Europe

The British-Swiss Zumax AG group has been awarded a ¢ 1.18bn ($1.5bn) concession to build a new container terminal in southwestern Albania and operate it for a period of 35 years.

Zim has moved its western Mediterranean hub from the port of Barcelona to Tarragona, where it has a 40% equity participation in the Contarsa box handling facility.

The president of Genova port authority, Luigi Merlo, has had his knuckles rapped by the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport over an interchange of shares between the ports two container terminal operators,…

The European Commission (EC) has published its third call for proposals for freight transport services under its second Marco Polo programme.

Portugals Office of Port and Maritime Transport has found that the extension granted to Liscont for the concession of its container terminal in the port of Lisbon is not anti-competitive. Given particular…

Operators at the port of Naples recently got together with representatives of the port authority and the Transport Department of the regional government to discuss ways of tackling future challenges at the…

The Georgian Port of Poti has sold a 49% stake to RAK Investment Authority of the UAE for $65m; the same company had earlier bought the other 51% for $90m.

The Polish container terminal operator DCT Gdansk passed the 100,000 teu mark ahead of expectations in mid December, helped by the arrival of Maersk Line at the port on the 1 December.

Rotterdam Port Authority has invited bids for construction of phase two of its Euromax Terminal, despite the fact that phase one has yet to be completed. The work involves building 300 metres…

The Russian enclave of Kaliningrad in the Baltic is to go ahead with construction of a new port at Baltiijsk.

DP World has been cleared by European Union competition authorities to form a joint venture to handle break bulk at the Port of Antwerp with partners Conti 7 and Rickmers. The three…

The Port of Tallinn has cancelled the project to build new handling facilities at the Port of Muuga, given the difficulty in raising the necessary investment capital and an inability to sign…

The Spanish port of La Coruña has become the first in the country to issue a Sustainability Report ans is the first in Europe to be awarded top marks by the Global…

On the back of the $3.4bn contract signed by Cosco to manage the Port of Piraeus for 35 years, the president of China has promised to increase his countrys maritime investment in…

After 30 months of negotiation, trade unions at the Port of Algeciras have finally agreed to a new collective bargaining agreement.