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Naples port to open San Vincenzo dock to public in summer 2017
Naples, Italy (Ports Europe) January 12, 2017 – San Vincenzo dock in Naples will be open to the public as of the summer of 2017, as the port authority of the...
Valencia port authority awards €143,538 contract for urbanisation of land plot
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) January 12, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) has awarded a €143,538 ($152,996) contract to...
Montenegro start talks on privatisation of Luka Bar after Jan 23
Bar, Montenegro (Ports Europe) January 11, 2017 – Montenegrin government expects to start the talks with Polish company OT Logistics S.A. for the...
Norton Edificios builds fertilisers storage complex at Aviles port
Aviles, Spain (Ports Europe) January 11, 2017 – Spanish company Norton Edificios Industriales S.A., with offices in Bilbao, Madrid, Colombia and Peru,...
Petronor to reduce activity of Bilbao port refinery for six weeks
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) January 11, 2017 – The Petronor (Petróleos del Norte S.A.) refinery, whose activity generates more than 40% of the total...
Huelva port expects container traffic of at least 50,000 TEUs in 2017
Huelva, Spain (Ports Europe) January 11, 2017 – Huelva port closed 2016 with a total cargo traffic of 30.7 million tonnes, an increase of 12% over the...
Vigo port foresees €14 million investment in 2017
Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) January 11, 2017 – Vigo port foresees investments of more than €14 million ($14.7 million) during this year, the port authority...
Thailand’s ambassador visits Tenerife port
Tenerife, Spain (Ports Europe) January 11, 2017 – Tenerife port authority (Autoridad Portuaria Santa Cruz de Tenerife) president Ricardo Melchior met...
MSC appoints former Genoa port president as institutional relations manager
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) January 11, 2017 – Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) has appointed Luigi Merlo as institutional relations director. Merlo, a...
The Greens praise dialogue with Naples port president
Naples, Italy (Ports Europe) January 11, 2017 – Italian political movement The Greens has praised the dialogue started with the president of Naples port...
Trieste port agrees on Sea Park construction project
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) January 11, 2017 – Maximum effort will be employed to speed up the creation of Sea Park in Trieste. This was announced by the...
Balearic Islands ports to receive €42.3 million investment in 2017
Palma de Mallorca, Spain (Ports Europe) January 11, 2017 – The five state-owned ports on the Balearic Islands, Palma de Mallorca, Alcudia, Ibiza, Mahon and...
Abruzzo regional government discusses Pescara port development
Pescara, Italy (Ports Europe) January 11, 2017 – Recovery through a shared strategy at Pescara port was the main topic of the meeting at the headquarters of...
Rostov-on-Don port cargo traffic rises 13.3% Y/Y in 2016
Rostov-on-Don, Russia (Ports Europe) January 11, 2016 – Rostov-on-Don port handled 19.385 million tonnes of cargo in 2016, up 13.3% on the year,...
Azov port cargo traffic edges up 0.8% Y/Y in 2016
Azov, Russia (Ports Europe) January 11, 2016 – Azov port handled 9.755 million tonnes of cargo in 2016, up 0.8% on the year, harbourmaster Vladimir Bragin...
Former Odessa region governor says local ports are controlled by ex-prime minister
Odessa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) January 9, 2017 – The former governor of Ukraine’s Odessa region, Mikheil Saakashvili, has announced that people related to...
Port Yuzhniy cargo traffic declines by 19% Y/Y in 2016
Mykolaiv, Ukraine (Ports Europe) January 9, 2017 – Port Yuzhniy handled 39.292 million tonnes of cargo in 2016, down 19.12% on the year, Ukrainian national...
Navantia to export wind farm equipment through Aviles, Ferrol ports
Aviles, Spain (Ports Europe) January 10, 2017 – Spanish companies Navantia and Windar have concluded negotiations with Iberdrola and its UK subsidiary...
Huelva port awarded contract to operate Majarabique railway terminal
Huelva, Spain (Ports Europe) January 10, 2017 – Huelva port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Huelva) has been awarded a contract for the operation of the...
Castellon port southern road access offsets 1,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions in one year
Castellon, Spain (Ports Europe) January 10, 2017 – The new access to the south dock Castellon port has been in operation in one year now, improving road...