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Most cruises in Europe start from Italy and Spain
Brussels, Belgium (Ports Europe) August 11, 2017 – In European Union (EU) countries, almost seven million passengers annually took a cruise in 2012 and in...
Italy is preferred destination for cruisers, Eurostat survey shows
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) August 10, 2017 – Italy is the preferred starting point for European cruise tourists. This is what emerges from a Eurostat...
Ancona-based port authority starts dredging works at San Benedetto del Tronto port
Ancona, Italy (Ports Europe) August 10, 2017 – The Authority of the Central Adriatic Sea Port System (Autorità di sistema portuale del mare...
Croatian government approves sale of 3.6% stake in Luka Rijeka
Rijeka, Croatia (Ports Europe) August 10, 2017 – Croatia’s government has given preliminary consent to the acting director of the Croatian Health...
Barcelona port’s traffic with Italy, North Africa set to expand
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) August 10, 2017 – Barcelona port has put into service new short sea shipping lines with its main markets in Italy and north...
Gijón port can return to profit in short term
Gijón, Spain (Ports Europe) August 10, 2017 – The refinancing of the debt related to the project for the expansion of Gijón port in the El Musel area,...
Trade union criticises working conditions at Santander port
Santander, Spain (Ports Europe) August 10, 2017 – Spanish trade union Sindicato Cántabro Asalariados del Transporte (SCAT) has criticised the...
Málaga port to receive 10,000 passengers during town festivities
Málaga, Spain (Ports Europe) August 10, 2017 – Málaga port will receive more than 10,000 passengers aboard six cruise ships during the fair of the town,...
Barcelona port calls tender for container scanner
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) August 10, 2017 – The tender announced by Barcelona port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Barcelona) for the acquisition of...
LBC Tank Terminals applies for extension of concession at Cartagena port
Cartagena, Spain (Ports Europe) August 10, 2017 – Spanish company LBC Tank Terminals has applied for an extension of its current concession in the port of...
Pasaia port calls tender for technical assistance of traffic control
Pasaia, Spain (Ports Europe) August 9, 2017 – Pasaia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Pasaia) has announced a tender for technical assistance to...
Las Palmas port president visits Equatorial Guinea
Las Palmas, Spain (Ports Europe) August 10, 2017 – Las Palmas port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Las Palmas) president Luis Ibarra has visited Equatorial...
Nika-Tera port cargo traffic rises 48% y/y in Jan-July
Mykolaiv, Ukraine (Ports Europe) August 11, 2017 – Ukraine’s Nika-Tera port has processed 2.533 million tonnes of cargo in the first seven months of...
Valencia port passenger traffic rises 23% y/y in H1 2017
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) August 10, 2017 – Valencia port has received a total of 415,401 passengers during the first half of the year, which is 23.33%...
Technologies driving CLIA cruise line members’ environmental protection efforts
Washington, United States, August 11, 2017 Technologies driving CLIA cruise line members’ environmental protection efforts August 22, 2017 – Cruise...
French Minister of Transport visited Port of Marseille
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) August 9, 2017 – The port of Marseille aims to play a major role in the world maritime competition, said Élisabeth...
Valencia port to redesign Sagunto dock
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) August 9, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) and Sagunto port have agreed today to begin the...
Puertos Canarios, Fred Olsen, Naviera Armas to reduce congestion at ports
Tenerife, Spain (Ports Europe) August 9, 2017 – Canary Islands-based agency Puertos Canarios, shipping companies Fred Olsen and Naviera Armas S.A. are to put...
Tenerife port to handle 278 cruise ships in 2017
Tenerife, Spain (Ports Europe) August 9, 2017 – Tenerife port plans to carry out this year a handling of 278 cruise ship calls and 574,326 cruisers, 14,400...
Bilbao port faces shortage of dockworkers
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) August 9, 2017 – Bilbao port is experiencing a situation that some operators call “catastrophic”. The lack...