Government
News about the involvement of government in port activities. Includes government laws applicable to ports, state-owned ports including European Union issues with national government implications. Also includes inter-government meetings, agreements and visits of government officials.
Financial improvement for Venice logistics zone praised
Venice, Italy (Ports Europe) May 9, 2024 – The refinancing for 2024 of the tax credit for new and existing businesses that invest in the areas of the...
Fruili Venezia Giulia reviews Port of Trieste investments
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) May 8, 2024 – The infrastructural activities of the Port of Trieste and the investments underway for the logistics platform...
Cocaine seized in Hamburg port has tripled in the last five years
Hamburg, Germany (Ports Europe) May 7, 2024 – It has been reported that the amount of cocaine seized in the port of Hamburg has tripled in the last five...
Turkey has stopped all import and export trade with Israel
Ankara, Turkey (Ports Europe) May 6, 2024 – Following an order from President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey has stopped all import and export trade with...
World Bank executive visits Georgia, protests in Tbilisi
Tbilisi, Georgia (Ports Europe) May 3, 2024 – Eugene Rhuggenaath, the Executive Director of the World Bank EDS 19, has visited Georgia to discuss...
Algeria looks to support port operators
Algiers, Algeria (Ports Europe) May 1, 2024 – An official at the Ministry of Public Works and Transport said last week in Algiers that the government...
Update: €1 bln marina near €1.5 bln “Putin’s Palace”
Gelendzhik, Russia (Ports Europe) April 30, 2024 – They built him a 1.5 billion euro palace. Now, they are building a 1.03 billion euro marina nearby so they...
Berlin hosts anti-drugs event with Hamburg, Antwerp, Rotterdam
Berin, (Ports Europe) April 29, 2024 – Last week, Federal Minister of the Interior Nancy Faeser hosted a meeting in Berlin with Dr Peter Tschentscher,...
Public object to military use of port of Mahon, Menorca
Mahón, Menorca, Spain (Ports Europe) April 29, 2024 – Demonstrators gathered in Mahón (Maó), Menorca, this weekend to protest the presence of military...
“Adriacustoms” initiative presented in Rome
Rome, Italy (Ports Europe) April 23, 2024 — Italy’s Customs and Monopolies Agency (ADM) has hosted the presentation of the Adriacustoms project. This...
Romania would like to take a shareholding in Greece’s Gastrade
Alexandroupolis, Greece (Ports Europe) April 17, 2024 – Media reports suggest that the Romanian government would like to take a shareholding in...
Belarus multimodal port in Murmansk, Russia
Murmansk, Russia (Ports Europe) April 16, 2024 – Preparations have started for the construction of a multimodal port for processing Belarusian cargo in...
Putin: Caspian port of Olya is increasingly important for Russia
Olya, Russia (Ports Europe) April 16, 2024 – The port of Olya is becoming increasingly important for Russia, the country’s President Vladimir Putin,...
Montenegro included possible LNG terminal in its spatial plan
Bar, Montenegro (Ports Europe) April 12, 2024 – The Montenegro government has included a possible liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in its spatial...
France 2030: 13 winning projects for the maritime industrial sector
News Release – Secrétariat d’État chargé de la Mer et de la Biodiversité – March 29, 2024 Christophe Béchu, Minister of Ecological...
Eurasian Development Bank sees regional infrastructure needs
Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) April 5, 2024 – Last month, the Eurasian Development Bank (EDB) published a report entitled “Infrastructure in...
Azerbaijan, Romania discuss new LNG plant for Constanta Port
Constanta, Romania (Ports Europe) April 4, 2024 – Minister of Energy Sebastian Burduja has met with his Azerbaijani counterpart, Parviz Shahbazov, to...
Turkey incentivises local shipbuilding
Ankara, Turkey (Ports Europe) April 1, 2024 – Minister of Transport and Infrastructure, Abdulkadir Uraloğlu, has announced amended the regulations...
Messina Bridge: Preliminary services conference, April 16, 2024
Messina, Sicily, Italy (Ports Europe) April 1, 2024 – The bureaucratic process for starting work on the bridge over the Strait of Messina is about to...
Imported equipment for civil shipbuilding in Russia is 40-90%
Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) March 25, 2024 – Sanctions-hit Russia needs hundreds of new ships to compensate for the lost services of global logistics...