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The activities of inland commercial ports & waterways, including rivers and canals. Includes inland port development and waterway cargo traffic numbers. For example, the Danube river which passes through or touches the borders of 10 countries: Romania, Hungary, Serbia, Austria, Germany, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Croatia, Ukraine and Moldova.

Update – Ukrainian Bilhorod-Dniester Sea Trade Port sold at auction for $5.9 million

Odessa, Ukraine (PortSEurope) March 13, 2023 – Bilhorod-Dniester Sea Trade Port has sold at auction for $5.9 million, Alexander Slavsky, head of the...

Ukraine – European Commission – Romania: the development of shipping on the Danube

Ukraine – European Commission – Romania: the development of shipping on the Danube – a joint task to improve the export capacities of the Danube ports...

Russia issues tender for dredging of Volga-Caspian Shipping Canal

Moscow, Russia (PortSEurope) March 10, 2023 – Russia’s state agency Rosmorport has issued a tender for maintenance dredging on...

Kernel buys river terminal in Reni port, Ukraine

Kiev, Ukraine (PortSEurope) March 9, 2023 – Last month, agricultural concern Kernel acquired a grain terminal in the Reni inland port. The terminal has...

Maersk is now able to offer direct bookings to Ukraine

Copenhagen, Denmark (PortSEurope) March 8, 2023 – Maersk is now able to offer direct bookings to Ukraine, after a year due to Russian invasion of...

Sanctions force Russia to allow foreign ships in Volga-Don Shipping Canal

Astrakhan, Russia (PortSEurope) March 8, 2023 – Western sanctions are forcing Russia to redirect its trade and cargo from the north-west to the south-east of...

USAID: three new partnerships to support Ukrainian grain

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has announced three new partnerships to help Ukraine with the logistics challenges caused by Russia’s...

Russia announces further investment in Port of Olya, Astrakhan

Astrakhan, Russia (PortSEurope) March 6, 2023 – Financing of 2.5 billion rubles was allocated for the design and construction of infrastructure...

Russia offers 12 million tonnes Caspian Sea ports capacity to Iran

Astrakhan, Russia (PortSEurope) March 3, 2023 – In 2023, Russian Caspian Sea ports are ready to accept up to 12 million tonnes of cargo from Iran with...

Belarus wants to buy St. Petersburg Bronka terminal this year

Vienna, Austria (PortSEurope) March 2, 2023 – Belarus plans to complete the purchase of the Bronka maritime transshipment complex in the Big Port of St....

Ukraine holds discussion with Danube Commission

Kiev, Ukraine (PortSEurope) March 2, 2023 – Ukrainian experts have met with the Danube Commission (DC), confirming that the Danube remains the only...

Iranian Caspian Sea ports gain cargo due to sanctions against Russia

Tehran, Iran (PortSEurope) February 28, 2023 – Transit cargo via Iranian Caspian Sea ports increased in the current Iranian calendar year (started on...

Russia forced to rely on China and Iran to deepen Volga Canal

Astrakhan, Russia (PortSEurope) February 28, 2023 – Russia was forced to beg China and Iran to send dredging equipment to realise another of Russian...

Iranian ships run aground in Volga-Caspian Canal

Astrakhan, Russia (PortSEurope) February 28, 2023 – Two Iranian flagged ships ran aground at the 170th km of the Volga River – Caspian Sea Marine...

Constanta – CEE cargo hub. 16th largest port in Europe

Constanța, Romania (PortSEurope) February 27, 2023 – Romania’s Black Sea port of Constanța benefits from an advantageous geographical positioning on the...

BMF Port Burgas with a dry port in Bulgarian capital Sofia

Bozhurishte, Bulgaria (PortSEurope) February 26, 2023 – The private port operator BMF Port Burgas, a concessionaire of the Black Sea’s Burgas East-2...

Tender for Bulgaria’s second intermodal terminal in Ruse

Ruse, Bulgaria (PortSEurope) February 26, 2023 – Bulgaria’s National Railway Infrastructure Company (NRI) has opened the tender for the construction of...

TTS to purchase Romanian port operator Decirom SA

Bucharest, Romania (PortSEurope) February 24, 2023 – TTS (Transport Trade Services) has announced plans to buy an unidentified port operator for the sum...

Draft of vessels in Ukraine’s Danube ports significantly increase

Izmail, Ukraine (PortSEurope) February 20, 2023 – War-torn Ukraine has managed to increase the draft of vessels in the country’s section of the Danube...

New feeder container line between Ukraine’s Izmail port, Constanta

Izmail, Ukraine (Ports Europe) February 17, 2023 – The feeder container service between the Romanian Black Sea port of Constanta and the Ukrainian Danube...

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