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All news from Ports Europe categorised by searchable individual industry categories.
No spare parts for foreign engines for Russia’s river fleet
Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) July 30, 2024 – Over the past two years, spare parts and services for foreign-made ship engines have become unavailable,...
Bulgaria scolds North Macedonia about EU railway Corridor 8
Sofia, Bulgaria (Ports Europe) July 29, 2024 – The Bulgarian government is increasingly worried by statements by the Northern Macedonia government, which...
China could build Russia’s Arctic tanker fleet
Moscow, Rusia (Ports Europe) July 29, 2024 – The only way for Western sanctions-hit Russia to transport oil, oil products and natural gas via its Arctic...
Ports of Genoa agrees last mile rail works
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) July 29, 2024 – The Management Committee of the Ports of Genoa has approved the cooperation between the port authority (AdSP)...
Port of Taranto sees cargo plummet in H1 2024
Taranto, Italy (Ports Europe) July 29, 2024 – The Port of Taranto’s dramatic fall in Q1 24 cargo traffic has continued into the second quarter of...
Chinese ports container volume rises 8.5 % in H1 2024
Chinese ports container volume rises 8.5 % in the first half of a year 2024, Ningbo Containerized Freight Index increase slightly in July 2024 –...
Ice-class tugs badly needed for Russia’s Northern Sea Route
Murmansk, Russia (Ports Europe) July 29, 2024 – To operate efficiently, the ports along the Northern Sea Route (NSR) – the new Western...
Russia’s container market in H1’24 was 3.3 mln TEUs
Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) July 29, 2024 – Russia’s container market grew 9.8% in January-June 2024, compared to the first six months of 2023 to 3.3...
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...
€1 billion yacht marina for Russia’s rich near “Putin’s Palace”
Gelendzhik, Russia (Ports Europe) July 28, 2024 – Hugely expensive war in Ukraine and Western sanctions, ruined national transport infrastructure,...
Ukraine’s Kernel increases grain processing in H1 2024
Kiev, Ukraine (Ports Europe) July 26, 2024 – Kernel, the country’s largest producer and exporter of grains, has published its financial reports for...
Port of Barcelona issues tender for new cruise terminal
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) July 26, 2024 – The Port of Barcelona has launched a tender for its future ferry terminal at the Adossat Wharf, which...
Made by China: Georgia’s port, airport, roads and railways
Tbilisi, Georgia (Ports Europe) July 26, 2024—After acquiring 49% of Georgia’s future deep-water Black Sea port of Anaklia, China wants to construct the...
Port Flot-Burgas reports improved H1 2024
Burgas, Bulgaria (Ports Europe) July 25, 2024 – Port towage services company Port Flot-Burgas has reported a standalone net profit of 1.71 million...
Wireless reefer monitoring system at the Port of Thessaloniki
Thessaloniki, Greece (Ports Europe) July 25, 2024 – Thessaloniki Port Authority (ThPA) is improving its reefer container handling capabilities by...
Salerno cruise passenger terminal concession extended
Salerno, Italy (Ports Europe) July 25, 2024 – The concession to operate ‘Stazione Marittima’ building – Port of Salerno” has been...
Russia’s FESCO imports more cars from China
Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) July 25, 2024 – In the first half of 2024, FESCO transported over 22,000 TEUs from China to Russia. The cargo included more...
Arrival of floating dock in La Spezia starts cruise terminal work
La Spezia, Italy (Ports Europe) July 25, 2024 – Last week, a floating dock moored at the Enel dock. Last November, a contract for the construction of the...
MSC & two Belgian firms to takeover inland Port of Limburg
Genk, Belgium (Ports Europe) July 25, 2024 – The Swiss logistics group MSC, Henri Essers en Zonen Internationaal Transport and Machiels (JM Recycling)...
Port of Augusta to build new Border Control Post
Augusta, Sicily, Italy (Ports Europe) July 25, 2024 – The Port System Authority of Eastern Sicily has awarded a contract for the construction of a Border...