Silk Road
The new Silk Road (part of the Belt and Road initiative also known as One Belt, One Road, or OBOR) is a Chinese economic strategy to seek better access for Chinese-made products in European markets, which includes acquiring stakes in ports and other transport facilities, and cooperation agreements with countries along the Silk Road routes.
It involves road, rail and ship, but focuses on the last two. Many countries along the route are developing facilities to handle high cargo volumes. This includes ports around the Caspian and Black Seas.
Bulgaria and Georgia to establish twice daily ferry services between their Black Sea ports
Sofia, Bulgaria (Ports Europe) April 18, 2019 – Bulgaria and Georgia will increase ferry services between their Black Sea ports from twice weekly to twice...
Genoa port not threatened by Chinese investment
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) April 17, 2019 – Genoa and Savona ports are not threatened by a potentially dominant position of China in the Italian ports...
Potential Chinese investments in Rijeka, Trieste may threaten Slovenia’s Koper port
Koper, Slovenia (Ports Europe) April 16, 2019 – Koper port may lose its leading role in the northern Adriatic and become a port of regional importance if...
Greece joins China’s ”16+1” Partnership With Central and Eastern Europe
Athens, Greece (Ports Europe) April 16, 2019 – Greece has officially joined the ”Cooperation between China and Central and Eastern European...
Plenkovic, Li say Peljesac bridge symbolises Croatia-China-EU cooperation
Zagreb, Croatia (Ports Europe) April 16, 2019 – Last week Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic and Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang visited the...
Croatia and China sign bilateral agreements, issue joint Silk Road statement
Zagreb, Croatia (Ports Europe) April 15, 2019 – Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic and his Chinese counterpart Li Keqiang have issued a joint...
Entrepreneurs from China’s Fujian province visit Valencia port
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) April 5, 2019 – Xinzhao Chen, president of the Association of Chinese Entrepreneurs of Fujian Province in Spain, has held a...
COSCO looks to inland Serbian ports to link to Europe
Belgrade, Serbia (Ports Europe) March 28, 2019 – COSCO considers the region of Southeastern Europe (SEE) to be one of its strategic markets and intends to...
Is Malta missing out on the new Silk Road?
Valletta, Malta (Ports Europe) March 27, 2019 – After the Italian ports of Genoa and Trieste joint the China’s new Silk Road project, the attention...
Calabria’s Gioia Tauro port misses a role in the new Silk Road
Gioia Tauro, Italy (Ports Europe) March 26, 2019 – President of the Calabria Region Mario Oliveiro has written to Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte,...
Germany criticises Italy’s cooperation with China
Berlin, Germany (Ports Europe) March 25, 2019 – The German government is concerned about China’s increasing influence in the EU. Foreign Minister Heiko...
China eyes investments in Italy’s Porto Empedocle
Porto Empedocle, Sicily, Italy (Ports Europe) March 25, 2019 – A Chinese technical delegation has studied the profiles of Sicilian ports, including Porto...
Trieste port signs agreement with China Communications Construction Company
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) March 25, 2019 – Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mare Adriatico Orientale (AdSP – Eastern Adriatic Sea Port...
AdSP del Mar Ligure Occidentale (Genoa) and China Communication Construction Company sign cooperation agreement
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) March 25, 2019 – A part of the wider agreement signed in Rome between Italy and China for the development of relations...
Ports set to gain as Italy and China sign MoU for investment
Rome, Italy (Ports Europe) March 24, 2019 – During a state visit to Italy of Chinese President Xi Jinping, the two countries signed a non-binding...
Liguria has know-how to deal with China’s investments in Genoa port
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) March 21, 2019 – The potential Chinese investments in Genoa port would not lead to the loss of a state control over the harbour...
Chinese President Xi Jinping will pay state visits to Italy, Monaco and France this week
Vienna, Austria (Ports Europe) March 18, 2019 – President Xi Jinping of China is to pay state visits to Italy, Monaco and France from March 21-26, 2019....