Construction
All construction activities linked to ports. Includes new contracts, and the building of all new port facilities – terminals, customs facilities, docks and other infrastructure.
First dry port in Egypt to receive financing from EBRD and AfDB
Cairo, Egypt (Ports Europe) May 14, 2020 – The first stage of the first dry port in Egypt – Sixth of October (6th of October City), outside capital...
Three international consortia want to build second container terminal in Damietta port
Damietta, Egypt (Ports Europe) May 11, 2020 – Three international consortia submitted bids to build the second container terminal at Egypt’s Damietta port....
Greek minister says Piraeus port development continues
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) May 8, 2020 – Piraeus port operations have continued despite the Covid-19 coronavirus crisis, and the development and...
Three Turkish and a Chinese company bid to build South-North road corridor with five tunnels in Bulgaria
Sofia, Bulgaria (Ports Europe) May 1, 2020 – Three Turkish and a Chinese firm, and five Bulgarian consortia have submitted offers for the construction of...
Greek government responds to Attica Regional Governor regarding Piraeus cruise port expansion
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) April 30, 2020 – The Minister of Shipping and Island Policy has sent a letter in response to the Attica Regional Governor,...
Adif awards Valencia port contract to COPASA
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) April 30, 2020 – Adif, the state-owned railway infrastructure manager, has awarded Copasa, a construction and services...
Analysis – Who will benefit from Kanal Istanbul project?
Istanbul, Turkey (Ports Europe) April 29, 2020 – Companies with close ties to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the governing in Turkey Justice and...
Iran continues dry port development
Aprin, Iran (Ports Europe) April 27, 2020 – The country’s largest inland, dry port, Aprin, has received a boost from an agreement between country’s...
Turkish company Onur to finish €406.2 million bridge over Dnepr river in Zaporozhye, Ukraine
Zaporozhye, Ukraine (Ports Europe) April 22, 2020 – Turkish company Onur Taahhut Tasimacilik Insaat Ticaret Ve Sanayi will finish the construction of a...
Ravenna port appoints commission to review hub project bids
Ravenna, Italy (Ports Europe) April 21, 2020 – Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mare Adriatico Centro-Settentrionale (AdSP – Centre-North...
Port of Filyos construction continues
Istanbul, Turkey (Ports Europe) April 19, 2020 – Despite the Covid-19 coruna virus pandemic, the construction project at the port of Filyos continues and...
Slovenia’s 2TDK signs local consortium for Glinščica work, part of rail capacity increase for Koper port
Koper, Slovenia (Ports Europe) March 30, 2020 – State-owned 2TDK has announced the signature of an €8.5 million contract with a consortium comprising...
Analysis – Strategic and overambitious Iranian move in Russian Caspian, financed by China, or much ado about nothing
Lagan, Russia (Ports Europe) March 23 – A group of Iranian companies, financed by China, wants to invest in the development of the small southern Russian...
Valenciaport issues tender for new public passenger terminal
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) March 4, 2020 – The Port Authority of Valencia (APV – Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) has issued a tender the...
Piraeus port holds inauguration ceremony for Cruise Terminal Expansion project
The inauguration ceremony of the Cruise Terminal Expansion project was held today at the cruise terminal of Piraeus. It is a project with initial budget €120...
China’s Pan Mediterranean Engineering Company wins Ashdod port contract
Ashdod, Israel (Ports Europe) February 19, 2020 – Pan Mediterranean Engineering Company (PMEC), part of China Harbor Engineering Company Ltd, has has won...
Trammo in talks to construct new terminal in Batumi port
Batumi, Georgia (Ports Europe) February 16, 2020 – TRammo Inc of the U.S,. is in talks to invest $20 million in Georgia and build a new terminal in the...
Luka Rijeka signs Bulk Cargo Terminal Bakar development contract
Rijeka, Croatia (Ports Europe) February 14, 2020 – Luka Rijeka has signed the contract to forward the “Improvement of the infrastructure of the...
Six multinationals interested in building Enfidha deepwater port in Tunisia
Tunis, Tunisia (Ports Europe) February 9, 2020 – In January 2017, l’Office de la Marine Marchande et des Ports (OMMP) declared that Tunisia would...
TEKAL awarded cruise terminal expansion contract in Piraeus port
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) February 4, 2020 – Piraeus Port Authority SA (PPA) has awarded a €103 million contract to the local TEKAL SA to operate...