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Vigo port cargo traffic declines by 4.02% Y/Y in 2016

Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) January 30, 2017 – The total traffic of Vigo port in 2016 amounted to 4.12 million tonnes, a decrease of 4.02% on the year....

Valencia port president expects reduced container traffic

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) January 30, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) president Aurelio Martinez considers that,...

Alicante port authority tenders environmental improvement works

Alicante, Spain (Ports Europe) January 30, 2017 – Alicante port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Alicante) has tendered the works for the project of...

Companies complete first LNG bunkering operation of Abel Matutes ship at Barcelona port

Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) January 30, 2017 – Spanish companies Gas Natural Fenosa and Balearia have successfully concluded the first bunkering of...

French environmental organisation calls for rapid introduction of LNG as marine fuel

Marseille, France (Ports Europe) January 30, 2017 – Presenting new elements of its survey on air pollution from maritime transport, France Nature...

Marseille port introduces system for power delivery to ferry ships

Marseille, France (Ports Europe) January 30, 2017 – An electrical connection system for ferries, which allows ships to be powered when they are docked...

Koper port throughput 2016

Koper, Slovenia (Ports Europe) January 21, 2017 – Maritime throughput and revenues in January – December 2016 period On the basis of the Rules of...

Limassol port to close on Friday ahead of takeover

Limassol, Cyprus (Ports Europe) January 28, 2017 – Immediately prior to private companies taking over operations at Limassol port, the port remains...

An increase of 6% recorded the vehicle throughput at the Piraeus Car Terminal

Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) January 28, 2017 – According to the final data, in 2016 the vehicle throughput amounted to 361,912, in comparison with...

Announcement from Emanuele Grimaldi & Antonis Maniadakis – Minoan Lines

Heraklion, Greece (Ports Europe) January 28, 2017 – Articles which recently appeared on the Greek press have raised the issue of a possible reduction of...

EU supports Finnlines service Between Bilbao And Antwerp

Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) January 28, 2017 – The Innovation and Networks Executive Agency (INEA), which manages infrastructures and research projects...

Port of Bilbao sees slight reduction in 2016 cargo traffic

Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) January 30, 2017 – In 2016, the Port of Bilbao handled 31.9 million tonnes of traffic, 1.39% down on the previous year,...

Sinking Panagia Tinou vessel to be removed from Piraeus port

Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) January 28, 2017 – The project of stabilization and the removal of the Ro-Ro/Passenger ship Panagia Tinou has started and...

Motril-Tangier Med line services 76,000 passengers

Motril, Spain (Ports Europe) January 27, 2017 – More than 76,000 tonnes of goods and 3,852 trucks were handled at the maritime line linking the port of...

Tenerife port cargo traffic rises by 7.8% Y/Y in 2016

Tenerife, Spain (Ports Europe) January 27, 2017 – Tenerife port handled 13.6 million tonnes of cargo in 2016, 7.8% more than in the previous year. The...

Valencia port simulates fire accident to test emergency plan

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) January 27, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) has carried out a simulation of fire...

Supreme Court dismisses accusations against former Valencia port president

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) January 27, 2017 – Spanish Supreme Court has upheld the sentence of Valencia Provincial Court, which not to prosecute for...

Barcelona port operates first call of HDASCO ship as part of Mediterranean service

Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) January 27, 2017 – Iranian shipping company Hafez Darya Arya (HDAS Co), belonging to the Islamic Republic of Iran...

Bilbao port cargo traffic declines by 1.39% Y/Y in 2016

Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) January 27, 2017 – Bilbao port handled 31.9 million tonnes of goods in 2016, a decline of 1.39% on the year, the port...

Trieste port cargo traffic rises 4% Y/Y in 2016

Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) January 27, 2017 – Trieste is a port that is growing by some 4% annually. This is what emerges from the annual statistical...

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