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.
CCTT Maritime Logistics Working Group holds first meeting
Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) May 23, 2023 – Today, the Coordinating Council for Trans-Eurasian Transportation (CCTT) hosted the first meeting of the...
Russia, Kazakhstan sign a MoU for transport and transit
Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) May 23, 2023 – Russia and Kazakhstan have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) in the field of transport and transit....
Russia’s Vladivostok as a domestic Chinese port
Vladivostok, Russia (Ports Europe) May 22, 2023 – The Port of Vladivostok, Russia’s largest in country’s Far East, will be used to transport goods...
Russia and Iran to construct the 162 km INSTC missing railway link
Rasht, Iran (Ports Europe) May 22, 2023 – Russia and Iran signed an intergovernmental agreement for the construction of the 162 km Rasht-Astara railway in...
Sanctions: Russia and Iran to jointly buy and build 20 ships for the Caspian Sea
Tehran, Iran (Ports Europe) May 22, 2023 – Russia and Iran have agreed to establish a joint company that will purchase and/or build ships for the...
China to build infrastructure in ex-Soviet Central Asia
Xian, China (Ports Europe) May 19, 2023 – China wants to coordinate development, from building infrastructure to boosting trade, with Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan,...
Ports in Chalkis, Kymi and Mytilene come under new Greek authority
Athens, Greece (Ports Europe) May 17, 2023 – The government has appointed the Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund (HRADF) as the planning authority...
Abu Dhabi Ports is looking at Bulgaria
Varna, Bulgaria (Ports Europe) May 17, 2023 – Bulgarian ports are an excellent alternative for the growing land cargo traffic from Asia to Europe,...
China wants Central Asia & Russia served it on a silver platter
Xian, China (Ports Europe) May 15, 2023 – In the past decade, China has dreamed about having at its disposal the transport and market potential of Central...
Turkmenbashi port to be used by landlocked Tajikistan
Turkmenbashi, Turkmenistan (Ports Europe) May 15, 2023 – Turkmenistan’s Caspian Sea port of Turkmenbashi will offer cargo handling facilities to landlocked...
Landlocked Armenia wants a new transnational transport corridor to Chabahar
Yerevan, Armenia (Ports Europe) May 15, 2023 – s In October 2021, Armenia’s Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan and his Indian counterpart Subrahmanyam...
German diplomats in Aktau before their President’s visit
Aktau, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) May 10, 2023 – On May 4, a delegation of the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Astana, headed by the...
Japanese Deputy Foreign Minister visits Georgia, talks Anaklia
Tbilisi, Georgia (Ports Europe) May 5, 2023 – Japanese Deputy Foreign Minister Yuumi Yoshikawa has visited Georgia and met with Georgian Economy Minister...
Italian port funding: Trieste, Ancona, Marghera and Termini Imerese
Rome, Italy (Ports Europe) May 4, 2023 – The Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport (Italy) is to allocate €9.5 million to four ports of strategic...
Russia begs Indian businesses to move to its SEZ
Astrakhan, Russia (Ports Europe) May 3, 2023 – Sanctions-hit Russia is trying to lure India into helping it replace Western goods as well as equipment and...
Putin pushes for investments in INSTC
Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) May 3, 2023 – Frustrated with the lacklustre performance of the International North-South Transport Corridor (INSTC), the slow...
Russia pushes again for opening long-delayed industrial zones in Egypt
Suez, Egypt (Ports Europe) May 2, 2023 – Sanctions-hit Moscow is desperately trying to create two long-delayed Russian industrial zones (RIZ) with a...