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Port of Marin imports frozen squid from South Atlantic

Marín, Spain (Ports Europe) May 27, 2024 – The Spanish Port of Marin is receiving ships carrying frozen squid from the South Atlantic. More...

Webuild publishes update on new Genoa breakwater project

Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) May 27, 2024 – The contractor Webuild has published a press release providing an update on the new Genoa breakwater project....

Authorities plan Ancona-Bar-Durres ferry

Bar, Montenegro (Ports Europe) May 27, 2024 – The relevant authorities have been investigating setting up border services at the Port of Bar. Then, a...

Port of Bar increases profit in Q1 2024

Bar, Montenegro (Ports Europe) May 27, 2024 – In the first three months of 2024, Luke Bar has reported a profit of €250,000, up +20.1% on the same...

Tanger Med is one of the world’s top 19 container ports

Tanger Med, Morocco (Ports Europe) May 27, 2024 – Morocco’s Tanger Med port in the Strait of Gibraltar achieved record figures in 2023, the year in which...

Alonso Forwarding Morocco launched in Casablanca

Casablanca, Morocco (Ports Europe) May 27, 2024 – The Spanish logistics group Alonso has set up Alonso Forwarding Morocco in Casablanca. Alonso...

Russian oil ship-to-ship operations seek new ports in the Mediterranean Sea

Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) May 26, 2024 – Earlier this month, Greece started issuing NAVTEX notices which inform all shipping to stay away from...

Boluda Towage to acquire SMS Towage Ltd of UK

Hull, UK (Ports Europe) May 26, 2024 – Boluda Towage has signed an agreement to acquire SMS Towage Ltd which is based in Hessle, Hull, UK. The...

First truck transit the route China-Kazakhstan-Azerbaijan-Georgia

Kuryk, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) May 26, 2024 – In the first trial for the transit road transport of goods along the route...

500 kg of cocaine seized in the Dutch port of Vlissingen

Vlissingen, The Netherlands (Ports Europe) May 25, 2024 – Customs officials at the Netherlands’ port of Vlissingen seized almost 500 kg of cocaine on...

7.3 kg of cocaine seized in Albania’s port of Durres

Durres, Albania (Ports Europe) May 25, 2024 – 7.3 kg of cocaine was seized in Albania’s Adriatic Sea port of Durres on the evening of May 24. The drug...

Luka Koper reports dampened results, cargo for Q1 2024

Koper, Slovenia (Ports Europe) May 25, 2024 – Luka Koper, the operator of the Port of Koper, has announced its financial results for Q1 2024. In Q1 2024,...

52 kg of cocaine seized in a port in Georgia

Poti, Georgia (Ports Europe) May 24, 2024 – About 52 kg of cocaine were seized in a Georgian Black Sea port in a container with bananas from Ecuador on...

Russia plans a new Arctic deep-water port

Belomorsk, Russia (Ports Europe) May 24, 2024 – Forced by Western sanctions, transport connection issues with its Black and Caspian seas ports and...

Skaramanga Shipyard appoints new board

Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) May 24, 2024 – Skaramanga Shipyard has a new board of directors to run the company, which manages the facilities of the...

Port of Piraeus receives permission to continue dredging

Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) May 24, 2024 – The Council of State, the Supreme Administrative Court of Greece, has ruled that dredging of the port of...

Airobotics and HHLA Sky partner to offer drone services

Hamburg, Germany (Ports Europe) May 24, 2024 – Airobotics Ltd and HHLA Sky GmbH have entered a strategic partnership to offer advanced drone services to...

Dredging at the port of El Terrón, Huelva, to proceed

Huelva, Spain (Ports Europe) May 24, 2024 – The Ministry of Sustainability, the Environment and the Blue Economy has issued a favourable Unified...

Spain: Total TEU traffic by port – April 2024

Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) May 24, 2024 – Puertos del Estado has published container numbers for Spanish ports in January-April 2024. Spain’s ports...

Police seize 210 kilos of cocaine in Piraeus port

Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) May 24, 2024 – The police have seized over 210 kilos of cocaine in the port of Piraeus. The illegal drugs were discovered...

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