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EU funding for Alexandropoulis port

Alexandroupolis, Greece (Ports Europe) May 17, 2023 – The European Commission (EC) will provide Greece with €24 million for the development of the...

Port of Barcelona installs OPS at Hutchison Ports BEST terminal

Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) May 17, 2023 – Work to install the first Onshore Power Supply (OPS) for container ships has begun at the Hutchison Ports...

Free economic zone status paves the way for a container hub in Aktau port

Aktau, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) May 18, 2023 – Kazakhstan’s Caspian Sea Port of Aktau was registered by the government as part of the special economic...

EUROKAI sees TEU handling down over 16% in Q1 2023

Hamburg, Germany (Ports Europe) May 17, 2023 – In the first quarter of 2023 the container terminals in the EUROKAI Group saw an overall decline in...

Sanctions: New port and logistics hub in Samara region

Samara, Russia (Ports Europe) May 17, 2023 – A new port and logistics hub will be built in Russia’s Samara region, following a positive opinion for the...

Cheap concession for a super transshipment complex in Novorossiysk

Novorossiysk, Russia (Ports Europe) May 17, 2023 – The Russian government will sign a concession agreement for new infrastructure facilities of the...

Abu Dhabi Ports is looking at Bulgaria

Varna, Bulgaria (Ports Europe) May 17, 2023 – Bulgarian ports are an excellent alternative for the growing land cargo traffic from Asia to Europe,...

Huge cocaine haul found in Port of Gioia Tauro

Gioia Tauro, Italy (PortSEurope) May 16, 2023 – Media reports say that police in Italy have seized 2.7 tons of cocaine hidden among 78 tons of bananas in...

Valenciaport joins World Ports Climate Action Program summit

Valencia, May 12, 2023 – The president of the Port Authority of Valencia (APV), Joan Calabuig, will participate on May 17 in Rotterdam in the 5th CEO...

Greek Council of State suspends Piraeus Port expansion

Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) May 15, 2023 – The Greek Council of State has suspended three investment project which are part of the Piraeus Port...

Montenegro signs memorandum for LNG terminal

Bar, Montenegro (Ports Europe) May 16, 2023 – The Montenegro government has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Enerflex Energy Systems and...

EBRD restarts work on Ukraine’s Chornomorsk port

Brussels, Belgium (Ports Europe) May 15, 2023 – The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is to restart work on Ukraine’s Chornomorsk...

HHLA sees container traffic down over 18% in Q1 2023

Hamburg, Germany (Ports Europe) May 15, 2023 – In the first quarter of 2023, container throughput at HHLA’s container terminals decreased overall by...

Montenegro seaport trade down over 15% in Q1, 2023

Bar, Montenegro (Ports Europe) May 15, 2023 – In the first three months of 2023, the seaports of Montenegro handled 544,591 tonnes of cargo, compared to...

Sanctions: Turkish imports from Russia via its seaports up +75% in Jan-Apr 23

Ankara, Turkey (Ports Europe) May 15, 2023 – Imports from Russia, which is under Western sanctions, via Turkish ports skyrocketed to over 29 million...

China wants Central Asia & Russia served it on a silver platter

Xian, China (Ports Europe) May 15, 2023 – In the past decade, China has dreamed about having at its disposal the transport and market potential of Central...

Second stage of Rostov-on-Don grain terminal progresses

Rostov-on-Don, Russia (Ports Europe) May 15, 2023 – The project for the construction of the second stage of the grain terminal in Rostov Marine Multimodal...

Turkmenbashi port to be used by landlocked Tajikistan

Turkmenbashi, Turkmenistan (Ports Europe) May 15, 2023 – Turkmenistan’s Caspian Sea port of Turkmenbashi will offer cargo handling facilities to landlocked...

Landlocked Armenia wants a new transnational transport corridor to Chabahar

Yerevan, Armenia (Ports Europe) May 15, 2023 – s In October 2021, Armenia’s Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan and his Indian counterpart Subrahmanyam...

Russian seaports handled 300.5 million tonnes of cargo Jan-Apr’23

Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) May 14, 2023 – Cargo turnover of Russian seaports in the January-April 2023 period increased by 11.6% compared to the same...

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