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.
Port of Ancona receives go-ahead for dredging
Ancona, Italy (Ports Europe) November 18, 2024 – The Marche Region has sent the Central Adriatic Sea Port System Authority (AdSP) the environmental...
Putin’s aid visits drone-hit Kaspiysk and Makhachkala
Makhachkala, Russia (Ports Europe) November 15, 2024 – Nine days after the devastating attack against the Russian Caspian Sea naval base of Kaspiysk, 18...
Puertos del Estado publishes report on economic impact of ports
Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) November 13, 2024 – Puertos del Estado has published: “Study of the economic impact of ports of general interest on...
Port of Naples progresses cold ironing project
Naples, Italy (Ports Europe) November 12, 2024 – The Environment Commission, chaired by Carlo Migliaccio, met with representatives of the Central...
Acciona, RMC to build offshore LNG terminal breakwater in Ravenna port
Ravenna, Italy (Ports Europe) November 12, 2024 – The Spanish company Acciona and the local RMC have been awarded a two-year contract to build a...
Damietta Alliance Container Terminals receives five new STS cranes
Damietta, Egypt (Ports Europe) November 12, 2024 – Damietta Alliance Container Terminals has announced receipt of the first set of five Ship-to-Shore...
Adriatic Gate Container Terminal sets new records
Rijeka, Croatia (Ports Europe) November 12, 2024 – Croatia’s Adriatic Gate Container Terminal (AGCT), part of ICTSI, has set new records in...
Portugal: Mainland seaports cargo report – August 2024
Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) November 10, 2024 – The mainland’s commercial port system recorded an increase in cargo handling of +8.6% between...
CHOICE analysis: China in the Black Sea and with Anaklia port
Prague, Czech Republic (Ports Europe) November 10, 2024 – China Observers in Central and Eastern Europe (CHOICE), a multinational consortium of experts...
Cruise industry worth nearly €2 billion to Lisbon
Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) November 8, 2024 – The Port of Lisbon has held the “Meeting for the Sustainability of Cruise Activity in Lisbon”,...
Container terminal in occupied Ochamchira, Georgia
Ochamchira, Georgia (Ports Europe) November 8, 2024 – The construction of the Black Sea Port Intermodal Container Terminal in Ochamchira is planned to be...
Varna-Batumi ferry line plan sinks
Varna, Bulgaria (Ports Europe) November 6, 2024 – The attempt to resume the ferry line between Bulgarian Black Sea port of Varna and Georgia’s Batumi using...
Maersk sees no return to Suez Canal until 2025
Copenhagen, Denmark (Ports Europe) November 6, 2024 – Speaking journalists last week, Vincent Clerc, CEO Maersk, said that the continued attacks on...
Ukrainian seaports report increased cargo in Jan-Oct 2024
Odessa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) November 5, 2024 – In January-October 2024, Ukrainian ports handled cargo handled 82.1 million tons, up 78.1% from 46.1...
First ships in Georgia’s Anaklia port by 2029 – minister
Anaklia, Georgia (Ports Europe) November 5, 2024 – There are “no obstacles” to the implementation of Georgia’s Anaklia Black Sea deep-water port...
Can Iran control Russia’s to be privatised Caspian port of Makhachkala?
Makhachkala, Russia (Ports Europe) November 5, 2024 – Iran seems to be throwing its hat in the ring for the long-delayed privatisation of Russia’s only...
Kremlin propaganda: NATO to sail Danube to Black Sea
Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) November 4, 2024 – Kremlin paranoia and its efforts to brainwash the local population gave birth to a new idea: NATO is...
Bucci: In Vado Ligure, the FSRU makes no sense
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) October 30, 2024 – Marco Bucci, current mayor of Genoa and future president of Liguria, has said that the FSRU in Piombino...
Maersk launched new container feeder line to Ukraine
Odesa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) October 29, 2024 – In defiance of continuing missile strikes against Ukrainian Black Sea ports, Danish giant shipping and...
No bidders for Albania’s Durres, Porto Romano developments
Durres, Albania (Ports Europe) October 29, 2024 – The government’s overambitious, and bordering with embezzlement, plans to redevelop the country’s...