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.
Workers in Syria’s Tartus protest again Russia’s company management of the port
Tartus, Syria (Ports Europe) July 9, 2020 – Port workers in Tartus have again complained about their Russian employer irregular and lower than the agreed...
French ports handle disproportionately small cargo volumes compared to Italian and Spanish competitors
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) June 15, 2020 – French ports lag significantly behind their Spanish and Italian counterparts in gross weight of seaborne goods...
Russia’s Caspian ports continue to increase cargo volumes in January-May 2020
Makhachkala, Russia (Ports Europe) June 11, 2020 – Cargo volumes handled by the three Russian ports in the Caspian Sea in the first five months of 2020...
TransContainer calls for container transportation through Russia to be subsidized by the state
Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) June 9, 2020 – Digitalization, excess of transport capacity, transit of sanctioned goods through Russia, changes in the...
Russia’s network of specialised oil ports
Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) June 8, 2020 – Russia is one of the countries with the largest number of specialised oil and petroleum products ports in the...
Analysis – Russia’s port of Taman expansion progresses
Taman, Russia (Ports Europe) June 1, 2020 – Joint-stock company Lenmorniiproekt will allocate 65 million rubles (€840,000) for the design and budget...
Analysis – China lends money to forward interest in Belgrade-Budapest railway, a key New Silk Road link
Budapest, Hungary (Ports Europe) May 25, 2020 – In 2013, Hungary, Serbia and China signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to build a railway that...
Analysis – Anaklia Development Consortium has no chance to finish Georgia’s deep sea port project – minister
Anaklia, Georgia (Ports Europe) May 20, 2020 – Two days after Anaklia Development Consortium (ADC) said that it was “the right partner” for the...
Analysis – Russia uses Libya’s partition to gain control of its Mediterranean ports
Tripoli, Libya (Ports Europe) May 4, 2020 – The year-long siege of Tripoli, seat of Libya’s UN-recognised Government of National Accord (GNA), by the...
Akdeniz port – Reduced traffic volumes and up for sale
Istanbul, Turkey (Ports Europe) May 3, 2020 – The 2019 annual report of Global Ports Holding (GPH) reports traffic volumes down and a potential buyer in...
Analysis – Who will benefit from Kanal Istanbul project?
Istanbul, Turkey (Ports Europe) April 29, 2020 – Companies with close ties to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the governing in Turkey Justice and...
Analysis – COVID-19 does not seriously infect ports yet, but panicked politicians might contaminate their business
Vienna, Austria (Ports Europe) April 8, 2020 – Italy, Spain, France – where the major Mediterranean ports are – have tens of thousands of cases...
Analysis – Cruise ships businesses face hard challenges. COVID-19 takes business “offline”
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) March 25, 2020 – Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. has announced it is to extend the suspension of cruise sailings of its...
Analysis – Strategic and overambitious Iranian move in Russian Caspian, financed by China, or much ado about nothing
Lagan, Russia (Ports Europe) March 23 – A group of Iranian companies, financed by China, wants to invest in the development of the small southern Russian...
Analysis – Israel to privatise Haifa Port, China invests, Washington concerned
Haifa, Israel (Ports Europe) March 18, 2020 – In 2015, the Israeli government decided to sell off state-owned assets in order to raise funds to reduce debt,...
Analysis – Is Alexandroupolis port the new trump card in the Trump administration’s Mediterranean Great Game?
Alexandroupolis, Greece (Ports Europe) March 10, 2020 – On March 7, 2020, U.S. Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt and Deputy Assistant Secretary at U.S....
Analysis – Is this the start of tendering process for Kanal Istanbul?
Istanbul, Turkey (Ports Europe) March 9, 2020 – A tender will be launched on March 26 for the reconstruction and relocation of the historic Odabaşı and...
Analysis – Iran intends to improve port rail connections to develop international trade
Vienna, Austria (Ports Europe) February 23, 2020 – The state-owned Iran Ports and Maritime Organization (PMO) is planning a local conference to discuss...
Analysis – Impressive ports concession drive by Ukrainian government
Odessa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) February 20, 2020 – After the successful tendering of the Black Sea ports of Olbia (Olvia) and Kherson, the Ukrainian...
Analysis – Georgian and other deep sea ports around the Black Sea
Poti, Georgia (Ports Europe) February 12, 2020 – Georgia is the only Black Sea littoral state, which has no deep-water port. For more than three years it...