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Russia’s container market in H1’24 was 3.3 mln TEUs
Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) July 29, 2024 – Russia’s container market grew 9.8% in January-June 2024, compared to the first six months of 2023 to 3.3...
Ice-class tugs badly needed for Russia’s Northern Sea Route
Murmansk, Russia (Ports Europe) July 29, 2024 – To operate efficiently, the ports along the Northern Sea Route (NSR) – the new Western...
4 tonnes of cocaine seized in Barcelona port
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) July 28, 2024 – More than 4,000 kg of cocaine were seized in Spain’s Barcelona port on July 26. The drug was hidden in rice...
Storage of fuels banned in Kavkaz port, last railway ferry lost
Kavkaz, Russia (Ports Europe) July 28, 2024 – Russia’s Federal Security Service (the successor of the Soviet KGB) has banned the storage of fuels and...
1 mln tonnes of Kazakh oil products exported via Batumi in H1’24
Batumi, Georgia (Ports Europe) July 28, 2024 – KazTransOil (a subsidiary of Kazakhstan’s national oil and gas company KazMunaiGaz) in the first half of...
€1 billion yacht marina for Russia’s rich near “Putin’s Palace”
Gelendzhik, Russia (Ports Europe) July 28, 2024 – Hugely expensive war in Ukraine and Western sanctions, ruined national transport infrastructure,...
3,200 kg of crystal meth seized in Rotterdam port, Antwerp also
Rotterdam, The Netherlands (Ports Europe) July 27, 2024 – An all-time record quantity of 3,200 kg of methamphetamine (crystal meth) was sized by...
Kazakhstan’s ports handled 1.37 mln tonnes of cargo in H1’24 – really?
Kuryk, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) July 27, 2024 – Kazakhstan’s Caspian Sea ports handled 1.37 million tonnes of cargo in the first six months of the...
Ukraine’s Kernel increases grain processing in H1 2024
Kiev, Ukraine (Ports Europe) July 26, 2024 – Kernel, the country’s largest producer and exporter of grains, has published its financial reports for...
Port Authority of Lavrio reports improved H1 2024
Lavrio, Greece (Ports Europe) July 26, 2024 – The Port Authority of Lavrio (OLAE) has published an update of its improved performance in the first half...
Port of Barcelona issues tender for new cruise terminal
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) July 26, 2024 – The Port of Barcelona has launched a tender for its future ferry terminal at the Adossat Wharf, which...
AdSP Sardinia revises infrastructure investments
Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy (Ports Europe) July 26, 2024 – The Port System Authority of the Sea of Sardinia has approved the update to the three-year...
Rome invites applicants to manage nine leading port authorities
Rome, Italy (Ports Europe), July 26, 2024 – The Italian government has invited applicants for the job of president of nine of the country’s port...
Four Greek ports to receive EU funds for cold ironing
Athens, Greece (Ports Europe) July 26, 2024 – TAIPED, the government’s privatisation agency, has announced that four regional ports included in the...
Grimaldi completes purchase of Port of Heraklion
Athens, Greece (Ports Europe) July 26, 2024 – The Deputy Minister of Shipping, Stefanos Gikas, has reported that 67% of the shares of the Heraklion Port...
Made by China: Georgia’s port, airport, roads and railways
Tbilisi, Georgia (Ports Europe) July 26, 2024—After acquiring 49% of Georgia’s future deep-water Black Sea port of Anaklia, China wants to construct the...
Port Flot-Burgas reports improved H1 2024
Burgas, Bulgaria (Ports Europe) July 25, 2024 – Port towage services company Port Flot-Burgas has reported a standalone net profit of 1.71 million...
Wireless reefer monitoring system at the Port of Thessaloniki
Thessaloniki, Greece (Ports Europe) July 25, 2024 – Thessaloniki Port Authority (ThPA) is improving its reefer container handling capabilities by...
Salerno cruise passenger terminal concession extended
Salerno, Italy (Ports Europe) July 25, 2024 – The concession to operate ‘Stazione Marittima’ building – Port of Salerno” has been...
Russia’s FESCO imports more cars from China
Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) July 25, 2024 – In the first half of 2024, FESCO transported over 22,000 TEUs from China to Russia. The cargo included more...