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Event – Seatrade Cruise Global 2017 – March 13-16, 2017 – Fort Lauderdale
Fort Lauderdale, United States (Ports Europe) March 13, 2017 –Â Seatrade Cruise Global is the cruise industry’s premier global event. It is the...
Celestyal Cruises announces new season in the Aegean
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) March 14, 2017 – Celestyal Cruises, a specialist in destination-centric cruises, has announced its new season in the...
Brindisi port set to extend Snam concession
Brindisi, Italy (Ports Europe) March 14, 2017 – The port authority of Brindisi (L’Autorità Portuale di Brindisi) is preparing to extend the...
Sicilian ports handle 13.4% of total Italian harbour cargo traffic in 2016
Palermo, Italy (Ports Europe) March 14, 2017 – Sicilian ports handled 13.4% of the total Italian cargo traffic in 2016, the highest stake for the last four...
Gamesa Eolica applies for concession of land plot at Bilbao port
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) March 14, 2017 – Gamesa Eolica, the wind power subsidiary of Spanish renewable energy group Gamesa, has applied for the...
Malaga port expects passenger traffic increase in 2017
Malaga, Spain (Ports Europe) March 14, 2017 – Malaga port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Мálaga) expects the number of passengers handled in 2017 to...
Barcelona port presents commitment to LNG as alternative ship fuel
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) March 14, 2017 – Barcelona port has presented at the Seatrade Cruise Global fair, the main event of the cruise industry...
Uruguay shows interest in re-exports to Europe via Trieste port
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) March 14, 2017 – Uruguay, a country 40% of the population is of Italian origin and aims to expand on the European market, plans...
Navantia to start export of project cargo from Ferrol port
Ferrol, Spain (Ports Europe) March 14, 2017 – Spanish shipyards Navantia plans to carry out a project for the cleaning of the sea bottom at its dock in...
Castellon port cargo traffic rises 4.4% y/y in Feb 2017
Castellon, Spain (Ports Europe) March 3, 2017 – Castellon port handled record-high 1.293 million tonnes of cargo in February, up 4.4% year-on-year. The cargo...
MSC Cruises to carry out 34 calls at Valencia port in 2017
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) March 14, 2017 – Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) Cruises plans to carry out a total of 34 calls at Valencia port in...
Ferrol port names board members
Ferrol, Spain (Ports Europe) March 14, 2017 – Ferrol port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Ferrol-San Cibrao) has appointed Jose Manuel Balseiro...
France’s CMA CGM container traffic rises 20% in 2016
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) March 13, 2017 – French shipping group CMA CGM transported a total of 15.6 million TEUs in 2016, up 20%. The rise in...
Spanish transport association calls on government to join trade unions talks
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) March 13, 2017 – The management board of Spanish association of port transporting companies Fenatport (Federación...
Trasmediterranea to handle 420,000 cruise passengers at Valencia port in 2017
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) March 13, 2017 – Spanish cruise operator Trasmediterranea expects the number of passengers serviced at Valencia port this...
Balearic Islands port authority promotes local harbours at Seatrade Cruise Global fair
Ibiza, Spain (Ports Europe) March 13, 2017 – Balearic Islands port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Baleares) leads the Balearic delegation at the...
Spanish ports cargo traffic rises 6.3% y/y in Jan 2017
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) March 13, 2017 – Spanish ports handled a total of 42.31 million tonnes of cargo in January, up 6.3% on the year. The...
Northern Ligurian Sea port system to support Maersk container terminal in Vado Ligure
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) March 13, 2017 – The Port System of the Northern Ligurian Sea plans to support the construction of the container terminal...
Cruise traffic at Italian ports to decline in 2017
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) March 13, 2017 – The cruise industry keeps expanding globally, but a beneficiary will not be Italy, which will face a...
Trade unions, MCT representatives discuss downsizing plan at Gioia Tauro port
Gioia Tauro, Italy (Ports Europe) March 13, 2017 – Representatives of Italian trade union Sul has held a meeting with the management of Medcenter...