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Turkey: Monthly seaports cargo report, Jan-May 2023
Istanbul, Turkey (PortSEurope) June 15, 2023 – The Turkish authorities have published cargo figures for May 2023. Regarding standard cargo, total cargo...
Turkey: Cruise ship & passengers statistics – Jan-May 2023 report
Istanbul, Turkey (PortSEurope) June 14, 2023 – The Turkish authorities have published cruise ship & passengers statistics for January-May 2023. In...
Malta Freeport to start dredging bay in Birżebbuġa
Valletta, Malta (PortSEurope) June 14, 2023 – Malta Freeport Terminals Ltd has submitted a proposal to dredge the bay in order to improve vessel...
Global Ports Holding starts work on the Tarragona Cruise Port
Tarragona, Spain (PortSEurope) June 14, 2023 – Global Ports Holding (GPH) has started construction of the Tarragona Cruise Port. The facility will cover...
Kakhovka HPP disaster not threatening navigation in Danube region, ports of Odessa
Kiev, Ukraine (PortSEurope) June 14, 2023 – In the morning of June 6, Russia allegedly blew up a major dam in the Russian-occupied part of southern...
NUTEP container terminal handles its 5-millionth container
Novorossiysk, Russia (PortSEurope) June 14, 2023 – In May 2023, the NUTEP container terminal handled its five-millionth container since it was put into...
Update: Russian seaports cargo by port in Jan-May’23
Moscow, Russia (PortSEurope) June 13, 2023 – Cargo turnover of Russian seaports in the January-May 2023 period increased by 11.2% compared to the first five...
Metrocargo Italia to start Marseille-Parma intermodal service
Marseille, France (PortSEurope) June 13, 2023 – Metrocargo Italia has won a contract to set up an intermodal rail service between Miramas, Marseille, and...
Aktau declares a state of emergency – critically low level of Caspian
Aktau, Kazakhstan (PortSEurope) June 13, 2023 – The city officials in Kazakhstan’s Caspian Sea port of Aktau declared a state of emergency over the...
A delegation of Turkish company Er-Bakir visits Seaport Aktau SEZ
Aktau, Kazakhstan (PortSEurope) June 13, 2023 – On May 15, 2023, a delegation of the Turkish company Er-Bakir headed by Commercial Director Majit Tashkin...
Società Stretto di Messina appoints new board of directors
Messina, Sicily, Italy (PortSEurope) June 12, 2023 – At a shareholders’ meeting of Società Stretto di Messina, a new Board of Directors was...
Petronac to build petrochemical plant in Arzew industrial zone
Algiers, Algeria (PortSEurope) June 12, 2023 – Petrofac and China Huanqiu Contracting & Engineering Corporation (HQC), have been conditionally...
Makhachkala’s – the key node in North-South Corridor
Makhachkala, Russia (PortSEurope) June 12, 2023 – Russia’s Caspian Sea port of Makhachkala is increasing its cargo and ferry traffic and becoming a major...
EU, U.S., Australia and Japan no longer top importers from Russia
Moscow, Russia (PortSEurope) June 12, 2023 – All European countries, the United States, Australia and Japan dropped out of the top 10 cargo importers via...
North-South Corridor is the most relevant and in demand – FESCO
Makhachkala, Russia (PortSEurope) June 12, 2023 – Echoing the Kremlin line, Russian logistics giant FESCO transport group claims that the International...
Russian seaports handled 379 million tonnes of cargo in Jan-May’23
Moscow, Russia (PortSEurope) June 12, 2023 – Cargo turnover of Russian seaports in the January-May 2023 period increased by 11.2% compared to the first five...
China’s Sany sales surge in sanctioned Russia
Yanino, Russia (PortSEurope) June 11, 2023 – Sany, the major Chinese manufacturer of handling and construction equipment, continues its sanctions-driven...
DG MOVE, Danube Commission meet to discuss climate resilience
On 6 June 2023, the European Commission (DG MOVE) and the Danube Commission (DC) in cooperation with other stakeholders, organized the online METEET workshop...
33% less ships visit Bulgaria’s Danube ports in Jan-Apr’23
Ruse, Bulgaria (PortSEurope) June 9, 2023 – Bulgaria’s Danube River ports handled 33% fewer ships in the first four months of 2023 compared to the same...
41% growth in Russia-China trade turnover in Jan-May’23
Beijing, China (PortSEurope) June 8, 2023 – Trade turnover between Russia and China in the first five months of 2023 increased in dollar terms by 40.7%...