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Port of Sines to get closer to Spain with a new rail line

Sines, Portugal (Ports Europe) August 2, 2023 – The upgrade of the railway line between Evora and Elvas (next to the Spanish border) will increase rail...

APM Terminals Barcelona awarded €3.9 mln for electrification project

Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) August 1, 2023 – APM Terminals Barcelona will carry out a pilot project for the electrification of the container handling...

Ukraine to export grain via Croatian ports

Kiev, Ukraine (Ports Europe) August 1, 2023 – Ukraine and Croatia have agreed to investigate using Croatia’s Danube river ports to export grain...

Metrans starts new regular common train service in Rijeka

Rijeka, Croatia (Ports Europe) August 1, 2023 – Staring last June, the new regular common user train service from Metrans connects the port of Rijeka,...

Three times more containers from Turkmenbashi to Alat in H1’23

Turkmenbashi, Turkmenistan (Ports Europe) August 1, 2023 – Almost three times more containers (2,362 TEUs) were transported from the Caspian Sea port of...

Landlocked Serbia with a new rail link to Port of Koper

Nis, Serbia (Ports Europe) August 1, 2023 – The intermodal rail and road MBOX Terminal in Niš, Serbia, a member of the Milšped Group, has started a new...

Highspeed railway to the port of Mersin

Mersin, Turkey (Ports Europe) July 31, 2023 – United Kingdom Export Finance (UKEF), the UK government’s export credit agency, will help Turkey’s...

RailFreight Connects in Bremen in September

Bremen, Germany (Ports Europe) July 31, 2023 – Ports around Europe have been increasing their investments in rail in past years. However, many questions...

Italian government to disburse €14.7 mln to ports

Rome, Italy (Ports Europe) July 31, 2023 – The Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport has disbursed an advance of €14.7 million to the 12 Port System...

Gioia Tauro is the main seaport for drug smuggling in Italy

Rome, Italy (Ports Europe) July 31, 2023 – The annual report on drug addiction in Italy in 2022, drawn up by the department for anti-drug policies, has...

VTS terminal in Astrakhan handles 15% more cargo YoY

Astrakhan, Russia (Ports Europe) July 31, 2023 – The cargo turnover of Astrakhan Sea Port company terminal (part of the VTS group of companies) in...

Moscow keeps promising the development of industrial zones in Egypt

Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) July 31, 2023 – Infrastructure for the Russian Industrial Zone (RIZ) in Egypt will begin to be built by the end of 2023, Vasily...

Africa, the last resort for Russia’s grain and fertiliser exports

Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) July 31, 2023 – Western sanctions-hit Russia desperately tries to find new markets for its agricultural production (grain) and...

Sanctions slash the value of Russia’s exports by 33%

Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) July 31, 2023 – The value of Russian export decreased by 33% in Q2’23 compared to the same period last year and by 12%...

Uzbekistan looks for a railway line via Afghanistan to the Arabian Sea

Termez, Uzbekistan (Ports Europe) July 31, 2023 – A trans-Afghanistan railway project would connect landlocked Uzbekistan to the Arabian Sea and the...

More Chinese equipment for Russian ports

Vostochny, Russia (PortSEurope) July 31, 2023 – Russia’s multifunctional marine terminal operator Global Ports has put into operation two new high-capacity...

Port of Ravenna exports BMWs to the Far East

Ravenna, Italy (Ports Europe) July 30, 2023 – Last April, Terminal Container Ravenna (TCR) started exporting cars and since then has handled around 3,000...

Durres Port Authority denies statements by EMS-APO

Press Release – Durres Port Authority – July 29, 2023 The Durres Port Authority strongly condemns the utterly misleading statements of the...

FESCO visits Astrakhan shipbuilding plant

Astrakhan, Russia (PortSEurope) July 28, 2023 – A delegation of the FESCO Transport Group, headed by the Chairman of the Board of Directors Andrey...

Russia’s FESCO plans to develop Africa connections

St. Petersburg, Russia (PortSEurope) July 28, 2023 – Executives from the Russian logistics company FESCO have been attending the Russia-Africa Summit and...

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