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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...
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...
Madeira port to consolidate number of calls in 2017
Funchal, Portugal (Ports Europe) January 6, 2017 – Madeira port authority (Administração dos Portos da Região Autónoma da Madeira) plans to consolidate...
Figueira da Foz cargo traffic rises 3.5% Y/Y in 2016
Figueira da Foz, Portugal (Ports Europe) January 6, 2017 – Figueira da Foz port handled 2.07 million tonnes of cargo in 2016, up 3.5% on the year. The...
Lisbon port close to half million cruise passengers in Jan-Nov 2016
Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) January 6, 2017 – At the end of November, Lisbon port was close to half a million cruise passengers, 498,792, which was the...
Portugal to support Figueira da Foz port upgrade
Figueira da Foz, Portugal (Ports Europe) January 6, 2017 – Portuguese Minister of the Sea, Ana Paula Vittorino, has included the projects for the upgrade of...
TecnoAranda to build wind towers production plant in Bilbao
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) January 6, 2017 – Spanish company TecnoAranda plans to set up a plant for the production of wind towers at Bilbao port which...
Vigo port praises changes in stevedoring activity rules
Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) January 6, 2017 – Vigo port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Vigo) has praised the changes adopted by dockworkers, which, in its...
Varna port sees rising wheat exports
Varna, Bulgaria (Ports Europe) January 9, 2017 – Varna port handled 1.286 million tonnes of wheat in the period between the start of the 2016/17 season, on...