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Seville port attracts €56 million private investment in 2017
Seville, Spain (Ports Europe) February 1, 2018 – Seville port authority (APS – Autoridad Portuaria de Sevilla) president, Manuel Gracia, has explained...
Barcelona port awards dock dredging contract to Spain’s Comsa
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) February 1, 2018 – Barcelona port has awarded to Spanish company COMSA Corporación a project to increase of the draft of...
Boluda Lines expands services connecting Spain to Northern Europe
Las Palmas, Spain (Ports Europe) February 1, 2018 – Boluda Lines has expanded its logistics services for transporting goods from ports in Spain and Portugal...
Genoa port approves ro-ro, container handling activities at Terminal Rinfuse
Genoa, Spain (Ports Europe) February 1, 2018 – The Authority of the Western Ligurian Sea Port System (Autorità di Sistema Portuale del Mar Ligure...
Italy’s CULMV to present development plan to Genoa port management by Mar 31
Genoa, Spain (Ports Europe) February 1, 2018 – Compagnia Unica Lavoratori Merci Varie (CULMV) will have until March 31, two further months, to present the...
Erdogan visit to Rome raises issue of Turkish interests in Italian ports
Rome, Italy (Ports Europe) February 1, 2018 – A visit by the Turkish president to Rome next week raises a number of issues considering the involvement of...
Trieste port plans presented at Propeller Club meeting
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) February 1, 2018 – President of Propeller Club Port of Trieste, Fabrizio Zerbini, speaking at a meeting attended by various...
Cagliari sees challenging cruise traffic figures
Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy (Ports Europe) February 1, 2018 – In 2017, Cagliari hosted 163 cruise ships in port, transited 430,000 passengers who arrived...
Patras port sees improved traffic in 2017
Patras, Greece (Ports Europe) February 1, 2018 – Chairman and managing director of Patras port (OLPA), Nikos Kontoes, has commented on the port’s...
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens students visit Piraeus Port Authority
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) February 1, 2018 – Postgraduate students of the Applied Economics and Finance – Public Auditing Department of the...
Eurogate container handling volumes remain stable
Bremerhaven, Germany (Ports Europe) January 31, 2018 – Despite a turbulent year in corporate ownership in the container circuit, Eurogate maintained...
Prettl to open facility in Automotive City Tangier
Tangier, Morocco (Ports Europe) January 31, 2018 – The German group Prettl, a manufacturer of auto parts, has announced the construction of a new...
EBRD to work with Mersin Chamber of Commerce
Mersin, Turkey (Ports Europe) January 31, 2018 – The EBRD and the Mersin Chamber of Commerce are to work together to support and encourage...
Event: Fruit Logistica – Berlin, Germany, February 7-9, 2018
Berlin, Germany (Ports Europe) January 31, 2018 – Over 3,000 exhibitors and 76,000 visitors attend Fruit Logistica every year to realise their full...
Alicante port to build solid bulk warehouse as high as eight-storey building
Alicante, Spain (Ports Europe) January 31, 2018 – The warehouse that will be built by Alicante port on the dock 17 to meet the requirements of the...
Puertos del Estado’s president advises Pasaia port to diversify traffic
Pasaia, Spain (Ports Europe) January 31, 2018 – Spanish national ports agency Puertos del Estado’s president José Llorca, has expressed confidence in...
Lisbon port breaks cruise traffic record in 2017
Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) January 31, 2018 – The number of cruise ships that called in Lisbon port increased by 7.1% last year to 123, which is a new...
Las Palmas port’s container traffic exceeds 1 million TEUs in 2017
Las Palmas, Spain (Ports Europe) January 31, 2018 – Las Palmas port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Las Palmas) concluded 2017 with improved traffic...
MSC upgrades services linking Mediterranean region to USA
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) January 31, 2018 – The Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) has announced the reduction of transit times for export services...
Spain to extend Mediterranean Corridor rail-highway to Murcia
Cartagena, Spain (Ports Europe) January 31, 2018 – Spanish Public Works Minister Íñigo de la Serna spoke in Madrid at the Leaders Forum of the Efe news...