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• 11 June 14 Growing interest in Liverpool shipping lines prompts visit by PM It has been reported by the peelports group that the expanded Port of Liverpool was visited by David Cameron, and is expected to support 5000 direct and indirect jobs over the next 10 years. Due to... Read more ›
• 06 June 14 Turkish operators ready to invest in the Port of Trieste Trieste – The president of the Port Authority of Trieste, Marina Monassi, received a delegation of Turkish investors, consisting of the top management of UN Ro-Ro, Esas and Acteragroup, as well as the terminal operator Enrico... Read more ›
• 04 June 14 SeaRoad looks to FSG to construct LNG-powered ferry Tasmania’s SeaRoad has contracted German shipyard Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft (FSG) to construct a LNG-fuelled ro-ro ferry. The ship is being purposely designed for Bass Strait, which lies between Tasmania and Australia. SeaRoad claims that the new vessel... Read more ›
• 29 April 13 Guido Grimaldi: “Here is the new Mex service” “Repubblica di Roma” is arriving. On May 17th Grimaldi Group (Naples) will include it in MEX service (Mediterranean Express), which links Mediterranean Sea to Western Africa, placing it side by side to “Repubblica di... Read more ›
• 26 April 13 The Port Authority of Vigo projects a new Ro-Ro mobile ramp The ports of Vigo and Nantes-Saint Nazaire and the Spanish shipping company Suardíaz, together with State Port (Puertos del Estado) will submit a joint proposal to the EU financial support program TEN-T, aiming to... Read more ›
• 24 April 13 Barcelona wants to increase oil trade Barcelona Port wants to strengthen its position as petroleum hub. To reach this aim it has just rolled out a new terminal, which has been assigned with a license to Tradebe company. It is... Read more ›
• 22 February 13 A new terminal for Venice The Port of Venice is set to test its northern European competitors’ strength as the new Motorways of the Sea Terminal, located in Venice-Fusina, is scheduled to be operational by the end of 2013.... Read more ›
• 14 February 13 Aim for evolution not revolution Re-engineering the role of a terminal after the departure of its principal client is no easy job. All the more so, when the terminal competed in a niche context in the competitive arena of... Read more ›
• 03 January 13 Motorways of the sea policy in Europe This paper, written by Alfred Baird and Xavier Gese Aperte, explores Motorways of the Sea (MoS) policy in Europe. The major objective of MoS policy is to shift freight from long-distance road transport to sea transport.... Read more ›
• 18 May 12 Green Bridge on Nordic Corridor The Action is built around the equipment of two Roll on-Roll off (RoRo) ships with exhaust gas cleaning technologies in form of scrubbers on two and a catalyst on one ship. Therefore, the vessels... Read more ›