New, bigger cranes for Limassol port
Limassol port container terminal operator Eurogate said Tuesday it has taken delivery of two new gantry cranes that will enable the company to handle the...
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Workers stage second impromptu strike at port (updated)
Around 80 workers at the Eurogate Container Terminal at Limassol port who went on an impromptu work stoppage on Thursday morning went back to work...
Eurogate to invest €30m in Limassol Port
Eurogate Container Terminal Limassol Ltd said that it intends to invest €30m in upgrading infrastructure and services at Limassol Port, including two new crane bridges....
Transport ministry asks Eurogate to waive fees for empty containers
Eurogate Container Terminal Limassol Ltd, the company which took over operations for the container business at Limassol port three months ago, said it has received...
Limassol port revenues ‘higher than before,’ ministry insists
STATE revenues from the privatisation of commercial operations at the port of Limassol will increase by more than 50 per cent compared to under the...
Eurogate brings in more equipment to speed up port services
Container terminal operator Eurogate said on Thursday it expected to cut service times further after the arrival of additional equipment from Germany, as operations at...
Demetriades dismisses calls to resign, won’t ‘abandon ship’
TRANSPORT Minister Marios Demetriades said on Thursday he refuses to abandon ship in a storm as a response to calls for his resignation over the...
Diko leader’s visit to port a ‘flagrant insult’ to transport minister
Diko leader Nicolas Papadopoulos’ meeting at the Limassol port which included the ports authority officials and the deputy port master was an insult to state...
Claims of sabotage in port transition chaos (Update 2)
The processing of containers at Limassol harbour appeared to have markedly improved on Monday compared to the previous week, although the situation took a new...
Merchants warn of port disaster, severe shortages
MERCHANTS warned on Friday that should lorry drivers continue to refuse to pick up containers from Limassol port, there will be a shortage of goods...
Truck drivers rebuff Anastasiades as cargo floods port
The deadlock at the Limassol port continued on Friday, after lorry drivers defied President Nicos Anastasiades’s appeal to resume the delivery of containers whose number...
Eurogate promises better service to frustrated truckers (Update 2)
Lorry drivers decided to continue refraining from delivering and picking up containers for three more days and, give Eurogate, the container cargo operator at the...
Auditor says minister wrong to drop penalties in port contracts
Auditor general Odysseas Michaelides said that Transport Minister Marios Demetriades largely ignored an advice of the Audit Office to include deterrent penalties and guarantees in...
Divided hauliers reject Eurogate deal, remain outside port (Update)
After lorry drivers rejected the agreement struck by container terminal operator Eurogate and Povek, to compensate them for time lost while waiting at the Limassol...
Eurogate accepts compensation-for-delay proposal, truckers still not happy (Update-3)
Some of the tension mounting at the Limassol port since container terminal operator Eurogate took over earlier this month was relieved when the company agreed...
Jobs threatened by increased port container charges
Construction material manufacturer Peletico warned on Monday that 150 employees at the company’s bentonite production unit risked losing their jobs because of the rise in...
Port denationalisation has not failed, minister says
The Limassol port, which was handed to private companies a couple of weeks ago, has yet to reach satisfactory levels of operation, the transport minister...
EuroGate promises will reconsider Limassol port charges
EuroGate, the container handling company at the Limassol port, agreed to redraft some of its charges, which together with the delay in service in the...
Semi-paralysed Limassol port to close on Friday ahead of takeover
Days before three consortiums led by EuroGate and Dubai Ports assume control of the Limassol Port’s operations on Monday, the port remains paralysed with four...
Limassol port tender winners ‘will try to attract’ energy companies
Transport Minister Marios Demetriades said on Friday that the winners of the Limassol port tender were aware of the significance of Larnaca municipality’s decision to...