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APM Terminals Valencia acquires 11 terminal tractors
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) June 6, 2017 – APM Terminals Valencia S.A. has incorporated 11 terminal tractors in its facilities, bringing its fleet to 63...
Sagunto port cargo traffic rises 1.63% y/y in Jan-Apr 2017
Sagunto, Spain (PortSEurope) June 6, 2017 – Sagunto port closed the first four months of the year with a total traffic of 2.130 million tonnes, a figure that...
Truck traffic at Valencia port almost totally blocked during dockworker strike
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) June 6, 2017 – The first day of strike of Spanish dockworkers ended with the almost total stoppage of trucks carrying cargo...
Spain to construct rail access to Seville port in 2017, 2018
Seville, Spain (PortSEurope) June 6, 2017 – Spanish Public Works Minister Íñigo de la Serna has attended the signing of an agreement to regulate the...
Spain’s Adif, Puertos del Estado, port authorities sign railway works deal
Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) June 6, 2017 – Spanish state-run railway operator Administrador de Infraestructuras Ferroviarias (Adif), ports agency Puertos...
Cartagena port cargo traffic rises in Jan-Apr 2017
Cartagena, Spain (PortSEurope) June 6, 2017 – Cartagena port handled 11.21 million tonnes of cargo in the first four months of 2017, up 8.9% on the year,...
Noatum, MSC extend working hours of terminals at Valencia port
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) June 6, 2017 – Noatum Container Terminal Valencia and Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) have extended the working hours of...
Genoa port should focus on dredging – former port president
Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) June 6, 2017 – Genoa port should keep working on increasing the draft of its basin, as the world-class vessels of Mediterranean...
Italy’s Caronte & Tourist to build ten LNG-fuelled ferry ships
Messina, Italy (PortSEurope) June 6, 2017 – Italian company Caronte & Tourist S.p.A. plans to invest a total of €200 million ($225.53 million) in the...
Ukrainian seaports cargo traffic rises 4.5% y/y in Jan-Apr 2017
Odessa, Ukraine (PortSEurope) June 6, 2017 – Ukrainian seaports handled 55.609 million tonnes of cargo in the first five months of 2017, up 4.5% on the year,...
Trieste port sees its integrated management system certification renewed
Trieste, Italy (PortSEurope) June 5, 2017 – Trieste port has become the first Italian harbour to obtain an extension of its integrated management system...
Barcelona port to have direct rail connection to France’s Lyon
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) June 6, 2017 – Barcelona port will have a new rail freight service with Lyon (France), Spanish Public Works Minister Íñigo...
Vigo port laments damage caused by dockers strike
Vigo, Spain (PortSEurope) June 5, 2017 – The president of Vigo port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Vigo), Enrique López Veiga, lamented the...
Spanish food exporters call on dockworkers to end strike
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) June 5, 2017 – Several agri-food and agricultural export associations called for an agreement in the stowage sector in order...
Basque companies participate in Norshipping
Bilbao, Spain (PortSEurope) June 5, 2017 – Fifteen companies from the Basque maritime industry took part last week in Oslo at Norshipping, one of the most...
Las Palmas port operates normally during first day of strike
Las Palmas, Spain (PortSEurope) June 5, 2017 – Las Palmas port operated its dockworking services normally during the first day of the strike in the sector on...
EU Transport Commissioner announces launch of European Ports Forum
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) June 5, 2017 – European Transport Commissioner Violeta Bulc announced the creation of a European Ports Forum, a platform for...
Ireland’s Shannon port eyes cooperation with Algeciras harbour
Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) June 5, 2017 – Algeciras port closed its participation in Norshipping 2017 conference with a meeting with...
Spanish dockworkers complete first day of strike without accidents
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) June 5, 2017 – The first day of strike of Spanish dockworkers was completed without incident and with a massive follow-up,...
Spanish road freight companies estimate dockworkers strike to cost €2.4 million a day
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) June 5, 2017 – Truck drivers estimate that the stoppages called at ports by dockworkers will generate a loss of up to...