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Piraeus port is not part of the European Ports Alliance
Brussels, Belgium (Ports Europe) February 8, 2024 – Last month, the European Commission announced the formation of the European Ports Alliance. The...
Work starts on electrification of Le Havre Cruise Terminal
Le Havre, France (Ports Europe) February 8, 2024 – Last week, work started on the electrification of Le Havre Cruise Terminal. Also, known as cold...
Boluda Towage buys Resolve Salvage & Fire, Gibraltar
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) February 8, 2024 – Boluda Towage, part of Boluda Corporación MarÃtima, has acquired Resolve Salvage and...
Spain’s Malaga port blocked by farmers’ protests
Málaga, Spain (Ports Europe) February 8, 2024 – Last Tuesday local farmers blocked the Port of Malaga, protesting against European Union agricultural...
Albania’s Shengjin port to receive Italian asylum seekers
Durrës, Albania (Ports Europe) February 8, 2024 – The Northern port of Shengjin is set to receive Italian asylum seekers under an agreement between the...
Orsted withdrawal from Iberia will affect Port of A Coruña
A Coruña, Spain (Ports Europe) February 7, 2024 – Ørsted A/S, a Danish multinational energy company, has announced a revised business plan which...
Port Authority of Pasaia plan vehicle handling improvements
Pasaia, Spain (Ports Europe) February 7, 2024 – The Port Authority of Pasaia (APP) has proposed the improvement and investment projects in the short and...
Porto de Leixões has record year for cruises in 2023
Leixões, Portugal (Ports Europe) February 7, 2024 – In 2023, Porto de Leixões received 116 cruise ships carrying 148,889 passengers, making it the...
Harim not to acquire Korea’s top container shipper HMM
Algeciras, Spain (Ports Europe) February 7, 2024 – HMM’s creditors have decided against selling Korea’s largest container shipping company,...
Double increase in icebreaker-assisted ships in Russia‘s Caspian ports
Astrakhan, Russia (Ports Europe) February 7, 2024 – There is an unexplained almost double increase in the number of ships assisted by ice breakers in and out...
VINCI starts work on Barcelona ferry port electrification
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) February 7, 2024 – The Port of Barcelona and VINCI Energies Spain have started work on connecting the ships at the...
Port of Piraeus inaugurates Ro-Ro terminal expansion
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) February 7, 2024 – The inauguration ceremony for the project “Completion of the Expansion of RoRo – Heracleous...
Tankoa Yachts has new concession in Port of Civitavecchia
Civitavecchia, Italy (Ports Europe) February 7, 2024 – Tankoa Yachts has a new concession in the Port of Civitavecchia. it will develop a warehouse and a...
Italian ministry highlights four objectives for port system
Rome, Italy (Ports Europe) February 7, 2024 – The Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport has highlighted four objectives for the national port system....
Greece plans tourist port investment
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) February 7, 2024 – On January 31, 2024, the period for submitting investment projects as part of the Call for Expressions...
Senior customs official arrested for drugs smuggling in Malaga port
Malaga, Spain (Ports Europe) February 6, 2024 – A senior customs official in Malaga port on the Costa del Sol coast of the Mediterranean Sea has been...
Georgian President criticizes Russia’s naval base in Abkhazia
Tbilisi, Georgia (Ports Europe) February 6, 2024 – Pro-Western Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili again denounced Russian plan, first announced in...
Container terminal automation conference 2024
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) February 6, 2024 – The 8th edition of the Container Terminal Automation Conference (CTAC) is to be held on April 17-18 in...
Update: Cargo drop in Ukraine’s Danube ports after the Black Sea reopened
Kyiv, Ukraine (Ports Europe) February 6, 2024 – Ukraine’s Danube River ports handled almost 6.5 times more cargo in 2023, compared to the 5 million tonnes...
Port of Thessaloniki to handle electric buses from China
Thessaloniki, Greece (Ports Europe) February 6, 2024 – Next month, the Port of Thessaloniki is set to receive 110 new, electric buses. The vehicles were...