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Japan’s MOL to carry out three extraordinary calls at Barcelona port
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) April 11, 2017 – Japanese shipping company Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL), whose general agent in Spain is Transcoma Shipping, has...
Cadiz port tenders maintenance dredging contract
Cadiz, Spain (Ports Europe) April 11, 2017 – Cadiz port authority (Autoridad Portuaria BahÃa de Cádiz) has tendered the execution of dredging maintenance...
Tarragona port to attract €62.8 million investment in capacity refurbishment
Tarragona, Spain, April 11, 2017 – Tarragona port expects to attract investments of €62.8 million ($66.5 million) this year to grow and refurbish its...
Vilagarcia port cargo traffic rises 8.7% Y/Y in Q1 2017
Vilagarcia, Spain (Ports Europe) April 11, 2017 – In the first quarter of 2017, Vilagarcia port recorded an increase of 8.7% in cargo traffic compared to the...
EU fishermen want post-Brexit access to UK waters
London, United Kingdom (Ports Europe) April 11, 2017 – Fishermen associations from several European countries met recently in Brussels to form an alliance...
Lisbon port to handle 17 turnaround cruise calls in April
Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) April 11, 2017 – Lisbon port expects to handle 44 cruise calls in April, with 17 of them being turnaround, where cruises...
Leixoes port container traffic’s rise is constant
Leixoes, Portugal (Ports Europe) April 11, 2017 – The days when Leixoes Container Terminal reaches 3,000 TEUs or is very close, are becoming more frequent....
USPA completes maintenance dredging at Olvia port
Olvia, Ukraine (Ports Europe) April 11, 2017 – Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority (USPA) has completed the first stage of the maintenance dredging project at...
Studies on possibilities of using LNG at the port of Koper
Koper, Slovenia, April 6, 2017 – The Directive 2014/94/EU on deployment of alternative fuels infrastructure was adopted with the aim of minimising...
Ukrainian ports cargo traffic rises in Q1 2017
Odessa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) April 10, 2017 – The cargo traffic in the seaports of Ukraine in January-March 2017 amounted to 32.71 million tonnes, which is...
Luka Koper unsure about Hungarian financial support for railway project
Koper, Slovenia (Ports Europe) April 10, 2017 – Hungary’s financial participation in the project for the construction of a second rail track serving...
Alicante port approves concession to JSV Logistic
Alicante, Spain (Ports Europe) April 10, 2017 – Alicante port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Alicante) has held an ordinary session of its board of...
Suardiaz extends Motorway of the Sea line from Vigo port
Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) April 10, 2017 – Vigo port received on Friday the first call of the  “Galicia” vessel, which will link the terminals...
Tarragona port to diversify traffic from South America
Tarragona, Spain (Ports Europe) January 24, 2017 – Tarragona port has participated for the eighth consecutive year in Intermodal South America event. Its...
Las Palmas port promotes project as hub for cargo re-exports from South America
Las Palmas, Spain (Ports Europe) April 10, 2017 – Juan Francisco Martin, commercial director of Las Palmas port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Las...
Chinese ambassador visits Valencia port
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) April 10, 2017 – Valencia port has received a visit of the Chinese ambassador to Spain, Lyu Fan. The meeting, which was also...
Thessaloniki Port Authority – renewal of collective labour agreements
Thessaloniki, Greece (PortSEurope) April 10, 2017 –Â Thessaloniki Port Authority SA (ThPASA) has said that it has signed on the collective agreement with...
Spain’s Boluda Lines joins Fedeport association
Las Palmas, Spain (Ports Europe) April 10, 2017 – Spanish shipping company Boluda Lines has joined La Federación Canaria de Empresas Portuarias (Fedeport...
Port of Adria books €1.8 million loss in 2016
Bar, Montenegro (Ports Europe) April 10, 2017 – Montenegrin company Port of Adria JSC Bar, the operator of Bar port’s cargo terminal, said it booked a...
Suez Canal Zone considers East Port Said car platform
Port Said, Egypt (Ports Europe) April 10, 2017 – The Suez Canal Economic Zone (SCZone) is discussing a partnership between Japan’s Toyota-NYK and...