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Shipping companies object to being forced to buy power from Damietta port
Damietta, Egypt (Ports Europe) August 1, 2017 – Shipping companies are attempting to convince officials to reverse the Damietta Port Authority’s...
Messina highlights concerns over new authority
Messina, Italy (Ports Europe) August 1, 2017 – The Commissione Territorio e Ambiente dell’Ars (Territorial and Environment Commission of the Ars) has...
Container traffic, record growth for the port of Salerno
Salerno, Italy (Ports Europe) August 1, 2017 – The Salerno Container Terminal (SCT) saw growth of 20% in the second quarter of 2017. Containers at the...
Mayor of Civitavecchia supports port authority appointment
Civitavecchia, Italy (Ports Europe) August 1, 2017 – Antonio Cozzolino, Mayor of Civitavecchia, has said that he supports the appointment of Francesco...
Barcelona and Valencia join forces over Mediterranean Corridor
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) August 1, 2017 – The Mayor of Barcelona, Ada Colau, and the Mayor of Valencia, Joan Ribó, met last month to sign a joint...
Pemex officially abandons terminal construction at A Coruña port
A Coruña, Spain (Ports Europe) July 31, 2017 – Mexico’s state-owned oil company Pemex has officially announced its intention to abandon...
Santander port cargo traffic increases 8.65% y/y in H1 2017
Santander, Spain (Ports Europe) July 31, 2017 – Santander port cargo traffic increased by 8.65% in the first half of the year to 2.52 million tonnes. Of the...
Huelva port’s container traffic soars in H1 2017
Huelva, Spain (Ports Europe) July 31, 2017 – Huelva port increased container traffic by 362% on the year in the first half of 2017, thanks to the start-up...
Genoa-based port authority president expresses support for China’s Silk Road initiative
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) July 31, 2017 – Countries in northern Europe oppose the One Belt, One Road (OBOR) initiative of China, as they want to prevent...
Palermo-based port authority to give equal opportunities to ports under managementÂ
Palermo, Italy (Ports Europe) July 31, 2017 – The Authority of the Western Sicilian Sea Port System (Autorità di Sistema portuale del Mare di...
Seville port to get €14 million funding for rail access construction
Seville, Spain (Ports Europe) July 31, 2017 – Spanish interport compensation fund’s board of directors has unanimously approved a loan of €14...
Ancona-based port authority completes management structure design
Ancona, Italy (Ports Europe) July 31, 2017 – The Port System of the Central Adriatic Sea (Autorità di Sistema Portuale dell’Adriatico Centrale) has...
Vigo port cargo traffic declines in June
Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) July 31, 2017 – The stowage strike, the transfer of Maersk’s operations to MarÃn port and the complications encountered by...
Valencia City Council changes operator of building at port marina
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) July 31, 2017 – Valencia City Council has reached an agreement for the recovery of the Docks building located in the Marina of...
Genoa port handles record-high container traffic in H1 2017
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) July 31, 2017 – Genoa port handled record-high 1.283 million TEUs of container traffic in the first half of 2017, versus 1.133...
Valencia Container Depot to build container storage complex at Valencia harbour
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) July 31, 2017 – The board of directors of Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) has approved a contract...
Cosco representatives visit Valencia port
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) July 31, 2017 – Representatives of Cosco Shipping Ports visited Valencia port and the facilities of Noatum Container Terminal...
Spanish interport fund to pay €37.55 million to 28 port authorities
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) July 31, 2017 – Spanish interport compensation fund (Fondo de Compensación Interportuaria) will provide a funding worth...
Cartagena port among top five cruise destinations in western Mediterranean
Cartagena, Spain (Ports Europe) July 31, 2017 – Cartagena port is among the top five cruise destinations in the Mediterranean for the second time, according...
Cosco looks to hold Piraeus Port Authority board meetings in China
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) July 31, 2017 – Piraeus Port Authority S.A. has announced that on Friday 28/7/2017, the Adjourned Ordinary General Meeting...