Europe

Latvias is set to carve out a role for itself as a transhipment and handling centre for containerised cargo to and from Russia, China, Korea and other Asian states, according to officials.…

A new deep water port is to be built at Karelian Belomorsk in Russia, 376 kilometres from Petrozavodsk.

Tarragona, near Barcelona, is to be the first of DP Worlds Spanish ports. DP World has acquired  a 60% shareholding in Contarsa Sociedad de Estiba which holds the exclusive concession for the…

Finlands newest container facility, Vuosaari Port in Helsinki, will soon be able to hande post-panamax ships carrying up to 18 containers abreast with recently delivered Kalmar ship-to-shore cranes.

The Russian National Container Company has ordered 19 TR618i (Icon series) tractors from Kalmar for two terminals in St Petersburg. The units are scheduled to be delivered by September 2008.

Dibden Bay will be safeguarded for future use within Southamptons port masterplanning exercise, it has been revealed.

Dorset County Council has withdrawn its objections to a major expansion at the south coast port of Portland, after the port agreed to contribute to the cost of local road improvements.

Duisburg is to be the home of a new 35,000 sq m trimodal container terminal, part funded by South Africas Imperial Group. Due to open in spring 2009, the terminal will be…

Maersk Line has signed a ten-year agreement with the Port of Felixstowe which will give the shipping line priority terminal usage.

Salonika Port in Greece says that it will have addressed all objections raised as part of the bidding process in respect of privatisation of port handling by the end of July.

A new port at Klaipeda in Lithuania is scheduled to be completed by 2017. This will be built on an artificial island and be used to handle oil products, fertiliser, containers and…

The port of Illichevsk in Ukraine believes it can boost throughput to 3.2m teu within five years following the upgrade of existing handling facilities. This compares with a throughput of 455,976 teu…

Poland is to invest up to ¢ 780m ($1.2bn) on improving access to its ports by 2014. To date, ¢ 150m ($233.7m) has been spent on upgrades in this area.

According to Russias Federal Agency of Marine and River Transport, throughput at ports in Russia is forecast to grow by 10%-12% during 2008. By 2015, overall volume of cargo is expected to…

Ust-Danube port in Ukraine reported losses last year of around $3m, as a result of a 71% decline in throughput to 75,400 tonnes in 2007 and one of 59% during the previous…

Asia Invest LTD (Kazakhstan) has signed a memorandum of interest with Ust-Luga OJSC to build a general cargo transhipment terminal at the Russian Baltic port of Ust-Luga. This 4m tonne capacity facility…