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Ravenna Port Committee has approved a ¢ 339m investment package after traffic in 2006 rose by 10% to 26m tonnes.

Kalmar has boosted its Italian reach with the acquisition of CVS Ferrari Group.Under the deal, sealed at an undisclosed price, CVS Ferrari will operate as a separate entity and brand within Kalmar,…

Giuliano Gallanti has been re-elected as chairman of the European Sea Ports Organisation for another two years.He has prioritised the development of a meaningful European port policy, adding that the big challenge…

Terminales Marítimas de Bilbao  (TMB) plans to add a further 25,000 square metres to its existing concession. This announcement comes just 18 months after terminal management had to ask the port authority…

A sea change in ownership and huge amounts of investment mean that the future has never looked brighter for the UK ports industry, Forth Ports chief executive Charles Hammond has told maritime…

Throughput at the port of Rotterdam over the first nine months of the year has made a mild recovery, increasing by 1.5% in comparison with the same period last year.The 281m tonnes…

Proof of the unwavering investor interest in ports,Deutsche Banks asset management arm has snapped up a 49% stake in the UKs second largest ports group Peel Ports for £ 750m.

Dragados-SPL, which belongs to the Spanish construction and services group ACS, has agreed a syndicated loan of ¢ 280m to refinance some existing debts and also to fund new investment.

Las Palmas port authority is to finance 35% of planned infrastructure work at the port using ¢ 140m sourced from the European Unions Feder fund. Among the work to be financed is…

Zeeland Seaports and the Port of Rotterdam Authority have been cited as reasons for the lacklustre past relations. Hans Smits, chief executive of the  port authority, said: It is to our advantage…

The Canary Islands Port of Fuerteventura is considered obsolete and is strangling the economy of the small island. 

An agreement between Associated British PortsPort of Ipswich and Solvay Chemicals will remove in excess of 100,000 lorry miles from the UKs roads annually.

The positive decision moves the project away from parliament and into the hands of the port authority and local, regional and national authorities, who will now focus on the land reclamation. The…

Nine companies are expected to bid for the new vehicle terminal at the Spanish Mediterranean port of Sagunto. Investment will total ¢ 2.88m and involve paving 120,000 sq m between Muelle Sur…

Among those bidding are Lubasa, Pavasal, Dragados,Midascón, Comsa, Elsan-Pacsa, Cyes, CHM and Construcciones/Valcomar. Container traffic at the Greek port of Piraeus amounted to 511,280 teu in the first two quarters of this…

Valencia port authority has awarded a contract to a joint-venture consisting of Ferrovial Agromán and Ocide Construcción in respect of the extension of Levante Quay at a cost of ¢ 12bn.

The CCTV system includes numerous dome cameras, providing high-quality digital images via a wireless WiMAX LAN, which spans an area around the port of over 10 sq km. Dragados has awarded KCI…

Only two companies - Eurotrasac and Terminal Polivalente Portuaria de Sagunto - bid for the concessions to manage the two multipurpose terminals at the port of Sagunto, which reports to Valencia Port…