China
China is a country in East Asia and the most populous country in the world. It has a well-developed port sector and several large companies with European ports and shipping activities, including COSCO Shipping Ports, COSCO Lines, China Merchants Group and Shanghai International Port Group. It has a key role as a supplier of a vast amount of cargo to European markets, via a number of European Mediterranean Sea ports. It has holdings in a number of these ports. Its trade routes with Europe are widely known as the new Silk Road.
China’s investments in Piraeus not to affect links to Trieste port
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) March 27, 2018 – Chinese investment in the port of Piraeus will not affect the future cooperation with the port of Trieste, the...
Genoa port handles 30% of Italy’s trade with China
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) March 26, 2018 – Genoa port channels a total of 30% of the trade between Italy and China, the general secretary of Autorita’ di...
Trieste port and FVG promoted at Belt and Road Forum
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) March 26, 2018 – Today, an agreement will be signed in Trieste to involve major Chinese investments in a project to promote...
Bilbao port, a meeting point between China and Atlantic Europe
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) March 21, 2018 – China is one of the 12 main markets in total traffic of the port of Bilbao and the second in containerised...
Qingdao port to advise Cartagena on terminal digitisation
Cartagena, Spain (Ports Europe) March 13, 2018 – China’s Qingdao port, the eighth biggest port globally in terms of traffic and the first fully...
Cartagena port to cooperate with China’s Qingdao
Cartagena, Spain (Ports Europe) March 6, 2018 – Murcia region plans to intensify maritime traffic with China thanks to a collaboration agreement with the...
Georgia as a Transit Hub and its Increasing Potential in the Implementation of the Belt and Road Initiative
Tbilisi, Georgia (Ports Europe) January 29, 2018 – On January 25, PMC Research hosted a public discussion and a presentation introducing the findings of...
Event: Conference on Maritime Western Silk Road Opportunities, Venice, January 20, 2018
Venice, Italy (PortSEurope) January 20, 2018 – Today, in the Ca ‘Vendramin Calergi palace in Venice the conference “The EUSAIR Macro-regional...
Valencia port to continue rapprochement effort with China
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) January 17, 2018 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) has set the continuation of its efforts to...
Cosco looks at further investments in Italian ports
Milan, Italy (PortSEurope) December 28, 2017 – Chinese businesses continue to explore further investments in Mediterranean ports and in particular in...
Spanish dry port tmZ receives first container of regular line to China
Zaragoza, Spain (PortSEurope) December 20, 2017 – Spanish dry port Terminal Marítima de Zaragoza (tmZ) said it has received the first container of the...
Bordeaux increases contact with China in 2017
Bordeaux, France (PortSEurope) December 16, 2017 – Firstly, in Canton (port twinned with Bordeaux Port Atlantique), the ports of Bordeaux and Nantes...
DSV to launch Zaragoza-Zhengzhou rail freight service
Zaragoza, Spain (PortSEurope) December 14, 2017 – Zaragoza dry port operator Terminal Marítima de Zaragoza (tmZ) plans to launch a regular freight rail...
Valencia port ready to participate in China’s OBOR initiative
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) December 12, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) president Francesc Sánchez has participated in...
China, Switzerland eye investments in Italian ports on the Tyrrhenian Sea
Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) December 12, 2017 – China has a strong interest in investing in Italian ports and especially in the Tyrrhenian Sea, the president...
Genoa port looks to increase business as part of the new Silk Road
Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) December 12, 2017 – Following a trade mission to Hong Kong and Shenzen in November and organized by the Propeller club, the...
Valenciaport confirms its commitment to the new Silk Road in Tianjin (China)
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) December 11, 2017 – The general director of Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia (APV – Port Authority of Valencia),...
Port discussions feature in Friuli Venezia Giulia trade mission to China
Trieste, Italy (PortSEurope) December 8, 2017 – A trade mission of Italy’s Friuli Venezia Giulia region has concluded an economic trade mission to...
Trieste port may start cooperation with Shanghai
Trieste, Italy (PortSEurope) December 7, 2017 – Italy’s Friuli Venezia Giulia regional government Debora Serracchiani has said that Trieste port...
Third Forum of Mediterranean Dialogues discusses China role in the Mediterranean
Rome, Italy, December 6, 2017 – The Third Forum of Mediterranean Dialogues, which took place in Rome a few days ago, gave politicians, bankers and...