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240 kg of cocaine seized in Portugal’s Sines port
Sines, Portugal (Ports Europe) September 2, 2024 – 240 kg of cocaine was seized in the container terminal of Portugal’s North Atlantic port of Sines,...
Verdi organises demonstration against proposed MSC-HHLA deal
Hamburg, Germany (Ports Europe) September 2, 2024 – Last Saturday, the German trade union Verdi organised a demonstration in Hamburg against the planned...
Cleanup under way in Greek port of Volos blanketed by rotting fish
Volos, Greece (Ports Europe) September 2, 2024—In recent days, Hundreds of thousands of rotting dead fish flooded the waters of the eastern Greek port of...
New Venice cruise terminal in Fusina inauguratedÂ
Venice, Italy (Ports Europe) September 2, 2024 – The new Venice cruise terminal in Fusina was inaugurated August 29. It is the result of a 5 million euro...
Iranian port sector seeks investment
Tehran, Iran (Ports Europe) September 2, 2024 – The Ports & Maritime Organisation (PMO) has said it plans to develop the local maritime economy. Iran...
Morocco ports see cargo up nearly 25% in Q2 2024
Casablanca, Morocco (Ports Europe) September 2, 2024 – Ports managed by state-owned Agence Nationale des Ports (ANP) handled nearly 26 million tonnes of...
Chinese ports container volume rises 8.3 % from Jan to Jul 2024
Chinese ports container volume rises 8.3 % from January to July of 2024, Ningbo Containerized Freight Index decrease slightly in August 2024 – September...
Moscow wants a deep-water port in Naiba on the Arctic route
Naiba, Russia (Ports Europe) September 2, 2024 – The construction of a deep-water port in Naiba on the Arctic Laptev Sea will allow the docking of all...
Escola Europea, Portwise to work energy transition plans in ports
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) September 2, 2024 – Escola Europea and Portwise have signed an agreement to develop a simulator as part of the GREEN...
Putin alarmed by shrinking Caspian Sea, but no way to prevent it
Astrakhan, Russia (Ports Europe) September 2, 2024 – After decades of ignoring the shallowing of the Caspian Sea, Russia has suddenly started looking for...
New €3.3 bln deep-water port in Arkhangelsk? NSR in focus
Arkhangelsk, Russia (Ports Europe) September 2, 2024 – Russia’s Eurosib, a diversified holding with a focus on transport and logistics, is an investor...
Albania’s Durres port exports highly toxic waste
Durrës, Albania (Ports Europe) September 1, 2024 – The illegal export of hundreds of tonnes of highly toxic waste via Albania’s Adriatic Sea port of...
Multimodal container route India-Uzbekistan launched
Tashkent, Uzbekistan (Ports Europe) September 1, 2024 – A multimodal container route was launched in August from the Indian ports of Mundra, Nava Sheva...
Libya’s ports stop oil export over political standoff
Hariga, Libya (Ports Europe) August 31, 2024 – Libya’s Mediterranean Sea oil export port of Hariga stopped operating on August 31 due to lack of crude...
Portugal police announced seizure of 6.5 tonnes of cocaine
Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) August 31, 2024 – Portugal’s Judiciary Police said on August 30 that more than 6.5 tonnes of cocaine from Latin...
Dredging of Port of Aveiro underway
Aveiro, Portugal (Ports Europe) August 30, 2024 – Another dredging campaign is underway at the Port of Aveiro, which aims to restore service quotas that...
Australia increases trade with Valenciaport
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) August 30, 2024 – The trade figures of the Port Authority of Valencia for June points out three areas of growth in the...
Total traffic at the Port of Barcelona up 11% in July
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) August 30, 2024 – The Port of Barcelona’s total traffic grew by 11% in July, reaching a record 42 million tonnes....
Brazil’s Vale chooses Tarragona to develop its iron ore logistics
Tarragona, Spain (Ports Europe) August 30, 2024 – Brazil’s Vale mining company chooses Tarragona and Euroports to develop its iron ore supply...
Rosatom on Russia’s Arctic Northern Sea Route
Arkhangelsk, Russia (Ports Europe) August 30, 2024 – Under the headline Arctic Motion, Russia’s giant state-owned corporation Rosatom has published...