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Authorities to investigate Terminal San Giorgio purchase by Ignazio Messina
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) March 5, 2024 – The Antitrust Authority (AGCM) will investigate the acquisition of the entire share capital of the Genoese...
Company submits new terminal request to Port of Vilagarcía
Vilagarcía, Spain (PortS Europe) March 5, 2024 – Betunes Gallegos SLU has submitted a request to the Port Authority of Vilagarcía to occupy an area of...
Construction has begun on a new cruise pier at the Port of La Spezia
La Spezia, Italy (Ports Europe) March 5, 2024 – The construction site for the new cruise pier in La Spezia will be delivered today. It will take 710...
Seventh attempt to sell Ukraine’s Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi port
Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi, Ukraine (Ports Europe) March 5, 2024 – A seventh attempt will be made for the sale of Ukraine’s Black Sea port of...
1.3 tons of cocaine seized in Port of Lisbon
Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) March 5, 2024 – The authorities have seized 1.3 tons of cocaine in the Port of Lisbon. The illegal drugs were hidden...
Turkey’s Dörtyol terminal ends oil imports from Russia
Iskenderun, Turkey (Ports Europe) March 5, 2024 – The Dörtyol terminal, operated by Global Terminal Services (GTS), has ended imports of Russian crude...
Container transport in rail freight transport in Germany, 2005-2022
Hamburg, Germany (Ports Europe) March 5, 2024 – The Federal Office for Logistics and Mobility (BALM – Bundesamt für Logistik und Mobilität) has...
PSA Sines acquires six new yard cranes
Sines, Portugal (Ports Europe) March 5, 2024 – PSA Sines, the terminal operator in Portugal, has invested in fully automated yard equipment by acquiring...
Russian navy builds a new base in Caspian Makhachkala
Makhachkala, Russia (Ports Europe) March 5, 2024 – The Russian navy, exposed and vulnerable in the Black Sea, is building a new base for its ships in the...
First KazAzot ammonia exported via Georgia’s Batumi port
Batumi, Georgia (Ports Europe) March 5, 2024 – For the first time, KazAzot exported its ammonium nitrate through Georgia’s Black Sea port of Batumi....
Greater Odesa ports busy with exports
Odesa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) March 4, 2024 – More than three dozen ships are loading on March 4 in the ports of Greater Odesa. Most of them are getting...
New container line from Sfax to Morocco, Spain and Libya
Sfax, Tunisia (Ports Europe) March 4, 2024 – A regular container line from Tunisia’s Mediterranean port of Sfax to Morocco, Spain and Libya has been...
EU: €1 billion for alternative fuels infrastructure projects
Brussels, Belgium (Ports Europe) March 4, 2024 – Last week, the European Commission launched a call for proposals has been launched today under the...
Is COSCO interested in operating Port of Nador, Morocco?
Nador, Morocco (Ports Europe) March 4, 2024 – Reports from Spain suggest that the Moroccan government has approached China’s COSCO to manage its...
Chinese cranes in London Gateway, are they spying tools?
London, United Kingdom (Ports Europe) March 4, 2024 – DP World has welcomed Europe’s largest quay cranes at its flagship London Gateway logistics hub....
Ferretti group ends interest in Taranto port facility
Taranto, Italy (Ports Europe) March 4, 2024 – The luxury yachting group Ferretti has announced the termination of its interest in the former Belleli Yard...
Tunisian ports handled 29.37 mln tonnes of cargo in 2023
Tunis, Tunisia (Ports Europe) March 4, 2024 – Tunisian ports handled 29.37 million tonnes of cargo in 2023, an increase of +2.3% compared to the 28.7 million...
Record cargo turnover of Odesa ports in February
Odesa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) March 4, 2024 – The cargo turnover of the ports of Greater Odesa in February was 8 million tonnes, of which 5.2 tonnes were...
MSC reportedly acquired 50% of Italy’s RHE
Rivalta, Italy (Ports Europe) March 4, 2024 – Switzerland-based shipping giant Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) has reportedly acquired a 50% stake...
Port of Ancona handles 9.48 million tons of cargo in 2023, -10%
Ancona, Italy (Ports Europe) March 4, 2024 – A total of 11.23 million tonnes (mt) of goods were handled in 2023 in the ports of Ancona-Falconara...