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Barcelona remains main contributor to Interport Compensation Fund
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) January 10, 2017 – Barcelona port remains the main contributor to the Spanish port system. According to data released by the...
Ponta Delgada port starts reinforcement works on main dock
Ponta Delgada, Portugal (Ports Europe) January 10, 2017 – The preparation works for the reinforcement of the main dock of Portugal’s Ponta Delgada port...
Mykolaiv port cargo traffic rises 0.6% Y/Y in 2016
Mykolaiv, Ukraine (Ports Europe) January 10, 2017 – Mykolaiv port cargo traffic edged up by 0.6% on the year in the first eleven months of 2016 to 23.37...
MacAndrews updates “Valencia Express” service
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) January 10, 2017 – UK shipping company MacAndrews has announced the update of its service “Valencia Express”,...
Malaga port handles three ships with destination Melilla
Malaga, Spain (Ports Europe) January 10, 2017 – Three ships with destination Melilla port coincided for the first time at Malaga port on January 8. Between...
EMS-Fehn to open Rijeka office
Rijeka, Croatia (Ports Europe) January 9, 2017 – EMS-Fehn-Group is to set up a new subsidiary in Rijeka, Croatia, where the company forecasts new...
China’s CCCC shows interest in dredging, port facilities in Ukraine
Mykolaiv, Ukraine (Ports Europe) January 9, 2017 – In December 2016, representatives of Ukrainian dredging company “Tehmorgidrostroy Nikolaev”...
Ukrainian ports export 40.2 million tonnes of grain in 2016
Odessa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) January 9, 2017 – Ukrainian ports exported 40.249 million tonnes of grain in 2016, customs statistics showed. The total value...
Mykolaiv port announces dredging tender
Mykolaiv, Ukraine (Ports Europe) January 9, 2017 – Ukraine’s Mykolaiv port has called a tender for the dredging of its sea basin. Under the project, a...
Spanish government not to open Puertos del Estado to private capital
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) January 9, 2017 – Spanish Ministry of Public Works does not contemplate opening the capital of Spanish national ports agency...
Andalusian public ports to receive €196.5 million investments in 2017
Seville, Spain (Ports Europe) January 9, 2017 – Andalusian public ports will receive investments worth €196.5 million ($207.8 million) in 2017, including...
Puertos del Estado net profit rises 8% Y/Y in 2016
Seville, Spain (Ports Europe) January 9, 2017 – Spanish national ports agency Puertos del Estado, managed by the Public Works Ministry, booked a net profit...
Vigo port completes design of Bouzas ro-ro terminal
Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) January 9, 2017 – Vigo port has completed the design of the extension of Bouzas ro-ro terminal. The space gained for the parking...
Mediterranean ports join forces to attract container traffic
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) January 9, 2017 – Authorities at ports in the Mediterranean area agreed to form an organisation specifically designed to...
Novorossiysk oil traffic at KTK terminal increases in 2016
Novorossiysk, Russia(Ports Europe) January 9, 2017 – Novorossiysk port saw oil traffic at its Caspian Pipeline Consortium (KTK) terminal rise by 3.6% on the...
2016 year of growth for Gibraltar port
Gibraltar (Ports Europe) January 9, 2017 – The Gibraltar Port Authority (GPA) has announced another year of growth across most areas of activity...
Cartagena port to handle 145 cruise ships in 2017
Cartagena, Spain (Ports Europe) January 9, 2017 – Cartagena port expects to receive a total of 145 cruise ships in 2017, of which ten will enter the harbour...
Valencia port authority to adapt land plot for solid bulk storage purposes
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) January 9, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) plans to adapt a plot of 20,730 square meters,...
Spanish government presents investment plan for ports
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) January 9, 2017 – Spanish Public Works Minister Inigo de la Serna presented an investment plan of €1.418 billion ($1.5...
South Korea parliamentary delegation visits Sines port
Sines, Portugal (Ports Europe) January 6, 2017 – A parliamentary delegation from the National Assembly of the Republic of Korea visited the Sines port on...