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.
Russian port on Volga River on sale for €3 million
Nizhny Novgorod, Russia (Ports Europe) December 11, 2023 – A Volga River port west of Nizhny Novgorod is for sale for the symbolic 300 million rubles (3...
First non-grain, U.S.-managed ship since the start of war delivered pipes in Ukraine
Erie, United States (Ports Europe) December 9, 2023 – The first non-grain, U.S.-managed ship successfully delivered and unloaded at Ukraine’s Black Sea...
Russia’s Volga-Caspian Canal dredged to 4.5 m depth, but…
Rostov-on-Don, Russia (Ports Europe) December 8, 2023 – After heavy dredging, involving 17 dredgers and a fleet of 40 support vessels, the draft on the...
Hapag-Lloyd opens two offices in Bulgaria
Sofia, Bulgaria (Ports Europe) December 6, 2023 – German shipper Hapag-Lloyd has opened two new offices in Bulgaria in the Black Sea port city of Varna...
More announcements, no construction work for Russia’s third PSEZ
Nizhny Novgorod, Russia (Ports Europe) December 4, 2023 – A 28-hectare plot in the area of the Volga cargo port in the city of Bor will be rented without...
SCZONE, Scatec ASA sign bunkering agreement
Port Said, Egypt (Ports Europe) December 4, 2023 – The Suez Canal Economic Zone (SCZONE) and Scatec ASA have signed an MoU aimed at issuing a license to...
Russia’s sanctions-busting trade routes stumble
Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) December 4, 2023 – The two “secret weapons” against Western sanctions affecting Russian cargo transportation – the...
Panama Canal congestion to jam Suez Canal
Suez, Egypt (Ports Europe) December 3, 2023 – Unprecedented Panama Canal congestion, as the worst drought in more than 50 years continues to restrict its...
No weekend for Ukraine’s Black Sea humanitarian grain corridor
Odesa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) December 2, 2023 – Since the launch of the temporary maritime humanitarian corridor in the Black Sea on August 8, almost 200...
TransContainer, Global Ports launch East-West container service
Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) November 30, 2023 – PJSC TransContainer and container terminal operator Global Ports have launched a new scheduled...
DP World with a new logistic park near Suez Canal
Suez, Egypt (Ports Europe) November 29, 2023 – DP World, a United Arab Emirates (UAE)-based global supply chain solutions company, has broken ground at...
EU: Inland waterway transport hits a decade low in 2022
Brussels, Belgium (Ports Europe) November 29, 2023 – Between 2012 and 2022, transport on the EU’s inland waterways was erratic. Since 2017,...
North-South corridor is sanctioned Russia’s distant dream
Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) November 26, 2023 – The development of the International North-South Transport Corridor – INSTC will significantly...
Port of Constanta handles 29.4 million metric tons of grain in Jan-Oct 2023
Constanța, Romania (Ports Europe) November 22, 2023 – The Port of Constanta handled a record 29.4 million metric tons of grain in the first 10 months of...
New claims for mine explosion near a ship in the Black Sea
Pivdennyi, Ukraine (Ports Europe) November 19, 2023 – A sea mine exploded on November 16 very close to Liberia-flagged Georgia S bulk carrier transporting...
115 ships have used Ukrainian humanitarian corridor since August
Odesa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) November 17, 2023 – Since the launch of the temporary maritime humanitarian corridor in the Black Sea on August 8, 115...
€50 mln for the project for Russia’s North-South corridor
Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) November 16, 2023 – Russia’s giant state-owned VTB Bank will pay 4-5 billion rubles (41.2-51.5 million euro) for the...
Kyiv claims Ukrainian grain corridor works
Odesa, Ukraine (PortSEurope) November 10, 2023 – Kyiv claims that Ukraine’s Black Sea “humanitarian corridor” is working despite the Russian...
Bulk carrier ship hit by Russian missile in Ukrainian port of Pivdennyi
Pivdennyi, Ukraine (PortSEurope) November 8, 2023 – Liberia-flagged bulk carrier ship Kmax Ruler (91,800 DWT) was hit by a Russian missile in the...
No ships sailing to and from Odesa ports for days
Odesa, Ukraine (PortSEurope) November 7, 2023 – There were no ships sailing to or from the Ukrainian Black Sea ports of Odesa region in the past week,...