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Drug trafficking moves from Algeciras port to Marbella
Marbella, Spain (Ports Europe) July 31, 2024 – Drug trafficking gangs are increasingly moving their operations to Spain’s Marbella because of a...
Drones help Tarragona port, Spain
Tarragona, Spain (Ports Europe) July 31, 2024 – The port of Tarragona has been using drones since September 2021, with the assistance of state-owned SENASA....
Anaklia: ADC lost, China and Russia won, Georgia misses golden opportunity
Anaklia, Georgia (Ports Europe) July 30, 2024 – The long-running legal saga about Georgia’s first Black Sea deep-water port project in Anaklia between...
COSCO SHIPPING relaunches Piraeus Rijeka Express service
Rijeka, Croatia (Ports Europe) July 30, 2024 – COSCO SHIPPING has relaunched the Piraeus Rijeka Express service (PRS) calling at Piraeus, Rijeka, Durres...
Konecranes to build a full range of port cranes in U.S.
Hyvinkää, Finland (Ports Europe) July 30, 2024 – Finland’s Konecranes Oyj is establishing a network of partners, including steel structure providers...
Edison completes first ship-to-ship LNG bunker operation in Trieste
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) July 30, 2024 – Energy company Edison has completed the first liquefied natural gas (LNG) refuelling operation between a...
800 kg cocaine for port of Antwerp seized in Columbian port of Buenaventura
Buenaventura, Colombia (Ports Europe) July 30, 2024 – 796 kilograms of cocaine destined for the Belgium port of Antwerp was discovered in Columbia’s...
CDP Venture Capital to support port digitalisation
Rome, Italy (Ports Europe) July 30, 2024 – Through the Boost Innovation Fund, CDP Venture Capital, in agreement with the Ministry of the Economy and Made...
Port of Gioia Tauro inaugurates towage dock
Gioia Tauro, Italy (Ports Europe) July 30, 2024 – The Port of Gioia Tauro has inaugurated the western dock, which is dedicated exclusively to tugboat...
Trieste Marine Terminal sees improved Q2 2024 TEU traffic
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) July 30, 2024 – Trieste Marine Terminal srl (TMT) handled 68,404 containers (TEU) in June 2024. This compares with 60,133...
Grandi Navi Veloci opens office in Nador, Morocco
Nador, Morocco (Ports Europe) July 30, 2024 – The Italian ferry company Grandi Navi Veloci (GNV) has opened a new bureau in Nador, its second in Morocco...
Port of Oslo flooded with drugs
Oslo, Norway (Ports Europe) July 30, 2024 – The mayor of Norway’s capital and main port Oslo, Anne Lindboe, said drugs worth up to 677 million euro...
No spare parts for foreign engines for Russia’s river fleet
Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) July 30, 2024 – Over the past two years, spare parts and services for foreign-made ship engines have become unavailable,...
Bulgaria scolds North Macedonia about EU railway Corridor 8
Sofia, Bulgaria (Ports Europe) July 29, 2024 – The Bulgarian government is increasingly worried by statements by the Northern Macedonia government, which...
Malta Freeport handles temporary power station
Birżebbuġa, Malta (Ports Europe) July 29, 2024 – Malta Freeport receives a temporary power station to support the island’s energy supply. Various...
African Development Bank lends €120 mln to Nador West Med
Nador, Morocco (Ports Europe) July 29, 2024 – The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group has approved 120 million euros to...
China could build Russia’s Arctic tanker fleet
Moscow, Rusia (Ports Europe) July 29, 2024 – The only way for Western sanctions-hit Russia to transport oil, oil products and natural gas via its Arctic...
Ports of Genoa agrees last mile rail works
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) July 29, 2024 – The Management Committee of the Ports of Genoa has approved the cooperation between the port authority (AdSP)...
Port of Taranto sees cargo plummet in H1 2024
Taranto, Italy (Ports Europe) July 29, 2024 – The Port of Taranto’s dramatic fall in Q1 24 cargo traffic has continued into the second quarter of...
Iran wants to construct a Kazakh terminal in the Persian Gulf
Astana, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) July 29, 2024 – Iranian shipping company Golden Line is interested in constructing a Kazakhstan cargo terminal in...