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EU invests in major growth-enabling infrastructure in Greece
Brussels, Belgium (Ports Europe) March 24, 2017 – Over €1.3 billion ($1.4 billion) of Cohesion Policy funds will be invested in ten broadband,...
Increased rail traffic at Bilbao port
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) march 23, 2017 – Last year, 1,615 tanker trucks loaded approximately 40,000 tons of LNG at the Bahía Bizkaia Gas facilities...
Consignaciones Toro y Betolaza receives BRC certificate
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) March 23, 2017 – Consignaciones Toro Y Betolaza S.A. has obtained the BRC Storage and Distribution Issue 2 certificate in...
Navacel loads floating wind towers
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) March 23, 2017 – Navacel has started shipping five towers that will be part of the structures of the wind turbines of...
Bilbao maritime cruise station set to open
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) March 23, 2017 – On 29 March, concurrently with the call of P&O’s Brittania, the new Bilbao maritime cruise station...
Bilbao port handles largest container ship ever
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) March 23, 2017 – The “Cezanne” vessel of Danish shipping group Maersk became the largest container ship ever to...
Dockworkers, employers’ association fail to strike deal on stowage agreement
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) March 22, 2017 – The meeting between the stevedoring unions and the employers’ association ANESCO on the collective...
Galicia government awards Ferrol-A Coruna railway contract
Ferrol, Spain (Ports Europe) March 23, 2017 – Galicia regional government has awarded the contract for an analysis of potential alternatives for the...
MTL Feeder to launch regular sea service connecting Castellon, Barcelona to Alexandria
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) March 23, 2017 – Container feeder operator MTL Feeder (Maritime Tunisian Line) plans to launch a new regular sea service,...
Aviles port cargo traffic rises 6.36% in Jan-Feb 2017
Aviles, Spain (Ports Europe) March 23, 2017 – Aviles port handled a total of 677,311 tonnes of cargo in the first two months of 2017, 40,498 more than in the...
Canary Islands government, Tenerife port discuss construction link
Tenerife, Spain (Ports Europe) March 23, 2017 – The regional government of the Canary Islands and Tenerife port authority (Autoridad Portuaria Santa Cruz de...
Bilbao’s Paceco signs Guadeloupe contract
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) March 23, 2017 – Paceco España brings its know-how in tailor-made solutions for terminals in the Caribbean with the recent...
Cosco to start Bilbao-Mexico service
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) March 23, 2017 – Cosco Shipping Lines, whose agent is Vasco Shipping Services, will start operating a new weekly service...
Port of Sibenik – Maritime Passenger Terminal
Sibenik, Croatia (Ports Europe) March 23, 2017 – The Port of Sibenik Authority (PSA) has used a loan from the European Bank for Reconstruction and...
Spanish dockworkers ask government to adopt retirement plan
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) March 22, 2017 – Representatives of Spanish dockworkers have asked the government to adopt a preliminary retirement plan...
Spanish ports total cargo traffic rises 6.3% in January
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) March 22, 2017 – Spanish ports increased by 6.32% the cargo traffic handled in January, a month before the labour conflict...
Boluda incorporates vessel into tugboat fleet
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) March 22, 2017 – Boluda Towage and Salvage, a division of Spanish group Boluda Corporacion Maritima, has added a new...
Cartagena port okays plan for development of logistics activities zone
Cartagena, Spain (Ports Europe) March 22, 2017 – Cartagena port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Cartagena) gave the green light to a plan for the...
Bayonne port participates in 16th edition of Interpyrenic Cereal Exchange fair
Bayonne, France (Ports Europe) March 22, 2017 – Bayonne port participated last week as an exhibitor in the 16th edition of Interpyrenic Cereal Exchange fair,...
TMT increases container and intermodal traffic during February
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) March 22, 2017 – The volumes in TEU moved by Trieste Marine Terminal S.p.A. (TMT) in February 2017 show an increase of...