On 18 September, representatives of maritime authorities from Azerbaijan, Georgia, the Republic of Moldova and Ukraine joined their counterparts from other countries of the Black and Caspian Sea basins and the EU for a meeting at the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) in Lisbon, Portugal. They discussed EU-funded programmes in the areas of transport, environment,… Read more »
New scenarios in the Mediterranean: Suez and China, the strategies of big carriers, new technologies, and energy routes. Italian Maritime Economy The Suez Canal has just celebrated 150 years of operations. Its 2015 enlargement established new port balances in the Mediterranean: the two records broken in terms of number of ships and goods transited (18,000 vessels and… Read more »
Valeria Mangiarotti, MedCruise director, sustainability and environmental issues. Credit: Port of Cagliari Plans for LNG infrastructure at Cagliari are part of a much larger programme underway in the Mediterranean, as Valeria Mangarotti explains. As director, sustainability and environmental issues on the board of MedCruise and marketing manager of the port network of the Sardinian… Read more »
The European Sea Ports Organisation (ESPO) welcomes the agreement reached on 7 February between the Parliament and the Council on the new regulation establishing a European Maritime Single Window environment (EMSWe). With the new framework, which will repeal the current Reporting Formalities Directive, important steps are made towards reducing administrative burden and increasing the attractiveness… Read more »
“MED ATLANTIC ECOBONUS” | WEBINAR HOW ECO-INCENTIVES MEASURES CAN SUPPORT SUSTAINABLE FREIGHT TRANSPORT SERVICES IN THE TRANSEUROPEAN TRANSPORT NETWORK? Save the Date! Join the Webinar on Monday 17th December from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m After the great success of “Med Atlantic Ecobonus Final Event“, that was held in Lisbon on 29th November, the webinar aims… Read more »
“I hope with the proper relations with the EU, cooperation in ports and maritime sector grows day by day”, Said Managing director of PMO at Logistics workshop attended by 16 representatives of the European Union. PMO News Portal – Mohammad Rastad, at the logistics and transport chain workshop which attended by 16 members of EU in… Read more »
London, United Kingdom, October 2018 At a recent meeting in London at the Baltic Exchange, heads of the world’s leading associations for the world port community met to establish a roundtable with the view to establishing a stronger, unified voice of the port sector in the maritime industry as a whole. Each association drew up… Read more »
Parliament guarantees the provision of adequate port reception facilities for all ships entering EU ports, in line with the polluter pays principle On October 11, 2018, the Transport Committee of the European Parliament adopted earlier this week the final report on the Port Reception Facilities and gave a mandate to the Rapporteur Ms Gesine… Read more »
The FMGC cast iron shells are being put to the test at the Centrales Nantes SEM-REV offshore test site Photo: Centrales Nantes The third round of offshore tests for a new type of subsea electrical cable ballast have been undertaken at a depth of 30 metres on the Centrale Nantes SEM-REV offshore test site…. Read more »
Livorno, Italy, 2018 – Companies operating at the port have been carrying out tests on intelligent driving in the framework of the European Autopilot project, the head of initiatives on the connected vehicle of the European Road Transport Telematics Implementation Coordination Organization (ERTICO), François Fischer said. “Livorno is achieving important results in terms of technological innovation… Read more »
