China
China is a country in East Asia and the most populous country in the world. It has a well-developed port sector and several large companies with European ports and shipping activities, including COSCO Shipping Ports, COSCO Lines, China Merchants Group and Shanghai International Port Group. It has a key role as a supplier of a vast amount of cargo to European markets, via a number of European Mediterranean Sea ports. It has holdings in a number of these ports. Its trade routes with Europe are widely known as the new Silk Road.
Ports set to gain as Italy and China sign MoU for investment
Rome, Italy (Ports Europe) March 24, 2019 – During a state visit to Italy of Chinese President Xi Jinping, the two countries signed a non-binding...
Liguria has know-how to deal with China’s investments in Genoa port
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) March 21, 2019 – The potential Chinese investments in Genoa port would not lead to the loss of a state control over the harbour...
China ready to expand port sector cooperation with Italy
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) March 20, 2019 – China is ready to expand the scope of cooperation with Italy, including exploring opportunities in the field...
Sicily port projects enter Italy’s infrastructure planning programme
Palermo, Italy (Ports Europe) March 20, 2019 – The dredging operations of the Palermo and Termini Imerese ports, the refurbishing Termini Imerese dock and...
Chinese President Xi Jinping will pay state visits to Italy, Monaco and France this week
Vienna, Austria (Ports Europe) March 18, 2019 – President Xi Jinping of China is to pay state visits to Italy, Monaco and France from March 21-26, 2019....
China considers a new Silk Road role for Italy’s Palermo port
Palermo, Sicily, Italy (Ports Europe) March 14, 2019 – Chinese President Xi Jinping is scheduled to visit Italy March 22-23, and after Rome will visit...
Shanghai-based investment fund eyes €5 billion port project in Palermo
Palermo, Italy (Ports Europe) March 13, 2019 – An unnamed Shanghai-based investment fund is interested in participating in a €5 billion ($5.7 billion)...
Genoa port, CCCC to sign joint venture deal on March 23
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) March 11, 2019 – Genoa port is expected to sign a memorandum for the establishment of a joint venture with China Communications...
Chinese development of Haifa port faces delays
Haifa, Israel (Ports Europe) March 11, 2019 – Haifa Municipality has registered an objection against the Haifa District Planning and Building Commission...
Qingdao Port Group president visits Vado Ligure, Genoa ports
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) March 8, 2019 – A delegation from China’s Qingdao Port Group, led by chairman Li Fengli, has visited the construction...
Italy-China business event held in Trieste
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) March 4, 2019 – Trieste has hosted a “China-Italy Business Relationship” round table, an event designed to...
Croatia invites Chinese companies to participate in Rijeka port road tender
Rijeka, Croatia (Ports Europe) February 18, 2019 – Croatia’s transport minister Oleg Butkovic has invited Chinese companies to participate in a...
COSCO signs agreement with another Mediterranean port
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) February 12, 2019 – As well as high profile contracts to manage entire ports and port terminals around the Mediterranean...
USA ousts China as main traffic partner of Valencia port in 2018
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) February 11, 2019 – Valencia port has experienced a historic change in the leadership of its international traffic in 2018,...
Trieste port hosts Silk Road-railways forum
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) February 5, 2019 – On February 14, 2018, the Trieste Maritime Station will host a conference called “Le vie della seta e...
60,000 TEUs via the Middle railway corridor between China and Europe in 2019
Baku, Azerbaijan (Ports Europe) February 4, 2019 – Some 60,000 twenty-foot equivalent unit (TEU)’s should be shipped along the Middle Corridor in 2019,...
Trieste, Monfalcone ports to play vital role in China’s New Silk Road
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) February 1, 2019 – Italy’s Trieste and Monfalcone ports will play a vital role in the New Silk Road project launched by...
Contship’s Melzo RHM rail terminal set to receive trains from Chengdu in China
Milan, Italy, January 24, 2019 The first westbound train connecting RHM terminal in Melzo with China, operated by FELB, left Chengdu on Saturday January 26,...
Turkey considers increasing commerical relations with Lebanon’s Tripoli port
Tripoli, Lebanon (Ports Europe) January 25, 2019 – The new Turkish Ambassador to Lebanon, Hakan Cakil, has said that Ankara is interested in investing in...
Piraeus port turning into a gate for counterfeit and undervalued Chinese goods
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) January 24, 2019 – Greece will be fined more than €200 million ($226.76 million) by the European Union’s Anti-Fraud...