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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.
P&O Ports places sole bid in Luka Novi Sad privatisation tender
Novi Sad, Serbia (Ports Europe) March 5, 2019 – P&O Port Dubai has pleced the sole bid in a tender for the privatisation of inland port Luka Novi...
Greek government makes statement on regional port privatisation
Statement by the Minister of Shipping and Island Policy on the exploitation of regional ports by the method of sub-porting to investors March 3, 2019...
Second annual Ukrainian Ports Forum 2019 will take place in Odessa in May
Odessa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) March 5, 2019 – The second annual Ukrainian Ports Forum 2019 will take place in Odessa May 30-31, 2018. The international...
Aicep Global Parques to invest €7 million in ZIL Sines
Sines, Portugal (Ports Europe) March 4, 2019 – Associação dos Portos de Portugal has reported that aicep Global Parques is to invest €7 million...
Italy-China business event held in Trieste
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) March 4, 2019 – Trieste has hosted a “China-Italy Business Relationship” round table, an event designed to...
La Spezia port joins initiative for Pontremolese railway upgrade
La Spezia, Italy (Ports Europe) March 1, 2019 – Autorita’di Sistema Portuale del Mar Ligure Orientale (AdSP – Eastern Ligurian Sea Port Authority) has...
Russian transport projects that will help Azerbaijan’s ports
Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) February 28, 2019 – In February, the Russian government has published detailed information on Russian national projects...
Alexandroupolis port seeks new law to promote concession-based future
Alexandroupolis, Greece (Ports Europe) February 26, 2019 – The President of the Port Authority of Alexandroupolis, Christos Doukas, together with the...
Durrës port to receive WBIF grant for reconstruction work
Durrës, Albania (Ports Europe) February 26, 2019 – In the framework of the 20th Western Balkans Investment Instrument (WBIF) call for technical...
Italy to deliver formal notice to MCT for breaches in Gioia Tauro port concession
Gioia Tauro, Italy (Ports Europe) February 26, 2019 – Italy’s government plans to shortly send a formal notice to Medcenter Container Terminal (MCT)...
Ferrol port hosts LNG refueling operations for first time
Ferrol, Spain (Ports Europe) February 26, 2019 – For the first time, Ferrol port has hosted liquefied natural gas (LNG) refueling operations to ships....
Turkey’s Yilport aims to bring Leixões port’s capacity close to Sines
Leixões, Portugal (Ports Europe) February 25, 2019 – Leixões container terminals will be able to grow 153% over the next two years, given that the Turkish...
Luka Koper reports 2018 net operating profit of €60 million, up 71%
Koper, Slovenia (Ports Europe) February 24, 2019 – Luka Koper Group has reported a net operating profit for 2018 of €60 million ($68.05 million), up...
Genoa hosts Italy Russia seminar
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) February 22, 2019 – Genoa has hosted the third Italian-Russian seminar, “Italy-Russia: the art of innovation”,...
COSCO’s Piraeus port development plan receives partial approval
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) February 22, 2019 – Greece’s Port Planning and Development Committee gave a partial approval of the master plan of...
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...
Grimaldi joins H2PORTS project
Naples, Italy (Ports Europe) February 20, 2019 – Grimaldi Group and its sister company Valencia Terminal Europa (VTE) have joined the European project...
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...
MCT promises €120 million investment in Gioia Tauro port
Gioia Tauro, Italy (Ports Europe) February 19, 2019 – Medcenter Container Terminal (MCT) has suspended the redundancy schemes and announced investments of...