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Port of Valencia proceeding with second solar plant
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) March 8, 2024 – The Port Authority of Valencia (APV) is proceeding with the construction of its second solar photovoltaic...
Port of Barcelona has received the first OPS substation
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) March 8, 2024 – The Port of Barcelona has received the first OPS (cold ironing) substation of the future network of...
AdSP del Mare Adriatico Meridionale see cargo down -4.7% in 2023
Bari, Italy (Ports Europe) March 8, 2024 – The ports of Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mare Adriatico Meridionale (AdSPMAM – Southern Adriatic...
Baleària reports record numbers of passengers in 2023
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) March 8, 2024 – The Baleària shipping company carried 5.2 million passengers, 1.4 million vehicles and 7.4 million linear...
Gibraltar Port Authority bans Russian ships
Gibraltar (Ports Europe) March 8, 2024 – The Gibraltar Port Authority (GPA) has issued a port circular entitled ” Russain vessels banned from...
Europol: EU Drug Markets, Analysis – 2024
Brussels, Belgium (Ports Europe) March 7, 2024 – Europol has published its annual report entitled “EU Drug Markets, Analysis – 2024”....
Port of Tarragona handled 33.03 mt of cargo in 2023, up +9.9%
Tarragona, Spain (Ports Europe) March 7, 2024 – The Port of Tarragona handled 33.03 million tonnes (mt) in cargo in 2023, up +9.9% on 2022 (30.05 mt)....
Bilbao, Portsmouth sign a Memorandum of Understanding
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) March 7, 2024 – The Port Authority of Bilbao and Portsmouth International Port have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to...
Fincantieri signs MoU with Alexandria Shipyard, Egypt
Alexandria, Egypt (Ports Europe) March 7, 2024 – The Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri SpA has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Alexandria...
More drugs seized in St. Petersburg port
St. Petersburg, Russia (Ports Europe) March 7, 2024 – Some 11 kg of cocaine were seized in Russia’s Big Port of St. Petersburg on the Baltic Sea, the...
Dredging of Azov Sea’s port of Taganrog
Taganrog, Russia (Ports Europe) March 7, 2024 – RosMorRechFlot, the Russian state agency for river and sea transport, is looking for a contractor to dredge...
Fundación Valenciaport to promote ammonia as fuel for ships
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) March 7, 2024 – Fundación Valenciaport has started working on a study on the safety of ammonia as fuel, ‘Study...
Greece’s Port of Lavrio prepares for part-privatisation
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) March 7, 2024 – The Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund (HRADF) has announced the launch of the international tender...
Japan sends equipment to repair port of Odesa
Odesa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) March 6, 2024 – Amid almost daily Russian drone and missile attacks, Ukraine’s Black Sea port of Odesa has received a new...
“Single window” for documents in Georgian ports
Tbilisi, Georgia (Ports Europe) March 6, 2024 – Georgia’s Parliament is discussing the introduction of a “single window” mechanism in the country’s...
British Ports Association Calls for Announcement on the £160M Floating Offshore Wind Investment Scheme
Hundreds of millions of pounds worth of private investment to be unlocked by FLOWMIS announcement. Delays causing nervousness and holding back progress on...
Port of Koper was visited by Ukraine’s ambassador to Slovenia
Koper, Slovenia (Ports Europe) March 6, 2024 – On February 28, Andriy Vasylyovych Taran, Ukraine’s ambassador to Slovenia, visited the port of...
Port of Koper tests electric tractor
Koper, Slovenia (Ports Europe) March 6, 2024 – The Port of Koper is currently testing an Koper tests electric tractorelectric tractor manufactured by...
Barcelona awards Altius Media Sports America’s Cup contract
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) March 6, 2024—The Port of Barcelona has awarded Altius Media Sports a business contract for the 37th America’s Cup. The...
Suez Canal Authority plans to double capacity
Cairo, Egypt (Ports Europe)- March 6, 2024—The Suez Canal Authority (SCA) plans to double capacity and says the required studies will be ready within 18...