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Thessaloniki port privatisation stalls
Thessaloniki, Greece (Ports Europe) October 9, 2017 – At the end of June, the consortium of Deutsche Invest Equity Partners, Belterra Investments and...
Italian ports’ cruise traffic to rise 6.4% in 2018
Civitavecchia, Italy (Ports Europe) October 9, 2017 – Italian tourism association Risposte Turismo expects the cruise traffic in Italy to rise by 6.4% in...
MSC Cruises to handle at least 3 million passengers in Italy in 2018
Palermo, Italy (Ports Europe) October 9, 2017 – MSC Cruises, a subsidiary of Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC), expects to handle more than 3 million...
Salerno Container Terminal wins Italian Terminal and Logistics Award
Salerno, Italy (Ports Europe) October 9, 2017 – Salerno Container Terminal (SCT) has won the Italian Terminal and Logistics Award during GIS, the Italian...
Marín port to double container capacity in short term
Marín, Spain (Ports Europe) October 9, 2017 – Marín port plans to double its maximum container ship handling capacity to 4,000 TEUs from 2,000 TEUs in a...
JSV Logistic’s shortsea route offers new opportunities to Мálaga port
Мálaga, Spain (Ports Europe) October 9, 2017 – JSV Logistic S.L. has been operating the Short Sea Shipping line that links Мálaga port with the Canary...
Tenerife expects record-high cruise traffic in 2018
Tenerife, Spain (Ports Europe) October 9, 2017 – Tenerife port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Tenerife) expects to break records in cruise traffic during...
Bilbao port tenders dock construction project
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) October 9, 2017 – Bilbao port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Bilbao) has called a tender for the design of a dock at the...
Puertos del Estado president shares Spanish cruise sector experience in Latin America
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) October 9, 2017 – The president of Spanish national ports agency Puertos del Estado, José Llorca, has recently given a...
Syria announces Russian port service
Latakia, Syria (Ports Europe) October 9, 2017 – The Syrian Ministry of Economy and Foreign Trade has announced the launch of the regular shipping line...
Genoa port set to reuse old Piaggio plant land
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) October 9, 2017 – The Regional Council, the Municipality of Genoa and Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Ligure...
Genoa port meets with trade unions
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) October 9, 2017 – During the meeting with Segreterie Confederali CGIL – CISL – UIL (trade unions) held October 6...
Bolloré Ports to develop southern part of the commercial port of Chef de Baie in La Rochelle.
La Rochelle, France (Ports Europe) October 9, 2017 – On Friday 6 October, the Supervisory Board of Port Atlantique La Rochelle appointed Bolloré Ports...
Malta Freeport launches Malta-South America cargo service
Malta (Ports Europe) October 9, 2017 – Malta Freeport has launched a weekly service connecting Malta with ports in Argentina and Brazil. The service will...
The image of Marseille port improves according to survey
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) October 9, 2017 – On behalf of the port of Marseille Fos, an independent company has carried out a survey of 500...
Future of Neorion shipyards remains unclear
Athens, Greece (Ports Europe) October 7, 2017 – In September 2017, Postlane Partners withdrew its bid for the Neorion shipyards on Greece’s...
Elemed holds Limassol event – “electrification as the key to sustainable port & shipping operations”
Limassol, Cyprus (Ports Europe) October 8, 2017 – The elemed project has held a meeting in Limassol to discuss the use of electricity in marine...
“DocksTheFuture” project included in Horizon 2020 approved transport projects
Brussels, Belgium (Ports Europe) October 8, 2017 – The EU Innovation and Networks Executive Agency (INEA) has announced that 27 projects have been...
DP World to operate Sète terminal from early 2018
Sète, France (Ports Europe) October 8, 2017 – P&O Ports, a subsidiary of the UAE’s DP World, will begin to operate the container terminal in...
USPA organises press tour of Yuzhny port
Yuzhny, Ukraine (Ports Europe) October 8, 2017 – On October 12, 2017, the Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority (USPA) has organised a press tour of Yuzhny...