Planning/Strategy
All issues linked to planning and strategies of companies, organisations and governments which own ports. This includes plans to increase traffic and the capacity of ports and generate revenue.
Port of Venice plans waterfront development
Venice, Italy (Ports Europe) September 20, 2024 – President of the Port System Authority, Fulvio Lino Di Blasio, has presented ideas to develop the port...
Maersk Europe Market Update – September 2024
Ocean Update – September 11, 2024 In February 2025, together with Hapag-Lloyd, Maersk is launching an operational collaboration called the Gemini...
CDP, Italian government presents “maritime ventures”
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) September 16, 2024 – CDP Capital Ventures, the Ministry of Business and Made in Italy aim to create 10 new companies in the...
Port of Ancona starts modernisation works
Ancona, Italy (Ports Europe) September 16, 2024 – The Port of Ancona has started modernisation works to compete with other North Adriatic ports. The work...
Cruise associations announce coalition
Málaga, Spain (Ports Europe) September 16, 2024 – MedCruise, Cruise Baltic, Cruise Britain, Cruise Norway and Cruise Europe established the United...
ONE, HMM and Yang Ming Confirm the Alliance Partnership
Press Release – Ocean Network Express – September 9, 2024 Ocean Network Express (ONE), HMM and Yang Ming Marine Transportation are pleased to...
Ports of Algeciras and Ningbo plan cooperation
Algeciras, Spain (Ports Europe) September 2, 2024 – The Port of Algeciras is consolidating its role as a key distribution hub between Asia, Europe,...
Iranian port sector seeks investment
Tehran, Iran (Ports Europe) September 2, 2024 – The Ports & Maritime Organisation (PMO) has said it plans to develop the local maritime economy. Iran...
Bremen-based BLG Group expands into Turkey
Istanbul, Turkey (Ports Europe) August 30, 2024 – BLG Group has opened a business in Istanbul, Yesterday, Managing Director and COO Matthias Magnor...
Shrinking Caspian is a bonanza for Jan De Nul
Kuryk, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) August 16, 2024 – After winning the tender for the maritime infrastructure of Anaklia, Georgia’s first deep sea port on...
Global Ports Holding delisted from the London Stock Exchange
London, United Kingdom (Ports Europe) August 13, 2024 –Â On August 9, 2024, Global Ports Holding B.V. (Bidco), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Global...
‘Cruisezillas’: How much bigger can cruise ships get? – T & E
Brussels, Belgium (Ports Europe)- August 13, 2024 – Clean energy advocate Transport & Environment has published a report asking how big cruise ships...
Iran tries to develop its ports despite sanctions
Tehran, Iran (Ports Europe) August 9, 2024 – Iran’s Ports & Maritime Organisation (PMO), the government body in charge of developing and managing...
Port of Barcelona publishes Annual Corporate Report for 2023
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) August 9, 2024 – The Port Authority of Barcelona has published its Annual Corporate Report for 2023. It includes traffic...
Update: Makhachkala port road saga
Makhachkala, Russia (Ports Europe) August 9, 2024 – The cost of building the hugely delayed 6.2 km access road to Russia’s Caspian Sea port of...
New ordinance on railways at the Port of Barcelona
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) August 7, 2024 – The port has approved the new ordinance on railway operations and use of tracks in the railway terminals...
Kazakhstan, world’s largest landlocked country, is shopping around for ports
Astana, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) August 5, 2024 – Kazakhstan, the world’s largest landlocked country, with a Caspian coastline and ports but no access to...
CDP Venture Capital to support port digitalisation
Rome, Italy (Ports Europe) July 30, 2024 – Through the Boost Innovation Fund, CDP Venture Capital, in agreement with the Ministry of the Economy and Made...
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...
Tunisia seeks partner for Enfidha port development
Tunis, Tunisia (Ports Europe) July 19, 2024 – Tunisia is seeking a partner to build the Enfidha deep-water port, said Sarra Zaafrani Zenzri, Minister of...