Foreign investors interested in Georgia’s Anaklia port project

Anaklia port project

One of China’s largest infrastructure companies, China Railway International Group Ltd. (CRIG), is interested in investing in Anaklia Deep Sea Port project, which is being developed in Georgia on the eastern coast of the Black Sea, informs Georgia’s official news agency Agenda.ge. During its visit to this Caucasian country last week, the delegation from CRIG, […]

Yilport shows outstanding results in 2017

Yilport Holding

YILPORT Holding, the Turkish Yildirim Group’s port arm, reports a 9% increase in container throughput of all its terminals in 2017, informs the latest edition of Yilport’s corporate publication “Connection Magazine”. The overall volume of Yilport facilities grew to 4.3 mln TEU in 2017, which is 9.4% more than 3.93 mln TEU in 2016. The […]

ICTSI contributes to Iraq’s port infrastructure development

Basra Gateway Terminal

The development of Phase 2 of Basra Gateway Terminal (BGT) at the port of Umm Qasr, Iraq’s main shipping trade gateway on the Persian Gulf coast, is well underway by Philippine’s port operator International Container Terminal Services, Inc. (ICTSI). According to the company, the Phase 2 expansion will be completed in stages by Q3 2019 […]

Lugaport multipurpose terminal to be built in Ust-Luga, Russia

Ust-Luga port

Novotrans Group of companies, one of the largest Russian operators of rolling stock and providers of freight railway logistics, intends to build an international terminal at the Ust-Luga port to handle export grain flows, export and import of foodstuffs as well as general and bulk cargoes. The project of LUGAPORT multipurpose terminal will be presented […]

Algeciras terminates its new container terminal tender

Algeciras new container terminal

The Port Authority of Algeciras (La Autoridad Portuaria de la Bahia de Algeciras, APBA) has decided not to prolong any more the tender to build a new container terminal in the port, after the last extended term expired on 31 January 2018 and no bids have been received again, informs the APBA press service. The […]

Rail Cargo Group sets to expand its services in Trieste

port trieste

Rail Cargo Group (RCG), an Austrian rail freight logistics company controlled by Rail Cargo Austria AG, intends to expand its services to and from the Port of Trieste (Italy) in 2018. According to the company’s press service, this will improve connections not only between the Mediterranean and the rest of Europe, but also with the […]

Hutchison Ports launches remote-controlled yard operations in Hong Kong

Hongkong International Terminals (HIT), part of Hutchison Ports, officially launched yesterday the operations of remote-controlled Rubber-Tyred Gantry cranes (RTGs) and automated container stacking system at its Container Terminal 9 (CT9) North at the Tsing Yi part of the Hong Kong port. According to HIT, this makes CT9 North the first container terminal in Hong Kong […]

Barcelona records a 26% volume rise, fastest-growing port in Europe

Barcelona port

The Spanish port of Barcelona has reported its 2017 results which appear indeed amazing: +26% growth to the previous year. Due to this tremendous gain Barcelona has become the fastest-growing European port. The port’s total traffic reached 61.4 mln tonnes, thus surpassing the mark of 61 mln for the first time. Container handling, one of […]

Argentina develops rail connection to Bahia Blanca, Russian Railways interested

Bahia Blanca

Russian Railways (RZD), Russia’s state monopoly operating rail cargo and passenger traffic, plans to join the infrastructure development projects in Argentina, informs TASS news agency. Following the meeting with Argentine President Mauricio Macri, who visited Moscow last week, Oleg Belozerov, RZD General Director, announced: “Today we have heard from Mr. Macri that Argentina is interested […]

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