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Each year, over 18,000 ship inspections feed into the EU’s database for inspections, reporting, monitoring and verification, THETIS, writes Markku Mylly, executive director of the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA).

For the first time in 2014, the Port of Oslo carried out a comprehensive emission inventory for air pollution applying international methods based on bottom-up approach including all air emission activities connected…

ESPO has released results from its recent environmental review 2016, with the aim to update the top ten environmental priorities of European ports.

Israeli wave energy company, Eco Wave Power (EWP), has started 2016 on a positive note with the completion of construction at its first commercial scale power plant in Gibraltar.

Brian Simpson MEP, the coordinator of Motorways of the Sea (MoS), a European Union transport policy concept stressing the importance of sea travel in the union, has urged members of the European…

The Italian Port of Ravenna, has put to use its LRS 545, the first in a new range of reachstackers manufactured by German cargo handling specialist, Liebherr Maritime Cranes.

Solent-based Lymington Yacht Haven and boat-fitters, Jeremy Rogers Ltd, have joined forces to create a new environmentally friendly blasting process.

Dutch company WEC Lines is to begin weekly calls at the Port of Liverpool in a move which aims to cut freight mileage by 200m miles in the next five years.

Last year saw record container volumes headlining all-round freight growth at Marseille Fos, with total cargo rising 4.1% on the previous year to 81.7m tonnes. Similar growth was seen in the cruise…

The Port of Amsterdam has announced that it intends to double the bonuses awarded to ships listed on the Environmental Ship Index (ESI).

The Ports of Stockholm is redeveloping Värtahamnen as part of the urban development of Norra Djurgårdsstaden.

Fredrikstad Cruise Port has officially opened its new sustainable 340m dock meaning it is now able to handle larger cruise ships.

Five shipping companies have enlisted the support of emissions verification company, Verifavia, in ensuring they comply with new carbon emission regulations.

The Port of Dublin has been awarded this year’s ESPO Award in recognition of its strategies to make schools and universities aware of the local port’s activities.

The City of Copenhagen, City & Port Development and Copenhagen Malmö Port (CMP) have drawn up joint analysis of the need and options for establishing shore power for cruise ships in Nordhavn.

The Gothenburg Port Authority says that for the first time this year it will become a climate neutral company. It has reduced emissions to a minimum by investing in solar panels, biogas,…