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Former port president joins Venice Foundation
Venice, Italy (Ports Europe) February 27, 2017 – Paolo Costa, former mayor and ex-Minister of Infrastructure and former president of Venice port, has...
Valencia port to upgrade Noatum container terminal railway access
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) February 27, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) is preparing a plan for the adaptation of...
Regulators signed cooperation deals for Mediterranean, Atlantic transport corridors
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) February 27, 2017 – Spanish anti-trust authority Comisión Nacional de Mercado y Competencia (CNMC) signed a cooperation...
Bilbao port association visits Mexico to improve commercial ties
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) February 27, 2017 – Bilbao port association Uniport plans to carry out a trade mission to Mexico in the period between...
Ferrol port cancels first cruise call for 2017
Ferrol, Spain (Ports Europe) February 27, 2017 – Ferrol port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Ferrol-San Cibrao) has cancelled the first cruise call for...
Aviles port cargo traffic rises 12% in Jan 2017
Aviles, Spain (Ports Europe) February 27, 2017 – Aviles port handled 393,094 tonnes of cargo in January, up 11.9% on the year. The main reason behind the...
Vigo port cargo traffic rises 4% in Jan 2017
Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) February 27, 2017 – Vigo port cargo traffic rose by 3.91% on the year in January to 290,739 tonnes, Vigo port authority...
Montenegro to complete talks for sale of Luka Bar in March
Bar, Montenegro (Ports Europe) February 28, 2017 – Montenegrin government expects to complete the talks for the sale of 30% state-owned stake in port...
Adif, FdC agree start of Barcelona harbour railway access upgrade
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) February 27, 2017 – Spanish state-owned railway infrastructure operator Adif and Ferrocarrils de Catalunya (FdC), the...
ZIM unveils restructured network
Haifa, Israel (Ports Europe) February 27, 2017 – ZIM has announced details of its new ZIM MED PACIFIC (ZMP) service, commencing April 2017. ...
Andalusia government warns against negative consequences from stowage reform
Algeciras, Spain (Ports Europe) February 23, 2017 – The vice president of Andalusia regional government, Manuel Jimenez Barrios, has warned against the...
Dubrovnik wins “The Best Mediterranean Cruise Port” Excellence award
Dubrovnik, Croatia (Ports Europe) February 27, 2017 – At the tenth edition of the Mediterranean Cruise Excellence Awards 2017 hosted in the MedCruise...
EU Commission proposes multi-annual plan for small pelagic stocks in the Adriatic
Brussels, Belgium (Ports Europe) February 24, 2017 – Today the Commission adopted a proposal for a multi-annual plan for the management of small pelagic...
Event – Motorways of the Sea: The Maritime Dimension of Ten-T Network – Trieste – March 28, 2017
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) February 24, 2017 – The MediTelegraph, within its proposal of Events and Forum focused on shipping and intermodal...
Bilbao port awards railway terminal concession
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) February 23, 2017 – Bilbao port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Bilbao) has awarded a 15-year concession for the operation...
Full year result at Marseille Fos reflects wide-ranging strategy
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) February 27, 2017 – Total 2016 cargo of 81 million tonnes at Marseille Fos was on a par with 2015 throughput in a year...
Luka Koper books record-high profit in 2016
Koper, Slovenia (Ports Europe) February 23, 2017 – Luka Koper, the operator of Slovenia’s Koper port, posted a record-high net profit of €44.4...
Med ports unite on southern gateway alternative
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) February 25, 2017 – Ports from around the Mediterranean coast have agreed to form a specific organisation to promote the...
Spanish Public Works Minister urges trade unions, employers to negotiate
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) February 23, 2017 – Spanish Minister of Public Works, Inigo de la Serna, has called on employers and stevedores unions to...
Algeciras port cargo traffic rises by 3.7% Y/Y in Jan 2017
Algeciras, Spain (Ports Europe) February 23, 2017 – Algeciras port handled 8.8 million tonnes of cargo in January, up 3.7% on the year. Container traffic...