Analysis
Analysis comprises longer articles which look at a particular issue in-depth. They look at the various angles relevant to a particular port news story, including any aspects of politics, business and social relevance. These often have a multi-national aspects.
Port of Novorossiysk to Turkey – the new cargo route
Novorossiysk, Russia (PortSEurope) August 3, 2022 – Turkey is the big winner from the western sanctions against Russia, especially in the transport...
Caspian Sea – From logistics periphery to sanctions busting
Vienna, Austria (PortSEurope) August 1, 2022 – Since the decline of the trade caravans in the era of the Arab conquests, the Caspian Sea region became...
Moscow fixated on Astrakhan port as it looks to use INSTC to bypass sanctions
Astrakhan, Russia (Ports Europe) June 20, 2022 – The Astrakhan region of Russia has presented its ambitious port special economic zone (SEZ) project...
Russia’s President Putin calls for Caspian Sea port development
Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) June 12, 2022 – Hard pressed by western sanctions for his invasion in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin urged in...
Algeria’s port of Djen-Djen enlargement to turn it into a container hub
Djen-Djen, Algeria (Ports Europe) June 7, 2022 – The enlargement of the port of Djen-Djen, under the management of South Korean group Daewoo, will turn...
The two most sanctioned countries try to cheat the West via a logistics bridge across Caspian Sea
Astrakhan, Russia (Ports Europe) June 3, 2022 – The two most sanctioned countries in the world – Russia and Iran – are trying to improve transport links...
How Russia will try to mitigate the impact of the western transport sanctions
Ekaterinburg, Russia (Ports Europe) June 3, 2022 – Understanding Russian strategy about how to circumvent western sanctions in the transport sector and...
Desperate Russia looking to Iran’s ports as a way to bypass western sanctions
Tehran, Iran (Ports Europe) May 30 – Desperately trying to find a way to avoid harsh international sanctions affecting Russian transport and logistics,...
Two Russian proxies vie for control of strategic Greek port of Alexandroupoli
Alexandroupoli, Greece (Ports Europe) May 16, 2022 – Two of the four candidates to win the tender to operate the Greek port of Alexandroupoli have links with...
Russian invasion in Ukraine has only just begun – what is the future for the Ukraine’s ports and transport infrastructure after the war?
Odessa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) February 28 – Five days after the start of Russian invasion in Ukraine, it seems that the Azov Sea will most likely become a...
Dnevnik: Why (pan-European) Corridor 8 has not connected the Balkans for three decades
Sofia, Bulgaria (Ports Europe) February 14, 2022 – A key priority for Bulgaria is the construction of the missing stretches of Corridor 8 (one of the 10...
Analysis – Ukraine and Russia’s meddling Much ado about nothing, political theatre at the expense of ports’ business
Mariupol, Ukraine (Ports Europe) February 14, 2022 – We are not going to have a Russian invasion in Ukraine. It already has happened in 2014 with the...
Russia’s government to save sanctions hit ports in occupied Crimea with Syrian cargo
Feodosia, Crimea, Ukraine (Ports Europe) January 25, 2022 – Severely hit by the sanctions imposed on Ukraine’s Crimea after its annexation by Russia in...
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...
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,...
Analysis – Shipping container crisis seen lasting by end-2023 or even longer
Copenhagen, Denmark (PortSEurope) December 12, 2021 – The global container shortage will last until the end of 2023 and could extend even into 2024 with a...
Top Russian ports – a review
Novorossiysk, Russia (PortSEurope) October 20, 2021 – There are 67 seaports in Russia located on 12 seas, from the Black and Baltic to the Pacific and...
Three of Europe’s poorest countries struggle to open pan-European corridor VIII connecting Adriatic and Black Seas
Sofia, Bulgaria (PortSEurope) October 19, 2021 – After years of neglect and inactivity, the transport ministers of Bulgaria, North Macedonia and Albania...
Analysis – Was the Anaklia Deep Sea Port project torpedoed in the name of a free zone near Poti port?
Anaklia, Georgia (PortSEurope) October 8, 2021 – Georgian billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili, the founder of the ruling Georgian Dream party, has been opposing...
Analysis – Caspiy and Martrade advance plans for modernisation of berths in Olya port on the Caspian Sea
Olya, Russia (Ports Europe) September 1, 2021 – PLC Caspiy has received from Russia’s Ministry of Economic Development resident status for the port-type...