Top News
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.
U.S. Ambassador talks of interest in Alexandroupoli Port, Greece
Alexandroupolis, Greece (Ports Europe) June 23, 2021 – U.S. Ambassador Pyatt said in an interview with Star channel’s Tsamouri: “Our (U.S.) first...
Joint letter to the Human Rights Council calling for an international investigative mission into the Beirut blast
Beirut, Lebanon (Ports Europe) June 23, 2021 – A group of 53 international and regional rights groups on Tuesday urged member states of the UN Human...
Port of Vigo sees record cargo traffic in May
Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) June 22, 2021 – In the month of May this year, the Port of Vigo exported a total of 211,915 tons of merchandise. This is the...
Future of Cagliari port container terminal remains uncertain
Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy (Ports Europe) June 22, 2021 – The Ministry of Sustainable Infrastructures and Mobility has hosted a meeting to discuss the...
New multimodal urea terminal has been opened in Batumi seaport
“The implementation of such an important project in the Batumi seaport as the multimodal urea terminal is an example of the fact that we are already a...
Irish ambassador of Spain visits port of Ferrol
Ferrol-San Cibrao, Spain (Ports Europe) June 20, 2021 – The president of the Ferrol-San Cibrao Port Authority, Indalecio Seijo, received an institutional...
Recygroup International awarded contract to clear grain from the Port of Beirut
Beirut, Lebanon (Ports Europe) June 20, 2021 – The French environmental engineering company Recygroup International has been awarded a €1.4 million...
COSCO Shipping Ports – Overseas Terminals throughput – May 2021
Piraeus Container Terminal S.A.
COSCO SHIPPING Ports (Spain) Terminals S.L.U.
CSP Zeebrugge Terminal NV
Suez Canal Container Terminal S.A.E.
Kumport Liman...
Valenciaport already moves more than 100,000 export containers in May
València, June 15, 2021 – More than 100,000 containers dedicated to exports left Valenciaport’s docks in May, a figure that represents an...
Approximately 1 million tons of cargo transported from the BTK railway line
Adil Karaismailoğlu, Minister of Transport and Infrastructure, has stated that approximately 1 million tons of cargo has been transported from the...
Nador West Med scheduled for completion in 2022
Nador, Morocco (Ports Europe) June 15, 2021 – The construction of the Nador West Med port complex is now 55% complete and is scheduled for completion in...
New Kars logistics centre to start operations
Ankara, Turkey (Ports Europe) June 15, 2021 – A new logistics centre in the Turkish city of Kars will soon become operational and will have key transport...
Thessaloniki Port Authority announces significant changes to voting rights
Thessaloniki, Greece (Ports Europe) June 14, 2021 – Thessaloniki Port Authority S.A. (ThPA) has announced notifications received from Belterra Holdings, from...
The first freight train from Guangzhou, China, is headed for Odessa
Odessa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) June 14, 2021 – A cargo train has left the Chinese port of Guangzhou heading to Odessa in Ukraine carrying 50 containers....
Will European Corridor VIII ever connect Bari and Brindisi to Durres and Vlora, and to Burgas and Varna?
Varna, Bulgaria (Ports Europe) June 11,2021 – The reconstruction works in Bulgaria for the key railway element of Pan-European corridor VIII that started...
Port of Baku starts the construction of a strategic fertiliser terminal
Baku, Azerbaijan (Ports Europe) June 9, 2021 – The Port of Baku has announced the start of construction of a fertiliser terminal at its new facility...
SAIC Motor to distribute vehicles through the port of Tarragona
Tarragona, Spain (Ports Europe) June 9, 2021 – Maxus, an Asian brand of the SAIC Motor group, with distributor Automax Spain and BERGÉ GEFCO will...