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.
Shortage of dredging vessels delays Port of Valencia work
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) March 1, 2024 – A shortage of dredging vessels is delaying work on the new container terminal in the Port of Valencia. The...
Georgia hosts World Bank presentation on TITR-Middle Corridor
Tbilisi, Georgia (Ports Europe) March 1, 2024 – Earlier this week, Tbilisi hosted a World Bank event entitled: “The Middle Trade and Transport...
Port of Marseille & DEOS project – renewable energy
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) February 28, 2024 – With the Offshore Wind Development (DEOS) project, the port of Marseille Fos aims to build and make...
Baker Hughes sign contract for facility in Port of Corigliano Calabro, Calabria
Gioia Tauro, Italy (Ports Europe) February 27, 2024 – The Iocal subsidiary of Baker Hughes, a U.S. industrial company, Nuovo Pignone has signed a...
Port of Ravenna to build breakwater for FSRU regasification plant
Ravenna, Italy (Ports Europe) February 27, 2024 – The Port Authority of Ravenna will build the breakwater for the FSRU regasification terminal off the...
Port of Venice will not extend VTP concession
Venice, Italy (Ports Europe) February 27, 2024 – The Port of Venice has said it will not extend the concession of Venezia Terminal Passeggeri (VTP) which...
Irtysh River as a sanctions-busting route China-Russia
Astana, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) February 26, 2024 – Under pressure from Russia, Kazakhstan is planning a multimodal transit corridor...
Port of Gioia Tauro issues tender for dock electrification
Gioia Tauro, Italy (Ports Europe) February 26, 2024 – A tender for over 14.5 million euros has been issued for the executive design and execution of the...
Kazakhstan to dredge Kuryk and Aktau ports
Astana, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) February 26, 2024 – Kazakhstan’s Caspian Sea ports of Kuryk will be dredged in 2024, while Aktau, the country’s...
Tender for new Albanian port in Porto Romano
Durres, Albania (Ports Europe) February 23, 2024 – In March, Albania will announce an international tender for the construction of a new commercial port to...
Port of Antwerp-Bruges ordered to pay €41 million to DP World
Antwerp, Belgium (Ports Europe) February 20, 2024 – A split ICSID tribunal has ordered the Port of Antwerp-Bruges to pay €41 million plus costs and...
Port of Barcelona imports more electric Chinese cars
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) February 16, 2024 – The Port of Barcelona imported 790,000 vehicle units in 2023, an increase of +33.7% on the previous...
Fusion Fuel receives IPCEI approval for HEVO-Portugal project
Sines, Portugal (Ports Europe) February 16, 2024 – Fusion Fuel has announced that it has received notification from the European Commission that the...
Local court cancels zoning plans for Kanal Istanbul
Istanbul, Turkey (Ports Europe) February 16, 2024 – On February 13, 2024, the Istanbul 11th Administrative Court cancelled the development plan of the...
Will Russia pay for the $350 mln dry port in Armenia’s Gyumri?
Gyumri, Armenia (Ports Europe) February 14, 2024 – The project for the construction of a dry port in Armenia’s Gyumri was discussed again at a meeting...
GIP sells the Darsena Toscana Terminal to Grimaldi
Livorno, Italy (Ports Europe) February 14, 2024 – Infracapital and InfraVia Capital Partners today completed the sale of their 100% stake in Terminal...
Port of Ravenna affected by Red Sea crisis
Ravenna, Italy (Ports Europe) February 13, 2024 – In reporting a slight decline in cargo traffic for 2023, the Port of Ravenna has released interesting...
$31 billion investment for Kazakhstan rail, sea, air & road transport
Astana, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) February 13, 2024 – A pool of investment projects worth more than $31 billion in the fields of railway, sea, aviation...
Dredging contract awarded for Port of Venice
Venice, Italy (Ports Europe) February 12, 2024 – A contract to dredge the access channel to Stazione Marittima di Venezia has been awarded to a...
World Bank, HR Wallingford step into shrinking Caspian problem
Aktau, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) February 12, 2024 – Alarmed by the shrinking waters of the Caspian, Kazakhstan invited the World Bank (WB) to conduct a...