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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.
Ukrainian ports handled record 97.2 mln tonnes of cargo in 2024
Kyiv, Ukraine (Ports Europe) January 7, 2025 – Despite frequent Russian missile and drone strikes, Ukrainian Black Sea ports handled a record 97.2 million...
Port of Tenerife receives CMA CGM LNG container ship
Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain (Ports Europe) January 2, 2025 – The Port of Santa Cruz de Tenerife received last Saturday, December 28,...
New Ukraine-Romania Danube bridge to be approved in 2025
Orlivka, Ukraine (Ports Europe) January 2, 2025 – After more than 10 years of talks about the construction of a bridge across the Danube River between...
Tartus and Latakia ports resume normal operations
Tartus, Syria (Ports Europe) December 29, 2024 – Syria’s two largest Mediterranean Sea ports of Latakia and Tartus resumed their normal operations...
Russia’s Makhachkala port privatized, new owner is a sanctioned billionaire
Makhachkala, Russia (Ports Europe) December 27, 2024 – The long-delayed privatisation of Russia’s Caspian Sea port of Makhachkala has been completed,...
Finland seized tanker with Russian oil suspected of damaging Baltic power, internet cables
Helsinki, Finland (Ports Europe) December 26, 2024 – Today, Finland seized a ship carrying Russian oil in the Baltic Sea. The tanker was believed to have...
Turkey eyes Syrian Mediterranean ports
Ankara, Turkey (Ports Europe) December 26, 2024 – Turkey is jockeying for control of at least one Mediterranean port in Syria following the collapse of...
Emergency in Krasnodar as more oil from sunken tankers washing up on coastline
Anapa, Russia (Ports Europe) December 25, 2024 – Russia’s southern Krasnodar region declared a state of emergency after oil from two over...
Almost five times less cocaine seized in Hamburg port in 2024
Hamburg, Germany (Ports Europe) December 25, 2024 – Around five tonnes of cocaine were discovered in Germany’s port of Hamburg so far in 2024,...
Russia’s biggest logistics vessel sank in Mediterranean
Almeria, Spain (Ports Europe) December 25, 2024 – Ursa Major, Russia’s biggest and most capable logistics vessel sank in the Mediterranean Sea off the...
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...