Port Operations
Ukraine seeks competitive market for port operators
Our goal is to create a competitive and efficient market with transparent conditions for the operation of port operators – Vladislav Krykliy –...
Italy’s Assoporti assigns operational roles to port authority presidents
Rome, Italy (Ports Europe) December 16, 2019 – A reorganization of Assoporti (Italian port association) is to include the formal attribution of...
Valenciaport presents new seal management service to shipping companies
Mar Chao, commercial and business development director of the Port Authority of Valencia (APV), has presented the new seal management service enabled on the...
Greek minister wants to speed up regional port exploitation
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) December 7, 2019 – Minister of Maritime and Island Policy, Yiannis Plakiotakis, has said that the government plans to...
Romania and Turkmenistan discuss transport cooperation
Government of Turkmenistan – December 6, 2019 On December 4, 2019, a meeting was held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan with the...
Gibraltar minister presents at China blockchain-silk Road forum
Government of Gibraltar – December 6, 2019 The Gibraltar Minister for Commerce Albert Isola was the keynote speaker at the Hainan Free Trade Zone Global...
Gibraltar Port Authority attends 8th Annual Mediterranean Bunker Fuel Conference, Athens
Gibraltar Port Authority – December 6, 2019 The Gibraltar Port Authority was recently invited to speak at the 8th Annual Mediterranean Bunker Fuel...
Faster access to SCCT via new tunnel lowers logistics costs – APM Terminals
The opening of the new 3rd July tunnel, also referred to as Port Said tunnel, under the Suez Canal just south of Port Said last week is an important piece of...
Chinese company registers interest in Valencia port wind project
Second global wind turbine production firm is interested in the future Valenciaport wind farm – December 3, 2019 The Chinese company Xinjiang Golwind...
RZD Logistics transports first container from Europe to Japan via Trans-Siberian LandBridge
RZD Logistics – December 2, 2019 RZD Logistics JSC, the leading multimodal logistics operator in the CIS and Baltic countries, has successfully...
European Investment Bank to provide €270 million in financing to Valencia Region
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) December 2, 2019 – The European Investment Bank (EIB) is to provide €270 million in financing to the Valencia Region pf...
Rail modernization to Greece is one of Serbia’s priorities
Government of Serbia – December 2, 2019 Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Serbia and Minister of Construction, Transport and Infrastructure Zorana...
Leixões grows 2% and moves 14.8 million tons of goods until September
Leixões, Portugal (Ports Europe) December 1, 2019 – The Port of Leixões closed September with a positive development, registering an increase of...
COSCO Shipping Ports’ overseas terminals see 12.1% rise in October 2019 traffic
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) November 29, 2019 – In October 2019, the overseas terminals of China’s COSCO Shipping Ports Limited saw container...
Barcelona port strengthens contacts with Vietnam one year after Business Mission
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) November 28, 2019 – Following a visit last year, Barcelona port has sent a delegation to Vietnam to promote the Spanish...
Rail Cargo Group, Baku Port & Cabooter Group agree Middle Corridor development
Baku, Azerbaikan (Ports Europe) November 26, 2019 – Rail Cargo Group (RCG), the Port of Baku and Cabooter Group of the Netherlands have signed a...
Bilbao port attends Smart City Expo World in Barcelona with Port 4.0
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) November 18, 2019 – Autoridad Portuaria de Bilbao (APB – Port Authority of Bilbao) has announced that it will...
Grant agreement for the reconstruction of the port of Mrtvaška in Mali Lošinj, Croatia
The contract for the grant was signed in Mali Lošinj by the Minister of the Sea, Transport and Infrastructure, Oleg Butković, and the Director of...
COSCO Shipping acquires stake in Rail Cargo Terminal-BILK, Hungary
Budapest, Hungary (Ports Europe) November 22, 2019 – Ocean Rail Logistics, part of COSCO Shipping of China, has acquired a more than 15% stake in Rail...
Koper port provides investment update
Koper, Slovenia (Ports Europe) November 12, 2019 – Operator of the port, Luka Koper d.d., has started implemented investments with the target of...