Port Operations
Ukraine seeks to develop investment plans for ports
Odessa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) April 16, 2020 – The Minister of Infrastructure, Vladislav Krykliy, has held an online meeting with state port...
Antwerp port sees general cargo up 5.8% in Jan-Mar 2020
Antwerp, Belgium (Ports Europe) April 14, 2020 – The port of Antwerp has published its maritime cargo report for the first quarter of 2020. In the first...
Chinese company makes second mask donation to Taranto port
Taranto, Italy (Ports Europe) April 9, 2020 – China Communication Construction Company Ltd (CCCC) has donated 2,000 masks to the port of Taranto...
Siport21 assesses the nautical feasibility of Tarragona port cruise terminal
Tarragona, Spain (Ports Europe) April 14, 2020 – Siport21, a port-maritime engineering company, has been working with the Catalan port of Tarragona to...
Turkey ratifies Lapis Lazuli transport corridor route
Istanbul, Turkey (Ports Europe) April 14, 2020 – The Resmi Gazete, the national and only official journal of the country that publishes the new...
Livorno port report traffic slightly down in first quarter 2020
Livorno, Italy (Ports Europe) April 13, 2020 – In the period January-March 2020, Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Tirreno Settentrionale (AdSP...
Trieste Marine Terminal volumes stable in first quarter 2020
News – Trieste Marine Terminal (TMT) volumes stable in first quarter 2020 – April 13, 2020 Despite the slow-down due to the CoViD-19 emergency,...
Rotterdam Port Community Steering Group is working on port continuity during COVID-19
News Update – Port of Rotterdam – April 7, 2020 The port of Rotterdam, including associated logistics and industry, has been designated a vital...
Czech automotive industry under pressure
Hamburg, Germany (Ports Europe) April 12, 2020 – Hafen Hamburg (Port of Hamburg) has published an article regarding the links between the Czech...
Chinese company donates masks to Venice and Chioggia ports
Venice, Italy (Ports Europe) April 10, 2020 – The Chinese company China Communications Construction Company Ltd (CCCC) has delivered 3,000 masks to the...
Valenciaport pays €3.6 million in two weeks & provides liquidity to supplier companies
For two weeks now, the Port Authority of Valencia (APV) has accelerated the accounting and bill payment procedures to shorten the period of payment to...
Maersk launches new intermodal container service in Russia
Maersk, Ruscon and Transcontainer joined forces in launching an intermodal container service between the seaport of Novorossiysk and Vorsino dry port outside...
Tunisia to launch weekly freight trips to Libya
Tunis, Tunisia (Ports Europe) April 9, 2020 – Ministry of Transport and Logistics has announced that a cargo shipping line between Tunisia and Libya will...
Autoeuropa looks to reopen Portuguese Palmela plant on April 20
Setúbal, Portugal (Ports Europe) April 9, 2020 – German auto manufacturer has announced it plans to open its Autoeuropa plant in Palmela, Setúbal, on...
FELB and Sinotrans operate first Shenyang-Enns container train
Vienna, Austria (Ports Europe) April 7, 2020 – FELB and Sinotrans have operated the first train from Shenyang, southern China, to Enns in Austria. The...
IAPH launches World Ports Covid-19 Information Portal
April 06, 2020 Support to include regularly-updated, frequently-asked questions section vetted by experts from eight global ports, a weekly port economic...
RZD International to stop operations in Iran
Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) April 6, 2020 – Russian Railways division RZD International, a special purpose engineering company, has announced that it...
Fincantieri publishes improved financial results for 2019
The Board of Directors of Fincantieri SpA has approved the consolidated financial statements at December 31, 2019, the draft financial statements of the parent...
Spain’s Puertos del Estado reports February 2020 cargo figures by port authority
Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) April 1, 2020 – Puertos del Estado reports February 2020 cargo figures by port authority. The state-owned Puertos del...
Greece pushes ahead with regional port privatisation
Athens, Greece (Ports Europe) April 1, 2020 – State-owned Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund (HRADF), responsible for privatising Greek state-owned...