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Tender issued to develop oil pier in Makhachkala port

Makhachkala Sea Port, Russia (Ports Europe) January 20, 2025 – FSUE Rosmorport will issue a tender for the redevelopment of Oil Pier No. 5 in...

SIOT handles over 40.2 mln tons of crude oil in Trieste port

Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) January 15, 2025 – SIOT (Società Italiana per l’Oleodotto Transalpino SpA), manager of the Transalpine Pipeline,...

Chinese ports deny entry to Russian oil tankers

Washington, United States (Ports Europe) January 13, 2025 – The U.S. Treasury recently imposed sanctions on Russian oil producers Gazprom Neft and...

Azerbaijan Caspian Shipping Company adds tanker to fleet

Baku, Azerbaijan (Ports Europe) January 10, 2025 – Azerbaijan Caspian Shipping Company (ASCO) has added another “Aframax” type tanker to its fleet....

Ukrainian drones attack Russia’s Baltic Sea port of Ust-Luga

Kiev, Ukraine (Ports Europe) January 8, 2025 – Local sources have reported that on January 4 Ukrainian drones attacked Russia’s Baltic Sea port of...

Baltic Sea, North Sea states take targeted measures against Russian shadow fleet

Tallinn, Estonia (Ports Europe) December 17, 2024 – A group of littoral states around the Baltic Sea and the North Sea have announced that they will...

KazTransOil reports export numbers – Germany, Aktau, Makhachkala

Aktau, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) December 8, 2024 – In January-November 2024, KazTransOil JSC transported 1.34 million tons of Kazakh oil through the...

Below target 53 mln tonnes of oil shipped via CPC terminal, Novorossiysk

Novorossiysk, Russia (Ports Europe) November 29, 2024 – In January-October 2024, oil shipments at the sea terminal of the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC,...

Tobruk fuel terminal operational after 2 years shutdown

Tobruk, Libya (Ports Europe) November 9, 2024 – Libya’s Mediterranean Sea port of Tobruk’s fuel terminal resumed operations after a two-year...

KazTransOil keeps investing in Batumi Oil Terminal

Batumi, Georgia (Ports Europe) October 25, 2024 – Georgia’s Black Sea Batumi Oil Terminal (BOT, 100% owned by Kazakhstan’s KazTransOil) has...

Chrevon sends delegation to Azerbaijan

Baku, Azerbaijan (Ports Europe) October 18, 2024 – A delegation from the U.S. energy company Chevron has visited Azerbaijan seeking alternatives to the...

Dnevnik: Russian “floating petrol stations” off Bulgaria’s coast

Varna, Bulgaria (Ports Europe) September 21, 2024 – Russian tankers Nikolay Veliki and Nikolay Gamayunov are refuelling ships leaving Bulgaria’s Black...

Port of Tuapse sees oil product exports down in September

Tuapse, Russia (Ports Europe) September 5, 2024 – Local traders have predicted that oil product exports from the Russian port of Tuapse will fall to...

Nawaf Salameh acquires Octogon Gas & Logistics Terminal in Constanta

Constanta, Romania (Ports Europe) September 5, 2024 – Romanian businessman Nawaf Salameh, the owner of Alexandrion Group, has acquired the Octogon Gas...

Libya’s ports stop oil export over political standoff

Hariga, Libya (Ports Europe) August 31, 2024 – Libya’s Mediterranean Sea oil export port of Hariga stopped operating on August 31 due to lack of crude...

Terminal Rinfuse Venezia seeks concession extension

Venice, Italy (Ports Europe) July 31, 2024—Terminal Rinfuse Venezia SpA has requested a 25-year extension to its concession, which covers over 278,500 m²....

Kazakhstan exports 700,000 tonnes of oil via Aktau in H1’24

Aktau, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) July 29, 2024 – Kazakhstan’s national oil and gas company KazMunaiGaz (KMG) shipped 700,000 tonnes of oil through the...

Greece extends naval drills to deter Russian oil transfers

Athens, Greece (Ports Europe) July 16, 2024 – Greece is again extending naval drills in the Bay of Laconia. The drills’ primary purpose is to deter...

Kazakhstan increases rail exports of fuel oil via Georgian ports

Batumi, Georgia (Ports Europe) June 25, 2024 – In January-May 2024, Kazakhstan increased rail exports of fuel oil through Georgian ports to 413,200 tons...

KazMunayGas ships oil to Makhachkala

Aktau, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) June 19, 2024 – State energy company KazMunayGas (KMG) has reported that two of its tankers transported 406,977 tons of...

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