Europe

The Port of Rotterdam is to give a one-off rebate in 2010 on both sea and inland harbour dues.

The recapitalisation of BBI infrastructure through the creation of a new investor company, Brookfield, has lead to the ownership of PD ports passing to its UK subsidiary, Brookfield Ports (UK). BBI has…

The Belgian port of Zeebrugge has bucked the downturn to post a volume increase of 1.5% for the first three quarters of this year.

Short sea shipping in Europe is being held back by reliance on old-fashioned paper management systems, according to Alberto Magrassi, an expert in shipping systems from IT firm Elsag Datamat.

Despite making significant inroads in environmental management, the majority of UK ports do not feel that they are doing enough, according to the Green Ports survey from Royal Haskoning.

Every other tonne of cargomoved through the Flanders ports of Antwerp, Ghent, Ostend andZeebrugge is part of a short sea cargo - unless you look at Ostend,when the figure shoots up to…