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.
Corsica’s Propriano port looks to increase visitors
Propriano, Corsica (Ports Europe) September 14, 2017 – Four times a week in summer, the Kalliste ferry, owned la Méridionale, dominates the port of...
Government announces plans for Volos port
Volos, Greece (Ports Europe) September 14, 2017 – Volos is one of the state-owned ports which could be privatised by the state asset agency the Hellenic...
Volos Port Authority publishers works progress
Volos, Greece (Ports Europe) September 13, 2017 – Volos Port Authority, OLB S.A., has published an update on the local projects completed or being...
Azores, Canary Islands to enhance port, air transport synergies
Ponta Delgada, Azores, Portugal (Ports Europe) September 11, 2017 – The Azores and Canaries Islands have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), which,...
Following its IPO in London, Global Ports Holding comments on the future
London, United Kingdom (Ports Europe) September 11, 2017 – Global Ports Holding (GPH) CEO Emre Sayin has said the IPO in London will enable the company...
Administration to support Seville port logistics development
Seville, Spain (Ports Europe) September 11, 2017 – The president of Autoridad Portuaria de Sevilla (Port Authority of Seville – APS), Manuel...
New CIVITAS Tool Inventory to be launched at the CIVITAS Forum 2017
Budapest, Hungary (Ports Europe) September 10, 2017 – The new CIVITAS Tool Inventory for urban mobility and integrated planning is set to be launched at...
Pesaro looks towards port development
Pesaro, Italy (Ports Europe) September 9, 2017 – Rodolfo Giampieri, chairman of Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mare Adriatico Centrale (Port...
Bilbao port prepares for autonomous vessels era
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) September 7, 2017 – The president of Bilbao port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Bilbao), Asier Atutxa, has announced that the...
New railway connection agreement between Greece and Bulgaria
Kavala, Greece (Ports Europe) September 6, 2017 – A memorandum of understanding between Bulgaria and Greece for a new railway connection will be signed...
New environmental study for proposed Barreiro Container Terminal in Lisbon
Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) September 5, 2017 – The current environmental impact assessment of the Barreiro Container Terminal will be stopped and a...
Abruzzo to have special economic zone (ZES)
Pescara, Italy (Ports Europe) September 5, 2017 – Minister for the South of Italy Claudio De Vincenti has announced that the Abruzzo and Molise regions...
Italy’s Transport Regulatory Authority visits Trieste port
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) September 4, 2017 – The recent visit to Trieste port of Autorità per la regolamentazione dei Trasporti (the Transport...
Cruise Shipping and Urban Development: The Case of Piraeus
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) September 2, 2017 – The International Transport Forum (ITF) has published a report which assesses the impacts of cruise...
ITF: Local Governments and Ports report
Brussels, Belgium (Ports Europe) September 2, 2017 – The International Transport Forum (ITF) has published a report that compares the different ways in...
Vigo port mulls concession of wholesale fish market
Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) September 1, 2017 – The president of Vigo port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Vigo), Enrique López Veiga, has said that...
Polesine ports and Venice port system look for synergies
Venice, Italy (Ports Europe) September 1, 2017 – At a meeting between Pino Mussolino, Chairman of the Port Authority System of Venice, Secretary...
Friuli Venezia Giulia and Fincantieri to create cruise industry academy
Monfalcone, Italy (Ports Europe) September 1, 2017 – The region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia and Fincantieri S.p.A. plan to sign a Memorandum of...
Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Ligure Orientale to presents plans
La Spezia, Italy (Ports Europe) September 1, 2017 – On September 4, Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Ligure Orientale (AdSP – Eastern...
Santander City Council, port join forces to improve area of Maritime Station
Santander, Spain (Ports Europe) August 31, 2017 – Santander City Council and Santander port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Santander) have signed an...