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Seville port Free Zone starts operating
Seville, Spain (Ports Europe) October 3, 2017 – The Free Zone of Seville port went into operation on October 2 with the launch of the command post of the...
Barcelona port closed on October 3
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) October 3, 2017 – Barcelona port remained practically closed on October 3, with no trucks moving and the doors of its...
Vigo port traffic rises in August
Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) October 3, 2017 – Vigo port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Vigo) is moderately optimistic about the growth of port traffic,...
Andalusia government names president of Huelva port authority
Huelva, Spain (Ports Europe) October 3, 2017 – The government of the Spanish region of Andalusia has appointed José Luis Ramos RodrÃguez as president of...
Valencia port starts handling PSA cars shipped by train
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) October 3, 2017 – Today, Valencia port has received the first train loaded with cars from the Figueruelas factory of PSA...
Bilbao port awards €2.74 million ro-ro ramp construction contract to Astilleros Zamakona
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) October 3, 2017 – Bilbao port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Bilbao) has awarded a €2.74 million ($3.22 million) contract...
Commission clears acquisition of Mersin International Port by IFM and PSA
Brussels, Belgium (Ports Europe) October 3, 2017 –Â The European Commission has approved, under the EU Merger Regulation, the acquisition of Mersin...
Graziano Delrio supports Taranto-Matera Special Economic Zone
Taranto, Italy (Ports Europe) September 28, 2017 – “The ZES (Special Economic Zone) Taranto-Matera seems to me a great idea”, said Minister...
Spain’s Ardentia Marine starts removal of sunken ship at Algeciras port
Algeciras, Spain (Ports Europe) October 2, 2017 – Spanish company Ardentia Marine S.R.L. has started the removal of the vessel ‘Panagia Parou’,...
Salerno gets award from Grimaldi Lines
Salerno, Italy (Ports Europe) October 2, 2017 – Salerno is the best Italian port. At least for Grimaldi Lines, the Italian giant of passenger and freight...
WEC Lines starts operating regular calls at Huelva portÂ
Huelva, Spain (Ports Europe) October 1, 2017 – WEC Lines has started operating a regular call at Huelva port together with the ports of Leixoes, Vigo,...
Cádiz port awards road construction contract to Acciona
Cádiz, Spain (Ports Europe) October 1, 2017 – Cádiz port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de BahÃa de Cádiz) has awarded the company Acciona Construcción...
Dockworkers block Catalan ports on October 3
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) October 2, 2017 – Catalan stevedores have agreed this afternoon to join the general strike called on October 3 in Catalonia....
Castellón port forecasts further rise in liquid bulk traffic
Castellón, Spain (Ports Europe) October 2, 2017 – Castellón port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Castellón) has called a tender for the construction...
Friuli Venezia Giulia approves €1.8 million financing for intermodality projects
Venice, Italy (Ports Europe) October 2, 2017 – The government of the Italian region of Friuli Venezia Giulia has given the green light to a €1.8 million...
Málaga port forecasts 12.5% rise in cruise traffic this year
Málaga, Spain (Ports Europe) October 2, 2017 – Málaga port estimates to close 2017 with a 12.5% increase in the number of cruise passengers, which would...
Spanish Chamber of Commerce sets up ports commission
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) October 2, 2017 – Spanish Chamber of Commerce (La Cámara de Comercio de España) has set up a Ports Commission with the aim...
Genoa port president calls on government to change structure of port authorities
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) October 2, 2017 – The president of the port authority of Genoa and Savona, Paolo Emilio Signorini, has called on the government...
Ibercóndor presents activities of Barcelona port to customers
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) October 1, 2017 – Spanish customs and logistics services company Ibercóndor, S.A. convened a meeting with a group of clients...
Tarragona port eyes improvement of relations with Brazil
Tarragona, Spain (Ports Europe) October 1, 2017 – The president of the Brazil-Catalonia Chamber of Commerce (CCBC), Javier Mirallas, and its director,...