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.
Three big cargo ships heading to Ukrainian ports defying Russian blockade
Odesa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) September 22, 2023 – Three more big cargo ships defy the Russian navy blockade of Ukrainian Black Sea harbours and are heading...
Bulgaria, Romania call for second Ruse-Giurgiu, Danube bridge
Brussels, Belgium (Ports Europe) September 22, 2023 – The European Commission (EC) has received a proposal from the Bulgarian and Romanian governments...
Danube Shipping Company asks for ship-to-ship grain transfers
Kiev, Ukraine (PortSEurope) September 20, 2023 – The Danube Shipping Company (DSC) has asked Romania’s Black Sea Port of Constanta to allow...
First ship hit by a mine in Black Sea – unconfirmed
Sulina, Romania (Ports Europe) September 20, 2023 – General cargo ship Seama (4,300 DWT) under the flag of Togo became the first vessel to be allegedly hit...
First cargo vessel left Chornomorsk port defying Russian blockade
Chornomorsk, Ukraine (Ports Europe) September 19, 2023 – The first vessel since Russia exited the UN-brokered deal for the export of Ukrainian grain via the...
Green hydrogen in the Suez Canal Economic Zone
Suez, Egypt (Ports Europe) September 19, 2023 – Green hydrogen production plants and facilities will be built in the Suez Canal Economic Zone (SCZONE)...
New vertical quay to increase Novi Sad cargo capacity by 0.5 million tonnes
Novi Sad, Serbia (Ports Europe) September 19, 2023 – DP World has opened a new vertical quay wall in Serbia’s Danube River port of Novi Sad that cost 8...
Atyrau port has been idle for three years due to low water level
Atyrau, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) September 18, 2023 – Kazakhstan’s port of Atyrau on the Ural River (Jaiyq in Kazakh language) near its Caspian Sea...
Ukraine exports more grain than in 2022 via Danube, rail, road
Constanta, Romania (Ports Europe) September 18, 2023 – Ukraine has already exported more grain through Romania’s Black Sea port of Constanta than it...
Update: Two cargo ships entered Chornomorsk
Chornomorsk, Ukraine (Ports Europe) September 17, 2023 – The first two cargo ships that defied the Russian navy blockade of Ukrainian Black Sea ports entered...
Fifth ship went through Russian blockade in the last day of NATO exercise
Istanbul, Turkey (Ports Europe) September 16, 2023 – In the last month, a fifth ship has left Odessa region ports despite the Moscow-announced blockade of...
Second Russian drone attack in a week against Izmail and Reni
Kiev, Ukraine (Ports Europe) September 13, 2023 – A second Russian drone attack in a week early on September 13 damaged grain infrastructure in...
Modernised Constanta port to handle 4 mln tonnes of Ukrainian grain monthly
Constanta, Romania (Ports Europe) September 11, 2023 – An ambitious 721.3 million lei (145.2 million euro) plan to modernise the infrastructure at the...
NATO naval exercise near Danube delta, Russia losing its grip on Black Sea
Bucharest, Romania (Ports Europe) September 10, 2023 – Romanian and United States naval forces are the organisers of a multinational naval exercise Sea...
Russia to be expelled from the Danube Commission
Budapest, Hungary (Ports Europe) September 7, 2023 – For weeks now Russia has been attacking Ukrainian Danube River ports of Izmail, Reni and Kylia with...
Russia’s Caspian ports of Astrakhan, Olya increase cargo turnover in Jan-Jul 23 by 69.5%
Astrakhan, Russia (Ports Europe) September 7, 2023 – Russia’s Caspian Sea ports of Astrakhan and Olya increased cargo turnover in the January-July 23 by...
Russia attacks Ukrainian Danube port of Izmail
Odessa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) September 6, 2023 – Earlier today, Russia attacked the Danube inland port of Izmail, in the Odessa region. The...
Freight transport by barge between North Sea Port and hinterland increases to 60%
In North Sea Port, the transportation of goods to the hinterland by inland waterway continues to increase. Over five years, it rose from 54% to an impressive...
Russia to create its third port SEZ near Nizhny Novgorod
Bor, Russia (Ports Europe) September 4, 2023 – Russia will create its third port special economic zone (PSEZ) – Kulibin in the port of Bor, on the left...
New Russian drone attack against Danube port of Reni
Reni, Ukraine (Ports Europe) September 3, 2023 – Iranian-made Russian drones attacked again Ukrainian Danube River port of Reni during the night of September...