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The activities of inland commercial ports & waterways, including rivers and canals. Includes inland port development and waterway cargo traffic numbers. For example, the Danube river which passes through or touches the borders of 10 countries: Romania, Hungary, Serbia, Austria, Germany, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Croatia, Ukraine and Moldova.

Normal navigation in the Danube following August rains

Vienna, Austria (Ports Europe) August 15, 2023 – Following the rainy start to August, the low-flow situation in the Danube River is easing further, with...

Orlivka attracts Ukrainian grain after bombing of Izmail and Reni

Orlivka, Ukraine (Ports Europe) August 7, 2023 – The Orlivka ferry complex is attracting Ukrainian grain after the bombing of Izmail and Reni. Hundreds...

RusCon continues its sanctions-driven rapid expansion

Orlovka, Russia (Ports Europe) August 6, 2023 – Russia’s multimodal transport operator RusCon, part of the Delo Group, has inaugurated a new container...

New grain terminals in Bulgaria

Varna, Bulgaria (Ports Europe) August 4, 2023 – Bulgarian grain producers are racing to build export infrastructure, seeing additional opportunities in...

New grain export terminal on Volga River

Kstovo, Russia (Ports Europe) August 3, 2023 – Emboldened by a bumper crop and after blocking the export of war-torn Ukraine, Russia is investing in new...

Russia again attacks Ukrainian Danube ports exporting grain

Izmail, Ukraine (Ports Europe) August 2, 2023 – Russia attacked Ukraine’s Danube River grain port of Izmail in the early hours of August 2 with drones....

Three grain ships brake through Russian Black Sea blockade

Izmail, Ukraine (Ports Europe) August 1, 2023 – In a show of defiance and with complete disregard for Russian threats, three merchant ships have broken...

Ukraine to export grain via Croatian ports

Kiev, Ukraine (Ports Europe) August 1, 2023 – Ukraine and Croatia have agreed to investigate using Croatia’s Danube river ports to export grain...

FESCO proposes new container terminal in Astrakhan, Caspian Sea

Astrakhan, Russia (PortSEurope) July 25, 2023 – Andrey Severilov, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the FESCO Transport Group, has met with the...

Russia bombards Ukrainian inland Danube river port of Reni

Kiev, Ukraine (PortSEurope) July 24, 2023 – In a development in the Russian war against Ukraine, Russia has attacked the inland river port of Reni. Three...

Russia attacks grain infrastructure at Ukrainian seaports

Odessa, Ukraine (PortSEurope) July 20, 2023 – On Monday July 17, Russia withdrew from the Black Sea grain deal, an agreement for Ukrainian to export...

Third day of bombardment of Ukrainian ports by Russia

Odesa, Ukraine (PortSEurope) July 20, 2023 – Russian missiles and drone strikes on Ukrainian Black Sea ports of Mykolaiv and Odesa continued for a third day...

Ukrainian Railways moves into the EU

Warsaw, Poland (PortSEurope) July 17, 2023 – The newly established Ukrainian Railways Cargo Poland, a subsidiary of the state-owned Ukrainian Railways...

Update: First Iranian ship in 10 years docks Libya’s Misrata

Misrata, Libya (PortSEurope) July 17, 2023 – For the first time in 10 years, an Iranian ship docked at Libya’s Mediterranean Sea port of Misrata, the...

Update: Russia’s Caspian ports with 38% growth in H1 23 and problems

Astrakhan, Russia (PortSEurope) July 17, 2023 – In the first half of 2023, cargo turnover of Russia’s Caspian Sea ports, on the International...

Solyanka Caspian terminal, controlled by Iran, helps Iran-Russia trade

Solyanka, Russia (PortSEurope) July 17, 2023 – Iranian company Nasim Bahr Kish owns a controlling 53.1% stake in Solyanka terminal of Russia’s Caspian...

Russia and Iran: Sanctions busting in focus during port visit

Astrakhan, Russia (PortSEurope) July 3, 2023 – Russia and Iran, the two most sanctioned countries in the world, continue their attempts to improve cargo...

Strong cargo figures in Russia’s Rostov and Azov ports

Rostov-on-Don, Russia (PortSEurope) July 3, 2023 – In the ports of Rostov-on-Don (Don River) and Azov (Azov Sea) cargo turnover in the first five months of...

Update: Ukraine will help Moldova rebuild 400 km railway to Reni Port with EU funding

Reni, Ukraine (PortSEurope) June 30, 2023 – War-torn Ukraine will help its poor neighbour Moldova to rebuild a 400 km-long section of the railway line from...

Desperate Russia to resurrect commercial navigation on Seversky Donets

Ust-Donetsk, Russia (PortSEurope) June 29, 2023 – Lacking transport infrastructure in the south of the country, Russia is pushing for the use of yet more of...

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