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Turkey and Qatar agree port cooperation
Izmir, Turkey (Ports Europe) August 7, 2017 – Last week, there was a meeting between Qatari and Turkish companies in İzmir to explore further commercial...
Noatum extends Pla-Za railway terminal concession
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) August 4, 2017 – Spanish state-run railway operator Administrador de Infraestructuras Ferroviarias (Adif) has extended the...
Timor-Leste delegation visits Lisbon port
Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) August 4, 2017 – Timor-Leste will soon have a new deepwater harbour, the port of Tibar, and the managers responsible for...
Darsena Europa commission to call two tenders in September
Livorno, Italy (Ports Europe) August 4, 2017 – The commission for the management of the project for the construction of the Darsena Europa dock at Livorno...
Lisbon port to handle 24 cruise calls in August
Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) August 3, 2017 – Lisbon port expects to receive 24 cruise calls in August, two more than in the same month last year,...
Madeira government cancels ferry tender
Funchal, Portugal (Ports Europe) August 4, 2017 – The government of Madeira has cancelled the announcement concerning the public tender, published in the...
Santander port works on expanding harbour to interior area
Santander, Spain (Ports Europe) August 7, 2017 – Santander port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Santander) is working on the expansion to the interior of...
Maersk keeps reducing cargo traffic at Vigo port
Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) August 7, 2017 – The president of the port of Vigo, Enrique López Veiga, attributes the negligible cargo traffic by Maersk in...
Hapag-Lloyd to carry out call of luxury cruise ship at Marín port
Marín, Spain (Ports Europe) August 7, 2017 – The decision of Hapag-Lloyd to make a call of a luxury cruise in Marín port “is without a doubt great...
Vigo port to expand Bouzas ro-ro terminal capacity
Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) August 7, 2017 – Vigo port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Vigo) has decided to launch an ambitious plan, the construction of a...
Pontevedra businessmen hail Hapag-Lloyd’s cruise call at Marín port
Marín, Spain (Ports Europe) August 7, 2017 – The first call of a cruise ship in the port of Marín is “a positive news for the area, but what is...
Spanish government calls tender for dock extension at A Coruña port
A Coruña, Spain (Ports Europe) August 7, 2017 – Spanish Public Works Ministry has announced the launch of a tender for the extension of one of the docks at...
Spain’s Dragados to build parts for Aberdeen outer harbour at A Coruña port
A Coruña, Spain (Ports Europe) August 7, 2017 – The experience gained in the construction of Punta Langosteira, the outer harbour of A Coruña port, and the...
Seville port cargo traffic declines in H1 2017
Seville, Spain (Ports Europe) August 7, 2017 – Seville port cargo traffic has suffered a tremendous setback during the first half of the year. The fall...
Spain considers subsidies for relaunching Gijón-Saint Nazaire MoS
Gijón, Spain (Ports Europe) August 7, 2017 – The president of Spanish ports agency Puertos del Estado, José Llorca, has said that the costs for operators...
Gibraltar beaches not affected by Algeciras port oil spill
Gibraltar (Ports Europe) July 30, 2017 – On July 30, a barge operating in the port of Algeciras caused an oil spill on Saturday after a mechanical...
Tarragona port breaks paper traffic records
Tarragona, Spain (Ports Europe) August 3, 2017 – Tarragona port has broken records in paper traffic. The Chinese-flagged vessel Saga Jandaia, which docked...
Unloading of 1,524 t of longfin tuna in Basque ports shows a positive trend
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) August 3, 2017 – The capture of longfin tuna in the northern Basque ports since the beginning of the campaign in early July has...
Ferrol port to handle one of most ecological cruise ships globally
Ferrol, Spain (Ports Europe) August 3, 2017 – On November 9, Ferrol port will handle “Aida Prima”, one of the most ecological cruise ships in...
Valencia-Mostaganem sea transport line handles 53,000 passengers in H1
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) August 3, 2017 – The sea transport line between Valencia and Mostaganem (Algeria), which has been operating in the port of...