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Port of Messina opens cruise ship season
Messina, Sicily, Italy (Ports Europe) April 10, 2024 – The Port of Messina has officially opened its cruise ship season, with considerable business...
DFDS to buy international transport network of Ekol Logistics
Copenhagen, Denmark (Ports Europe) April 10, 2024 – Danish shipping and logistics company DFDS has agreed to buy the international transport network of...
Barcelona seeks more sustainable, newer & smaller cruise ships
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) April 10, 2024 – The Port of Barcelona seeks more sustainable, newer & smaller cruise ships. This is how it sees the...
Piraeus Perama Ship Repair Zone receives two cranes
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) April 10, 2024 – The Piraeus Port Authority (PPA) received two state-of-the-art double-level luffing jib shipbuilding...
FT: European ports turning into car parks
London, United Kingdom (Ports Europe) April 10, 2024 – Imported vehicles are piling up at European ports, turning them into “car parks” as automakers...
ABS joins BlueBarge cold ironing project
Houston, United States (Ports Europe) April 10, 2024 – Classification society American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) joined the BlueBARGE Project, a programme...
Cocaine seized in the port of Beirut
Beirut, Lebanon (Ports Europe) April 10, 2024 – 25.6 kg of the “basic ingredient of cocaine” concealed in the metal structure of a container with...
France 2030: 13 winning projects for the maritime industrial sector
News Release – Secrétariat d’État chargé de la Mer et de la Biodiversité – March 29, 2024 Christophe Béchu, Minister of Ecological...
Valaris chooses the Port of Las Palmas as a strategic hub
Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain (Ports Europe) April 9, 2024 – The Port Authority of Las Palmas has renewed its agreement with the oil drilling company...
Digital services on all Konecranes port cranes and lift trucks
Hyvinkää, Finland (Ports Europe) April 9, 2024 – Every single type of crane and lift truck in Finland’s Konecranes Oyj portfolio is now available...
Tender issued for dredging of Cariño port, Galicia
A Coruña, Spain (Ports Europe) April 9, 2024 – A tender will be issued for the dredging of the port of Cariño, Galicia, at a value of 677,000 euros....
NUTEP container terminal in Novorossiysk to increase capacity
Novorossiysk, Russia (Ports Europe) April 9, 2024 – NUTEP Container Terminal in Russia’s Black Sea port of Novorossiysk announced a 7.1 billion rubles...
Stena Line enters Mediterranean market
Gothenburg, Sweden (Ports Europe) April 9, 2024 – With the purchase of a 49% stake in Africa Morocco Link (AML), Stena Line enters the Mediterranean...
New container terminal in Port of Trieste inches forwards
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) April 9, 2024 – On April 3, 2024, the Conference of States and Regions ratified the draft decree of the Ministry of...
Kalmar supplies cranes to Med Europe Terminal, Marseille
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) April 9, 2024 – Kalmar has signed an agreement with Med Europe Terminal for the delivery of six Kalmar hybrid straddle...
MSC enhances its Batumi – Gioia Tauro service
Batumi, Georgia (Ports Europe) April 9, 2024 – Batumi International Container Terminal (BICT), part of International Container Terminal Services (ICTSI)...
HAROPA prepares for a record cruise season
Paris, (Ports Europe) April 9, 2024 – HAROPA PORT and its partners – GIP Le Havre Croisières, Honfleur Tourist Office and Rouen Tourist Office...
River access channel to Port 2000 gets green light
Rouen, France (Ports Europe) April 9, 2024 – On March 29, the Administrative Court of Rouen rejected an application to suspend work on the river access...
Railway JV between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan looks to China
Astana, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) April 9, 2024 – Kazakhstan and doubly landlocked Uzbekistan will create a railway joint venture that will create cargo...
Port of Naples receives new dry dock
Naples, Italy (Ports Europe) April 8, 2024 – A new large floating dry dock capable of accommodating vessels up to 230 metres in length and with a lifting...