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The key news from Ports Europe covering business and geopolitical issues. Some of these articles appear in the email newsletter published every Wednesday. This will include any new Analysis articles.
PSA International handled record container volumes of 91.5 million TEU in 2021
PSA International Pte Ltd (PSA) handled record container volumes of 91.5 million TEUs at its port projects around the world for the year ending 31 December...
A bridge over the Strait of Messina subject to study
Messina, Italy (Ports Europe) January 12, 2022 – The Minister of Sustainable Infrastructures and Mobility (Mims), Enrico Giovannini, has reported that...
Tanger Med handled 7.17 million TEU in 2021, up 24%
Tangier, Morocco (Ports Europe) January 12, 2022 – The Tanger Med Port Authority has reported that the facility handled 7,173,870 TEUs in 2021, up a huge...
Yilport’s San Cataldo Container Terminal in Taranto port hires workers
Taranto, Italy (Ports Europe) January 12, 2022 – In a positive start to 2022, the San Cataldo Container Terminal (SCCT) in the Port of Taranto has hired...
New UK-Morocco cargo sea service avoids Brexit red tape
London, United Kingdom (Ports Europe) January 12, 2022 – United Seaways has launched a weekly Ro-Ro service directly linking Poole on the Southern coast...
Morocco first North African state to sign a Belt and Road Initiative implementation plan with China
Casablanca, Morocco (Ports Europe) January 11, 2022 – The Kingdom of Morocco has become the first North African state to sign a Belt and Road...
Port of Barcelona to tender the pilot project for electricity supply at the Hutchinson Ports BEST terminal
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) January 11, 2022 – The Port of Barcelona is to tender the pilot project for the electricity supply of the container ships...
Consul General of Panama visits Port of València
València, Spain (Ports Europe) January 10, 2022 – The Consul General of the Republic of Panama in Valencia, Arline González, has visited the Port of...
Bulgaria pushes for a Ro-Ro line with Turkey between the ports of Burgas and Karasu
Burgas, Bulgaria (Ports Europe) January 9, 2022 – Bulgaria keeps pushing for the establishment of a Ro-Ro line between the country’s second largest Black...
Emmar Group and Albanian government keep promising start of realisation of the tourist port of Durres
Durrës, Albania (Ports Europe) January 7, 2022 – The first phase of the construction of the new tourist port in Durrës – cleaning the sea and the old...
Noatum plans to expand Port of Tarragona concession
Tarragona, Spain (Ports Europe) January 7, 2022 – Concessionaire Noatum Terminal has applied to the Port Authority of Tarragona for the occupation of an...
Port of Taranto welcomes vessels diverted from Malta
Taranto, Italy (Ports Europe) January 5, 2022 – From December 31 to January 14, new container ships will have arrived in...
CS Wind ASM to invest in Port of Aveiro
Aveiro, Portugal (Ports Europe) January 5, 2022 – CS Wind ASM is to invest around €260 million ($293.6 million) over the next four years to triple...
Turkish ports see 5% cargo growth last year
Istanbul, Turkey (Ports Europe) January 4, 2022 – The Turkish port sector, which handled over 51 million tons in 2021, will exceed the global average...
Suez Canal Authority reports record revenues for 2021
Cairo, Egypt (Ports Europe) January 4, 2022 – The Suez Canal Authority has announced that the navigation statistics in the canal in 2021 set new records,...
Port of Augusta to receive loan from Cassa Depositi e Prestiti
Augusta, Sicily, Italy (Ports Europe) January 3, 2022 – Investment bank Cassa Depositi e Prestiti (Cdp) has granted a €53 million loan to Autorita’...
Russian ships banned from Ukraine’s ports of the Dniester, Danube, Dnieper rivers, but Russia controls the Azov Sea
Odessa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) January 3, 2022 – A law banning Russian ships from accessing Ukraine’s internal waters came into force on January 1,...