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France reports Q1 2023 cargo traffic down -6.9%
Paris, France (PortSEurope) June 26, 2023 – In the first quarter of 2023, total cargo traffic passing through the main French ports in mainland France...
Discrepancies in financing Russia’s inland waterways
Moscow, Russia (PortSEurope) June 26, 2023 – The deficit of funds in Russia’s budget for the maintenance of inland waterways (IWW) and navigational...
Grimaldi introduces green Ro-Ro ships in Italy-Greece line
Naples, Italy (PortSEurope) June 26, 2023 – The Grimaldi Group is introducing two state-of-the-art hybrid vessels Eco Catania and Eco...
Port of Huelva to receive €7.3 million in EU funds for multimodality & decarbonisation
Huelva, Spain (PortSEurope) June 26, 2023 – The Port of Huelva will receive €7.3 million in European Union (EU) funds to improve multimodality and...
Ukrainian Danube Shipping signed agreement with the World Bank’s IFC
Izmail, Ukraine (PortSEurope) June 26, 2023 – State-controlled Ukrainian Danube Shipping Company (UDP) and the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a...
Kazakh-Azeri-Georgian logistics company for the Middle Corridor
Astana, Kazakhstan (PortSEurope) June 26, 2023 – Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Georgia will create a logistics company whose activities will help ensure the...
Romania seeks to support local grain producers in Constanta port
Constanța, Romania (PortSEurope) June 26, 2023 – The local authorities are looking at ways to support local farmers and grain producers in the port of...
Turkmenistan’s ferries and container ships run successful lines to Baku
Turkmenbashi, Turkmenistan (PortSEurope) June 26, 2023 – Turkmen ferries Berkarar and Bagtyar made 70 voyages from the country’s largest Caspian Sea port...
Huge floating crane transferred from Odessa to Izmail
Izmail, Ukraine (PortSEurope) June 26, 2023 – Forced to reorientate cargo flow from the blocked by Russia Black Sea ports to the Danube River ports, the...
Russia begs Iran for Volga River dredging help
Astrakhan, Russia (PortSEurope) June 26, 2023 – Sanctions-hit Russia, unable to complete the critically important dredging of the Volga-Caspian Sea...
Mergellina port, Naples, says no to “megayachts”
Naples, Italy (PortSEurope) June 25, 2023 – The Port of Mergellina port is refusing entry to yachts longer than 75 metres on safety grounds. Such...
First phase of Russia’s “great pivot” to the East completed
St. Petersburg, Russia (PortSEurope) June 25, 2023 – The first phase of the “great pivot” of Russian foreign trade to the East has been completed:...
A new large port on the Volga River
Balakovo, Russia (PortSEurope) June 25, 2023 – Volga River’s largest cargo port since the collapse of the Soviet Union will be built in Balakovo on the...
Rostov-on-Don and port controlled by mutinous Russian mercenary fighters
Rostov-on-Don, Russia (PortSEurope) June 24, 2023 – Mutinous Russian mercenary fighters from the Wagner private army have full control over the...
New railway tunnel for Port of Trieste
Trieste, Italy (PortSEurope) June 23, 2023 – The Friuli Venezia Giulia Region has approved a project to build the railway tunnel to connect Molo...
The Port of Gdańsk is ready for grain
Although grain handling had already increased significantly in all Polish seaports last year, which is directly related to the blockade of Ukrainian ports on...
Axpo linked to LNG vessel in Port of Naples
Naples, Italy (PortSEurope) June 23, 2023 – Swiss renewable energy company Axpo has been linked to a liquefied natural gas (LNG) barge in the port of...
Russian Railways keeps investing in cargo terminals along the INSTC
Volzhsky, Russia (PortSEurope) June 22, 2023 – Russian Railways (RZD) continues its investment drive along the International North-South Transport...
New logistics complex in Novorossiysk port
Novorossiysk, Russia (PortSEurope) June 22, 2023 – A 4.2 billion rubles (45.6 million euros) logistics complex will be built by the summer of 2024 in...
Port of Algiers sees +14% cargo increase in Q1 2023
Algiers, Algeria (PortSEurope) June 22, 2023 – The Port of Algiers has reported a +14% cargo increase in Q1 2023. In this period the port handled 55,955...