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Spanish trade union cancels first five days of strikes at ports
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) May 23, 2017 – Spanish stevedores trade union Coordinadora Estatal de Trabajadores del Mar (CETM) and employers union...
Spanish minister praises preliminary labour deal on port reform
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) May 23, 2017 – Spanish Public Works Minister Íñigo de la Serna has expressed his satisfaction that trade unions have...
Trieste port takes advantage of Italy’s economy digitalisation strategy
Trieste, Italy (PortSEurope) May 23, 2017 – Italian regional government of Friuli Venezia Giulia said it became the first regional authority to participate...
Lisbon port cargo traffic rises 21% y/y in Jan-April 2017
Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) May 23, 2017 – Lisbon port cargo traffic rose by 21% on the year in the first four months of 2017 to some 4 million tonnes....
Spain’s Europac completes sale of Viana do Castelo port unit
Viana do Castelo, Portugal (PortSEurope) May 23, 2017 – Spanish company Papeles y Cartones de Europe S.A. (Europac) has completed the sale of Europac...
Ukrainian water transport sector’s passenger traffic declines in Jan-April 2017
Odessa, Ukraine (PortSEurope) May 23, 2017 – The total number of passengers handled in Ukraine’s water transport sector fell by 3.3% on the year in...
Bulgaria to invest €15 million in Burgas port
Burgas, Bulgaria (PortSEurope) May 23, 2017 – Bulgarian transport minister Ivaylo Moskovski said the government plans to invest BGN 30 million ($17.2...
China considers Albanian transport investment
Durrës, Albania (PortSEurope) May 23, 2017 – Albanian Minister of Transport and Infrastructure Sokol Dervishaj attended the recent Belt and Road forum...
Svitzer orders tugs for Tanger Med operation
Tanger Med, Morocco (PortSEurope) May 23, 2017 – Svitzer, a provider of sea and safety support, has ordered four more Azimuth Stern Drive (ASD) tugs...
Sagunto port to start operating Border Inspection Post in 2018
Sagunto, Spain (PortSEurope) May 22, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) has completed a project for the design of the building...
Castellón port calls tender for high-voltage power supply
Castellón, Spain (PortSEurope) May 22, 2017 – Castellón Port Authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Castellón) has called a tender for the delivery of...
Picasso project members meet in Malta
Valletta, Malta (PortSEurope) May 22, 2017 – The partners of the Picasso project (“Preventing Incidents and Accidents by Safer Ships in the...
Cartagena port incorporates tool for cruise information
Cartagena, Spain (PortSEurope) May 22, 2017 – Cartagena Port Authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Cartagena) has incorporated to its Electronic Headquarters a...
Seville port awards concession contract to Carbon Puerto
Seville, Spain (PortSEurope) May 22, 2017 – Seville port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Sevilla) has awarded a contract for the operation of a land plot...
Saudi Arabia’s Bahri completes one year of regular operations in Spain
Bilbao, Spain (PortSEurope) May 22, 2017 – Saudi Arabian shipping company Bahri, earlier known as National Shipping Company of Saudi Arabia (NSCSA), which...
Spanish public works minister says stevedores, employers have all tools to strike deal
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) May 22, 2017 – Spanish public works minister Íñigo de la Serna said that trade unions of stevedores and employers union...
Barcelona port president warns against consequences of potential strike
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) May 22, 2017 – Barcelona port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Barcelona) president Sixte Cambra has warned that a strike at...
Huelva port calls tender for quality control services
Huelva, Spain (PortSEurope) May 22, 2017 – Huelva port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Huelva) has called a tender for the delivery of civil engineering...
Baku port head says more harbours to join Trans-Caspian International Transport Route
Baku, Azerbaijan (PortSEurope) May 22, 2017 – The number of ports that will join the Trans-Caspian International Transport Route (TMTM) will be increased,...
Chinese investors show interest in Ligurian ports
Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) May 22, 2017 – Italian transport minister Graziano Delrio said Chinese investors have expressed serious interest in the ports of...