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.
Sagunto City Council, Valencia port sign cooperation agreement
Sagunto, Spain (Ports Europe) February 28, 2019 – Sagunto City Council has signed a cooperation agreement with Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia (APV –...
Barcelona port proposes a new technical office to develop road and rail access
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) February 28, 2019 – The Port of Barcelona has proposed to the Ministry of Development to create a technical office in...
Monfalcone port to soon join AdSP del Mare Adriatico Orientale (Trieste)
Monfalcone, Italy (Ports Europe) February 27, 2019 – The procedure for the transfer of the management of Monfalcone port to Autorita’ di Sistema...
Vilagarcía port supports Compostela 2M21 project
Vilagarcía, Spain (Ports Europe) February 22, 2019 – The president of Autoridad Portuaria de Vilagarcía (APV – Port Authority of Vilagarcía),...
COSCO’s Piraeus port development plan receives partial approval
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) February 22, 2019 – Greece’s Port Planning and Development Committee gave a partial approval of the master plan of...
AdSP del Mar Ligure Occidentale (Genoa) joins IPCSA
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) February 19, 2019 – Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Ligure Occidentale (AdSP – Western Ligurian Sea Port Authority) has...
Alexandroupolis port looks to expand regional influence
Alexandroupolis, Greece (Ports Europe) February 7, 2019 – “Logistics of Northern Greece and the role of the Port of Alexandroupolis” was the...
Augusta port may become Italy’s LNG hub
Augusta, Italy (Ports Europe) February 15, 2019 – Liquefied natural gas (LNG) is a competitive lever for the industrial and logistic system of...
Ukraine ports target EU TEN-T integration
Odessa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) February 14, 2019 – The priority development of the ports of Ukraine is the integration into the enlarged...
Italian transport minister visits northern Sardinia ports
Olbia, Italy (Ports Europe) February 14, 2019 – Italy’s Minister of Infrastructures and Transport, Danilo Toninelli, has visited the ports of Olbia and...
Leixões port aims to compete with Barcelona, Valencia
Leixões, Portugal (Ports Europe) February 13, 2019 – Vigo is not the only target of Leixões port’s offensive in container traffic. Until now it was...
Pescara approves €552,000 port overhaul tender
Pescara, Italy (Ports Europe) February 13, 2019 – Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mare Adriatico Centrale (Central Adriatic Sea Port Authority) has...
Free Trade Zone and Director of Groupe PSA plant in Vigo meet to discuss progress
Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) February 12, 2019 – With the aim of contributing to consolidate the activity and employment of the French automotive Groupe...
Spain’s SCS starts preparations for project at Santander port
Santander, Spain (Ports Europe) February 7, 2019 – Santander Coated Solutions (SCS) has started moving specialized machinery to León to use it in the...
Spain’s ANESCO recommends change in port management model
Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) February 7, 2019 – Asociación Nacional de Empresas Estibadoras (ANESCO – Spanish National Association of Stevedoring...
Spain’s Puertos del Estado completes analysis of national ports strategy
Palma de Mallorca, Spain (Ports Europe) February 7, 2019 – Spanish national ports agency Puertos del Estado has completed an analysis the new...
USPA announces new board members
Odessa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) February 7, 2019 – The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has approved the nominations of members and supervisory board of...
Barcelona port president requests more tariff autonomy
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) February 6, 2019 – The president of Barcelona port, Mercè Conesa, has called for “greater tariff autonomy” and a...
Marseille Fos and Strasbourg port authorities agree to develop multi modal links
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) February 6, 2019 – The Marseille Fos and Strasbourg port authorities have signed an agreement to strengthen the...
AdSP del Mare Adriatico (Ancona port) to decide on two bids for new port system plan
Ancona, Italy (Ports Europe) February 5, 2019 – Two consortia have applied to participate in the European call for tender for the drafting of the Port...