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.
Ukrainian ports handled 2.9% less containers in 2021
Odessa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) December 27, 2021 – In January-November 2021, the sea ports of Ukraine handled 924,100 TEU (twenty-foot equivalent unit),...
“Russian tsar of Thessaloniki” now owns 71.85% of city’s port. Russia and China via proxies now control Greece’s second largest port
Thessaloniki, Greece (Ports Europe) December 24, 2021 – Thessaloniki Port Authority (ThPA) has reported that Belterra Investments Ltd., owned by a Russian...
Ukraine’s Reni seaport handles 1.3 million tons of cargo in Jan-Nov 2021
Reni, Ukraine (PortSEurope) December 21, 2021 – In the first 11 months of 2021, Reni port handled total cargo of 1.3 million tons, up 59.35% on the same...
French shipbuilder Piriou acquires Romanian shipyard
Bucharest, Romania (PortSEurope) December 15, 2021 – Brittany-based French shipbuilder Chantiers Piriou has acquired ATG Shipyard on the Danube in...
EU Commission adopts four proposals to modernise the transport system.
Brussels, Belgium (PortSEurope) December 15, 2021 – The European Commission (EC) has adopted four proposals to modernise the EU’s transport system....
Cargo traffic on the Dnieper totalled 3.21 million tons, up +34.9% in 11-month period
Kiev, Ukraine (PortSEurope) December 8, 2021 – In the first eleven months of 2021, cargo traffic on the Dnieper, the main river in Ukraine, totalled 3.21...
Netherlands to advise Ukraine on water infrastructure projects
Kiev, Ukraine (PortSEurope) December 8, 2021 – On December 2, 2021, a seminar “Public Procurement Policy on Price / Quality” took place to...
In January-November 2021, the seaports of Ukraine handled 136.96 million tons of cargo, down -6%
Odessa, Ukraine (PortSEurope) December 6, 2021 – In January-November 2021, the seaports of Ukraine handled 136.96 million tons of cargo,...
EDB to finance the new multifunctional port and logistics complex in Caspian Sea port of Olya
Olya, Russia (PortSEurope) December 3, 2021 – The Eurasian Development Bank (EDB) is considering financing for the Caspian Port and Logistics Company...
DP World to invest €28 million in Serbian inland port of Novi Sad
Belgrade, Novi Sad (PortSEurope) November 25, 2021 – DP World is to invest €28 million ($31.3 million) in the Serbian inland port of Novi Sad. The port...
Volga Shipping Company has transported over 8 million tons of cargo by inland waterways in 2021
During the navigation period in 2021, river vessels of the Volga Shipping Company JSC transported 8.2 million tons of cargo along the inland waterways of...
Volga Shipping Company increased coal transportation more than 1.5 times
Moscow, Russia (PortSEurope) November 24, 2021 – In the first 10 months of the 2021 navigation season, the dry cargo fleet of Volga Shipping Company...
Schweizerische Rheinhäfen reports improved 9-month performance
Zurich, Switzerland (PortSEurope) November 22, 2021 – Schweizerische Rheinhäfen has reported total cargo handling of 4.28 million tons, up 7.5% on the...
Turkey: Vessels passed throught the Istanbul Strait, January-September 2021
Istanbul, Turkey (PortSEurope) November 19, 2021 – The Turkish authorities have reported traffic passing through the Bosphorus Strait in the first nine...
Turkish minister: “We are preparing the operating plans for Kanal Istanbul”
Istanbul, Turkey (PortSEurope) November 17, 2021 – Minister of Transport and Infrastructure, Adil Karaismailoğlu, has said that the under-construction...
Izmail on the Danube – another Ukrainian river port that handles Black Sea cargo is expanding
Izmail, Ukraine (PortSEurope) November 10, 2021 – Izmail sea port plans to build two transshipment complexes with a total cargo capacity of 300,000...
When will the Marseille-Fos port properly utilize the Rhone river connection to Lyon?
Marseille, France (PortSEurope) November 9, 2021 – It looks like after decades of neglect, the idea to utilize the Rhone river connection between Lyon, the...
Volga Shipping Company increased coal transportation more than 1.5 times
Over a period of 10 months of the 2021 navigation season, dry cargo fleet of Volga Shipping Company carried more than 860,000 tonnes of coal, which exceeds the...
The port of Constanța can become an important logistic hub in the movement and storage of goods brought from Japan
President of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Romania (CCIR), Mr. Mihai Daraban, received on Monday, October 18, the visit of HE Mr. Hiroshi...
Green Deal, an opportunity to boost transport on the Black Sea and the Danube River
The Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Romania (CCIR), in partnership with the Representation of the European Commission in Romania, organized, on October...