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Alicante port adopts measures to limit pollution
Alicante, Spain (Ports Europe) April 13, 2017 – Alicante port has decided to modify the protocol of the movement of sodium carbonate in the docks to prevent...
Santander port handles record-high cargo delivered by single ship
Santander, Spain (Ports Europe) April 13, 2017 – Santander port is handling the biggest cargo shipment delivered by a single vessel in its history. The...
Puertos del Estado calls tender for analysis of LNG bunkering demand
Gijon, Spain (Ports Europe) April 13, 2017 –Spanish official state gazette (BOE) published a tender by ports agency Puertos del Estado for the contracting of...
Gioia Tauro container terminal MCT employees block port
Gioia Tauro, Italy (Ports Europe) April 13, 2017 – Medcenter Container Terminal (MCT) employees have blocked Gioia Tauro port to protest against the plans...
Sines port keeps expanding
Sines, Portugal (Ports Europe) April 13, 2017 – Sines port maintains its growth in recent years and achieved the best quarter ever in 2017. With a total...
MacAndrews carries out experimental call at Ferrol port
Ferrol, Spain (Ports Europe) April 13, 2017 – After months of studies, MacAndrews carried out an experimental call at the Ferrol Container Terminal (FCT),...
Siemens improves Sines port productivity
Sines, Portugal (Ports Europe) April 13, 2017 – Siemens, a German conglomerate company and the largest manufacturing and electronics company in Europe, has...
Catalan Government calls for timetable for Mediterranean Railway Corridor
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) April 13, 2017 – At a meeting of the strategic board for the Mediterranean Railway Corridor, Spanish Minister for...
Barcelona port recovers pre-crisis traffic levels
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) April 11, 2017 – Barcelona port is reporting record traffic this year, placing the movement of cargo at levels higher than...
HuelvaPort association discusses harbour competitiveness
Huelva, Spain (Ports Europe) April 11, 2017 – The Association for the Commercial Promotion of the Port of Huelva, HuelvaPort, represented by a delegation of...
Naples port starts LNG bunkering project
Naples, Italy (Ports Europe) April 11, 2017 – Naples port will launch later this year an expression of interest for a liquefied natural gas bunker. This was...
Positive container traffic trend continues at Las Palmas port
Las Palmas, Spain (Ports Europe) April 11, 2017 – Container traffic continues its upward trend in Las Palmas port for the eighth consecutive month. The port...
Italy’s Sonsub to set up headquarters at Trieste port
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) April 11, 2017 – Sonsub A.S., a company that develops applied technology for the Saipem Group, plans to set up its headquarters...
Marin port exports wind turbine components to USA
Marin, Spain (Ports Europe) April 11, 2017 – The ports of Beaumont in Texas and Burns Harbor in the state of Indiana are the recipients of the cargo of four...
Ceuta port to officially launch 2017 cruise season
Ceuta, Spain (Ports Europe) April 11, 2017 – Ceuta port will officially open the 2017 cruise season with the arrival of the vessel “Pacific...
Noatum starts operating six new cranes at Valencia port
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) April 11, 2017 – Noatum Container Terminal Valencia, the operator of container terminals at the Principe Felipe and Costa del...
Occupancy rate accounts for 34.4% of Gijon port’s income
Gijon, Spain (Ports Europe) April 12, 2017 – Gijon port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Gijón), like all others in the Spanish port system and any...
Bouygues Travaux Publics to produce concrete blocks at Marseille port
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) April 12, 2017 – The extension of six hectares of the area of the Principality of Monaco will lead to the construction of...
Volkswagen starts using Tarragona port as hub in Spain
Tarragona, Spain, April 11, 2017 – German carmaker Volkswagen has recently started using Tarragona port as one of its three hubs in Spain, after...
President of Southern Adriatic Sea Port System named
Bari, Italy (Ports Europe) April 11, 2017 – The Italian government has appointed Ugo Patroni Griffi as president of Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mare...