Inland Ports & Waterways
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.
Abu Dhabi Ports is looking at Bulgaria
Varna, Bulgaria (Ports Europe) May 17, 2023 – Bulgarian ports are an excellent alternative for the growing land cargo traffic from Asia to Europe,...
Second stage of Rostov-on-Don grain terminal progresses
Rostov-on-Don, Russia (Ports Europe) May 15, 2023 – The project for the construction of the second stage of the grain terminal in Rostov Marine Multimodal...
Reference – Kanal Istanbul
Kanal Istanbul is a proposed artificial sea-level waterway that would connect the Black Sea to the Sea of Marmara, bypassing the Bosphorus Strait. The project...
Ukraine to rerun sale of Belgorod-Dniestrovsky Commercial Sea Port
Kiev, Ukraine (Ports Europe) May 11, 2023 – The Ukraine government will rerun the sale of Belgorod-Dniestrovsky Commercial Sea Port. Ukrdoninvest LLC won...
Record breaking $904.5 million for Suez Canal in April
Port Said, Egypt (Ports Europe) May 11, 2023 – The revenue of the Suez Canal in April increased by $274 million compared to the same months of 2022 ($630.5...
Cargo throughput of Makhachkala port to triple by 2026
Makhachkala, Russia (Ports Europe) May 8, 2023 – Cargo throughput of Russian Caspian Sea port of Makhachkala will increase to 9 million tonnes per year by...
Russia to replace western port cranes with local products
Astrakhan, Russia (Ports Europe) May 8, 2023 – Russia’s SMM Group of Companies, the country’s leading manufacturer of heavy lifting equipment for...
Kernel to build grain and sunflower oil terminal in Reni
Reni, Ukraine (Ports Europe) May 8, 2023 – Kernel, Ukraine’s largest producer and exporter of vegetable oil, plans to build a transshipment terminal in...
Port of Constanta caught up in grain dispute
Constanța, Romania (Ports Europe) May 5, 2023 – The Black Sea port of Constanța is caught up in a grain dispute concerning Ukraine. Since Russia...
US Ambassador Bridget Brink visits Danube ports of Reni, Izmail in Ukraine
Kiev, Ukraine (Ports Europe) May 5, 2023 – U.S. Ambassador Bridget A. Brink visited the Danube river ports of Reni and Izmail on April 26, 2023. The...
Bulgarian dream: Black Sea-Danube River canal
Varna, Bulgaria (Ports Europe) May 2, 2023 – A 50-year-old, overambitious project to connect Bulgaria’s largest Black Sea port of Varna and Ruse, the...
JT Oil Terminal Constanța issues tender for oil terminal in the port
Constanța, Romania (Ports Europe) May 1, 2023 – JT Oil Terminal Constanța has issued a tender for the construction of a new oil terminal in Constanța...
Inland Ports meet in Vienna to talk about TEN-T & Danube development
Vienna, Austria (Ports Europe) May 1, 2023 – Last week, members of the European Federation of Inland Ports (EFIP) met in Vienna for their annual general...
Russian fertilisers in limbo
Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) May 1, 2023 – The production and export of Russian fertilisers is in limbo following the Western sanctions against the country....
New logistics center to be built in Novorossiysk port
Novorossiysk, Russia (Ports Europe) May 1, 2023 – A new logistics center with an area of 20,000 m² has opened in Russia’s Black Sea port of Novorossiysk,...
Ukrainian minister looks to expand Danube region ports
Kiev, Ukraine (Ports Europe) April 28, 2023 – This year, Ukraine plans to have handled 20 million tons of cargo via its inland Danube ports, said...
Serbia plans better use of rivers
Belgrade, Serbia (Ports Europe) April 26, 2023 – The Minister of Construction, Transport and Infrastructure, Goran Vesić, said that it is very important...
EBRD to help develop Ukraine’s Danube ports of Izmail, Reni and Ust-Dunaysk
Kiyv, Ukraine (Ports Europe) April 24, 2023 – The development of Ukraine’s Danube Port Cluster – Izmail, Reni and Ust-Dunaysk – with...
EBU: Trucks continues to rule Europe’s freight
Brussels, Belgium (Ports Europe) April 24, 2023 – The European Barge Union (EBU) endorses the European Court of Auditors (ECA)’s report on intermodal...
2 million tonnes grain terminal in Ukraine’s Danube port of Reni
Reni, Ukraine (Ports Europe) April 24, 2023 – Ukrainian company Fram Shipping plans to process two million tonnes of bulk cargo per year via the country’s...