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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.

Trieste port increases intermodal traffic to Budapest

Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) October 5, 2017 – “Hungary is becoming Trieste’s first reference market, as for port railway container traffic”,...

Event: European Inland Terminals 12th European Conference & Exhibition – Rouen, November 9-10, 2017

Rouen, France (Ports Europe) September 17, 2017 – The 12th European Inland Terminals Conference & Exhibition will take place in Rouen, November 9-10,...

Greece to take advantage of strategic position via rail link project with Bulgaria, Tsipras says

Kavala, Greece (Ports Europe) September 7, 2017 – Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras has said the project for the launch of a railway corridor linking the...

Bulgaria-Greece port railway connection project needs investment of €5 billion

Kavala, Greece (Ports Europe) September 6, 2017 – Bulgaria’s transport minister Ivaylo Moskovski has said the total investment in the railway...

Bulgarian PM says port link project with Greece will boost energy, transport, tourist sectors

Kavala, Greece (Ports Europe) September 6, 2017 – Bulgaria’s prime minister Boyko Borisov has said the launch of a railway connection between...

Gibraltar Tourist Board & Port Authority attend Seatrade Convention

Hamburg, Germany (Ports Europe) September 6, 2017 – The Gibraltar Tourist Board and Port Authority are attending the Seatrade Europe Cruise Convention....

New railway connection agreement between Greece and Bulgaria

Kavala, Greece (Ports Europe) September 6, 2017 – A memorandum of understanding between Bulgaria and Greece for a new railway connection will be signed...

Cádiz port participates in Seatrade Europe to attract river cruise traffic

Cádiz, Spain (Ports Europe) September 5, 2017 – Cádiz port participates this week in the most important cruise event in Europe, the ‘Seatrade...

Polesine ports and Venice port system look for synergies

Venice, Italy (Ports Europe) September 1, 2017 – At a meeting between Pino Mussolino, Chairman of the Port Authority System of Venice, Secretary...

Suez Canal Authority profit rises 4.66% y/y in July 2017

Port Said, Egypt (Ports Europe) August 23, 2017 – Suez Canal Authority (SCA) said it posted a profit of $447.1 million (€379 million) in July 2017, up...

DP World, Suez Canal Economic Zone set up joint venture

Port Said, Egypt (Ports Europe) August 10, 2017 – UAE-based group DP World has set up a joint venture with Egypt’s General Authority for the Suez...

Ville Forte Ukraine exports LPG from Izmail port for first time

Izmail, Ukraine (Ports Europe) August 10, 2017 – Ukrainian company Ville Forte Ukraine has sent the first shipment of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) from...

Constanta port increases grain handling

Constanta, Romania (Ports Europe) August 13, 2017 – The National Company of Maritime Ports Administration (CNAPM) Constanta SA estimates for 2017 a...

Konstantinos Rigas on port regulations and environmental charging

Brussels, Belgium (Ports Europe) August 17, 2017 – Baltic Ports Conference 2017 has interviewed Konstantinos Rigas, Unit “Ports & Inland...

Deepening of Volga river can help development of North-South Corridor

Astrakhan, Russia (Ports Europe) August 7, 2017 – A plan to dredge the Volga river to a greater depth and develop local ports, will speed up the...

Six port multimodal corridor between Greece and Bulgaria

Thessaloniki, Greece (PortSEurope) July 17, 2017 – By the end of July, Greece and Bulgaria will sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the...

Bulgaria and Greece to build a multimodal corridor between Black Sea, Aegean Sea and Danube

Sofia, Bulgaria (PortSEurope) July 6, 2017 – Bulgaria and Greece have announced that they plan to extend the multimodal transport corridor between the...

Expanded Panama Canal tops expectations in first year

Panama City, Panama (PortSEurope) June 27, 2017 – The Expanded Panama Canal (Canal de Panama) has set a number of records and surpassed expectations in...

EBRD, EIB to invest €50 million in development of Dnieper River as transport artery

Odessa, Ukraine (PortSEurope) June 23, 2017 – The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the European Investment Bank (EIB) intend to...

Over 30 shipping agencies use Single Window from the start of the Bulgarian system

Burgas, Bulgaria (PortSEurope) June 25, 2017 – Over 30 shipping agencies with nearly 100 users use the services of the electronic document processing...

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