Top News
The key news from Ports Europe covering business and geopolitical issues. Some of these articles appear in the email newsletter published every Wednesday. This will include any new Analysis articles.
APM Terminals’ expanded Medport Tangier port now operational.
Tanger Med, Morocco (Ports Europe) December 17, 2024 – APM Terminals’ newly expanded Medport Tangier port is now operational. The terminal now has...
Third damaged Russian tanker in three days near Kerch Strait
Kerch, Russia (Ports Europe) December 17, 2024 – A third Russian oil tanker, the 51-year-old Volgoneft-109, sent a distress signal in the early morning...
Update: Cocaine seizure in Burgas port revised down to 73 kg
Burgas, Bulgaria (Ports Europe) December 16, 2024 – The Bulgarian authorities have corrected the amount of seized in the country’s Black Sea port of Burgas...
Update: Kerch Strait – a deadly trap for ships
Taman, Russia (Ports Europe) December 16, 2024 – The disaster of December 15 with the two very old Russian tankers in the Kerch Strait that connects the...
Russian Navy: The Arctic – a region of possible future conflict
St. Petersburg, Russia (Ports Europe) December 14, 2024 – The Arctic is one of the key regions where a confrontation between the world’s leading...
Why Alexandroupolis port is strategic for the West
Alexandroupolis, Greece (Ports Europe) December 13, 2024 – A ship needs six to ten days to sail from a Greek Aegean Sea port to Romania’s main Black Sea...
India’s Adani to invest $2 billion in terminals and ports in Europe
New Delhi, India (Ports Europe) December 9, 2024 – The Adani group, an Indian multinational conglomerate, plans to invest $2 billion in acquiring...
1.5 million tonnes Chinese grain terminal in Makhachkala by 2028
Makhachkala, Russia (Ports Europe) December 3, 2024 – Russia is producing an excessive amount of cheap grain. Iran needs to import huge quantities of grain....
Venezia Terminal Passeggeri extends concession by 10 years
Venice, Italy (Ports Europe) December 3, 2024 – The Northern Adriatic Sea Port System Authority and Venezia Terminal Passeggeri Spa (VTP) have signed a...
Portugal: Mainland seaports cargo report – September 2024
Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) December 3, 2024 – In January-September 2024, the mainland’s commercial port system recorded 69.2 million tonnes of...
Spain dismantles drugs cartel in Algeciras port
Algeciras, Spain (Ports Europe) December 2, 2024 – Spanish authorities said that they eliminated the largest criminal organisation smuggling and...
Spain plans to expand Naval Station Rota, Cadiz
Cádiz, Spain (Ports Europe) December 2, 2024 – The Spanish government plans to redevelop the Rota Naval Base in Cádiz. It will take eight years to...
Yilport receives finance for cranes at Liscont terminal, Lisbon
Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) December 2, 2024 – Mitsui E&S Co, Japan Bank for International Cooperation and Yılport Holding have signed a...
Jan De Nul completed dredging in Kazakh Kuryk port
Kuryk, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) December 2, 2024 – Belgium’s Jan De Nul has completed, ahead of schedule, the four-month dredging project in the...
Shrinking Caspian – stranded ports, half empty ships
Baku, Azerbaijan (Ports Europe) December 2, 2024 – The Caspian Sea is within weeks of reaching its lowest level on record, an Azerbaijani official said,...
Uniontrasporti presents cost benefit analysis for Messina bridge project
Rome, Italy (Ports Europe) December 2, 2024 – Just over 9 billion euros in investments versus benefits of almost 11 billion euros with a net result of...
Update: Islamist HTS 100 km from Russia’s navy only Med Sea base
Tartus, Syria (Ports Europe) December 1, 2024 – After capturing Syria’s largest city of Aleppo, insurgents led by the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS)...
Russia might lose its navy’s only Mediterranean port facility in Tartus
Tartus, Syria (Ports Europe) November 30, 2024 – Russia’s only naval base outside the former Soviet Union in Syria’s Eastern Mediterranean Sea port of...
Iran: Seaports cargo report – October 2024
Tehran, Iran (Ports Europe) November 26, 2024 – The Iranian Ports and Maritime Organisation (PMO) has reported Iran’s port cargo statistics for October...
Plagen plans methanol plant near Baku port
Baku, Azerbaijan (Ports Europe) November 25, 2024 – South Korean clean energy company Plagen has signed an initial agreement to develop a green methanol...