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Trieste port to hold open day
Trieste, Italy (PortSEurope) June 15, 2017 – The port of Trieste (Porto di Trieste) is to hold an open day and invites local people to visit the ports...
Yildirim takes control of Leixoes container terminal operator
Leixões, Portugal (PortSEurope) June 14, 2017 – Turkish group Yildirim now owns 100% of the capital of Container Terminal (TCL), after the purchase of the...
Spain’s Indra installs port management system in Cyprus
Leixões, Portugal (PortSEurope) June 14, 2017 – The Janela Única Portuária (JUP) port management system for ship and cargo clearance, developed in...
Total and Ecoslops to set up a maritime oil residue processing unit in La Mède, near Marseilles
Marseille, France (PortSEurope) June 14, 2017 – Ecoslops, a company that upgrades ship-generated hydrocarbon residues, or “slops”, into valuable new...
The maritime economy and “smart” technology
Marseille, France (PortSEurope), June 13, 2017 – L’Institut méditerranéen du transport maritime (Mediterranean Institute for Maritime Transport...
Call for local employment at Civitavecchia port
Civitavecchia, Italy (PortSEurope) July 13, 2017 – Municipal Councilors, Mauro Guerrini and Mirko Mecozzi, have asked the president of the Centre-North...
Spanish government to support launch of Valencia-Mostaganem ferry line
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) June 13, 2017 – Spanish central government’s representative in Valencia region, José Vicente Herrera, has discussed the...
Basque government adopts draft law on regional ports
Bilbao, Spain (PortSEurope) June 13, 2017 – The Basque government has approved the draft law on ports and maritime transport in the Basque Country, which...
Spanish dock workers to stage 48-hour strike as of June 14
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) June 13, 2017 – Spanish dock workers plan to hold a 48-strike as of June 14 as they did not manage to reach an agreement in...
Motril to handle 10% more passengers in OPE 2017
Motril, Spain (PortSEurope) June 13, 2017 – Spanish government expects Motril port’s passenger traffic to be higher by 10% during this year’s...
Spain’s Noatum expects Cosco deal to boost container traffic
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) June 13, 2017 – Spain’s Noatum Port Holdings S.L.U. expects the strategic partnership agreement signed with Cosco...
Castellón port expresses economic concerns over strike
Castellón, Spain (PortSEurope) June 13, 2017 – Castellón port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Castellón) and companies active at the harbour expressed...
Genoa-based port authority rejoins Assoporti
Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) June 13, 2017 – The Authority of the Western Ligurian Sea Port System (Autorità di Sistema Portuale del Mar Ligure Occidentale)...
Ukraine’s USPA to fleet renewal plans to shipbuilders
Odessa, Ukraine (PortSEurope) June 13, 2017 – The Ukraine Sea Ports Authority (USPA) plans to carry out a conference on the development of the...
Badajoz logistics platform to be completed by 2020
Setúbal, Portugal (PortSEurope) June 13, 2017 –The Plataforma Logística do Sudoeste Europeu (PLSWE – The Southwestern European Logistics Platform) in...
Boluda Lines sets up shipping agency based in Lisbon port
Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) June 13, 2017 – Boluda Lines, a leading Spanish shipowner and global marine services company, will bet on Lisbon port through...
Spanish minister expresses dissatisfaction with dockworkers’ strike
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) June 13, 2017 – Spanish Public Works Minister Íñigo de la Serna has said the decision of dockworkers to stage a 48-hour...
Cosco’s acquisition of Noatum is encouraging for Valencia’s economic growth
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) June 13, 2017 – The arrival of a Chinese state-owned company to Valencia port, after the acquisition of Noatum Ports...
Cosco includes Valencia’s traffic in China’s Silk Road
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) June 13, 2017 – The nearly 300 vessels of the world’s fourth largest shipping company each year move 1.6 million...
Cosco Shipping Ports Limited acquisition of interest in Noatum Port Holdings in Spain
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) June 13, 2017 – Cosco Shipping Ports Limited has published the following press release regarding its acquisition of Noatum...