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MedCruise to join of European Ports Forum
Brussels, Belgium (Ports Europe) July 29, 2017 – In June 2017, the European Transport Commissioner Violeta Bulc announced the creation of a European...
Agreement signed for cleaning of Manfredonia port
Manfredonia, Italy (Ports Europe) July 28, 2017 – Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mare Adriatico Meridionale (the Port Authority of the Southern...
Trieste Marine Terminal reports improved traffic for H1 2017
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) July 28, 2017 – Data from the first half of 2017 confirm a trend of considerable growth of Trieste Marine Terminal S.p.A....
Paris government nationalise STX France
Nantes St.Nazaire, France, (Ports Europe) July 28, 2017 – The French government will nationalize the STX France shipyard to keep the ship yards under...
Marseille port issues terminal tender
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) July 28, 2017 – The Grand Maritime Port of Marseille has issued a tender for the provision of infrastructure and...
Bulgaria’s Odessos Shiprepair Yard reports lower H1 net profit
Sofia, Bulgaria (Ports Europe) July 21, 2017 – Bulgaria’s Odessos Shiprepair Yard S.A. has reported an after-tax profit decreased to BGN 1.73...
China investment in Mediterranean ports
Milan, Italy (Ports Europe) July 28, 2017 – The Italian financial daily newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore has published an article looking at Chinese state...
Spain to invest €559 million in 53 ports transport accesses
Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) July 28, 2017 – El Fondo Financiero de Accesibilidad Terrestre Portuaria (Financial Fund for Port Accessibility), in the...
Port of Santander exceeds 2.5 million tonnes during the first half of 2017
Santander, Spain (Ports Europe) July 28, 2017 – During the first half of the year the traffic at the port of Santander reached 2,523,244 tonnes, up 8.65%...
Port of La Gomera grows in passengers and goods in the first half of the year
La Gomera, Canary Islands, Spain (Ports Europe) July 28, 2017 – The port of San Sebastián de La Gomera grew in the first half of 2017 in both...
IndaMed – new container service from Malta Freeport
Freeport, Malta (Ports Europe) July 28, 2017 – A new weekly service IndaMed will call at Freeport, linking it with major ports in India, Pakistan,...
Fransabank organises port of Beirut export to China
Beirut, Lebanon (Ports Europe) July 28, 2017 – In July 2016, Fransabank organized a “One Belt & One Road to Beijing” in the Chinese capital where...
ODN TAY IV platform leaves for Almería after undergoing improvements in Tenerife
Tenerife, Spain (Ports Europe) July 27, 2017 – The platform ODN TAY IV has left the port of Santa Cruz de Tenerife after undergoing repairs, and is now...
Port of Algeciras reports reduced traffic in first half of 2017
Algeciras, Spain (Ports Europe) July 27, 2017 – Algeciras Port has registered a decline in activity in the first half of this year 2017. Total traffic...
Port of Gandia closes first half of the year with a 37% increase in exports
Gandia, Spain (Ports Europe) July 27, 2017 – The port of Gandia has channeled a total of 180,853 tonnes in the first half of 2017, a decrease of 7.13%...
EU project tests new technologies in Madrid to improve traffic and travel information
Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) July 27, 2017 – Spanish technology group Indra is working on the European R&D&i project Harmony to develop new...
CPMR supports EU motorways of the sea policy
Brussels, Belgium (Ports Europe) July 26, 2017 – The Conference of Peripheral Maritime Regions (CPMR) is an association of 150 maritime regions, and as...
Espadas calls on Seville port companies to get involved in social and cultural life
Seville, Spain (Ports Europe) July 27, 2017 – The mayor of Seville, Juan Espadas, has appealed to port companies to become more involved in the social...
EU Commission requires Belgium and France to put an end to tax exemptions for ports
Brussels, Belgium EU Commission requires Belgium and France to put an end to tax exemptions for ports The European Commission has required Belgium and France...
DP reports improved H1 2017 TEU traffic
Dubai, UAE (Ports Europe) 25 July 25, 2017 – DP World Limited handled 34.0 million TEU (twenty-foot equivalent units) across its global portfolio of...