2018 – The SECNET project was officially concluded today in Trieste, which was held in the framework of the European project...
Zona Franca delegate meets Cádiz port authority president
Cádiz, Spain (Ports Europe) March 31, 2019 – The delegate of Zona Franca (Free Trade Zone), Victoria RodrÃguez, has received the new president of the...
Bilbao port achieves most targets in strategic plan
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) March 31, 2019 – The Port Authority of Bilbao has progressed in the 56 lines of action established in its Strategic Plan for...
Ortona, Pescara remain under Ancona port authority’s management
Pescara, Italy (Ports Europe) March 28, 2019 – The possibility of Pescara and Ortona ports joining Civitavecchia port authority...
CMA CGM to construct new office high-rise in Marseilles with Bouygues Immobilier
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) March 27, 2019 – CMA CGM, the global French shipping group, has announced that it will work with Bouygues Immobilier to...
Bilbao port president asks for transfer of harbour’s management to Basque Country
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) March 26, 2019 – Bilbao port’s president Ricardo Barkala has asked for the transfer the port’s management to the...
Valencia port to strengthen management transparency in 2019
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) March 26, 2019 – Valencia port authority has committed itself to strengthen in 2019 its actions in terms of transparency,...
COSCO meets with Valencia port management
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) March 26, 2019 – The president of Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia (APV – Valenciaport, Port Authority of Valencia),...
Nantes port to improve links with hinterland
Nantes, France (Ports Europe) March 22, 2019 – The European Commission has included the Nantes Saint-Nazaire port in the list of major European Union...
A Coruña port obtains labour safety certification
A Coruña, Spain (Ports Europe) March 22, 2019 – A Coruña port is the first in Spain to obtain certification of its labour safety and health...
CDP Group, CDP Immobiliare, Fincantieri, Italgas, Snam & Terna sign protocol for development of Naples
Naples, Italy (Ports Europe) March 20, 2019 – The Cassa depositi e prestiti Group and its investee companies CDP Immobiliare, Fincantieri, Italgas, Snam...
AdSP del Mare Adriatico (Ancona) may lose Pescara, Ortona ports
Pescara, Italy (Ports Europe) March 19, 2019 – Local sources have suggested that the ports of Pescara and Ortona, currently part of Autorita’ di Sistema...