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Castellón port maintains cargo traffic growth trend
Castellón, Spain (Ports Europe) August 21, 2017 – Castellón port continues the positive cargo traffic trend of the last years and even accelerates it. For...
La Gomera port’s cargo traffic to grow in 2017
Tenerife, Spain (Ports Europe) August 21, 2017 – San Sebastián de La Gomera port expects to close 2017 with a growth in cargo traffic, an improvement that...
Valencia speeds process for extending Noatum’s concession
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) August 21, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) has accelerated the procedures to approve the...
Livorno to sell 80% stake in port logistics operator
Livorno, Italy (Ports Europe) August 21, 2017 – Italy’s Livorno local government, has started a project for the sale of a 80% stake in SPIL S.p.a....
Portugal to invest €2.5 million in constructing dock on Tavira island
Tavira, Portugal (Ports Europe) August 21, 2017 – Portugal’s government has presented a €2.5 million ($2.9 million) project for the construction of a...
Greece’s Thessaloniki port can face problems with customs service
Thessaloniki, Greece (Ports Europe) August 21, 2017 – Thessaloniki port can face problems with the delivery of customs service, as the Greek association of...
Port Yuzhniy cargo traffic rises 6.4% y/y in Jan-July 2017
Port Yuzhniy, Ukraine (Ports Europe) August 21, 2017 – Port Yuzhniy handled 25.292 million tonnes of cargo in the first seven months of 2017, up 6.4% on the...
New Pitesti-Sibiu highway to Constanta port faces delays
Constanta, Romania (Ports Europe) August 20, 2017 – The contract for the feasibility study of the Pitesti-Sibiu highway, linking Romania’s capital...
Marseille port tenders for asbestos clearance work
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) August 19, 2017 – Grand port maritime de Marseille has issued a tender for the removal, encapsulation and treatment...
Austrian railway set to bypass Koper port
Koper, Slovenia (Ports Europe) August 20, 2017 – Whilst the Slovenian port of Koper has a most favourable position for a transit seaport for central...
Prefect of Police visits Marseille port to see security measures
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) August 19, 2017 – The préfet de police des Bouches-du-Rhône Olivier de Mazières has visited Grand Maritime Port of...
Luka Koper receives lawsuit from Slovenian Railways
Koper, Slovenia (Ports Europe) August 19, 2017 – Luka Koper, d.d., the operator of Koper port, has received a lawsuit from SŽ – Tovorni promet d.o.o....
Croatia starts preliminary work on LNG facility
Krk, Croatia (Ports Europe) August 18, 217 – Croatia has started preliminary underwater works in the northern Adriatic, the first concrete step in...
Durrës sees increased trade in July 2017
Durrës, Albania (Ports Europe) August 18, 2017 – Over 327,000 tons of goods for export and import have been processed at Durrës port during July...
BPA welcome Government customs aspirations but want reassurances on borders post Brexit
London, United Kingdom, 15 August 2017 Commenting on the publication of the Government’s Brexit negotiating position paper on customs, the British Ports...
Lebanon’s Tripoli port looks to benefit from any Syria rebuild
Tripoli, Lebanon (Ports Europe) August 18, 2017 – The port of Tripoli on the Lebanese Mediterranean coast is taking active steps to develop its potential...
Haifa port adds railway connection
Haifa, Israel (Ports Europe) August 18, 2017 – Haifa Port Authority and Israel Railways have cooperated to construct a railway connection to the the...
Gijón port to book second best annual cruise traffic in 2017
Gijón, Spain (Ports Europe) August 18, 2017 – Gijón port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Gijón) expects to conclude 2017 with the second best record...
Adif tenders railroad ties supply contract for Valencia-Sagunto line
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) August 18, 2017 – Spanish state-owned railway operator Adif has tendered a supply and transportation contract to provide the...
COSCO starts operating MAF1 line
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) August 18, 2017 – COSCO Shipping Lines launched on August 17 its new service MAF1 between the main ports of the Mediterranean...