Europe

A court has dismissed lawsuits seeking to stop a project to deepen the River Elbe to improve large vessel port access.

Hamburg Port is the first German seaport to introduce pre-allocated time windows for truckers in order to relieve peak times and reduce waiting times.

In Portugal, the Minister of the Sea, Ana Paula Vitorino has revealed that the government is to go ahead with the full merger of Lisbon Port Administration (APL) and the Setúbal and…

The European Union’s Port Services Regulation will be consigned to the dustbin in the UK due to Brexit, shipping minister John Hayes has told members of the UK Major Ports Group.

Old habits and processes, resistance to change and a ‘turf war’ over the control of data flows all contributed to the failure of the European Commission’s drive for national Maritime Single Windows,…

Ports should be prioritised in the UK Government’s Industrial Strategy White Paper, British Ports Association’s (BPA) chief executive has said.

The UK Port of Barrow’s annual contribution to the UK economy could be set to grow by £30m in the next decade, taking its total annual contribution to £137m.

Industry figures have applauded Peel Ports Great Yarmouth’s decision to focus on the offshore wind industry in a new expansion project – a venture which, it has emerged, could exceed £30m.

The Port of Amsterdam has said there is always a work/life balance challenge following concerns over a controversial onsite housing scheme.

UK ports have welcomed the Chancellor’s vision of the country as a free-trading nation in its latest Budget, but say there wasnt a great deal in it for ports.

The Port of Rotterdam Authority is exploring opportunities with Nederlandse Gasunie (Gasunie) and Energie Beheer Nederland (EBN) to achieve a basic infrastructure to capture and transport carbon dioxide (CO2) in the Port…

Freight forwarding business Quality Freight UK (QF UK) has boosted its crane capability at its facility at Ellesmere Port in the north-west of England.

The completion of the European Sea Ports Organisation’s (ESPO) PORTOPIA project has been marked by a conference attended by port representatives from across Europe.

The MSC terminal on Muelle Transversal de Costa in the Spanish Mediterranean Port of Valencia is to be upgraded to enable it to receive the largest vessels afloat. Work is to take…

Despite much-improved labour relations at ports throughout Spain, Algeciras Bay Port Authority has decided to put back for a fifth time the bidding deadline for a tender for a new container terminal…

An EU-funded green initiatives project aims to define the port of the future and its challenges.

A Catalonian government official has hailed the autonomy of the Port of Barcelona as an example of how the region could succeed independent from Spain.