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Copelouzos group interested in Alexandroupolis port
Thessaloniki, Greece (Ports Europe) September 12, 2017 – The Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund (HRADF/TAIPED) has been attending the Thessaloniki...
LNG Croatia seeks partners for gas project
Rijeka, Croatia (Ports Europe) September 12, 2017 – LNG Croatia LLC, the company responsible for the development of LNG import terminal Project on the...
Event – SmartCity Marseille Méditerranée Forum, September 14-17, 2017, Marseille
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) September 13, 2017 – The third edition of the SmartCity Marseille Méditerranée Forum will take place in Marseille...
Santander port to host annual meeting of Spanish shortsea shipping association
Santander, Spain (Ports Europe) September 12, 2017 – Santander port will host the upcoming annual meeting of the Spanish association for the promotion...
A Coruña port cargo traffic rises in Jan-July 2017, beats monthly record
A Coruña, Spain (Ports Europe) September 12, 2017 – A Coruña port handled 8.4 million tonnes of cargo in the first seven months of 2017, up 7.67% on the...
Tenerife port expects 38,300 cruise passengers in September
Tenerife, Spain (Ports Europe) September 12, 2017 – Tenerife port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Tenerife) expects the number of cruise passengers handled...
Castellón port to become third most profitable in Spain in 2017
Castellón, Spain (Ports Europe) September 12, 2017 – Castellón port is expected to become the third most profitable in Spain in 2017 after completing its...
Vigo port to present “Blue Growth” strategy to EU institutions
Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) September 12, 2017 – Vigo port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Vigo) plans to present its “Blue Growth” strategy for...
Trieste port president calls on Europe to participate actively in China’s OBOR project
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) September 12, 2017 – Europe needs to have an active role in China’s One Belt One Road (OBOR) initiative, the president of...
China’s CHEC starts second dredging project at Port Yuzhniy
Port Yuzhniy, Ukraine (Ports Europe) September 12, 2017 – China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) has started its second project at Ukraine’s Port...
Sardinian ports contribute €500 million in value added to Italy’s economy
Cagliari, Italy (Ports Europe) September 12, 2017 – Sardinian ports generate a combined gross value added of €500 million ($597.9 million) for the Italian...
Porto Marghera is not a problem but an opportunity for Venice & Veneto
Venice, Italy (Ports Europe) September 12, 2017 – The recent transformation of a conventional refinery into a new bio-refinery could mark a new start for...
Thomson Cruises to handle 92,000 passengers at Málaga port in 2018
Málaga, Spain (Ports Europe) September 11, 2017 – Thomson Cruises plans to handle 92,000 passengers at Málaga port aboard the “Thomson...
Spain’s Puertos del Estado to propose reduction of wharfage dues
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) September 11, 2017 – Spanish national ports agency Puertos del Estado will propose a reduction the wharfage dues by 10% in...
Puertos del Estado sets price of Delphi purchase at €3 million
Cádiz, Spain (Ports Europe) September 11, 2017 – The purchase of land in the former Delphi factory in Puerto Real will have to be €3 million ($3.59...
Ceuta port cruise traffic declines 17% y/y in Jan-July 2017
Ceuta, Spain (Ports Europe) September 11, 2017 – Ceuta port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Ceuta) has closed the first seven months of the year with a 17%...
Venice port handles third lot of river intermodal operation
Venice, Italy (Ports Europe) September 11, 2017 – Venice port has completed the handling of the third lot of an intermodal project cargo operation that...
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,...
Piraeus port awards €23.8 million contract for floating dock construction to Cosco
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) September 11, 2017 – Piraeus Port Authority S.A. has awarded a €23.8 million ($28.5 million) contract for the construction...
Greek prime minister says government has real interest in developing Thessaloniki port
Thessaloniki, Greece (Ports Europe) September 11, 2017 – The interest of the Greek government in the development of Thessaloniki port and northern Greece, in...