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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 Black Sea corridor works – Russia helpless
Odesa, Ukraine (PortSEurope) October 5, 2023 – More than 15 ships have completed journeys to and from the three major Ukrainian ports on the Black Sea...
Thessaloniki Port Authority: Strategic Investment in the Port of Volos
Thessaloniki Port Authority (ThPA S.A.): Strategic Investment in the Port of Volos – Thessaloniki, October 4, 2023 On September 28, 2023, the Board of...
Qatar delegation visits QTerminals Antalya
Antalya, Turkey (PortSEurope) October 3, 2023 – A Qatar delegation has visited QTerminals Antalya primarily to share knowledge and experience. The...
Port of Barcelona relocates cruises away from city neighbourhoods
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) October 3, 2023 – The Port of Barcelona has said goodbye to the last cruise ship to operate at the Barcelona Nord dock,...
MSC acquires about 50% in Italo, a private high-speed rail operator
Rome, Italy (PortSEurope) October 3, 2023 – Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) has entered into a binding agreement to acquire a stake of approximately...
Noatum acquires Sesé Auto Logistics for €81 million
Madrid, Spain (PortSEurope) October 3, 2023 – Noatum is set to acquire Sesé Auto Logistics for €81 million. Sesé Auto Logistics is a finished...
Romania wants to buy Moldova’s inland port of Giurgiulesti
Bucharest, Romania (PortSEurope) October 2, 2023 – The Prime Minister of Romania, Marcel Ciolacu, has said that Romania should purchase the Moldovan...
Piraeus Port Authority reports improved first half performance
Piraeus, Greece (PortSEurope) September 28, 2023 – In the first half of the fiscal year 2023, Piraeus Port Authority (PPA) has reported a robust increase...
HAROPA PORT to develop a new multimodal platform
Paris, France (PortSEurope) September 28, 2023 – HAROPA PORT has announced that it is developing the port of Bruyères-sur-Oise to create a new...
Miller, Clearwater Dynamics to enable full War Risks insurance coverage for ships in the Black Sea
London, United Kingdom (PortSEurope) September 27, 2023 – Miller, a leading independent specialist (re)insurance broker, and Clearwater Dynamics (CWD),...
Drones successfully tested at Port of Haifa
Haifa, Israel (PortSEurope) September 26, 2023 – Drones have been successfully tested at the Port of Haifa. Airobotics successfully completed a...
Port of Trieste on trade mission to Morocco
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) September 26, 2023 – The Port of Trieste is on trade mission to Morocco, together with Camera di commercio Venezia Giulia e...
More protests against Snam LNG facility in Vado
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) September 25, 2023 – There has been a further protest against the proposed Snam LNG facility in Vado, Genoa. A protest began...
Constanta port will modernise its roads, water and electricity infrastructure
Constanta, Romania (Ports Europe) September 25, 2023 – A 300 million euro project for the modernisation of Romania’s Black Sea port of Constanta was...
Georgia’s government continues the Anaklia port game
Tbilisi, Georgia (Ports Europe) September 24, 2023 – Georgian authorities have selected two applicants for the construction of the long-delayed and...
H2V plans hydrogen decarbonisation of Marseille Fos-sur-Mer industrial port zone
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) September 21, 2023 – H2V is preparing a gigafactory for the production of green hydrogen to decarbonise activities in...
Italy’s Assoporti, ESPO critical of European Union’s ETS directive
Rome, Italy (Ports Europe) September 20, 2023 – Italy’s Assoporti has been critical of European Union’s ETS directive, claiming this does not...
Enel to resume Porto Empedocle LNG plant project – again
Palermo, Sicily, Italy (Ports Europe) September 20, 2023 – Enel has agreed to resume the Porto Empedocle liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant project,...
China’s port of Lianyungang visits Aktau, Kazakhstan
Aktau, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) September 19, 2023 – A delegation of the regional government and the port of Lianyungang, China, has visited the port of...
Port of Gioia Tauro wants to challenge EU green regulations
Gioia Tauro, Italy (Ports Europe) September 18, 2023 – The Port of Gioia Tauro wants to challenge EU green regulations and has contacted the government...