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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.

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 Rodríguez, 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...

Andalusia government to coordinate policies of Ceuta, Melilla ports

Ceuta, Spain (Ports Europe) March 15, 2019 – The Seville-based Andalusia regional government plans to launch a permanent working group with the seven ports...

Koper, Rijeka, Trieste need to join forces against leading European ports

Koper, Slovenia (Ports Europe) March 8, 2019 – Croatia’s biggest port of Rijeka is lagging behind Koper in terms of growth, and the third large...

Melilla, Ceuta ports to develop joint projects

Melilla, Spain (Ports Europe) March 7, 2019 – The president of Melilla port authority, Miguel Marín, has met Ceuta counterpart, Juan Manuel Doncel to...

ANP starts the expropriations phase for new Zenata dry port

Casablanca, Morocco (Ports Europe) March 1, 2019 – Morocco’s Agence Nationale des Ports (ANP – National Ports Agency) is preparing to begin...

AdSP Settentrionale (Venice) to take over management of Chioggia port

Chioggia, Venice (Ports Europe) February 28, 2019 – The Rovigo Chamber of Commerce of Venice and Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mare Adriatico...

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