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Madeira port to consolidate number of calls in 2017

Funchal, Portugal (Ports Europe) January 6, 2017 – Madeira port authority (Administração dos Portos da Região Autónoma da Madeira) plans to consolidate...

Figueira da Foz cargo traffic rises 3.5% Y/Y in 2016

Figueira da Foz, Portugal (Ports Europe) January 6, 2017 – Figueira da Foz port handled 2.07 million tonnes of cargo in 2016, up 3.5% on the year. The...

Lisbon port close to half million cruise passengers in Jan-Nov 2016

Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) January 6, 2017 – At the end of November, Lisbon port was close to half a million cruise passengers, 498,792, which was the...

Portugal to support Figueira da Foz port upgrade

Figueira da Foz, Portugal (Ports Europe) January 6, 2017 – Portuguese Minister of the Sea, Ana Paula Vittorino, has included the projects for the upgrade of...

TecnoAranda to build wind towers production plant in Bilbao

Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) January 6, 2017 – Spanish company TecnoAranda plans to set up a plant for the production of wind towers at Bilbao port which...

Vigo port praises changes in stevedoring activity rules

Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) January 6, 2017 – Vigo port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Vigo) has praised the changes adopted by dockworkers, which, in its...

Transneft oil traffic through Novorossiysk port rises in 2016

Novorossiysk, Russia (Ports Europe) January 9, 2017 – Russian oil transport group Transneft handled 30.6 million tonnes of oil through Novorossiysk port in...

Varna port sees rising wheat exports

Varna, Bulgaria (Ports Europe) January 9, 2017 – Varna port handled 1.286 million tonnes of wheat in the period between the start of the 2016/17 season, on...

Huelva port opens container line to Canary Islands

Huelva, Spain (Ports Europe) January 6, 2017 – Huelva port has officially opened a container line with the Canary Islands, operated by local company...

NCSP consolidated cargo traffic rises by 5.3% Y/Y in Jan-Nov 2016

Novorossiysk, Russia (Ports Europe) January 5, 2016 – The consolidated cargo traffic of Novorossiysk Commercial Sea Port (NCSP) Group, the operator of...

Ukrainian ports cargo traffic declines by 8.8% Y/Y in 2016

Odessa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) January 5, 2017 – Ukrainian commercial seaports saw their cargo traffic decline by 8.8% on the year to 132 million tonnes in...

Bordeaux is most important French port for ship dismantling, EU says

Bordeaux, France (Ports Europe) January 5, 2017 – Bordeaux port is the most important in France for the ship dismantling industry, a study by the European...

Morocco to launch construction of multipurpose terminal at Agadir port in 2017

Agadir, Morocco (Ports Europe) January 4, 2017 – Moroccan national ports agency Agence nationale des ports (ANP) plans to launch new infrastructure...

Bordeaux container terminal project is still at standstill

Bordeaux, France (Ports Europe) January 4, 2017 – Presented three years ago, the relaunch of operation of the Verdon container terminal at Bordeaux port is...

Valencia tenders for container terminal project study

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) January 4, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) has tendered for €605,000 ($634,385) the...

Egyptian government starts up Port Said projects

Port Said, (Ports Europe) January 2, 2017 – The Minister of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT) Yasser ElKady and the Governor of Port Said Adel...

Motril port to attend 20 trade fairs in 2017

Motril, Spain (Ports Europe) January 4, 2017 – Motril port, through the Motrilport-Granada association, will be present at about twenty trade fairs and...

Valencia port authority to make €56 million investments in 2017

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) January 4, 2017 – The Business Plan approved at the latest board meeting of Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de...

Kherson port cargo traffic declines by 10.5% Y/Y in Jan-Nov 2016

Kherson, Ukraine (Ports Europe) January 5, 2017 – Kherson port handled 3.37 million tonnes of cargo in the first eleven months of 2016, down by 10.5% on the...

Bilbao port expects rise in 2017 cargo traffic

Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) January 3, 2017 – In the absence of the final port traffic data for the month of December, the final balance for the 2016...

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