Black Sea
The Black Sea is a large inland sea situated at the southeastern extremity of Europe. It is bordered by Ukraine to the north, Russia to the northeast, Georgia to the east, Turkey to the south, and Bulgaria and Romania to the west. Ports on the Black Sea include Burgas, Varna, Constanta, Odessa, Sevastopol, Novorossiysk, Poti, Batumi and Zonguldak. Following the February 24, 2022, invasion of Ukraine by Russia, Moscow has blockaded all Ukrainian seaports.
Russian ports handled 596.2 mln tonnes of cargo Jan-Aug 2024
Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) September 15, 2024 – Cargo turnover of Russian seaports in January-July 2024 decreased by 3.1% compared to the first eight...
Russia hits ship with Ukrainian grain in Black Sea
Kyiv (Kiev), Ukraine (Ports Europe) September 12, 2024 – Russia’s strategic bombers hit a Saint Kitts and Nevis-flagged bulk carrier with a missile...
Russia’s Novorossiysk port to handle 700,000 loaded TEUs in 2024
Novorossiysk, Russia (Ports Europe) September 12, 2024 – Container turnover at Russia’s largest port of Novorossiysk on the Black Sea should exceed...
Equipment worth €30 mln stolen from Russia’s Kamysh-Burun port
Kerch, Ukraine (Ports Europe) September 4, 2024 – Equipment worth about 3 billion rubles (30.35 million euro) was stolen from Russia’s port...
ONE announces a new Black Sea service
Istanbul, Turkey (Ports Europe) August 25, 2024 – Ocean Network Express (ONE) announced a new Black Sea Turkey 2 (BT2) service which will offer extended...
Update: Kavkaz port still closed after fuel ferry for occupied Crimea sank
Kavkaz, Russia (Ports Europe) August 23, 2024 – Russia’s third largest Black Sea port of Kavkaz (Caucasus) continues to be closed after a ferry carrying 30...
FESCO Novorossiysk Shuttle doubles capacity
Novorossiysk, Russia (Ports Europe) August 23, 2024 – The FESCO Transport Group has doubled the frequency of regular FESCO Novorossiysk Shuttle (FNS)...
Ukraine sinks a ferry carrying fuel to occupied Crimea
Kavkaz, Russia (Ports Europe) August 23, 2024 – A ferry carrying 30 fuel tanks sank in Russia’s Black Sea port of Kavkaz (Caucasus) on August 22 after...
Georgia’s ports handled 4.23 mln tonnes of cargo in Q2 2024
Tbilisi, Georgia (Ports Europe) August 20, 2024 – Georgia’s Black Sea ports handled 4.23 million tonnes of cargo in the second quarter of the year, which...
Confusion about Russian naval base in occupied Georgian port
Ochamchira, Georgia (Ports Europe) August 18, 2024 – Satellite images analysed by Bellingcat, an independent investigative collective of researchers,...
Fake Chinese ball and roller bearings seized in Varna port
Varna, Bulgaria (Ports Europe) August 9, 2024 – 11,966 fake ball and roller bearings with different technical applications were seized in Bulgaria’s...
Mamuka Khazaradze: “Anaklia becomes a Chinese port”
Anaklia, Georgia (Ports Europe) August 7, 2024 – Georgia’s Black Sea Deep Water Port of Anaklia was to be the largest infrastructural investment...
Jan de Nul to construct maritime infrastructure of Anaklia Port
Anaklia, Georgia (Ports Europe) August 6, 2024 – Belgian company Jan de Nul won the tender for the construction of the maritime infrastructure of Georgia’s...
Turkey’s first FPSO unit on its way to Filyos port
Filyos, Turkey (Ports Europe) August 2, 2024 – Turkey’s first floating natural gas production storage and offloading (FPSO) unit has set off from...
Russian TEU turnover in H1’24 increase 14.6% to 2.6 mln
Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) July 18, 2024 – Container turnover of Russian sea ports in the second quarter of 2024 increased by 11.8% compared to...
The new EU Black Sea Synergy report
Brussels, Belgium (Ports Europe) July 16, 2024 – The European Commission (EC) and the European External Action Service have adopted the 4th...
Bulgaria and Georgia to resume railway ferry line across Black Sea
Tbilisi, Georgia (Ports Europe) July 15, 2024 – Bulgaria and Georgia will resume the railway ferry line between the two countries that was stopped two years...
Ukraine attacks Novorossiysk port with maritime drones
Novorossiysk, Russia (Ports Europe) July 3, 2024 – Moscow claims that Russia’s Black Sea port of Novorossiysk continues operations following an Ukrainian...
Turkey, Bulgaria and Romania start anti-mine operation in Black Sea
Istanbul, Turkey (Ports Europe) July 2, 2024 – With a six-month delay, NATO members Turkey (Türkiye), Bulgaria and Romania on July 1 sent their demining...
Naval mine destroyed near Turkey’s Zonguldak port
Zonguldak, Turkey (Ports Europe) July 1, 2024 – A Ukrainian-made sea mine has been detected 60 meters off the Turkish coast in the beach area of the...