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Lisbon port containerised cargo traffic rises 53% y/y in Jan-May 2017
Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) June 27, 2017 – In the first five months of 2017, the containerised cargo traffic in Lisbon port rose by 53.4% on the year,...
Vigo’s Barreras wins Ritz-Carlton luxury yacht contract
Vigo, Spain (PortSEurope) June 27, 2017 – Astillero Hijos de J. Barreras (HJB) has announced that it will construct a luxury cruise yacht for The...
Expanded Panama Canal tops expectations in first year
Panama City, Panama (PortSEurope) June 27, 2017 – The Expanded Panama Canal (Canal de Panama) has set a number of records and surpassed expectations in...
Cosco plans new floating dock for Piraeus port
Piraeus, Greece (PortSEurope) June 27, 2017 – China’s Cosco Shipping Corporation Limited has announced that Piraeus Port Authority S.A.(PPA) is...
Tradebe Puerto de Bilbao joins Uniport association
Bilbao, Spain (PortSEurope) June 27, 2017 – Tradebe Puerto de Bilbao (Linersa) has joined Uniport, the association which supports the promotion and...
New management appointment at Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority
Odessa, Ukraine (PortSEurope) June 27, 2017 – The Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine has appointed Oleg Protchenko as the new Head of Nikolaev branch...
Barcelona residents concerned about ever increased tourism
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) June 27, 2017 – Residents of Barcelona are opposing local tourism development, with one of the issues being cruise ships....
Catalan exports rise 9.2% y/y in Jan-Apr 2017
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) June 26, 2017 – Catalan exports rose by 9.2% on the year in the first four months of 2017 to record-high €23.157 billion...
Valencia port to analyse sale of land plot in Parc Sagunt
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) June 26, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) is analyzing offers of two logistics operators, one...
Cartagena hosts TankBank 2017 Congress
Cartagena, Spain (PortSEurope) June 26, 2017 – Cartagena hosted the TankBank 2017 Congress last week, an event that brought together more than 100 delegates...
Algeciras, Tarifa ports are ready for OPE 2017
Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) June 26, 2017 – The ports of Algeciras and Tarifa activated on Friday the special regime for Operación Paso del Estrecho 2017...
Tenerife port to call tender for power supply to ships
Tenerife, Spain (PortSEurope) June 26, 2017 – Tenerife port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Santa Cruz de Tenerife) is to call a tender for the supply of...
Spain’s Renfe MercancÃas to lift traction capacity at Santander port
Santander, Spain (PortSEurope) June 26, 2017 – Santander port will see the traction capacity of state-run freight rail operator Renfe MercancÃas in its...
Spanish Environment Ministry okays A Coruna port’s outer harbour rail project
A Coruña, Spain (PortSEurope) June 26, 2017 – Spanish Ministry of Environment has given the green light to the study of rail access to outer harbour Punta...
Rijeka port gets €34 million funding under CEF
Rijeka, Croatia (PortSEurope) June 26, 2017 – Rijeka port said it will receive a funding worth €34 million ($38 million) from the European Commission (EC)...
Las Palmas port implements measures to improve BIP procedures
Las Palmas, Spain (PortSEurope) June 26, 2017 – Las Palmas port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Las Palmas) has recently implemented initiatives aimed at...
Spanish ports’ labour dispute suspended
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) June 26, 2017 – The labour dispute has taken a breather after trade unions suspended three of the nine days of the strike...
EU Court of Justice to announce second sentence against Spain on July 13
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) June 22, 2017 – The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) said it plans to announce the second sentence against Spain...
Port of Leixões cargo traffic grew 10% in the first 5 months of 2017
Leixões, Portugal (PortSEurope) June 26, 2017 – The Port of Leixões handled 8.1 million tons of commodities in January-May 2017, an increase of 10.3%...
Ukraine to present investment opportunities of Chornomorsk seaport
Odessa, Ukraine (PortSEurope) June 25, 2017 – On July 7, 2017, the Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine, the Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority (USPA), State...