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Setubal port cargo traffic falls 4.9% in 2016
Setubal, Portugal (PortSEurope) April 24, 2017 – The first quarter of 2017 is proving very good for Portuguese ports, with Lisbon announcing 33% growth,...
Aveiro port books record-high cargo traffic in Q1 2017
Aveiro, Portugal (PortSEurope) April 24, 2017 – Aveiro port booked a record-high cargo traffic of 1.216 million tonnes for the first quarter of 2017, up 18%....
Luka Koper brings significant dividend to Slovenian government
Koper, Slovenia (PortSEurope) April 26, 2017 – The Slovenian government’s dividend yield from stakes in state-owned companies continued to grow in...
Figueira da Foz handles its largest ship yet
Figueira da Foz, Portugal (PortSEurope) April 24, 2017 – Figueira da Foz port received its largest cargo ship ever on April 18. The vessel is more than 134...
USPA awards Port Yuzhniy dredging deal to Novadeal
Port Yuzhniy, Ukraine (PortSEurope) April 24, 2017 – Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority (USPA) has awarded a contract for the dredging of the access channel to...
Vigo port receives innovation award for Blue Growth strategy
Vigo, Spain (PortSEurope) April 25, 2017 – A little over a year after the official presentation of the Blue Growth initiative that Vigo port launched, the...
Pasaia port remains dependent on steel, cars
Pasaia, Spain (PortSEurope) April 25, 2017 – Statistics on port traffic in Pasaia in the first quarter of 2017 reveal its high dependence on steel products...
Huelva port awards Majarabique rehabilitation works to Acciona
Huelva, Spain (PortSEurope) April 26, 2017 – Huelva port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Huelva) has awarded to Spanish company Acciona Construction S.A....
Port of Sète to be represented at Breakbulk Europe
Sète, France (PortSEurope) April 26, 2017 – The port of Sète will be present at 12th Breakbulk Europe event to be held in Antwerp 24-26 April....
EU invests €22.1 million supporting synergies between transport & energy sectors
Brussels, Belgium, April 24, 2017 – EU invests €22.1 million supporting synergies between transport & energy sectors Today, EU Member States...
Trieste handles more trains in Q1 2017
Trieste, Italy (PortSEurope) April 26, 2017 – Trieste port handled more than 2,000 trains in the first quarter of 2017, a 20.06% increase on the same...
Nantes port awards inland waterway freight transport deal to CLT
Nantes, France (PortSEurope) April 25, 2017 – Nantes port has awarded a contract for the operation of inland waterway transport of cargo as of January 1,...
APM Terminal Algeciras reports lowest number of labour accidents in last ten years
Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) April 25, 2017 – APM Terminals Algeciras celebrated the Global Safety Day week with the lowest accident rate per million hours...
Sagunto port consolidates as major Spanish hub for car traffic
Sagunto, Spain (PortSEurope) April 25, 2017 – Sagunto port consolidates as one of the main logistic hubs of Spain for the traffic of cars. With a traffic of...
Santander port handles record number of cars in Q1 2017
Santander, Spain (PortSEurope) April 25, 2017 – Santander port serviced record-high 135,484 cars in the first quarter of 2017, up 19.11% on the year. The...
China’s CRCC representatives visit Lisbon port
Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) April 24, 2017 – Lisbon port has received a delegation of China Railway Construction Corporation (CRCC) and its subsidiaries...
Repsol, Enagás complete first pipe-to-ship bunkering in Europe at Cartagena port
Cartagena, Spain (PortSEurope) April 24, 2017 – Spanish companies Repsol and Enagás have for the first time in Europe supplied a ship with liquefied natural...
Montenegrin government cancels sale of 30% stake in Luka Bar
Bar, Montenegro (PortSEurope) April 25, 2017 – The Montenegrin government said it has terminated the talks for the sale of a 30% stake in port operator Luka...
Cadiz starts home port feasibility study
Cadiz, Spain (PortSEurope) April 24, 2017 – Cadiz port authority (Autoridad Portuaria BahÃa de Cádiz) has reported that the start of the high season of...
Valencia port recovers cruise traffic in 2017
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) April 24, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) and the region’s tourist organisation said...