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Arrival of floating dock in La Spezia starts cruise terminal work
La Spezia, Italy (Ports Europe) July 25, 2024 – Last week, a floating dock moored at the Enel dock. Last November, a contract for the construction of the...
MSC & two Belgian firms to takeover inland Port of Limburg
Genk, Belgium (Ports Europe) July 25, 2024 – The Swiss logistics group MSC, Henri Essers en Zonen Internationaal Transport and Machiels (JM Recycling)...
Port of Augusta to build new Border Control Post
Augusta, Sicily, Italy (Ports Europe) July 25, 2024 – The Port System Authority of Eastern Sicily has awarded a contract for the construction of a Border...
Ocean Winds & Martifer joint venture to bid for wind projects
Viana do Castelo, Portugal (Ports Europe) July 25, 2024 – Ocean Winds, owned Engie and EDPR, has formed a partnership with the Portuguese steel...
Cocaine bound for Belgium seized in Asuncion, Paraguay
Asuncion, Paraguay (Ports Europe) July 25, 2024 – The authorities in Paraguay on Tuesday announced the largest cocaine seizure in the country’s...
Management buyout could save Cantiere Navale Vittoria
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) July 25, 2024 – Earlier this year, Cantiere Navale Vittoria, a shipbuilding company, filed a restructuring plan with the...
Wolf spiders delay vessel in Zeebrugge port
Zeebrugge, Belgium (Ports Europe) July 24, 2024 – A Glovis car and truck carrier, the Glovis Sun, was detained in the Port of Zeebrugge due to the...
Port of Sines sees total cargo up 14% in H1 2024
Sines, Portugal (Ports Europe) July 24, 2024 – The Port of Sines ended the first half of 2024 with a year-on-year growth of 14% in the total global...
CS Wind Portugal signs concession contract in Aveiro port
Aveiro, Portugal (Ports Europe) July 24, 2024 – The Port Authority of Aveiro and CS Wind Portugal have signed a concession contract for the private use...
HAROPA sees total cargo up over 8% in H1 2024
Paris, France (Ports Europe) July 24, 2024 – In the first half of 2024, HAROPA PORT’s total maritime cargo traffic was 41.95 million tonnes (Mt),...
Port of Ferrol to have national rail link
Ferrol, Spain (Ports Europe) July 24, 2024 – The Port Authority of Ferrol-San Cibrao has approved the signing of an agreement with ADIF and Puertos del...
MSC’s Medlog invests in multimodal terminal adjacent to Paris
Paris, France (Ports Europe) July 24, 2024 – MEDLOG, part of MSC Mediterranean Shipping, has started building a new multimodal platform in the Paris...
Fincantieri signs order with Carnival for three mega-cruise ships
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) July 24, 2024 – Fincantieri has signed a contract with Carnival Corporation & plc for the design, engineering, and...
Valenciaport sees total cargo up 6.95% in H1 2024
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) July 24, 2024 – In the first half of 2024, the Port Authority of Valencia handled 40.86 million tonnes (Mt) of cargo. This...
Motril Port Authority will build new Civil Guard building
Motril, Spain (Ports Europe) July 24, 2024 – The Motril Port Authority has awarded Invesia Construcción y Servicios and Pinus the contract to build a...
Boluda Maritime Terminals Santander completes 2nd phase expansion
Santander, Spain (Ports Europe) July 24, 2024 – Boluda Maritime Terminals Santander has completed the works on the second phase of the concession,...
EBRD provides finance to Kazakhstan Temir Zholy
London, United Kingdom (Ports Europe), July 23, 2024 – The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) will provide a senior corporate loan...
Spain: Total TEU traffic by port – H1 2024
Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) July 23, 2024 – Puertos del Estado has published container numbers for Spanish ports in January-June 2024. Spain’s ports...
Spain: Total cargo traffic by port – H1 2024
Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) July 23, 2024 – Spanish ports handled a total of 283.24 million tons (Mt) between January and June, which represents an...
Spanish ports see cargo traffic up 3.4% in H1 2024
Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) July 23, 2024 – In January-June 2024, Spain’s general interest ports handled a total of 283,245,366 tons, an increase...