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.
Ireland advances in its plans to attract Galician fishing boats
Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) August 7, 2018 – Ireland is advancing its offensive to snatch the discharges and sale of the Gran Sol fish catches from...
Spain’s Merchant Navy supports promotion of natural gas as marine fuel
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) August 7, 2018 – Spain’s Merchant Navy supports Gasnam (Asociación Ibérica de Gas Natural para la Movilidad), the...
Trade unions, shipowners discuss Trapani port problemsÂ
Trapani, Italy (Ports Europe) August 6, 2018 – The problems of the port sector were discussed in a meeting of trade union representatives, shipowners...
Venice port signs agreement on Chioggia port’s management transfer
Venice, Italy (Ports Europe) August 6, 2018 – Venice port president Pino Musolino has said he signed an agreement with the Chamber of Commerce to transfer...
Assoporti and ENIT sign joint development agreement
Rome, Italy (Ports Europe) August 1, 2018 –Â Assoporti, the Italian port association, has signed a memorandum of understanding with Ente Nazionale...
Italian port authorities meet to discuss EU tax issues
Rome, Italy (Ports Europe) August 1, 2018 –Â Yesterday, the coordination group of the General Secretaries of the authorities of port system (AdSPs) in...
Valencia port presents hinterland expansion plans to Aragón government
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) July 31, 2018 – Valencia port authority’s president Aurelio MartÃnez has presented a Plan of Intermodal Development of...
Alicante port completes strategic plan for 2018-2022
Alicante, Spain (Ports Europe) July 30, 2018 – The board of directors of Autoridad Portuaria de Alicante (APA – Port Authority of Alicante) has...
Seville port to present Strategic Plan 2025 in September
Seville, Spain (Ports Europe) July 30, 2018 – Seville port plans to present its Strategic Plan 2025 in September, a document that defines the lines of...
Eurispes project could add 400,000 jobs in Sicily
Palermo, Italy (Ports Europe) July 28, 2018 – The €5 billion ($5.84 billion) Eurispes project to develop Palermo port could ultimately create more than...
Investors eye construction of second cruise terminal in Vigo
Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) July 27, 2018 – Vigo port plans to tender the authorisation and operation of a second cruise terminal, close to the current one,...
Italy’s Eurispes presents €5 billion property project at Palermo port
Palermo, Italy (Ports Europe) July 25, 2018 – Italy’s Eurispes has presented a €5 billion ($5.8 billion) property project at Palermo port, which...
Valencia port eyes expansion into Aragón
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) July 23, 2018 – Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia (APV – Valenciaport, Port Authority of Valencia) is analysing various...
Barcelona port, Ports de la Generalitat hold working meeting to define scope of cooperation
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) July 23, 2018 – Representatives from the Barcelona port authority and regional ports management institution Ports of the...
Local politician raises issue of MSC leaving Bordeaux port
Bordeaux, France (Ports Europe) July 21, 2018 – During the local government question session, politician Nathalie Delattre alerted the Minister of...
A Coruña port expects 130 confirmed stopovers and 190,000 passengers next year
A Coruña, Spain (Ports Europe) July 20, 2018 – The port of A Coruña will register next year a new record in cruise traffic, surpassing the number...
Cádiz port bets on Andalusia to position itself as a cruise port
Cádiz, Spain (Ports Europe) July 20, 2018 – The president of Autoridad Portuaria de la BahÃa de Cádiz (APBC – Port Authority of Cadiz), José...
Ayamonte port communities to be consulted on developments
Huelva, Spain (Ports Europe) July 19, 2018 –Â The Ministry of Development and Housing has agreed with the different socio-economic groups and citizens of...
Sagunto local authorities approve urbanisation of port’s northern area
Sagunto, Spain (Ports Europe) July 17, 2018 – Sagunto local authorities have approved unanimously the agreement of Valencia port authority for the urban...
Cádiz port, Free Trade Zone to deepen cooperation
Cádiz, Spain (Ports Europe) July 17, 2018 – The president of the Cádiz port authority, José Luis Blanco Romero, received an institutional visit of the...