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Tenerife port handles delivery of Airbus A320 simulator
Tenerife, Spain (PortSEurope) May 23, 2017 – Tenerife port handled a delivery of an Airbus A320 simulator last week. Spanish company Brok-air Aviation Group...
Adif expresses support for railway projects of Sagunto port
Sagunto, Spain (PortSEurope) May 23, 2017 – The mayor of Sagunto, Quico Fernández, has held a meeting with the president of Spanish state-run railway...
UK-based MacAndrews gets Best Shipping Line 2017 award in Portugal
Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) May 23, 2017 – London-based shipping company MacAndrews & Company Limited has received the award for the Best Shipping...
Spain’s PJ Carrasco S.L. gets concession deal at Villagarcía port
Villagarcía, Spain (PortSEurope) May 23, 2017 – Spanish ship agent PJ Carrasco S.L. has been awarded a concession to operate a land plot of 2,822 sq m...
Santander port awards concession to shipping agent Cantabrasil
Santander, Spain (PortSEurope) May 23, 2017 – Santander port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Santander) has awarded a concession contract for the operation...
Gijón port looks for companies to operate Motorway of the Sea line
Gijón, Spain (PortSEurope) May 23, 2017 – Gijón port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Gijón) is studying the interest of companies regarding the launch...
Spain’s Anesco rejects proposal for change in bylaws
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) May 23, 2017 – Spanish association of ship consignees and dockworker employers Asociación Nacional de...
Spanish trade union CETM ratifies preliminary agreement to start talks with Anesco
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) May 23, 2017 – Spanish stevedores trade union Coordinadora Estatal de Trabajadores del Mar (CETM) has ratified the preliminary...
Spanish trade union cancels first five days of strikes at ports
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) May 23, 2017 – Spanish stevedores trade union Coordinadora Estatal de Trabajadores del Mar (CETM) and employers union...
Spanish minister praises preliminary labour deal on port reform
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) May 23, 2017 – Spanish Public Works Minister Íñigo de la Serna has expressed his satisfaction that trade unions have...
Trieste port takes advantage of Italy’s economy digitalisation strategy
Trieste, Italy (PortSEurope) May 23, 2017 – Italian regional government of Friuli Venezia Giulia said it became the first regional authority to participate...
Lisbon port cargo traffic rises 21% y/y in Jan-April 2017
Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) May 23, 2017 – Lisbon port cargo traffic rose by 21% on the year in the first four months of 2017 to some 4 million tonnes....
Spain’s Europac completes sale of Viana do Castelo port unit
Viana do Castelo, Portugal (PortSEurope) May 23, 2017 – Spanish company Papeles y Cartones de Europe S.A. (Europac) has completed the sale of Europac...
Ukrainian water transport sector’s passenger traffic declines in Jan-April 2017
Odessa, Ukraine (PortSEurope) May 23, 2017 – The total number of passengers handled in Ukraine’s water transport sector fell by 3.3% on the year in...
Bulgaria to invest €15 million in Burgas port
Burgas, Bulgaria (PortSEurope) May 23, 2017 – Bulgarian transport minister Ivaylo Moskovski said the government plans to invest BGN 30 million ($17.2...
China considers Albanian transport investment
Durrës, Albania (PortSEurope) May 23, 2017 – Albanian Minister of Transport and Infrastructure Sokol Dervishaj attended the recent Belt and Road forum...
Svitzer orders tugs for Tanger Med operation
Tanger Med, Morocco (PortSEurope) May 23, 2017 – Svitzer, a provider of sea and safety support, has ordered four more Azimuth Stern Drive (ASD) tugs...
Sagunto port to start operating Border Inspection Post in 2018
Sagunto, Spain (PortSEurope) May 22, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) has completed a project for the design of the building...
Castellón port calls tender for high-voltage power supply
Castellón, Spain (PortSEurope) May 22, 2017 – Castellón Port Authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Castellón) has called a tender for the delivery of...
Picasso project members meet in Malta
Valletta, Malta (PortSEurope) May 22, 2017 – The partners of the Picasso project (“Preventing Incidents and Accidents by Safer Ships in the...