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.
Serbian delegation visits China
Belgrade, Croatia (PortSEurope) November 3, 2019 – The Prime Minister of Serbia, Ana Brnabic, will head a national delegation to visit China from...
Renault and Inditex interested in Motril port capabilities
Motril, Spain (PortSEurope) November 3, 2019 – French vehicle producer Renault and Industria de Diseño Textil, S.A. (Inditex), a Spanish multinational...
Capacity expansion of dry cargo terminal at Moldova’s only Danube River port
Giurgiulesti, Moldova (PortSEurope) November 1, 2019 – Danube Logistics, the operator of Moldova’s only port on the Danube River –...
Andalucía seeks rail connection between Granada and Motril port
Motril, Spain (PortSEurope) October 29, 2019 – The Minister of Development of the Junta de Andalucía, Marifrán Carazo, that she will request of the...
COSCO Shipping Ports announces 2019 third quarter results – profits down
Hong Kong, China – 29 October 2019 – COSCO Shipping Ports Limited, the has announced third quarter results of the company and its subsidiaries for the...
Intesa Sanpaolo promotes southern Italian companies and port activities in China
Beijing, China (PortSEurope) October 29, 2019 – Intesa Sanpaolo S.p.A., the Italian banking group, has launched the Intesa Sanpaolo Mission in China...
Romania’s Grampet Group launches naval route between Batumi and Constanta ports
Constanta, Romania (PortSEurope) October 28, 2019 – Three members of the Trans-Caspian International Transport Route (TITR) – Grampet – Grup...
China shows interest in Baku International Sea Trade Port
Baku, Azerbaijan (PortSEurope) October 28, 2019 – Speaking to the local press, the Chinese Ambassador to Azerbaijan Guo Min described Azerbaijan as...
Kalmar wins contract for expansion project at Asyaport, Turkey
Istanbul, Turkey (PortSEurope) October 27, 2019 – Asyaport Liman A.S. (Asyaport) has awarded a contract to Kalmar to supply six Kalmar Zero Emission...
Contship Italia starts its fifth Asia Road Show
Shanghai, China (PortSEurope) October 25, 2019 – Daniele Testi, Marketing and Communications Director, has headed a Contship Italia delegation to...
COSCO delegation visits Koper port to explore further opportunities
Koper, Slovenia (PortSEurope) October 24, 2019 – The North Adriatic Slovenian port of Koper has hosted a delegation from the Chinese shipping and ports...
COSCO Shipping Ports’ overseas terminals see 13.3% rise in September 2019 traffic
Piraeus, Greece (PortSEurope) October 24, 2019 – In September 2019, the overseas terminals of China’s COSCO Shipping Ports Limited saw container...
Duisport, HTS, Hupac and COSCO to build trimodal container terminal in Duisburg
Duisburg, Germany (PortSEurope) October 23, 2019 – Duisburger Hafen AG (duisport) is building a trimodal container terminal with the international...
Georgian Infrastructure Minister highlights transport investments
Tbilisi, Georgia (PortSEurope) October 22, 2019 – Infrastructure Minister Maia Tskitishvili, speaking at the Tbilisi Silk Road Forum today, has said that...
Georgian PM opens Tbilisi Silk Road Forum
Tbilisi, Georgia (PortSEurope) October 23, 2019 – Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia has opened the two-day Tbilisi Silk Road Forum attended by...
DP World reports 1.1% gross like-for-like volume growth in 3Q 2019
Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 22 October 2019 DP World PLC handled 17.7 million TEU (twenty-foot equivalent units) across its global portfolio of container...
CMPort signs agreement with China-Portugal Cooperation Development Fund for port development
Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) October 22, 2019 – Last Friday, Dr. Bai Jingtao, the CEO of China Merchants Port Group Holdings Company Limited (CMPort)...
Van Oord to acquire up to 5% ordinary shares in Anaklia Holding JSC
Anaklia, Georgia (PortSEurope) October 22, 2019 – Van Oord International, a subsidiary of global marine contractor Van Oord of the Netherlands, is to...
Valencia port exceeds 4 million containers in September
Until September, the ports of the Port Authority of Valencia exceed 4 million containers (4,136,146 TEU). In interannual terms, Valenciaport needs less than...
MSC launches new reefer rail service with high-tec power supply
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) October 21, 2019 – MSC, a global transport and logistics company, has successfully completed the first service in a new...