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Positive container traffic trend continues at Las Palmas port
Las Palmas, Spain (Ports Europe) April 11, 2017 – Container traffic continues its upward trend in Las Palmas port for the eighth consecutive month. The port...
Italy’s Sonsub to set up headquarters at Trieste port
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) April 11, 2017 – Sonsub A.S., a company that develops applied technology for the Saipem Group, plans to set up its headquarters...
Marin port exports wind turbine components to USA
Marin, Spain (Ports Europe) April 11, 2017 – The ports of Beaumont in Texas and Burns Harbor in the state of Indiana are the recipients of the cargo of four...
Ceuta port to officially launch 2017 cruise season
Ceuta, Spain (Ports Europe) April 11, 2017 – Ceuta port will officially open the 2017 cruise season with the arrival of the vessel “Pacific...
Noatum starts operating six new cranes at Valencia port
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) April 11, 2017 – Noatum Container Terminal Valencia, the operator of container terminals at the Principe Felipe and Costa del...
Occupancy rate accounts for 34.4% of Gijon port’s income
Gijon, Spain (Ports Europe) April 12, 2017 – Gijon port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Gijón), like all others in the Spanish port system and any...
Bouygues Travaux Publics to produce concrete blocks at Marseille port
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) April 12, 2017 – The extension of six hectares of the area of the Principality of Monaco will lead to the construction of...
Volkswagen starts using Tarragona port as hub in Spain
Tarragona, Spain, April 11, 2017 – German carmaker Volkswagen has recently started using Tarragona port as one of its three hubs in Spain, after...
President of Southern Adriatic Sea Port System named
Bari, Italy (Ports Europe) April 11, 2017 – The Italian government has appointed Ugo Patroni Griffi as president of Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mare...
Genoa, Savona ports investments total €330 million
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) April 11, 2017 – The investments in capacity improvements at Genoa and Savona ports will total €330 million ($349.4 million),...
France’s CMA CGM updates offer from Tangier port
Tangier, Morocco (Ports Europe) April 11, 2017 – French company CMA CGM has announced the launch of its Med Canada service that will connect Montreal with...
Japan’s MOL to carry out three extraordinary calls at Barcelona port
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) April 11, 2017 – Japanese shipping company Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL), whose general agent in Spain is Transcoma Shipping, has...
Cadiz port tenders maintenance dredging contract
Cadiz, Spain (Ports Europe) April 11, 2017 – Cadiz port authority (Autoridad Portuaria BahÃa de Cádiz) has tendered the execution of dredging maintenance...
Tarragona port to attract €62.8 million investment in capacity refurbishment
Tarragona, Spain, April 11, 2017 – Tarragona port expects to attract investments of €62.8 million ($66.5 million) this year to grow and refurbish its...
Vilagarcia port cargo traffic rises 8.7% Y/Y in Q1 2017
Vilagarcia, Spain (Ports Europe) April 11, 2017 – In the first quarter of 2017, Vilagarcia port recorded an increase of 8.7% in cargo traffic compared to the...
EU fishermen want post-Brexit access to UK waters
London, United Kingdom (Ports Europe) April 11, 2017 – Fishermen associations from several European countries met recently in Brussels to form an alliance...
Lisbon port to handle 17 turnaround cruise calls in April
Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) April 11, 2017 – Lisbon port expects to handle 44 cruise calls in April, with 17 of them being turnaround, where cruises...
Leixoes port container traffic’s rise is constant
Leixoes, Portugal (Ports Europe) April 11, 2017 – The days when Leixoes Container Terminal reaches 3,000 TEUs or is very close, are becoming more frequent....
USPA completes maintenance dredging at Olvia port
Olvia, Ukraine (Ports Europe) April 11, 2017 – Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority (USPA) has completed the first stage of the maintenance dredging project at...
Studies on possibilities of using LNG at the port of Koper
Koper, Slovenia, April 6, 2017 – The Directive 2014/94/EU on deployment of alternative fuels infrastructure was adopted with the aim of minimising...