Government
News about the involvement of government in port activities. Includes government laws applicable to ports, state-owned ports including European Union issues with national government implications. Also includes inter-government meetings, agreements and visits of government officials.
Ukraine’s Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi Sea Trade Port for sale – again
Kiev, Ukraine (Ports Europe) March 1, 2024 – The State Property Fund of Ukraine plans to sell/privatise Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi Sea Trade Port via an...
Putin: Soviet-style transport and logistics promises
Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) February 29, 2024 – In true Soviet style, Russian President Vladimir Putin addressed Russia‘s Federal Assembly, the...
Hamburg mayor supports HHLA-MSC deal
Hamburg, Germany (Ports Europe) February 28, 2024 – In a government statement today, Hamburg’s mayor Peter Tschentscher will campaign in support...
Novorossiysk Sea Trade Port sanctioned by Canada
Novorossiysk, Russia (Ports Europe) February 25, 2024 – Russia’s Novorossiysk Sea Trade Port (NSTP) company has been included in the sanctions imposed...
Turkey’s Filyos port to be open to general maritime transport
Ankara, Turkey (Ports Europe) February 22, 2024 – The Minister of Transport and Infrastructure, Abdulkadir Uraloğlu, has said that within two years the...
Ukraine discusses agricultural transit with Romania
News – The Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine, Mykola Solsky, held another online meeting with the Minister of Agriculture and Rural...
Romanian government approves Constanta Port dredging
Constanța, Romania (Ports Europe) February 20, 2024 – The Romanian government has approved an ambitious $229 million dredging project at the Port of...
Strait of Messina bridge – final design approved
Messina, Sicily, Italy (Ports Europe) February 16, 2024 – The Board of Directors of the Società Stretto di Messina has approved the update of the...
Rome government approves return to Israeli ports
Rome, Italy (Ports Europe) February 15, 2024 – The Inter-Ministerial Committee for Maritime Safety has unanimously resolved to reopen safely commercial...
Swiss ambassador visits Baku port
Baku, Azerbaijan (Ports Europe) February 14, 2024 – Switzerland’s Ambassador to Azerbaijan Thomas Stehlin visited the country’s Caspian Sea port of...
Romanian government blocks sale of stake in Constanta port
Constanța, Romania (Ports Europe) February 14, 2024 – Shareholders of Fondul Proprietatea have rejected a proposal made by the Fund’s...
Kazakhstan, Greece talk Middle Corridor cooperation
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) February 12, 2024 – The Ambassador of Kazakhstan to Greece Erlan Baudarbek-Kozhataev has met with the Mayor of the Greek...
Montenegrin government to back payment to Chinese bank by shipbuilder
Kotor, Montenegro (Ports Europe) February 12, 2024 – The government said it will cover a €2.3 million instalment owed by state-owned shipbuilder...
Albania’s Shengjin port to receive Italian asylum seekers
Durrës, Albania (Ports Europe) February 8, 2024 – The Northern port of Shengjin is set to receive Italian asylum seekers under an agreement between the...
Italian ministry highlights four objectives for port system
Rome, Italy (Ports Europe) February 7, 2024 – The Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport has highlighted four objectives for the national port system....
Greece plans tourist port investment
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) February 7, 2024 – On January 31, 2024, the period for submitting investment projects as part of the Call for Expressions...
Update: Belarus cargo to test North-South corridor in spring
Astrakhan, Russia (Ports Europe) February 6, 2024 – Sanctions-hit Belarus is aggressively pursuing alternative cargo transportation options via Russia, a...
Update: Can Russia add Libya’s Tobruk port to Tartus in Syria?
Tobruk, Libya (Ports Europe) February 4, 2024 – Fears are growing in Italy that Russia will base nuclear submarines at a planned naval port in eastern...