Transport Corridor
The creation and operations of international rail, road and sea routes, co-ordinated to transport cargo long distances, usually international and designed to benefit all participating countries. For example, the Trans-Caspian International Transport Route (TITR), also known as the Middle Corridor; and the European Union’s Ten-T network.
An area where one or more modes of transport operate and share a common course and specifics of freight transportation. Transport corridors can generate wider economic benefits and costs through their effects on a potentially diverse set of development outcomes.
This topic is key for ports in Southern Europe, the Caspian Sea and Central Asia – developing trade between Europe and Asia.
New deep water terminal to be built in the port of Poti
Poti, Georgia (Ports Europe) February 21, 2019 – A new deep water terminal will be built in the Georgian port of Poti, which will enable it to receive...
EU to lend €250 million to Georgia for improvement of the highway between Caspian and Black Seas (Updated with details)
Originally published February 20, 2019 as “EU to lend €250 million to Georgia for local TEN-T transport development”; Updated with further...
Naples port hosts Suez Canal-New Silk Road discussion
Naples, Italy (Ports Europe) February 19, 2019 – The recent doubling of the capacity of the Suez Canal, has improved the competitiveness of the...
Georgia’s Black Sea ports seek role in new international trade corridors
Tbilisi, Georgia (Ports Europe) February 14, 2019 – The Caucasus country of Georgia has three leading ports alongside its Black Sea coastline, Anaklia,...
Ukraine ports target EU TEN-T integration
Odessa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) February 14, 2019 – The priority development of the ports of Ukraine is the integration into the enlarged...
Amber Rail Freight Corridor becomes operational
Koper, Slovenia, February 13, 2019 – With the publication of paths for international freight trains in mid-January 2019 the Amber Rail Freight Corridor...
Blue Water Shipping awarded Anaklia port contract
Anaklia, Georgia (Ports Europe) February 13, 2019 – Blue Water Shipping has been appointed as the local freight forwarding agent by Van Oord, contractor...
Bari, Brindisi ports to strengthen links with Israel’s Haifa
Bari, Italy (Ports Europe) February 13, 2019 – Haifa port authority representatives have completed a visit to the southern Italian region of Apulia to sign...
COSCO signs agreement with another Mediterranean port
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) February 12, 2019 – As well as high profile contracts to manage entire ports and port terminals around the Mediterranean...
Trieste port hosts Silk Road-railways forum
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) February 5, 2019 – On February 14, 2018, the Trieste Maritime Station will host a conference called “Le vie della seta e...
60,000 TEUs via the Middle railway corridor between China and Europe in 2019
Baku, Azerbaijan (Ports Europe) February 4, 2019 – Some 60,000 twenty-foot equivalent unit (TEU)’s should be shipped along the Middle Corridor in 2019,...
Trieste, Monfalcone ports to play vital role in China’s New Silk Road
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) February 1, 2019 – Italy’s Trieste and Monfalcone ports will play a vital role in the New Silk Road project launched by...
Transport development discussed at joint EU-Georgia meeting
Brussels, Belgium (Ports Europe) February 1, 2019 – The first EU-Georgia High- Level Transport Dialogue took place on 29 January 2019 in Tbilisi,...
Coreper approves mandate for talks on Brexit-related adaptation
Brussels, Belgium (Ports Europe) January 31, 2019 – Yesterday, the European Council’s Permanent Representatives Committee (Coreper) approved a...
Piraeus port turning into a gate for counterfeit and undervalued Chinese goods
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) January 24, 2019 – Greece will be fined more than €200 million ($226.76 million) by the European Union’s Anti-Fraud...
Analysis – China on port shopping spree in Europe and globally
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) January 24, 2019 – Since the start of the 21st century, Chinese companies have acquired stakes in some 15 ports in Europe,...
Piraeus is the head of the dragon
Piraeus, Greece (PortSEurope) January 4, 2019 – Crisis? In Greece’s largest port of Piraeus, it is not felt. In the first nine months of 2018,...
Valencia port reduces “carbon footprint” by 17% in eight years
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) January 1, 2019 – The fight against climate change and the reduction of emissions of COÂ 2Â and other pollutant particles...
Lebanon’s Tripoli port becomes central destination for weekly shipments from China
Tripoli, Lebanon (PortSEurope) December 25, 2018 – Lebanon’s Tripoli port has become a central destination for weekly shipments from China to the...
Haifa container terminal deal with China’s SIPG under review
Haifa, Israel (PortSEurope) December 23, 2018 – The Israeli government is widely believed to be reviewing the March 2015 deal that gives China’s Shanghai...