Government
News about the involvement of government in port activities. Includes government laws applicable to ports, state-owned ports including European Union issues with national government implications. Also includes inter-government meetings, agreements and visits of government officials.
Venice port 2018-2020 plan approved
Venice, Italy (PortSEurope) October 17, 2017 – Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mare Adriatico Settentrionale (Port Authority System Management Board...
Minister of Transport Delrio to visit Palermo
Palermo, Italy (PortSEurope) October 16, 2017 – The Italian Minister of Transport Graziano Delrio will visit Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mare di...
Turkey closes ports to vessels from Crimea
Istanbul, Turkey (Ports Europe) October 16, 2017 – The Turkish government is to prohibit its ports from taking ships arriving from Crimea and its ports....
Italian port reform enters final stage
Rome, Italy (Ports Europe) October 12, 2017 – The Italian port system reform, aimed to make the country a hub for transport in the Mediterranean, has reached...
Conftrasporto association says new port system slows down overall freight traffic
Rome, Italy (Ports Europe) October 11, 2017 – The president of Conftrasporto business association, has said that the new Italian port system is not...
Ortona GPL depot proposal receives negative response
Pescara, Italy (Ports Europe) October 7, 2017 – Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mare Adriatico Centrale (Port Authority of the Central Adriatic Sea)...
Graziano Delrio supports Taranto-Matera Special Economic Zone
Taranto, Italy (Ports Europe) September 28, 2017 – “The ZES (Special Economic Zone) Taranto-Matera seems to me a great idea”, said Minister...
Spanish Chamber of Commerce sets up ports commission
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) October 2, 2017 – Spanish Chamber of Commerce (La Cámara de Comercio de España) has set up a Ports Commission with the aim...
Genoa port president calls on government to change structure of port authorities
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) October 2, 2017 – The president of the port authority of Genoa and Savona, Paolo Emilio Signorini, has called on the government...
Trieste Porto Vecchio renovation under way
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) October 1, 2017 – Work has started on the renovation of Porto Vecchio, an old port area of Trieste. President of the Region...
Algeria announces plan to develop ports and logistics
Algiers, Algeria (Ports Europe) September 30, 2017 – The Minister of Public Works and Transport, Abdelghani Zaalane, that a national plan was being...
President of Aktau Port attends business forum in Tashkent
Aktau, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) September 28, 2017 – Aktau Port President A. Turikpenbayev attended an exhibition of Kazakh goods and Uzbek-Kazakh...
Delrio meets chairman of Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Ligure Occidentale
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) September 22, 2017 – Minister of Infrastructure and Transport Graziano Delrio has met with the Chairman of Autorita’ di...
Puglia aims for two Special Economic Zones
Bari, Italy (Ports Europe) September 26, 2017 – A working table chaired by Michele Mazzarano was set up this morning at the Department for Economic...
Spanish government to introduce environmental sustainability criteria in ports law
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) September 20, 2017 – Spain’s government plans to start working on the amendment of the Ports Law in the country in...
Spain’s Puertos del Estado president says port mergers are not needed
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) September 20, 2017 – Spain does not need any mergers of port authorities as the current management structure allows the...
Event: Mediterranean Coast And Macroregional Strategies Week, Slovenia, September 20-23, 2017
Koper, Slovenia (Ports Europe) September 19, 2017 – The “Mediterranean Coast and EU Macro-regional Strategies Week – Living with the sea” will be...