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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.

€24 million of aid for Romania’s Danube River and Black Sea ports

Brussels, Belgium (PortSEurope) October 15, 2023 – The European Commission (EC) has approved up to €24 million in aid for Romania to support...

Ports of Ravenna and Giurgiulesti discuss cooperation

Ravenna, Italy (PortSEurope) October 12, 2023 – Last week, a meeting took place of representatives of the Port and the City of Ravenna at the Embassy of...

No financing for Bulgaria’s second intermodal terminal in Ruse

Ruse, Bulgaria (PortSEurope) October 8, 2023 – Bulgaria’s Danube River port city of Ruse has protested to the government for the exclusion of the project...

Single logistics service for Trans-Caspian route of INTSC

Lipetsk, Russia (PortSEurope) October 8, 2023 – The development of a single logistics service for the Trans-Caspian route of the North-South...

Turkish ship hit a mine in Black Sea near Romania

Sulina, Romania (PortSEurope) October 6, 2023 – Turkish-flagged general cargo ship Kafkametler reportedly hit a sea mine in the Black Sea 11 nautical miles...

Suez Canal Economic Zone signs green fuel deal with Maersk’s C2X

Port Said, Egypt (PortSEurope) October 4, 2023 – A framework agreement has been signed between C2X, part of Maersk, and a number of Egyptian...

International companies to assist Ukrainian Danube Shipping Company

Vienna, Austria (PortSEurope) October 4, 2023 – The international consulting companies Royal HaskoningDHV and Baker McKenzie have joined the Ukrainian...

Ukrainian Danube Shipping Company joins river discussions

Bratislava, Slovakia (PortSEurope) October 4, 2023 – The Ukrainian Danube Shipping Company (DSC) has participated in the “Conference of Directors...

Romania wants to buy Moldova’s inland port of Giurgiulesti

Bucharest, Romania (PortSEurope) October 2, 2023 – The Prime Minister of Romania, Marcel Ciolacu, has said that Romania should purchase the Moldovan...

Update: “Russian tsar of Thessaloniki” to add Volos port to his Greek portfolio

Volos, Greece (PortSEurope) September 29, 2023 – Thessaloniki Port Authority S.A. (ThPA) with an offer for 51 million euro has been selected as the preferred...

Russia’s Solyanka port is controlled by Iranian sanctioned entity

Solyanka, Russia (PortSEurope) September 27, 2023 – The Iran-controlled Russian Caspian Sea port of Solyanka is Iran’s strategic base in the International...

Delo Group and Shandong Port Group sign agreement

Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) September 26, 2023 – Delo Group and Shandong Port Group (SPG) have signed an agreement to expand cooperation in warehousing...

China’s SPG wants access to Russian rivers in a deal with Delo Group

Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) September 26, 2023 – China’s SPG (Shandong Port Group) wants to organise multimodal transportation of containers between...

Danube Orlivka ferry complex attacked

Orlivka, Ukraine (Ports Europe) September 25, 2023 – Operations of the Ukrainian Danube River Orlivka (Орлівка) ferry complex have been temporarily...

Another Russian drone attack against the grain port of Izmail

Izmail, Ukraine (Ports Europe) September 26, 2023 – A third major Russian drone attack in three weeks early on September 26 damaged grain infrastructure in...

Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Kubrakov visits Brussels

Brussels, Belgium (Ports Europe) September 25, 2023 – Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Oleksandr Kubrakov has visited Brussels and held talks with...

Constanta port will modernise its roads, water and electricity infrastructure

Constanta, Romania (Ports Europe) September 25, 2023 – A 300 million euro project for the modernisation of Romania’s Black Sea port of Constanta was...

Update: No mine involved in cargo ship explosion in Black Sea

Sulina, Romania (Ports Europe) September 24, 2023 – No floating naval mine was involved in the explosion on September 20 that damaged and practically sunk...

Russia’s Black Sea fiasco – Ukrainian cargo corridor working

Odesa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) September 24, 2023 – Russia’s leverage over Ukraine’s exports of grain via the Black Sea is eroding as more...

Update: Three big cargo ships defying Russian blockade entered Ukrainian ports

Odesa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) September 22, 2023 – Three more big cargo ships defied the Russian navy blockade of Ukrainian Black Sea harbours on September...

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