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.
Valencia, Tianjin ports to facilitate trade relations between both hinterlands
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) September 19, 2017 – Valencia port and the Chinese harbour of Tianjin have set the basis for the signing of an agreement to...
MoU signed at Xi’an Silk Road Business Summit
Beijing, China (Ports Europe) September 17 – On 8-9 September 2017 Xi’an Silk Road Business Summit and Silk Road Cultural Week was held in...
Constanta port to host Silk Road forum
Constanta, Romania (Ports Europe) September 13, 2017 – The Silk Road Summit has been organized event by Compania Naţională Administraţia Porturilor...
Trieste port president calls on Europe to participate actively in China’s OBOR project
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) September 12, 2017 – Europe needs to have an active role in China’s One Belt One Road (OBOR) initiative, the president of...
What China’s “Belt and Road Initiative” means for the Western Balkans
Brussels, Belgium, September 11, 2017 – The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has commissioned an independent report on the...
AMNA organises “New Silk Road” forum
Thessaloniki, Greece (Ports Europe) September 11, 2017 – Representatives of 25 national news agencies from China, the Balkans, Central and Southern...
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras praises Sino-Greek cooperation
Thessaloniki, Greece (Ports Europe) September 10, 2017 – Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has attended the opening of China’s pavilion at...
Valencia port prepares trade mission to China
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) September 4, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) has started preparing a commercial mission...
Cosco expects rise in container transport demand in H2 2017
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) September 1, 2017 – COSCO Shipping Holdings Co. Ltd. reported a profit in the first half of the year and expects that...
Baku International Sea Trade Port attends Silk Road conference
Baku, Azerbaijan (PortS Europe) August 29, 2017 – China has hosted an international conference dedicated to the Chinese transcontinental project...
China, USA are largest container traffic partners of Valencia port in H1 2017
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) August 24, 2017 – China and the USA were the main trading partners of Valencia port in the container traffic segment in...
Chinese delegation visits Civitavecchia
Civitavecchia, Italy (Ports Europe) August 24, 2017 – A meeting between the municipality of Civitavecchia, Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar...
Constanta port signs agreement with China’s Ningbo Zhoushan Port
Constanta, Romania (Ports Europe) August 23, 2017 – The National Company Maritime Ports Administration (CNAPM) Constanta has signed a cooperation...
Chinese ambassador visits Setúbal port
Setúbal, Portugal (Ports Europe) August 8, 2017 – The Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China, Cai Run, visited Setúbal port on August 4, and...
Genoa-based port authority president expresses support for China’s Silk Road initiative
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) July 31, 2017 – Countries in northern Europe oppose the One Belt, One Road (OBOR) initiative of China, as they want to prevent...
Cosco looks to hold Piraeus Port Authority board meetings in China
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) July 31, 2017 – Piraeus Port Authority S.A. has announced that on Friday 28/7/2017, the Adjourned Ordinary General Meeting...
China investment in Mediterranean ports
Milan, Italy (Ports Europe) July 28, 2017 – The Italian financial daily newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore has published an article looking at Chinese state...
Fransabank organises port of Beirut export to China
Beirut, Lebanon (Ports Europe) July 28, 2017 – In July 2016, Fransabank organized a “One Belt & One Road to Beijing” in the Chinese capital where...
Portugal looks for new Silk Road role
Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) July 25, 2017 – Following the Portuguese prime minister’s visit to China in 2016, the first memorandum of...
Chinese navy visits Piraeus port
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) July 2, 2017 – A Chinese naval fleet has arrived on Sunday at Piraeus port for a four-day friendly visit to Greece. Three...