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Event – 51st MedCruise General Assembly, Toulon, October 11-14
Toulon, France (Ports Europe) September 7, 2015 – The 51st MedCruise General Assembly is scheduled to take place October 11-14, 2017 in Toulon,...
Board of Directors member resigns from Thessaloniki Port Authority
Thessaloniki, Greece (Ports Europe) September 7, 2017 – Thessaloniki Port Authority S.A. has announced that George Tozidis has submitted his resignation...
MSC to increase cargo traffic at Trieste port
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) September 7, 2017 – Gianluigi Aponte, chairman of Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC), which operates the second largest cargo...
Boskalis Nederland wins dredging contract at Cádiz port
Cádiz, Spain (Ports Europe) September 7, 2017 – Cádiz port authority (Autoridad Portuaria Bahía de Cádiz) has awarded a contract to company Boskalis...
Andalusia lobbies for construction of road between Seville port & ring road
Cádiz, Spain (Ports Europe) September 7, 2017 – Andalusia regional government president Susana Díaz has said that she asked the central government, led by...
Greece to take advantage of strategic position via rail link project with Bulgaria, Tsipras says
Kavala, Greece (Ports Europe) September 7, 2017 – Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras has said the project for the launch of a railway corridor linking the...
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...
Azores Islands’ ports to handle 54 cruise calls Sep-Dec 2017
Ponta Delgada, Azores, Portugal (Ports Europe) September 7, 2017 – The first week of September marks the return of cruise ships to the Azores. Portos dos...
Six Croatian ports to receive €41.2 million funding
Rijeka, Croatia (Ports Europe) September 7, 2017 – The six Croatian ports that handle international passenger traffic received a funding of a total of HRK...
Ukrainian ports cargo traffic rises in Jan-Aug 2017
Odessa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) September 7, 2017 – Ukrainian sea ports handled 86.95 million tonnes of cargo in the first eight months of 2017, up 1.6% on...
Rail Cargo Austria to launch intermodal service to Iran, via Trieste
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) September 6, 2017 – Austria’s Rail Cargo Group, together with the Turkish shipping company U.N. Ro-Ro İşletmeleri...
Hellespont set for contract with Cosco
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) September 6, 2017 – Athens-based Hellespont Group, headed by Greek shipowner Phrixos Papachristidis is in talks with the...
Spain’s Paceco to deliver two RTGs to Lithuania’s Klaipeda port
Klaipeda, Lithuania (Ports Europe) September 6, 2017 – Madrid-based, Spanish company Paceco España S.A. has recently signed a contract for the supply of...
Pasaia port cargo traffic declines 22.6% y/y in Jan-July 2017
Pasaia, Spain (Ports Europe) September 6, 2017 – Pasaia port handled a total of 1.6 million tonnes of cargo in the first seven months of 2017, down by...
MACS adds Charleston port to service from Bilbao
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) September 6, 2017 – MACS Maritime Carrier GmbH & Co, based in Hamburg (Germany), has added the US port of Charleston to...
Bulgaria-Greece port railway connection project needs investment of €5 billion
Kavala, Greece (Ports Europe) September 6, 2017 – Bulgaria’s transport minister Ivaylo Moskovski has said the total investment in the railway...
Bulgarian PM says port link project with Greece will boost energy, transport, tourist sectors
Kavala, Greece (Ports Europe) September 6, 2017 – Bulgaria’s prime minister Boyko Borisov has said the launch of a railway connection between...
21 Spanish ports to participate in Seatrade Europe
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) September 6, 2017 – The 21 port authorities that are under the management of Spanish national agency Puertos del Estado,...
Algeciras port opens to traffic third lane of road to Marina Alcaidesa
Algeciras, Spain (Ports Europe) September 6, 2017 – Algeciras port authority (Autoridad Portuaria Bahía de Algeciras) has opened to traffic the so-called...
Tenerife port handles its biggest container ship ever
Tenerife, Spain (Ports Europe) September 6, 2017 – Tenerife port handled on September 5 and 6 the Maersk Guayaquil container ship, with a length of 337...