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As Afloat reported last month, the European Sea Ports Organisation (ESPO) is to host their 18th edition of its Annual Conference in Valencia, Spain (2-3 June) and those intending to attend can now register.    The theme of this year’s…

Details of Warrenpoint Port's performance for the year ending 31st December 2021 have been released by the Co. Down port. In a year which brought exceptional challenges, not least in relation to Covid-19 and Brexit, the Port continued to experience…

UK ports group, Peel Ports has partnered with social enterprise Innovate Her to encourage diversity and inclusion across the organisation and promote STEM subjects to hundreds of female students across Liverpool. The national port operator has pledged its support to…

‘Towards a Harmonised Onshore Power Supply in the European Union’ is the title of the EALING Mid-Term Event webinar for the European ports industry next Friday 29 April. Emissions reduction at the ship-port interface is one of the key drivers…

Dublin Port’s volumes have recovered strongly in the first quarter of 2022 with growth of 13.7% to 8.9 million gross tonnes compared to same period in 2021. Reporting its trading figures for Q1 today (Wednesday 20 April), Dublin Port company…

The European Parliament Committee on Transport and Tourism (TRAN) will today (19 April) discuss the draft Report from MEP Ertug on the proposal for an Alternative Fuels Infrastructure Regulation (AFIR). On 20 April, the TRAN Committee will also discuss the…

Russian vessels will be denied entry into Irish ports after this Saturday 16 April on the foot of sanctions from the European Union amid the ongoing invasion of Ukraine. As the latest Marine Notice from the Department of Transport outlines,…

At the Port of Liverpool, one of the UK’s largest port operators, the Peel Ports Group have announced a number of record-breaking achievements across its container terminals division. The Irish Sea port safely handled a total of 52,300 containers (89,400…

The first ports group in Europe, Associated British Ports (ABP) is to use a new digital Master Pilot Exchange programme developed by Ports of Auckland, eMPX, simplifying the current process. Already in use at ports in Australia and New Zealand,…

The overall Motorways of the Sea (MoS) framework, that involve ports and maritime links across the Atlantic Arc, in particular Ireland and north-west France (Dublin Port-Cherbourg), have an increasingly important role in keeping Ireland connected to the single market. It is…

The ports industry in the UK has described as “unworkable” ministers’ plans to ask port operators to block ferries with crews paid less than the minimum wage, the government’s signature policy response to outrage over the sacking of 800 workers…

Once again the newest C-class series of short-sea traders for Arklow Shipping, launched in a shipyard in The Netherlands, has been given a ship name first for the Co. Wicklow based shipowner, writes Jehan Ashmore. On this occasion, Saturday's launch…

The Annual Conference of the European Sea Port Organisation (ESPO) is heading to the Port of Valencia, Spain where the theme of this 18th edition of the conference is “Empowering Europe’s ports”. The two day conference takes place on 2…

Protestors at the Port of Liverpool against P&O Ferries' decision to sack 800 seafaring workers have been moved by police from the entrance of the Merseyside port. About 40 demonstrators blocked the road leading to the port, where P&O operates…

Companies in Ireland are using up to 20 new trade routes to get goods to continental Europe in the wake of Brexit, according to the head of business lobby group Chambers Ireland. Ian Talbot said businesses here were increasingly avoiding…

Peel Ports Group, one of the UK’s largest port operators, has won the Maritime UK award for seizing opportunities presented within the UK Government’s strategy for the sector - including its commitment to become a net zero port operator by…