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Hapag-Lloyd reports “good start” in Q1 24 results

Hamburg, Germany (Ports Europe) May 15, 2024 – Hapag-Lloyd has reported its results for the first quarter of 2024. Rolf Habben Jansen, CEO, Hapag-Lloyd,...

Russia beefs up military presence in Libya, Africa

Tobruk, Libya (Ports Europe) May 15, 2024 – An investigation by the independent Russian website Verstka, the U.S. government funded Radio Free Europe/Radio...

116 kg of cocaine seized in Vado port, Genoa

Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) May 15, 2024 – A total of 102 blocks of cocaine have been seized inside a container in Vado port. The drugs initially...

Port of Castellon to join the offshore wind club

Castellón, Spain (Ports Europe) May 15, 2024 – The Port of Castellón has said that the public invitation for companies interested in developing...

Maritime activities drive Jan De Nul revenue to €2.9 bln in 2023

Hofstade-Aalst, Belgium (Ports Europe) May 15, 2024 – Belgium’s Jan De Nul Group reported a 2023 turnover of 2.9 billion euros, a record in the history...

Ferry piers being developed in Port of Brindisi

Brindisi, Italy (Ports Europe) May 15, 2024 – Work is continuing to develop the ferry piers in Costa Morena, Brindisi port. The purpose is to develop the...

Record day for cruises in Messina, Italy

Messina, Sicily, Italy (Ports Europe) May 14, 2024 – Today was a record day for cruise ships in Messina with four vessels docking at the Sicilian port....

India signed 10-year deal for Iran’s Chabahar port

Chabahar, Iran (Ports Europe) May 14, 2024 – India has signed a 10-year contract to operate Iran’s Chabahar deep water port, eight years after...

Constanta port could benefit from new offshore wind energy law

Constanta, Romania (Ports Europe) May 14, 2024 – The Romanian parliament has adopted the country’s first offshore wind energy law. The Port of...

Chinese cranes also for NUTEP in Russia’s Novorossiysk Port

Novorossiysk, Russia (Ports Europe) May 14, 2024 – Deprived of access to Western equipment and technology due to sanctions, Russian ports are turning en...

Bulgarian navy again destroyed sea mine near Varna

Varna, Bulgaria (Ports Europe) May 14, 2024 – The Bulgarian navy destroyed with a controlled explosion yet another naval mine floating about 3 km from the...

Bloomberg: Cocaine superhighway to Europe

Antwerp, Belgium (Ports Europe) May 14, 2024 – Cocaine seizures through Antwerp port have grown more than 20-fold over the last decade,...

Algeria creates new shipping company, Cnan El Djazair

Algiers, Algeria (Ports Europe) May 14, 2024 – The Algerian government has decided to merge the Cnan Nord and Cnan Med shipping companies to form...

Ports of Barcelona and Shanghai announce cooperation

Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) May 14, 2024 – The Port of Barcelona and the Port of Shanghai have signed an agreement for cooperation in projects...

Croatia: cargo traffic at seaports down -24.9% in Q1 2024

Zagreb, Croatia (Ports Europe) May 14, 2024 – In the first quarter of 2024, Croatian seaports handled 4.4 million tonnes, a decrease of -24.9% compared...

Foundation stone for Fiumicino commercial port laid today

Civitavecchia, Italy (Ports Europe) May 14, 2024 – The Minister of Infrastructure and Sustainable Mobility, Matteo Salvini, will lay the foundation stone...

Chinese EV brand Arcfox sets up logistics centre in Port of Ferrol

Ferrol, Spain (Ports Europe) May 14, 2024 – Atium Logistic Group and China’s Arcfox have jointly set up a logistics centre for the storage and...

Update: Why is there no Sochi-Trabzon ferry?

Sochi, Russia (Ports Europe) May 14, 2024 – Western sanctions isolated Russia is pushing for years to re-launch a cargo-passenger ferry from its Black Sea...

Yachting cocaine route Bulgaria-Greece busted

Sofia, Bulgaria (Ports Europe) May 14, 2024 – Over 10 tonnes of cocaine were transported per year by yachts between Bulgaria’s Black Sea marinas in...

Port of Rotterdam to build a scalable quantum internet connection

Rotterdam, Netherlands (Ports Europe) May 14, 2024 – The Port Authority of Rotterdam is part of a consortium building a scalable quantum internet...

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