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French Minister of Transport visited Port of Marseille
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) August 9, 2017 – The port of Marseille aims to play a major role in the world maritime competition, said Élisabeth...
Valencia port to redesign Sagunto dock
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) August 9, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) and Sagunto port have agreed today to begin the...
Puertos Canarios, Fred Olsen, Naviera Armas to reduce congestion at ports
Tenerife, Spain (Ports Europe) August 9, 2017 – Canary Islands-based agency Puertos Canarios, shipping companies Fred Olsen and Naviera Armas S.A. are to put...
Tenerife port to handle 278 cruise ships in 2017
Tenerife, Spain (Ports Europe) August 9, 2017 – Tenerife port plans to carry out this year a handling of 278 cruise ship calls and 574,326 cruisers, 14,400...
Bilbao port faces shortage of dockworkers
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) August 9, 2017 – Bilbao port is experiencing a situation that some operators call “catastrophic”. The lack...
Port of Adria receives first shipment of equipment for Lasta substation
Bar, Montenegro (Ports Europe) August 9, 2017 – Port of Adria, the operator of the cargo terminal at Montenegro’s Bar port, said it has received the...
Vigo port calls tender for expansion of car silo at Bouzas terminal
Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) August 9, 2017 – Vigo port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Vigo) has called a tender for the expansion of the silo of vertical...
Spain’s Tepsa to expand storage capacity at Barcelona port
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) August 9, 2017 – Tepsa, a company specialising in the storage of liquid products, has submitted to Barcelona port authority...
Tarragona port cargo traffic rises 53.5% y/y in June
Tarragona, Spain (Ports Europe) August 9, 2017 – Cargo traffic at Tarragona port rose by 53.53% on the year in June. The terminals of Tarragona reached 2.61...
Maersk increases fees for services in Mediterranean, Black Seas
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) August 9, 2017 – Maersk has announced the increase in the rates it charges for services linking the Indian subcontinent and...
Terminales Marítimos de Galicia aims to boost granite traffic at A Coruña port
A Coruña, Spain (Ports Europe) August 9, 2017 – Spanish company Terminales Marítimos de Galicia has carried out this week a granite loading operation in A...
Dredging in Midia port channel completed
Midia, Romania (Ports Europe) August 9, 2017 – The National Company of Maritime Ports Administration (CNAPM) Constanta SA has completed the dredging of...
Cartagena port handles drilling vessel for first time
Cartagena, Spain (Ports Europe) August 9, 2017 – Cartagena port handled the drilling vessel “Atwood Advantage”, consigned by...
US Ambassador visits Piraeus Port Authority
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) August 9, 2017 – An informational meeting of the US Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt and other Embassy’s officials with the...
Chinese ambassador visits Setúbal port
Setúbal, Portugal (Ports Europe) August 8, 2017 – The Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China, Cai Run, visited Setúbal port on August 4, and...
Montenegro’s Bar port cargo traffic rises 70% y/y in Jan-Jul 2017
Bar, Montenegro (Ports Europe) August 8, 2017 – Montenegro’s Bar port cargo traffic rose by 70% on the year in the first seven months of 2017. The...
Durrës port ferry lines handle 7% more cargo y/y in Jan-Jul 2017
Durrës, Albania (Ports Europe) August 8, 2017 – The Durrës-Bari and Durrës-Ancona-Trieste ferry lines handled 7% more cargo and 4% more...
Durrës port cargo traffic rises 1.8 million tonnes in H1 2017
Durrës, Albania (Ports Europe) August 8, 2017 – Durrës port handled 1.8 million tonnes of cargo in the first half of 2017, or 123,000 tonnes more than...
Ford extends concession area at Valencia port
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) August 8, 2017 – US carmaker Ford Motor Company will have 100,000 more square metres in the North Pier of Valencia port after...
Vigo port completes remodelling of administrative offices
Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) August 8, 2017 – With the objective of improving the user experience and facilitating its accessibility, the port authority...