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.
FT: Huge shipping containers surplus after COVID-related shortages
London, United Kingdom (Ports Europe) May 24, 2023 – Global demand for goods is declining after the post-COVID restrictions and boom and this is...
FESCO Baltorient Line adds Port of Mundra, India, to rotation
Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) May 23, 2023 – The FESCO Transportation Group has added a call to the port of Mundra, India. The FESCO Baltorient Line...
CCTT Maritime Logistics Working Group holds first meeting
Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) May 23, 2023 – Today, the Coordinating Council for Trans-Eurasian Transportation (CCTT) hosted the first meeting of the...
The China-Central Asia Summit – a new Silk Road?
Xian, China (Ports Europe) May 22, 2023 – President Xi Jinpin has hosted his first-ever summit with the leaders of five Central Asian nations – the...
Russia’s Vladivostok as a domestic Chinese port
Vladivostok, Russia (Ports Europe) May 22, 2023 – The Port of Vladivostok, Russia’s largest in country’s Far East, will be used to transport goods...
China to build infrastructure in ex-Soviet Central Asia
Xian, China (Ports Europe) May 19, 2023 – China wants to coordinate development, from building infrastructure to boosting trade, with Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan,...
TransContainer agreed to handle its services at new terminal in SEZ Alabuga
Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) May 18, 2023 – AlabugaExim LLC, the operator of a new container terminal in SEZ Alabuga in the Deng Xiaoping Logistics...
New Kazakh logistics center in China’s Xian
Xian, China (Ports Europe) May 18, 2023 – The President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev participated in the ceremony for the launch of construction of a...
Sanctions: New port and logistics hub in Samara region
Samara, Russia (Ports Europe) May 17, 2023 – A new port and logistics hub will be built in Russia’s Samara region, following a positive opinion for the...
China wants Central Asia & Russia served it on a silver platter
Xian, China (Ports Europe) May 15, 2023 – In the past decade, China has dreamed about having at its disposal the transport and market potential of Central...
COSCO to acquire 24.9% stake in Hamburg Container Terminal
Hamburg, Germany (Ports Europe) May 11, 2023 – The German government has approved for China’s state-owned COSCO SHIPPING Ports Ltd to acquire a...
Port of Piraeus hosts Chinese promotional event
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) April 28, 2023 – The Port of Piraeus has hosted a Chinese promotional event organised by Shanghai Pilot Free Trade Zone...
Chinese ambassador visits Port of Sines, Portugal
Sines, Portugal (Ports Europe) April 28, 2023 – The Chinese ambassador to Portugal, Zhao Bentang, accompanied by Xia Xiaoling, economic and commercial...
China ports container volume rises 3.5% from January to March of 2023
China ports container volume rises 3.5% from January to March of 2023，Ningbo Containerized Freight Index increase in April 2023 From January to March of...
First refrigerated container train on from Moscow to Xi’an
Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) April 26, 2023 – RZD Logistics sent the first refrigerated container train on from Moscow to Xi’an (China)....
EU to ban transit of goods via Russia – here comes the Middle Corridor
Brussels, Belgium (Ports Europe) April 25, 2023 – As part of the 11th package of European Union (EU) sanctions against Moscow for its invasion of...
Baku International Sea Trade Port signs agreement with Qingdao Port
Baku, Azerbaijan (Ports Europe) April 21, 2023 – Baku International Sea Trade Port JSC has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Qingdao Port,...
RusCon signs logistics deals with China’s SWIFT, South Korea’s UNICO
Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) April 20, 2023 – Multimodal transport operator RusCon, part of Delo Group, has signed agreements with China’s transport...
Azerbaijan and China sign logistics agreement
Baku, Azerbaijan (Ports Europe) April 17, 2023 – Azerbaijan and China have signed a logistics agreement aimed at improving transport across Azerbaijan....
China’s CMPort container throughput up slightly in 2022
Hong Kong, China (Ports Europe) April 17, 2023 – China’s CMPort container throughput up slightly in 2022. Highlights: A full press release can be...