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Polluting cruise ship highlighted by Marseilles residents
Marseille Fos, France (Ports Europe) August 16, 2017 – Residents of Marseille port regularly complain about pollution generated by cruise ships in the...
Livorno port announces dredging tender
Livorno, Italy (Ports Europe) August 16, 2017 – Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Tirreno Settentrionale (North Tyrrhenian Sea Port Authority),...
Marseille Fos port signs agreement with Alexandria port, Egypt
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) August 16, 2017 – Following the first meetings of the MedPorts Forum, the port of Marseille Fos has signed a Memorandum...
Attica agrees purchase of majority stake in Hellenic Seaways Maritime
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) August 16, 2017 – Attica Holdings S.A., part of Marfin Investment Group (MIG), has announced an agreement in principle,...
Valencia port completes construction of road to new cruise terminal
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) August 16, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) has approved the completion of the works of the...
Tenerife port confirms tender for dredging at Arinaga basin
Tenerife, Spain (Ports Europe) August 16, 2017 – Tenerife port authority (Autoridad Portuaria Santa Cruz de Tenerife) confirmed the call of a tender for...
Galicia extends maximum port concession term to 50 years
Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) August 16, 2017 – The validity of the concessions of ports in Galicia region is expected to rise to 50 from 30 years under the law...
Barcelona port boosts short sea shipping lines traffic
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) August 16, 2017 – Barcelona port is offering more short sea shipping (SSS) lines with its main markets in Italy and North...
Cádiz port studies expansion into Andalusian passenger market
Cádiz, Spain (Ports Europe) August 16, 2017 – Cádiz has become in the last years a tourist port par excellence. Especially, in the dock closest to...
Attica Group signs agreement to acquire 50.3% of Hellenic Seaways Maritime
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) August 16, 2017 – Greek company Attica Holdings S.A. has signed an agreement in principle with Piraeus Bank to...
Greece completes pier construction at Kos port
Kos, Greece (Ports Europe) August 16, 2017 – Greece’s government has completed a project for the construction of a pier at the port of Kos. The pier...
No asbestos pollution at Patras port following warehouse collapse
Patras, Greece (Ports Europe) August 16, 2017 – There was no air pollution from asbestos fibres after the collapse of the warehouse in the northern port of...
Mariupol port cargo traffic falls in Jan-July 2017
Mariupol, Ukraine (Ports Europe) August 16, 2017 – Mariupol port’s cargo traffic declined by 2.6% on the year to 3.944 million tonnes in the first...
Odessa port cargo traffic rises 1.3% y/y in Jan-July 2017
Odessa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) August 16, 2017 – Odessa port handled 13.78 million tonnes of cargo in the first seven months of 2017, up 1.3% on the year,...
Georgian ports cargo traffic declines 1.2% y/y in H1 2017
Poti, Georgia (Ports Europe) August 15, 2017 – Georgian ports handled 8.3 million tonnes of cargo in the first half of 2017, down 1.2% on the year, the...
Odessa port resumes road reconstruction works
Odessa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) August 15, 2017 – In early August, work on the reconstruction of the second stage of Odessa port overpass road was resumed....
Berdyansk port cargo traffic falls 34.1% y/y in Jan-July 2017
Berdyansk, Ukraine (Ports Europe) August 15, 2017 – Berdyansk port handled 1.357 million tonnes of cargo in the first seven months of 2017, down 34.1% on the...
Constanta port forbids access of passengers, cars via Gate 1 until May 2018
Constanta, Romania (Ports Europe) August 15, 2017 – The access of passengers and passenger cars to Constanta port through Gate 1 will be banned from August...
Ukrainian minister says 13 ports to be managed under concession
Odessa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) August 15, 2017 – Ukrainian ports need to be privatised because private owners can provide better conditions for development,...
Chernomorsk port cargo traffic rises 3.5% y/y in Jan-July 2017
Chernomorsk, Ukraine (Ports Europe) August 15, 2017 – Chernomorsk port handled 9.338 million tonnes of cargo in the first seven months of 2017, up 3.5% on...