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.
Ukraine: Rail and river transport to replace Black and Azov Sea ports
Reni, Ukraine (PortSEurope) April 11, 2022 – Ukrainian grains and metals exporters, faced with a total Russian blockade of the country’s Black and Azov Sea...
Poor railway infrastructure hampers Constanța efforts to replace war blocked Ukrainian ports
Constanța, Romania (PortSEurope) April 11, 2022 – Romania’s largest Black Sea port of Constanta, which is also the nearest port to war-torn...
Ukrainian government to guarantee insurance payments to cargo vessels damaged in the war in its stretch of Danube River
Reni, Ukraine (PortSEurope) April 11, 2022 – With all its Black and Azov Sea ports paralysed after the Russian invasion in the country, Ukraine now...
Update: Ukrainian ports, no new mines spotted in the Black Sea
Odessa, Ukraine (PortSEurope) April 10, 2022 – The Ukrainian Black Sea port of Kherson is still controlled by Russian occupying army, while in the last two...
Rosmorport starts repair dredging of the Volga-Caspian Sea Shipping Channel
Vessels of the Rosmorport dredging fleet have begun work to maintain the navigation depths of the Volga-Caspian Sea Shipping Canal (VCSSC) – April 1,...
Russia continues attacks against Ukrainian ports; no naval mines spotted in the Black Sea
Odessa, Ukraine (PortSEurope) April 4, 2022 – Russian missiles strikes again hit Ukrainian Black Sea ports of Odessa and Mykolaiv/Nikolaev (on the large...
Russian missiles strikes fuel storage facilities near the Ukrainian Black Sea port of Odessa
Odessa, Ukraine (PortSEurope) April 3, 2022 – Russian missiles strikes have destroyed fuel storage facilities near the Ukrainian Black Sea port of Odessa....
Russia plans steady increase in seaport capacity
Moscow, Russia (PortSEurope) March 28, 2022 – Speaking at the VII annual forum “Port Infrastructure: New Construction, Modernization,...
Port of Constanta has new geopolitical and commercial importance
Constanta, Romania (PortSEurope) March 24, 2022 – The crisis in Ukraine has raised the profile of the Port on Constanta, giving it new geopolitical and...
Five Ukrainian Black Sea ports still partly operational – Ministry of Infrastructure
Odessa, Ukraine (PortSEurope) March 23, 2022 – Five Ukrainian Black Sea ports are still partly operation 30 days after the Russian invasion and despite the...
No mines in the Black Sea; Odessa shelled by Russian Navy; Mariupol doesn’t surrender despite weeks of bombardment
Odessa, Ukraine (PortSEurope) March 22, 2022 – A claim by Russia’s Federal Security Service – FSB (formerly KGB) that mines placed by Ukraine’s Navy at...
Abu Dhabi Ports signs agreement to manage Egyptian sea and river ports
Cairo, Egypt (PortSEurope) March 22, 2022 – Abu Dhabi Ports Group has signed an agreement with the Egyptian Ministry of Transport to manage and operate...
Ukraine & Russia trade accusations of laying mines in the Black Sea, creating problems for Constanta, Varna, Burgas, Istanbul
Odessa, Ukraine (PortSEurope) March 20, 2022 – Four weeks after the start of Russian invasion in Ukraine, Russia’s Federal Security Service – FSB...
Ukraine’s Azov Sea coast is under Russian control but Mariupol still resists massive attacks
Mariupol, Ukraine (PortSEurope) March 19, 2022 – Russian forces have established full control over the entire Ukrainian Azov Sea coast, 23 days after...
Danube River available for Ukrainian exports
Varna, Bulgaria (PortSEurope) March 17, 2022 – Surprisingly, Danube River traffic, especially upstream in Austria and Germany, is not being utilised for...
Port of Constanta becomes new grain and metal export door to the world for Ukraine
Constanta, Romania (PortSEurope) March 14, 2022 – Following the closure of all Ukrainian ports in the Black and the Azov seas after the Russian invasion in...
Only two small Ukrainian ports operational – both on the Danube River and close to the Black Sea
Izmail, Ukraine (PortSEurope) March 13, 2022 – Izmail and Reni are the only two ports that continue operations in war torn Ukraine that was invaded by Russia...
Mariupol still resists massive Russian attacks; Russian navy withdraws from Odessa
Mariupol, Ukraine (Ports Europe) March 11, 2022 – Ukraine’s Azov Sea port of Mariupol is surrounded by Russian forces and for over a week subjected to...
Bosnia’s inland Port of Brčko undergoes modernisation
Brčko, Bosnia & Herzegovina (Ports Europe) March 9, 2022 – The project “Reconstruction and Modernisation of the River Port of Brčko Phase...
Ukraine’s port cities of Mariupol and Kherson still resist massive Russian attacks
Mariupol, Ukraine (Ports Europe) March 2, 2022 – The first casualty when war comes is truth, said U.S. Senator Hiram Johnson, reportedly in 1918. The Russian...