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All news from Ports Europe categorised by searchable individual countries and some regions.
Russia to build a new transshipment centre in Rostov-on-Don by end-2020
Rostov, Russia (Ports Europe) May 26, 2020 – A container transshipment complex is to be constructed on the Don River near Rostov, as part of a wider plan...
Virtuo adds to logistics space in Distriport, Marseille
Virtuo and the Port of Marseille Fos have finalized the sale of two plots of land in the Distriport logistics zone near the container terminals for the...
Electrical substation for port of Valencia receives approval
News – The Conselleria d’Agricultura, Desenvolupament Rural, Emergència Climàtica i Transició Ecològica gives its approval to the transformer...
Rosmorport reports steady performance in the first four months of 2020
Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) May 26, 2020 – In the first four months of 2020, Rosmorport reported revenue of 10.7 billion rubles. Relative to the...
Russia’s Taganrog Commercial Sea Port (Azov Sea) reports 2% rise in Q1 2020 traffic
Taganrog, Russia (Ports Europe) May 26, 2020 – In the first three month of 2020, the Russian Azov Sea port of Taganrog has reported a more than 2% rise...
APM Terminals Algeciras connects to the national 66KV energy network
APM Terminals Algeciras has increased the voltage of its power supply from 20kv to 66KV this week. This 3.2-million-euro investment will improve the stability...
Port of Thessaloniki launched EMR Facility
Thessaloniki, Greece (Ports Europe) May 25, 2020 – On May 1, 2020, Thessaloniki Port Authority (ThPA) launched an Equipment & Maintenance Repair...
Thessaloniki Port Authority signs workforce agreement
Thessaloniki, Greece (Ports Europe) May 25, 2020 – Thessaloniki Port Authority (ThPA) has signed the Company Collective Labor Agreement (CLA) for the...
Malta Freeport completes N4 upgrade to drive RTG optimization
News – Amid COVID-19, Malta Freeport Completes N4 Upgrade to Drive RTG Optimization – May 21, 2020 Navis, part of Cargotec Corporation, the...
Ukrainian seaports see traffic up over 12% in Jan-Apr 2020
Odessa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) May 25, 2020 – In the first four months of 2020, Ukrainian seaports handled 55 million tons of cargo, an increase of...
Port of Antwerp cargo traffic remains stable
Antwerp, Belgium (Ports Europe) May 25, 2020 – Despite the effects of the Covid-19 coronavirus crisis, Antwerp port has reported growth of 0.4% in the...
Timetable set for new Alessandria railway station to serve Genoa port
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) May 25, 2020 – At the first meeting of the steering committee for the development of the new Alessandria railway station,...
Piraeus Port Authority awards €6 million repair contract
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) May 25, 2020 – Piraeus Port Authority SA (PPA) has awarded a contract for repairs of pavements and rails for RMG cranes of...
Bulgaria’s Port Burgas enlarges quay walls, adds new docking spaces
(Adds details to “BMF Port Burgas receives several bids for tenders” article from May 1, 2020) Burgas, Bulgaria (Ports Europe) May 25, 2020 –...
Analysis – China lends money to forward interest in Belgrade-Budapest railway, a key New Silk Road link
Budapest, Hungary (Ports Europe) May 25, 2020 – In 2013, Hungary, Serbia and China signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to build a railway that...
Port of Rijeka multimodal platform development set for June completion
Rijeka, Croatia (Ports Europe) May 22, 2020 – Port of Rijeka multimodal platform development and interconnection to Adriatic Gate (Jadranska vrata)...
Ports of Genoa: Covid-19 Update – Issue 16/2020 – Will emergency measures save the world economy and international trade?
Covid-19 Update – Issue 15/2020 – Ports of Genoa – Will emergency measures save the world economy and international trade? – May 22, 2020 Shipping...
Decathlon increases Tanger Med facility activity
Tanger Med, Morocco (Ports Europe) May 22, 2020 – Decathlon S.A., a French sporting goods retailer, has strengthened its logistic activities...
U.S. Secretary of State Pompeo & Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu speak at joint press event
News – Secretary Michael R. Pompeo and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu before Their Meeting – U.S. Embassy in Israel – May 13, 2020...
Fulbright Greece: Message from U.S. Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt
Message from U.S. Ambassador to Greece, Geoffrey R. Pyatt – May 18, 2020 As the U.S. Ambassador to the Hellenic Republic, I want to commend Fulbright...