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Ibiza-Gandia line exceeds 15,000 passengers
Gandia, Spain (Ports Europe) August 15, 2017 – The first line of passenger and car transport between the port of Gandia and Ibiza has surpassed the 15,000...
New advanced Multraship tugboat for Port of Burgas
Burgas, Bulgaria (Ports Europe) July 15, 2017 – The Black Sea fleet of the towage and salvage specialist Multraship will be strengthened by an advanced...
Varna Port to invest €6 million in 2017
Varna, Bulgaria (Ports Europe) August 15, 2017 –  ($3 million/€2.6 million) for new equipment and another BGN 5 million for improvement of port’s...
Switch to low-sulfur fuel oil or marine gas oil to reduce SOx ship emissions as of 2020
New York, United States (Ports Europe) August 15, 2017 – Switching from high-sulfur fuel oil (HSFO) to lower-sulfur products, such as low-sulfur fuel oil...
AlmerÃa port boost passenger traffic during OPE
AlmerÃa, Spain (Ports Europe) August 14, 2017 – AlmerÃa port handled 232,502 passengers as part of the Operación Paso del Estrecho (OPE) initiative in...
Avilés port cargo traffic rises 3.54% y/y in Jan-July 2017
Avilés, Spain (Ports Europe) August 14, 2017 – Avilés port handled 2.8 million tonnes of cargo in the first seven months of 2017, up 3.54% on the year. The...
Mediterranean ports handle 64% of Spanish cruise traffic in H1 2017
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) August 14, 2017 – Spanish ports have closed the first half of the year, recording the historic high in cruise traffic, with...
Barcelona, Cartagena ports to take part in Latin American Port Congress
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) August 14, 2017 – Barcelona and Cartagena ports will participate at the Latin American Port Congress to present the good...
Puertos Canarios to invest in improvement of Corralejo port mooring service
Fuerteventura, Spain (Ports Europe) August 14, 2017 – Canary Island’s port operator Puertos Canarios plans to invest €435,783 ($513,221) in works to...
Alicante port complains against deadline for anti-pollution infrastructure installation
Alicante, Spain (Ports Europe) August 14, 2017 – Alicante port has filed a complaint with the Valencia regional Environment Council that it has until the...
Engel & Völkers Yachting ranking: the ten highest priced marinas in Europe
Engel & Völkers Yachting has published its ranking of the ten highest priced marinas in Europe: With a mooring fee of €3,025 per day, Ibiza Magna in...
DP World joins forces with Suez Canal Zone to establish a joint development company
Dubai, UAE, August 11, 2017 – In a step to develop the international port industry, a joint company between General Authority of Suez Canal Zone and DP...
ArcelorMittal and TIS build storage facility for metal goods at Yuzhny port
Yuzhny, Ukraine (Ports Europe) August 14, 2017 – ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih and Transinvestservice stevedoring company (TIS) have opened an indoor...
Morocco’s new Safi port 75% complete
Safi, Morocco (Ports Europe) August 15, 2017 – The project to create a new port at Safi was started in 2013 and is now 75% complete. At a cost of...
Cartagena Polytechnic University, port sign RDI cooperation deal
Cartagena, Spain (Ports Europe) August 14, 2017 – The Cartagena Polytechnic University (UPCT) and Cartagena port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Cartagena)...
Las Palmas port starts first phase of construction of La Esfinge dock’s interior pier
Las Palmas, Spain (Ports Europe) August 14, 2017 – Las Palmas port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Las Palmas) has started the first phase of the...
Ceuta-Algeciras line passenger traffic declines in H1 2017
Ceuta, Spain (Ports Europe) August 14, 2017 – The passenger line of the Strait of Gibraltar between the ports of Ceuta and Algeciras has reached 768,564...
Trieste port cargo traffic edges up 0.9% y/y in H1 2017
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) August 14, 2017 – Trieste port handled 29.7 million tonnes of cargo in the first half of 2017, up 0.9% on the year. The highest...
Figueira da Foz port breaks monthly cargo traffic record in July
Figueira da Foz, Portugal (Ports Europe) August 14, 2017 – Figueira da Foz port handled 229,252 tonnes of cargo in July, up 6.38% on the year. The figures...
USPA calls tender for dredging of Mykolaiv port access channel
Mykolaiv, Ukraine (Ports Europe) August 14, 2017 – Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority (USPA) has called a tender for the dredging of the access channel of...