Europe

MSC has announced a wish to operate its own terminal in the port of Las Palmas, where it is currently a shareholder in OPCSA. The shipping line accounted for 50% of the…

DP World has promoted Patrick Walters to the position of senior vice president and managing director for its fast-growing Europe and North Africa region. Mr Walters has been with DP World and,…

Activities at Barcelona' s multi-purpose Terminal Port Nou will be temporarily transferred to a 60,000 sq metres site on Adosado Quay during the summer, before finally relocated to a 130,000 sq metre…

Las Palmas Port Authority is to build two new outer dykes at a cost of € 59m ($79.4m). One of these will protect an 800,000 sq metre area currently under construction, which…

Organisers of the Port of Rotterdam Tournament taking place in Holland this summer claim the event brings together teams from “ four of the biggest port cities in the world” . The…

DP World says the first phase of its London Gateway container terminal should be operational in 2010, following approval of the development by the British government at the end of May. Construction…

Barcelona Port Authority has calculated that it has lost € 37.8m ($50.9m) following the collapse of part of the quayside at the new El Prat quay. This will delay transfer of the…

The next phase in the revision of the UK’ s British Standard 6349 for Maritime Structures will focus on the design of quay walls, jetties and dolphins. This follows on from the…

The complexities of securing, and working with, European Union funding were highlighted at a Port-Net workshop on port financing, hosted by the Port of Tallinn. Tallinn itself has gained EU funding for…

Kent’ s Thamesport has opened its new East Park Gate complex, or ‘ Gate 2’ , as part of a new development to simplify and improve service levels to hauliers. It claims…

Partial opening of Barcelona’ s El Prat Quay has been put back to mid-2009. This follows the collapse on January 1, 2007 of one third of the 1,500 metre quay line.

Classification society Germanischer Lloyd (GL) has spearheaded a drive to develop a benchmarking system for terminals. 

Personal injury and handling equipment incidents on the quayside are on the up in Europe and the US, as ports struggle to boost capacity to meet the challenge of China. 

The container terminal at the Novorossiysk’ s neighbouring port of Odessa, which is run by a subsidiary of Hamburg Port Consulting, handled 395,563 teu in 2006 compared with 279,812 teu the year…

The governments of Spain and France have issued the first tenders covering seven motorway services between ports on their Atlantic and northern coasts. These are expected to enter into service in 2008…

Portuguese construction company Mota-Engil has acquired port terminal operator Multiterminal for € 25m ($33.8m).