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Turkey, Bulgaria and Romania start anti-mine operation in Black Sea
Istanbul, Turkey (Ports Europe) July 2, 2024 – With a six-month delay, NATO members Turkey (Türkiye), Bulgaria and Romania on July 1 sent their demining...
Cannabis resin seized in Port of Rades, Tunisia
Radès, Tunisia (Ports Europe) July 2, 2024 – The Interior Ministry announced on Sunday that the authorities seized 1,050 bundles of cannabis resin and...
Trafigura made its first ship-to-ship transfer of ammonia
Singapore (Ports Europe) July 2, 2024 – Singapore-headquartered Trafigura Group, a market leader in the global commodities industry, completed its first...
Hanseatic Global Terminals: A new brand
Hamburg, Germany (Ports Europe) July 2, 2024 – Effective yesterday, German shipper Hapag-Lloyd has renamed its terminal and infrastructure division...
Ocibar, Sesmar to manage Valenciaport marina
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) July 2, 2024 – The Port Authority Valencia (APV) has awarded a contract to manage the port’s marina to a consortium...
Ukraine ports handled nearly 52.7 mt of cargo in H1 2024
Kiev, Ukraine (Ports Europe) July 2, 2024 – In January-June 2024, Ukrainian ports handled nearly 52.7 million tons of cargo, compared to 31.3 million...
Port of Bilbao launches connected vehicles project
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) July 2, 2024 – The Port of Bilbao and C-ITS provider Kapsch TrafficCom have introduced the Connected Vehicles-project at the...
Konecranes new heavy-duty electric forklift
Hyvinkää, Finland (Ports Europe) July 2, 2024 – Finland’s Konecranes Oyj new heavy-duty version of its flagship E-VER electric forklift with lifting...
French HAROPA Port with low carbon hydrogen facility
Rouen, France (Ports Europe) July 2, 2024 – France’s HAROPA Port will soon have a facility to produce 350 megawatts (MW) per year of low-carbon hydrogen...
Chinese ports container volume rises 10 % in first five months
Chinese ports container volume rises 10 % in first five months 2024, Ningbo Containerized Freight Index increase significantly in June 2024 – July 2,...
Naval mine destroyed near Turkey’s Zonguldak port
Zonguldak, Turkey (Ports Europe) July 1, 2024 – A Ukrainian-made sea mine has been detected 60 meters off the Turkish coast in the beach area of the...
Valenciaport awards works for northern terminal to Acciona-Bertolín
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) July 1, 2024 – The Port Authority of Valencia (APV) has awarded the contract for the execution of the works of the new...
Update: Marsa Maroc to manage Nador’s East Container Terminal
Nador, Morocco (Ports Europe) July 1, 2024 – State-owned Marsa Maroc signed in June a contract to manage the East Container Terminal at Morocco’s...
Second caisson of the new Genoa breakwater in place
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) July 1, 2024 – The second caisson of the new Genoa breakwater, built by the Pergenova Breakwater Consortium, led by Webuild,...
Luka Ploče sees -17% decline in 2024 Q1 cargo traffic
Ploče, Croatia (Ports Europe) July 1, 2024 – In the first three months of 2024, Luka Ploče, operator of Ploče port, handled 973,213 tons of cargo....
Six Italian ports interested in wind energy hub development
Rome, Italy (Ports Europe) July 1, 2024 – Last February, the Ministry of the Environment and Energy Security (MASE) invited ports to submit expressions...
Port of Taranto welcomes two cruise ships at the same time
Taranto, Italy (Ports Europe) July 1, 2024 – In a first for the port, it has welcomed two cruise ships simultaneously at the Molo San Cataldo. They were...
Intellia training system for ports’ heavy equipment operators
Wellington, Canada (Ports Europe) July 1, 2024 – CM Labs Simulations Intellia, an Intelligent Training System for the construction, ports, and utilities...
Port of Barcelona plans third vehicle terminal
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) July 1, 2024 – The Port of Barcelona approves plans for a tender for a public vehicle terminal at the Príncep...
Port of Castellon approves creation of new wind industry hub
Castellón, Spain (Ports Europe) July 1, 2024 – The Port Authority of Castellón has approved the start of the planning project for the Costa dock area...