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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.
Karasu port to add Ro-Ro service to Burgas after the one to Constanta
Burgas, Bulgaria (Ports Europe) May 3, 2021 – Studies have started for the establishment of a Ro-Ro line between Bulgaria’s second largest Black Sea port...
Analysis – Is a new €2 billion port area development in Durres a realistic project?
Durrës, Albania (Ports Europe) May 2, 2021 – Albania is the “New Europe” and I want to be the first to go there, said Mohamed Alabbar, the head of...
UK embassy deputy head meets Libya’s National Oil Corporation chariman
The Chairman of the Board of Directors, Mustafa Sanalla, received on April 29, 2021, at the headquarters of the National Oil Corporation (NOC) in Tripoli, the...
Met Croatia delivers its first LNG cargo at Krk terminal
Croatia has received another cargo of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) at the Krk terminal in the northern Adriatic Sea, the first LNG delivery of MET Croatia. The...
Slovakia plans LNG terminal in Bratislava
Bratislava, Slovakia (Ports Europe) April 30, 2021 – State-owned Public Ports has said that a €40 million ($48.4 million) liquified natural gas (LNG)...
COSCO Shipping Ports announces 2021 first quarter results
COSCO SHIPPING Ports Limited, a leading ports operator, today announced the first quarter results for the three months ended 31 March 2021 – April 28,...
Genoa Blue Agreement renewed to reduce emissions
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) April 27, 2021 – The Genoa Blue Agreement has been renewed, a voluntary agreement promoted by the Port Authority of Genoa...
Valenciaport, a strategic port for the agri-food industry that increases its exports by 40% in the first quarter of the year
The Port of València handled more than two million tons of agri-food products during the first three months of the year. Exports registered an increase of...
CMA CGM most likely to rebuild Beirut port in a project worth €600 million – German multi-billion euro project rejected
Beirut, Lebanon (Ports Europe) April 26, 2021 – The over-ambitious $5-7 billion plan with an up-to-20-year construction span of two German companies for the...
Morocco considers FSRU vessel on Atlantic or Mediterranean coast
Nador, Morocco, (Ports Europe) April 26, 2021 – Local sources are reporting that the Moroccan government is considering establishing a floating storage...
Total executives meet with Libya’s National Oil Cooperation
Tripoli, Libya (Ports Europe) April 23, 2021 – Chairman of the Board of Directors of the National Oil Cooperation (NOC), Mustafa Sanalla, has met with...
Island Global Yachting and Ocean Capital Partners close agreement for megayacht marina in Málaga
Málaga, Spain (Ports Europe) April 23, 2021 – Island Global Yachting (IGY) and Ocean Capital Partners (OCP) have signed an agreement to construct and...
HHLA concession contract for the Trieste Logistics Platform signed
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) April 23, 2021 – Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG (HHLA) and Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mare Adriatico Orientale...
Thessaloniki Port Authority reports increased revenue and profit in 2020
The board of directors of ThPA S.A. has approved the 2020 Annual Financial Report for the Fiscal Year 2020 financial results and activity of ThPA S.A....
Italy’s Minister Giovannini renews top management of the port authorities and defines the strategic objectives
The Minister of Sustainable Infrastructures and Mobility, Enrico Giovannini has started the completion of the procedures for the renewal of the presidents of...
Hyundai Engineering and Construction discusses return to Libya
Tripoli, Libya, (Ports Europe) April 20, 2021 – The Chairman of Libya’s National Oil Corporation (NOC), Eng. Mustafa Sanalla, has met with the Vice...
Sapio and the Port of Venice to create a ‘hydrogen valley’ in Marghera
Venice, Italy (Ports Europe) April 20, 2021 – A memorandum of understanding (MoU) has been signed between the Sapio group, Autorita’ di Sistema...
Valenciaport is managing normally 32,313 containers affected by the Suez Canal blockage
Between 6 and 16 April, the docks of the port area have assumed the loading and unloading operations of 10 vessels detained in the Suez Canal with complete...
The City Council and the Port of Barcelona sign an agreement to develop the Blue Economy as a strategic sector for the future
Barcelona City Council will promote a Blue Economy strategy – a sustainable economy linked to water and the sea – as one of the priority and future...
Analysis – Russian new port in Ust-Luga to deprive from cargo ports in Ukraine, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Finland
Ust-Luga, Russia (Ports Europe) April 19, 2021 – Russia’s currently under construction Baltic Sea port of Ust-Luga, which when completed will claim to be...