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Melilla port to invest €326,000 in warehouse construction
Melilla, Spain (PortSEurope) December 19, 2017 – Melilla port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Melilla) plans to invest about €326,000 ($385,000) in the...
Gandía port cargo traffic declines in Jan-Nov 2017
Gandía, Spain (PortSEurope) December 19, 2017 – Gandía port handled 324,790 tonnes of cargo in the first eleven months of 2017, down 1.44% on the year. The...
Italy’s Liguria to invest €350 million in Vado Ligure port terminal
Vado Ligure, Italy (PortSEurope) December 19, 2017 – Italy’s Liguria region has signed a programme agreement for investments worth €350 million...
Valencia port rejects application filed by Cemex
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) December 19, 2017 – Valencia port authority’s board of directors has rejected the application of Cemex España...
EU rules that Greece should recover state aid from Piraeus port
Piraeus, Greece (PortSEurope) December 19, 2017 – Greece’s appeal against the European Commission, the EU Court, for Piraeus Port Authority...
Measures for the removal of dangerous and harmful ships from the ports of Piraeus and Elefsina
Piraeus, Greece (PortSEurope) December 18, 2017 – The Minister of Shipping and Island Policy, Panayiotis Kourouplis, yesterday gave instructions to take...
Luka Ploče d.d. – Notice of the resignation of a supervisory board member
Ploče, Croatia (PortSEurope) December 18, 2017 – Krešimir Gjenero has resigned his post as a member of the Company’s Supervisory Board effective on...
In 2019, the port of Marseille will experiment with green gas
Marseille, France (PortSEurope) December 19, 2017 – A consortium of industrialists led by GRTgaz will experiment for three years with a process to...
Portuguese logistics development held up by infrastructure limitations
Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) December 18, 2017 – The lack of a global strategy in the logistics and freight sector, capable of connecting ports,...
Durrës port to benefit from EBRD Balkan transport loans
Durrës, Albania (PortSEurope) December 18, 2017 – €123 million ($145 million) in European Union grants and €190.5 million (€224.6 million) in...
Porto Cruise Terminal Welcomed 100 cruise calls in 2017
Porto, Portugal (PortSEurope) December 18, 2017 – Cruise activity at the Porto Cruise Terminal recorded a new high in 2017, receiving 100 cruise calls,...
Valencia port targets 5 million TEUs in 2018
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) December 18, 2017 – Valencia port authority aims to boost its container traffic to 5 million TEUs in 2018, keeping up the...
Avilés port to get approval for usage of drones
Avilés, Spain (PortSEurope) December 18, 2017 – The new regulatory framework for the use of unmanned aircraft piloted by remote control (drones) opens the...
Gijón, Avilés ports cargo traffic rises in Jan-Oct 2017
Gijón, Spain (PortSEurope) December 18, 2017 – The cargo traffic of Gijón port rose by 13.7% on the year in the first ten months of 2017, while...
Málaga port to handle 20 large cruise ships in 2018
Málaga, Spain (PortSEurope) December 18, 2017 – Málaga port expects to handle 20 calls of large cruise ships transporting more than 4,000 passengers next...
Cádiz port to break cruise traffic record in 2018
Cádiz, Spain (PortSEurope) December 18, 2017 – Cádiz port authority (Autoridad Portuaria Bahía de Cádiz) expects to break its record of cruises next...
Friuli Venezia Giulia to invest 1.13 million in port waterways maintenance
Trieste, Italy (PortSEurope) December 18, 2017 – Friuli Venezia Giulia regional government has awarded a €1.13 million ($1.33 million) contract for...
Spain, Ecuador to cooperate in transport infrastructure development
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) December 18, 2017 – Spanish Public Works Minister Íñigo de la Serna met with his Ecuadorian counterpart Paul Granda to...
Nantes-Saint.Nazaire calls for container train link to Lyon
Nantes-Saint.Nazaire, France (PortSEurope) December 18, 2017 – The French Atlantic seaport of Nantes-Saint-Nazaire is called for the electrification of...
Spanish ports see increased challenge from Tanger Med
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) December 18, 2017 – Politicians from Malaga, Valencia and Catalonia have raised the issue of Tanger Med becoming...