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Maersk Europe Market Update – September 2024
Ocean Update – September 11, 2024 In February 2025, together with Hapag-Lloyd, Maersk is launching an operational collaboration called the Gemini...
Grimaldi completes acquisition of 67% of Heraklion Port Authority
Heraklion, Crete, Greece, (Ports Europe) September 19, 2024 – Naples-based Grimaldi Group has completed the acquisition of 67% of the capital of...
Moroccan trade delegation visits Port of Vigo
Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) September 18, 2024 – The Port of Vigo received yesterday a visit from a delegation from Morocco that is currently on a trade...
Rotterdam: 500,000 containers handled via Secure Chain
Rotterdam, Netherlands (Ports Europe) September 18, 2024 – The Port Authority of Rotterdam has reported that the 500,000th container has been handled by...
Nations not submitting ports’ container inspection results to IMO
Geneva, Switzerland (Ports Europe) September 18, 2024 – Less than 5% of 167 national administrations are regularly submitting ports’ container...
Porto Canale, Cagliari, calls tenders for shipbuilding area
Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy (Ports Europe) September 18, 2024 – A call for tenders for the allocation of the plots in the shipyard area on the eastern...
Russian navy escapes from Novorossiysk, but where to?
Gelendzhik, Russia (Ports Europe) September 18, 2024 – The Russian Black Sea navy is on the run again, leaving the country’s largest port of...
Germany’s Rhenus Group signs agreement with Port of Aktau
Aktau, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) September 18, 2024 – The Rhenus Group has signed a declaration of intent with Aktau Sea Commercial Port JSC to develop...
Svitzer receives new tugboat from Sanmar
Istanbul, Turkey (Ports Europe) September 18, 2024 – International towage company Svitzer has received a new, next-generation, multi-purpose tugboat from...
Rhenus to set up joint venture with Uzbek Railways
Samarkand, Uzbekistan (Ports Europe) September 18, 2024 – As part of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s trip to Central Asia, delegation member Tobias...
Russia’s Kandalaksha as an ammonia export port?
Kandalaksha, Russia (Ports Europe) September 18, 2024 – In a desperate move, Russia’s Arctic White Sea port of Kandalaksha, Murmansk region, was added to...
Collapse of railway cargo to Russia’s Murmansk port
Murmansk, Russia (Ports Europe) September 18, 2024 – Railway cargo shipments to Russia’s Arctic Port of Murmansk (part of Port Alliance) decreased by a...
Update: Further strikes planned by Portuguese port pilots
Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) September 17, 2024 – Port and harbour pilots are on the second day of a strike for better retirement terms. The current...
Georgia, China sign Middle Corridor MoU
Tbilisi, Georgia (Ports Europe) September 17, 2024 – Last Friday, Georgia and China signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to develop the...
Tanger Automotive City to double in size
Tanger Med, Morocco (Ports Europe) September 17, 2024 – The Moroccan government has said that the area of Tanger Automotive City will double to 1,185...
193 kg of cocaine seized in Le Havre port
Le Havre, France (Ports Europe) September 17, 2024 – 193 kg of cocaine was seized by the police near the French port of Le Havre on September 11. Authorities...
DFDS to start Trieste-Damietta service
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) September 17, 2024 – Danish shipper DFDS will start a Ro-Ro service between Trieste and Damietta in Egypt in November. The...
President, Eastern Ligurian Sea Port Authority, Mario Sommariva, resigns
La Spezia, Italy (Ports Europe) September 17, 2024 – Yesterday, Mario Sommariva, President, Autorita’di Sistema Portuale del Mar Ligure Orientale...
U.S. select committee highlights Chinese threats to ports
Washington, United States (Ports Europe) September 17, 2024 – Last week, Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party Chairman John Moolenaar,...
Russia’s Quark fund invests in Arctic Vitino port along NSR
Beloye More, Russia (Ports Europe) September 17, 2024 – Russia’s closed-end mutual investment fund Quark became a 50% co-owner of Nord Star, the...