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 Marseille to host solar plant
Marseille, France (PortSEurope) June 7, 2023 – French company Carbon has announced plans to build a a 5 GW PV cell and module factory at the Grand Port...
Port of Santander can now supply LNG to docked ships
Santander, Spain (PortSEurope) June 7, 2023 – The Port of Santander can now supply liquefied natural gas (LNG) to the ships that dock at its facilities...
Port of Alexandroupolis welcomes stream of ambassadors
Alexandroupolis, Greece (PortSEurope) June 7, 2023 – In the last four weeks, Port Authority of Alexandroupolis has welcomed a stream of ambassadors from...
Turkey increases passage fee for Bosphorus and Dardanelles
Istanbul, Turkey (PortSEurope) June 6, 2023 – Turkey has again increased the passage fee for the Bosphorus and Dardanelles Straits. Since October 2022, the...
Operations start at 2nd Passenger Terminal of Port of Thessaloniki
Thessaloniki, Greece (PortSEurope) June 6, 2023 – Operations have started at the 2nd Passenger Terminal in the Port of Thessaloniki with two cruise ships...
Ukraine will help Moldova rebuild 400 km railway connection to Reni Port
Reni, Ukraine (PortSEurope) June 6, 2023 – War-torn Ukraine will help its poor neighbour Moldova to rebuild a 400 km-long section of the railway line from...
FSRU can only stay in Piombino port for three years
Piombino, Italy (PortSEurope) June 5, 2023 – Italian energy company Snam has said that at its Golar Tunda floating storage and regasification...
Ports of Constanta and Baku to push Middle Corridor development
Constanta, Romania (Ports Europe) June 5, 2023 – Romania’s Black Sea Port of Constanta and Caspian Sea Port of Baku in Azerbaijan are developing a...
PSA Venice awarded new concession
Venice, Italy (Ports Europe) June 2, 2023 – PSA Venice has been awarded a new concession in the Port of Venice. The client is Autorita’ di Sistema...
The “Game of Drones” for Russian and Ukrainian ports
Novorossiysk, Russia (Ports Europe) May 31, 2023 – Russia and Ukraine have exchanged drone attacks against their Black Sea ports in the past months, damaging...
Kazakh grain terminal in Baku port
Baku, Azerbaijan (Ports Europe) May 30, 2023 – The construction of a grain terminal for Kazakhstan is to start soon in the Azerbaijani Caspian Sea port of...
Sanctions force Russia to buy foreign-made cargo ships
Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) May 30, 2023 – Forced by Western sanctions and the inability of local shipyards to construct new vessels fast enough, Russian...
Contship Italia sees TEU traffic down over -16% in Q1 2023
Milan, Italy (Ports Europe) May 29, 2023 – In the first three months of 2023, Contship Italia’s terminals handled 358,402 containers (TEU), down...
World Bank publishes “The Container Port Performance Index 2022
Vienna, Austria (Ports Europe) May 29, 2023 – The World Bank has published “The Container Port Performance Index 2022: A Comparable Assessment of...
What are the advantages of the new bridge over the Strait of Messina?
Messina, Italy (Ports Europe) May 29, 2023 – This week, the Italian Senate agreed to convert the decree on the bridge over the Strait of Messina into...
Takeover of Luka Rijeka halted
Rijeka, Croatia (Ports Europe) May 26, 2023 – State-owned Enterprise Restructuring and Privatisation Fund (CERP) has announced that it will retain its...
North South Corridor might finally push development of Caspian SEZs
Kazan, Russia (Ports Europe) May 25, 2023 – Large-scale construction works will begin in the coming months in the Olya port special economic zone (SEZ) Lotos...
Medkon starts calling at Port of Taranto
Taranto, Italy (Ports Europe) May 23, 2023 – The Medkon Mersin vessel called at the Port of Taranto on May 2, starting a service which Medkon hopes will...
Italy’s Adriatic Port of Vasto handles largest ever ship
Ancona, Italy (Ports Europe) May 22, 2023 – Italy’s Adriatic Port of Vasto has received its largest-ever ship in order to transport vans to...
The China-Central Asia Summit – a new Silk Road?
Xian, China (Ports Europe) May 22, 2023 – President Xi Jinpin has hosted his first-ever summit with the leaders of five Central Asian nations – the...