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Barcelona port destroys counterfeit products
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) August 31, 2017 – Barcelona port this week destroyed a total of 15,265 articles from unauthorised street vendors seized...
Santander City Council, port join forces to improve area of Maritime Station
Santander, Spain (Ports Europe) August 31, 2017 – Santander City Council and Santander port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Santander) have signed an...
Valencia, Gandía ports passenger traffic rises 21.5% y/y in Jan-July 2017
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) August 31, 2017 – Valencia and Gandía ports handled 533,115 passengers in the first seven months of 2017, up 21.47% on...
Calabria regional government to support port development
Gioia Tauro, Italy (Ports Europe) August 31, 2017 – Calabria regional government president Mario Oliverio has said the investment in the development of...
Greece to invest €81,000 in installing equipment for power supply to vessels at Lefkada port
Lefkada, Greece (Ports Europe) August 31, 2017 – Greece’s government has given the green light to the installation of equipment for the delivery of...
Piraeus Container Terminal profit declines 39.4% y/y in H1 2017
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) August 31, 2017 – Piraeus Container Terminal S.A., owned by Cosco, booked a profit of €10.845 million ($9.13 million) in the...
Trasmediterranea to start operating Barcelona-Menorca ferry line on Sep 19
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) August 31, 2017 – Spanish company Trasmediterranea plans to launch a line connecting Barcelona to Menorca island twice a...
Dredging ships of CHEC take working position Port Yuzhniy
Port Yuzhniy, Ukraine (Ports Europe) August 31, 2017 – The dredging fleet of Chinese company China Harbor Engineering Company (CHEC) took up working...
Chernomorsk port completes project for repair of berth No. 26
Chernomorsk, Ukraine (Ports Europe) August 31, 2017 – Chernomorsk port has completed a project for the repair of berth No. 26 of its ferry terminal. Over...
Luka Koper – non-audited business report for Jan–Jun 2017
Koper, Slovenia (Ports Europe) August 31, 2017 – Luka Koper d.d. has published the non-audited report on the performance of Luka Koper d.d. and Luka...
Alexandroupoli set to be first port privatisation
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) August 31, 2017 – the Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund (TAIPED) is to proceed with plans to privatise the...
Spanish court imposes fine for cartel activities at Alicante port
Alicante, Spain (Ports Europe) August 30, 2017 – Spanish National Court has found evidence of a cartel formed by container transport companies that...
Sagunto port cargo traffic declines in Jan-July 2017
Sagunto, Spain (Ports Europe) August 30, 2017 – During the first seven months of 2017, the port of Sagunto handled slightly less than 3.6 million tonnes...
Dockworkers strike has uneven impact on Barcelona, Valencia ports
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) August 30, 2017 – The latest cargo traffic statistics provided by the port authorities of Valencia and Barcelona –...
Maersk returns to Las Palmas port
Las Palmas, Spain (Ports Europe) August 30, 2017 – The freighter Maersk Gibraltar arrived on August 29 at the port of Las Palmas with more than 10,000...
Málaga port welcomes largest megayacht in the world
Málaga, Spain (Ports Europe) August 30, 2017 – The megayacht “Rising Sun” docked on August 29 at Pier 2 of the port of Málaga, the...
Valencia government approves construction of southern road access to Gandía port
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) August 30, 2017 – Valencia regional government has given the green light to the project for the construction of a southern...
Tenerife city council asks port to move oil rigs away from coast
Tenerife, Spain (Ports Europe) August 30, 2017 – The Santa Cruz de Tenerife city council has asked the port authority to study the possibility of moving...
EBHISA records €2.6 million profit in 2016
Gijón, Spain (Ports Europe) August 30, 2017 – EBHI S.A., the operator of the European Bulk Handling Installation terminal at Gijón port, recorded a...
A Coruña port to invest €352,000 in waterproofing works at building in A Palloza dock
A Coruña, Spain (Ports Europe) August 30, 2017 – A Coruña port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de A Coruña) plans to invest €352,000 ($419,114) in...