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All news from Ports Europe categorised by searchable individual ports and articles feature hyperlinks to individual ports.
Drug trafficking moves from Algeciras port to Marbella
Marbella, Spain (Ports Europe) July 31, 2024 – Drug trafficking gangs are increasingly moving their operations to Spain’s Marbella because of a...
Drones help Tarragona port, Spain
Tarragona, Spain (Ports Europe) July 31, 2024 – The port of Tarragona has been using drones since September 2021, with the assistance of state-owned SENASA....
Anaklia: ADC lost, China and Russia won, Georgia misses golden opportunity
Anaklia, Georgia (Ports Europe) July 30, 2024 – The long-running legal saga about Georgia’s first Black Sea deep-water port project in Anaklia between...
COSCO SHIPPING relaunches Piraeus Rijeka Express service
Rijeka, Croatia (Ports Europe) July 30, 2024 – COSCO SHIPPING has relaunched the Piraeus Rijeka Express service (PRS) calling at Piraeus, Rijeka, Durres...
Edison completes first ship-to-ship LNG bunker operation in Trieste
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) July 30, 2024 – Energy company Edison has completed the first liquefied natural gas (LNG) refuelling operation between a...
800 kg cocaine for port of Antwerp seized in Columbian port of Buenaventura
Buenaventura, Colombia (Ports Europe) July 30, 2024 – 796 kilograms of cocaine destined for the Belgium port of Antwerp was discovered in Columbia’s...
Port of Gioia Tauro inaugurates towage dock
Gioia Tauro, Italy (Ports Europe) July 30, 2024 – The Port of Gioia Tauro has inaugurated the western dock, which is dedicated exclusively to tugboat...
Trieste Marine Terminal sees improved Q2 2024 TEU traffic
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) July 30, 2024 – Trieste Marine Terminal srl (TMT) handled 68,404 containers (TEU) in June 2024. This compares with 60,133...
Grandi Navi Veloci opens office in Nador, Morocco
Nador, Morocco (Ports Europe) July 30, 2024 – The Italian ferry company Grandi Navi Veloci (GNV) has opened a new bureau in Nador, its second in Morocco...
African Development Bank lends €120 mln to Nador West Med
Nador, Morocco (Ports Europe) July 29, 2024 – The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group has approved 120 million euros to...
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...
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...
4 tonnes of cocaine seized in Barcelona port
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) July 28, 2024 – More than 4,000 kg of cocaine were seized in Spain’s Barcelona port on July 26. The drug was hidden in rice...
Storage of fuels banned in Kavkaz port, last railway ferry lost
Kavkaz, Russia (Ports Europe) July 28, 2024 – Russia’s Federal Security Service (the successor of the Soviet KGB) has banned the storage of fuels and...
1 mln tonnes of Kazakh oil products exported via Batumi in H1’24
Batumi, Georgia (Ports Europe) July 28, 2024 – KazTransOil (a subsidiary of Kazakhstan’s national oil and gas company KazMunaiGaz) in the first half of...
€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,...
3,200 kg of crystal meth seized in Rotterdam port, Antwerp also
Rotterdam, The Netherlands (Ports Europe) July 27, 2024 – An all-time record quantity of 3,200 kg of methamphetamine (crystal meth) was sized by...
Kazakhstan’s ports handled 1.37 mln tonnes of cargo in H1’24 – really?
Kuryk, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) July 27, 2024 – Kazakhstan’s Caspian Sea ports handled 1.37 million tonnes of cargo in the first six months of the...
Port Authority of Lavrio reports improved H1 2024
Lavrio, Greece (Ports Europe) July 26, 2024 – The Port Authority of Lavrio (OLAE) has published an update of its improved performance in the first half...