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Valencia port to reduce CO2 emissions by 4% in 2015-2020 period
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) June 5, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) aims to reduce its carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by...
Algeciras port president expresses worries about losing traffic due to strike
Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) June 5, 2017 – Algeciras port authority (Autoridad Portuaria BahÃa de Algeciras) president, Manuel Morón, has expressed his...
La Spezia port to complete electrification of docks by 2025
La Spezia, Italy (PortSEurope) June 5, 2017 – La Spezia port docks will be completely electrified by 2025, allowing the reduction of the carbon dioxide (CO2)...
Port of Adria handles record-high 4,970 TEUs at Bar port in May
Bar, Montenegro (PortSEurope) June 5, 2017 – Port of Adria JSC Bar, the operator of the container terminal of Montenegro’s Bar port, handled a...
Italy’s Rina Consulting wins contracts to design three ports in Kuwait
Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) June 5, 2017 – Rina Consulting, a subsidiary of Genoa-based Rina S.p.A., has won a €1.5 million ($1.7 million) contract to...
Finnlines Group – Financial Review January–March 2017
Helsinki, Finland (PortSEurope) June 5, 2017 – Finnlines group, owned by the Napoli-based Grimaldi Group, has published its financial review for the...
UN report highlights achievements of Tangier port
Tangier, Morocco (PortSEurope) June 5, 2017 – The United Nations (UN) has produced a report entitled, “Economic Report on Africa 2017 –...
Barcelona and Melilla ports receive PERS certification
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) June 5, 2017 – The Port of Barcelona and the Autoridad Portuaria de Melilla (Port Authority) have been awarded PERS...
French Port of Sète gives concession for its fruit terminal to Conhexa
Sète, France (PortSEurope) June 2, 2017 – The French port of Sète has given a five-year concession to operate its fruit terminal to Groupe Conhexa, based...
Ukraine’s Asket Shipping acquires six mobile cranes for Berdyansk port
Berdyansk, Ukraine (PortSEurope) June 1, 2017 – Ukrainian company Asket Shipping, OOO plans to install six mobile cranes for the handling of grain at...
Las Palmas port president says dockworkers to meet minimum services during strike
Las Palmas, Spain (PortSEurope), June 2, 2017 – The president of Las Palmas port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Las Palmas), Luis Ibarra, expressed...
EC urges trade unions, employers to negotiate and avoid strikes at Spanish ports
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope), June 2, 2017 – European Transport Commissioner Violeta Bulc has urged the operators and stevedores’ trade unions at...
Tenerife installs electric vehicles recharge point at cruise terminal
Tenerife, Spain (PortSEurope), June 2, 2017 – Tenerife port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Tenerife) has installed the first quick recharge point for...
Castellón port authority openly criticises Mediterranean Corridor design
Castellón, Spain (PortSEurope), June 3, 2017 – Castellón port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Castellón) has openly criticised the intention of the...
Tenerife says 20% of world cruise fleet passes through port every year
Tenerife, Spain (PortSEurope), June 2, 2017 – A total of 20% of the world’s cruise fleet, currently consisting of 458 vessels, passes through Tenerife...
Costa Crociere starts operating line from Tarragona
Tarragona, Spain (PortSEurope), June 3, 2017 – Italy-based Costa Crociere S.p.A. has started to operate from Tarragona port as a base port for a route that...
Las Palmas port authority asks Puertos del Estado to pronounce on future of Arrecife port
Las Palmas, Spain (PortSEurope), June 3, 2017 – Las Palmas port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Las Palmas) has asked the national port agency Puertos del...
Spanish trade unions call port strikes on five more days
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope), June 2, 2017 – Spanish stevedoring trade unions have called strikes for five more days in June, adding to the three planned...
Montenegro’s government proposes appointment of four board members of Luka Bar
Bar, Montenegro (PortSEurope), June 3, 2017 – Montenegro’s government has proposed to the shareholders’ meeting of Luka Bar a.d., the operator of...
Rijeka port calls tender for container terminal project consultancy services
Rijeka, Croatia (PortSEurope), June 3, 2017 – Luka Rijeka d.d., the operator of Croatia’s Rijeka port, has invited bids for the delivery of consultancy...