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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.

Total cargo traffic on the Dnieper river in 2021 up over 27%

Kiev, Ukraine (Ports Europe) January 11, 2022 – Last year the Dnieper river handled total cargo traffic of 14.36 million tons, up +27.9% on 2020’s...

Bulgaria pushes for a Ro-Ro line with Turkey between the ports of Burgas and Karasu

Burgas, Bulgaria (Ports Europe) January 9, 2022 – Bulgaria keeps pushing for the establishment of a Ro-Ro line between the country’s second largest Black...

Suez Canal Authority reports record revenues for 2021

Cairo, Egypt (Ports Europe) January 4, 2022 – The Suez Canal Authority has announced that the navigation statistics in the canal in 2021 set new records,...

Russian ships banned from Ukraine’s ports of the Dniester, Danube, Dnieper rivers, but Russia controls the Azov Sea

Odessa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) January 3, 2022 – A law banning Russian ships from accessing Ukraine’s internal waters came into force on January 1,...

Ukraine introduces new inland waterways law

On January 1, 2022, the Law of Ukraine “On Inland Water Transport” entered into force – January 3, 2022 For more than a decade, Ukraine has...

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...

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