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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.

FlexiLoire inland river service starts between Nantes and Montoir-de-Bretagne

Nantes-St.Nazaire (France) January 18, 2018 – FlexiLoire, a new fluvial connection for the transport of heavy goods, containers and various freight...

Damietta port to reduce some fees

Damietta, Egypt (PortSEurope) January 16, 2018 – Container ships with the capacity of 100 units or less passing through the Damietta Port will be exempt...

Further details released about Kanal Istanbul

Istanbul, Turkey (PortSEurope) January 10, 2018 – Kanal Istanbul is a project ti build a waterway which would operate as an alternative waterway to the...

Azerbaijan and Russia to cooperate in cruise shipping

Baku, Azerbaijan (PortSEurope) January 2, 2018 – Chairman of Azerbaijan Caspian Shipping Company (ACSC) Rauf Veliyev and Konstantin Anisimov, the General...

ADM Romania increases capacity in Constanta port with new floating crane

Constanta, Romania (PortSEurope) December 20, 2017 – ADM Romania has recently been equipped with a new floating crane – “Harvest...

Representatives of Anaklia port in Georgia visit Constanta port

Constanta, Romania (PortSEurope) December 20, 2017 – On December 13, 2017, representatives of Anaklia port in Georgia, Levan Akhvlediani, CEO, and...

Friuli Venezia Giulia to invest 1.13 million in port waterways maintenance

Trieste, Italy (PortSEurope) December 18, 2017 – Friuli Venezia Giulia regional government has awarded a €1.13 million ($1.33 million) contract for...

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...

Ukraine joins the Danube Transnational Programme development and a joint EU initiative for the East of Ukraine

Odessa, Ukraine (PortSEurope) December 10, 2017 – Ukraine and the European Union have signed bilateral documents in the framework of the working visit...

Ukraine to work with port of Rotterdam

Odessa, Ukraine (PortSEurope) November 27, 2017 – On November 21-23,  2017, at the invitation of the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in...

Ukraine is part of the Trans-European Transport Network – Vladimir Omelyan

Kiev, Ukraine (PortSEurope) November 27,2017 – Among the practical results of the Eastern Partnership Summit in Brussels was the signing by Ukrainian...

Ports Europe – Reference – The Danube Transnational Programme

November 14, 2017 – Reference – The Danube Transnational Programme The Danube Transnational Programme is a financing instrument of the European...

Lyon increases container handling from Marseille port

Lyon, France (PortSEurope) October 30, 2017 – Since 1997, Lyon has become the advanced port for Marseille for container traffic. Currently, 50% of...

Serbia to receive over €11 million EU funds for transport development

Brussels, Belgium, October 24, 2017 Zorana Mihajlović, Deputy Prime Minister of Serbia and Dirk Beckers, Director of INEA signed today a grant agreement on...

Bordeaux Port Authority, VNF and EPIDOR sign a charter for development of river tourism

Bordeaux, France (PortSEurope) October 21, 2017 – Whilst the port of Bordeaux (Grand Port Maritime de Bordeaux) has developed a cruise industry, there...

Constanta port holds promotional event in Budapest

Budapest, Hungary (Ports Europe) October 12, 2017 – More than 180 representatives of the Hungarian business community participated in the 12th edition...

Bulgaria and Romania set to improve transport links

Sofia, Bulgaria (Ports Europe) October 5, 2016 – Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov and his Romanian counterpart Mihai Tudose have opened a new...

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