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Castellón port expects €157 million public investment in 2017-2021
Castellón, Spain (Ports Europe) September 13, 2017 – Castellón port expects to receive a public investment of €157 million ($187.6 million) in the...
Valencia port’s trade with Cuba grows
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) September 13, 2017 – Valencia port boosted its cargo traffic with Cuba in 2016. It amounted to 235,000 tonnes last year,...
Cádiz port cargo traffic stays flat y/y in Jan-July 2017
Cádiz, Spain (Ports Europe) September 13, 2017 – Cádiz port handled 2.22 million tonnes of cargo in the first seven months of 2017, practically equal to...
Spain’s OHL starts container transhipment operations at Tenerife port
Tenerife, Spain (Ports Europe) September 13, 2017 – Spanish company Obrascon Huarte Lain S.A. (OHL) has started container transhipment operations at...
Bilbao port okays Progeco concession amendment
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) September 13, 2017 – Bilbao port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Bilbao) has given the green light to the modification of the...
Croatian government cuts stake in Luka Rijeka to 25%
Rijeka, Croatia (Ports Europe) September 13, 2017 – Croatia’s government saw its stake in the capital of Luka Rijeka d.d., the operator of Rijeka port,...
Italy’s Costa Cruises starts construction of its first LNG-fired ship
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) September 13, 2017 – Italian company Costa Cruises, a subsidiary of Carnival Corporation, has said it started the construction of...
Leixões port keeps breaking container traffic records
Leixões, Portugal (Ports Europe) September 13, 2017 – Leixões port keeps breaking records in the container traffic segment and managed to exceed 3,000...
Constanta port to host Silk Road forum
Constanta, Romania (Ports Europe) September 13, 2017 – The Silk Road Summit has been organized event by Compania Naţională Administraţia Porturilor...
Copelouzos group interested in Alexandroupolis port
Thessaloniki, Greece (Ports Europe) September 12, 2017 – The Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund (HRADF/TAIPED) has been attending the Thessaloniki...
LNG Croatia seeks partners for gas project
Rijeka, Croatia (Ports Europe) September 12, 2017 – LNG Croatia LLC, the company responsible for the development of LNG import terminal Project on the...
Event – SmartCity Marseille Méditerranée Forum, September 14-17, 2017, Marseille
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) September 13, 2017 – The third edition of the SmartCity Marseille Méditerranée Forum will take place in Marseille...
Santander port to host annual meeting of Spanish shortsea shipping association
Santander, Spain (Ports Europe) September 12, 2017 – Santander port will host the upcoming annual meeting of the Spanish association for the promotion...
A Coruña port cargo traffic rises in Jan-July 2017, beats monthly record
A Coruña, Spain (Ports Europe) September 12, 2017 – A Coruña port handled 8.4 million tonnes of cargo in the first seven months of 2017, up 7.67% on the...
Tenerife port expects 38,300 cruise passengers in September
Tenerife, Spain (Ports Europe) September 12, 2017 – Tenerife port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Tenerife) expects the number of cruise passengers handled...
Castellón port to become third most profitable in Spain in 2017
Castellón, Spain (Ports Europe) September 12, 2017 – Castellón port is expected to become the third most profitable in Spain in 2017 after completing its...
Vigo port to present “Blue Growth” strategy to EU institutions
Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) September 12, 2017 – Vigo port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Vigo) plans to present its “Blue Growth” strategy for...
Trieste port president calls on Europe to participate actively in China’s OBOR project
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) September 12, 2017 – Europe needs to have an active role in China’s One Belt One Road (OBOR) initiative, the president of...
China’s CHEC starts second dredging project at Port Yuzhniy
Port Yuzhniy, Ukraine (Ports Europe) September 12, 2017 – China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) has started its second project at Ukraine’s Port...
Sardinian ports contribute €500 million in value added to Italy’s economy
Cagliari, Italy (Ports Europe) September 12, 2017 – Sardinian ports generate a combined gross value added of €500 million ($597.9 million) for the Italian...