Port of Koper

Koper and COSCO discuss on port’s development

The Slovenian Minister of Infrastructure reassured her Chinese interlocutors that the Port of Koper and Slovenia are capable of supporting the Chinese overseas trade with Central Europe.

In the course of her work visit to China where she was accompanied by Dimitrij Zadel, President of the management board of Luka Koper, Alenka Bratušek, Minister of Infrastructure, met the executives of Cosco, the largest Chinese shipping company and an important client of the Port of Koper. Cosco is at the same...

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Project connecting the three seas

On 5-6 June 2019, the leaders of the states participating in the so-called Three Seas Initiative gathered in Ljubljana.

The initiative, launched in 2015 and involving 12 Central European countries which are connected by the Adriatic, Baltic and Black Sea, is also strongly supported by the United States.

In the margins of the meeting in Ljubljana, a business Forum was held which was attended by more than 600 representatives of companies from the region and beyond. At the Forum, the states involved...

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Port of Koper opens second truck gate

From the perspective of project value, the new Sermin entrance to the port belongs among the minor strategic projects currently in progress in the Port of Koper, but it has a great symbolic value. For the first time since it opened 60 years ago, the Port of Koper can boast two truck entrances.

Over the decades, the port expanded and its throughput continued to grow. Since the number of trucks was increasing as well, when the new national zoning plan was drafted, an additional entrance to the...

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New block train service connects Austria with Koper

A new railway service connecting Enns with Koper container terminal is operative from 12th April 2019.

The export-focused block-train service is provided by Metrans on behalf of Maersk as intermodal operator and has a 1x  frequency with arrivals in Koper on Saturdays, closely linked to Maersk AE12 ocean service, which is connecting Koper to the Mediterranean and the Far East ports.

The service is a new addition to the vast network of daily connections Koper has with Austria’s logistic and...

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European ports develop security project

The SECNET project was officially concluded on March 28 in Trieste, which was held in the framework of the European project Interreg Slovenia – Italy. The event was also attended by the first men of the three project partner ports – Venice, Trieste and Koper, who signed a protocol on cooperation and exchange in the field of port security.

According to a statement, the SECNET project aims at strengthening institutional cooperation in the area of ​​port security, both at the local and wider...

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Port of Koper keeps gaining Austrian boxes

The Austrian economy is interested in even closer cooperation with the northern Adriatic

At the business meeting (March 19) held in Škocjanski zatok Nature Reserve near Koper, 26 Austrian companies active in the logistics, transport, IT and civil engineering sectors took part. Some of them were interested in expanding their business whereas others already make up the northern Adriatic logistics network. According to the data published each year by the logistics magazine Verkehr, the Austrian...

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Luka Koper’s project get the green light

At the beginning of November 2018, Luka Koper, the company which operates all of the terminals at the Port of Koper, received from the Slovenian Ministry of the Environment the official notice that the building permit for the extension of the container terminal quayside is finally legally valid. The building permit was issued for the construction of the quayside, which will be 98.5 metres long and 34.4 metres wide, and for the construction of a hinterland stacking area (total size 24,830 m2)....

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Port of Alexandria visits Luka Koper

This week a high port delegation from Alexandria payed a visit to Port of Koper with intention of strengthening the good partnership and exchange of best practices.

The four-member team was led by the chairman of the port, admiral Medhat Attia. Koper has been cooperating with the port of Alexandria for many years. Two ports are strengthening their contacts as well as improving regular weekly container connections. Ports of Koper signed the cooperation agreement with the port of Alexandria in...

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