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.
Tunisian ports see 7% increase in 2018 cargo traffic
Tunis, Tunisia (Ports Europe) February 18, 2019 – The total volume of commercial activity in Tunisian commercial seaports was 30.7 million tons in 2018,...
Croatia invites Chinese companies to participate in Rijeka port road tender
Rijeka, Croatia (Ports Europe) February 18, 2019 – Croatia’s transport minister Oleg Butkovic has invited Chinese companies to participate in a...
Valenciaport Foundation participates in port event in Peru
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) February 18, 2019 – The Director of Port Development of the Valenciaport Foundation, Arturo Monfort, has attended the port...
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,...
Marseille port develops maritime digital gateway
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) February 14, 2019 – The port of Marseille-Fos has announced the construction of new subsea cable landing infrastructure...
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...
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...
Casablanca port looks to develop free economic trade zone
Casablanca, Morocco (Ports Europe) February 12, 2019 – Morocco’s Agence Nationale des Ports (ANP – National Ports Agency) is issuing a tender...
Free Trade Zone and Director of Groupe PSA plant in Vigo meet to discuss progress
Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) February 12, 2019 – With the aim of contributing to consolidate the activity and employment of the French automotive Groupe...
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...
USA ousts China as main traffic partner of Valencia port in 2018
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) February 11, 2019 – Valencia port has experienced a historic change in the leadership of its international traffic in 2018,...
EBRD to provide €7.5 million to Tuyauto Gestamp Morocco
Tangier, Morocco (Ports Europe) February 11, 2019 – The local automotive industry in Morocco has been boosted by the announcement from the European Bank...
Decathlon doubles logistics area in ZAL, Barcelona port
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) February 11, 2019 – Decathlon SA, the French seller of sports equipment, is to rent a site of 96,000 m² in ZAL (La Zona...
Black Sea Oil & Gas moves forward with Midia Gas Development Project
Constanta, Romania (Ports Europe) February 8, 2019 – Black Sea Oil & Gas SRL, with partners, Petro Ventures Resources SRL and Gas Plus International...
Nauticor, Gas Natural Fenosa carry out first LNG bunkering for the ship “Fure Vinga”
Cartagena, Spain (Ports Europe) February 5, 2019 – Bahía de Bizkaia Gas (BBG) has announced that the first operation of liquefied natural...
Trieste port’s new FREEeste logistics area already operational
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) February 5, 2019 – Italy’s Trieste port plans to officially open its free trade zone, named FREEeste, on February...
Fincantieri to establish shipbuilding hub in Palermo
Palermo, Sicily, Italy (Ports Europe) February 5, 2019 – Fincantieri SpA and Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mare di Sicilia Occidentale (AdSP –...
EU provides €233 million for Anaklia port development
Anaklia, Georgia (Ports Europe) – February 4, 2019 – Anaklia Deep Sea Port will receive for the second stage of its construction European Union (EU)...
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,...
The blockade of Ukrainian Azov Sea ports costs over €300 million – minister
Mariupol, Ukraine (Ports Europe) February 3, 2019 – The Ukrainian maritime sector has lost some UAH 10 billion hryvnia (€316 million), as a result of the...