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Russia to start operating Crimea-Turkey cruise line in June
Sochi, Russia (PortSEurope) May 19, 2017 – Russia plans to start operating a regular cruise line connecting Sochi to the Crimea and Turkey on June 11, the...
Ukraine’s USPA signs Port Yuzhniy dredging contract with China’s CHEC
Port Yuzhniy, Ukraine (PortSEurope) May 19, 2017 – Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority (USPA) signed a contract with China Harbor Engineering Company (CHEC) to...
Spanish government calls on trade unions to cancel strikes at ports
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) May 19, 2017 – Spanish Secretary of State for Infrastructure, Julio Gómez-Pomar, has called on stevedores to dismiss the call...
Spain prepares for OPE 2017
Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) May 19, 2017 – The president of national ports agency Puertos del Estado, Jose Llorca, attended a meeting of the Joint...
Ceuta port authority awards cleaning services contract
Ceuta, Spain (PortSEurope) May 19, 2017 – Ceuta port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Ceuta) has awarded a contract for the delivery of cleaning services in...
EC says Spanish port reform decree complies with rules
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) May 19, 2017 – The European Commission (EC) said that the decree approved yesterday by the Spanish parliament to liberalise the...
Gijón port cargo traffic rises 6% y/y in Q1 2017
Gijón, Spain (PortSEurope) May 19, 2017 – Port traffic in Gijón grew 6% on the year in the first quarter of 2017 to 7.4 million tonnes. The overall...
Sulphur emissions at Marseille port decline 40% in 2010-2016
Marseille, France (PortSEurope) May 19, 2017 – Emissions of sulphur, particularly related to fuel oil, have decreased by 40% between 2010 and 2016 in the...
Vigo port president says dock strikes affect entire Spanish economy
Vigo, Spain (PortSEurope) May 19, 2017 – In Vigo port, which has the largest group of stevedores in the region of Galicia, the consequences of the conflict...
Lebanon extends maritime export subsidies programme
Beirut, Lebanon (PortSEurope) May 19, 2017 – The Lebanese Council of Ministers is to continue the maritime transport export subsidy program managed by...
Suez Canal Container Terminal S.A.E. – April 2017 container terminal statistics
Port Said, Egypt (PortSEurope) May 18, 2017 – Suez Canal Container Terminal S.A.E., part of the Chinese Cosco shipping group, has reported April 2017...
Kumport Liman Hizmetleri ve Lojistik Sanayi ve Ticaret A.Ş – April 2017 container terminal statistics
Kumport, Turkey (PortSEurope) – Kumport Liman Hizmetleri ve Lojistik Sanayi ve Ticaret A.Ş, part of the Chinese Cosco shipping group, has reported...
Piraeus Container Terminal S.A.- April 2017 container terminal statistics
Piraeus, Greece (PortSEurope) – Piraeus Container Terminal S.A., part of the Chinese Cosco shipping group, has reported April 2017 container terminal...
Las Palmas port analyses extension of Santa Catalina dock
Las Palmas, Spain (PortSEurope) May 18, 2017 – Las Palmas port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Las Palmas) plans to extend the dock of Santa Catalina. One...
Cádiz port generates 3% of province’s employment
Cádiz, Spain (PortSEurope) May 18, 2017 – A study by the University of Cádiz has estimated the employment impact and the gross value added (GVA) generated...
Spanish dockworkers trade unions express readiness to negotiate
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) May 18, 2017 – Spanish dockworkers trade unions consider that the government is “giving” them a...
Spanish minister asks dockworkers for “common sense”
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) May 18, 2017 – Spanish Minister of Public Works, Inigo de la Serna, today asked trade unions of dockers and employers for...
Basque Country, Navarre governments discuss connectivity of Bilbao, Pasaia ports to Pamplona
Bilbao, Spain (PortSEurope) May 18, 2017 – Representatives of the governments of the Basque Country and Navarre held a working meeting in Pamplona to analyse...
Cartagena port takes part in waste management conference
Cartagena, Spain (PortSEurope) May 18, 2017 – The Spanish city of Murcia hosted last week the “Waste management and circular economy” conference,...
Mariupol port grain traffic declines 1.8% y/y in Jan-Apr 2017
Mariupol, Ukraine (PortSEurope) May 18, 2017 – In January-April 2017, Mariupol seaport handled 141,860 tonnes of grain, which is 1.8% less than in the same...