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COSCO Shipping Ports Ltd

COSCO Shipping Ports Limited is a leading global ports operator with a terminals portfolio covering the five main port regions in Mainland China, Southeast Asia, Middle East, Europe and the Mediterranean. Its Mediterranean terminal operations are located in Bilbao and Valencia (both Spain), Vado Ligure (Italy), Kumport (Turkey), Suez Canal (Egypt) and Piraeus (Greece).

Cosco Shipping Lines Spain increased its traffic volume by 2% in 2019

Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) January 14, 2020 – In 2019, Cosco Shipping Lines has said that the shipping company increased by 2% the volume of...

Ocean Alliance confirms calls to Italian ports of Genoa, La Spezia and Trieste

Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Ligure Occidentale – January 10, 2020 The Ocean Alliance containerized shipowning alliance has presented the new...

Piraeus Port Authority issues tender for Car Terminal C2 project

Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) December 19, 2019 – Piraeus Port Authority S.A. has announced a tender for the project: Restoration of operational depths...

Greek parliament group meets Chinese delegation

Athens, Greece (Ports Europe) December 12, 2019 – A delegation of the Greek parliament, consisting of the Chairman of the Committee of the Regions, Zeta...

JinkoSolar signs agreement with COSCO to use Piraeus port as a distribution hub for Europe

Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) December 11, 2019 – China’s JinkoSolar Holding Co., Ltd., one of the largest global solar module manufacturers, has...

DP World Sokhna to facilitate trade, logistics in Egypt

DP World Sokhna – December 4, 2019 DP World Sokhna has recently entered into a trilateral partnership with the China State Construction Engineering...

Greek minister wants to speed up regional port exploitation

Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) December 7, 2019 – Minister of Maritime and Island Policy, Yiannis Plakiotakis, has said that the government plans to...

EUROGATE at international CIIE trade fair in Shanghai

EUROGATE – November 5, 2019 From 5 to 10 November, EUROGATE flew the flag at the China International Import Expo (CIIE) in Shanghai and presented its...

COSCO Shipping Ports Limited – Container Throughput of Oct 2019

Container Throughput of October 2019 In Oct CSPL achieved 7.5% yoy growth in total throughput (excluding QPI), throughput of subsidiaries increased by 7.8% yoy...

COSCO Shipping Ports’ overseas terminals see 12.1% rise in October 2019 traffic

Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) November 29, 2019 – In October 2019, the overseas terminals of China’s COSCO Shipping Ports Limited saw container...

COSCO Shipping acquires stake in Rail Cargo Terminal-BILK, Hungary

Budapest, Hungary (Ports Europe) November 22, 2019 – Ocean Rail Logistics, part of COSCO Shipping of China, has acquired a more than 15% stake in Rail...

COSCO Shipping Charity Foundation to fund actions of the Red Cross in Greece

COSCO Shipping – November 21, 2019 Today, 21st November 2019 at the events’ hall of Piraeus Port Authority S.A. a ceremony took place for the...

ICTSI Croatia welcomes new intermodal service

International Container Terminal Services – 20 November 2019 Adriatic Gate Container Terminal (AGCT), the Croatian subsidiary of International Container...

Piraeus Port Authority handles 5 million TEU so far in 2019

Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) November 19, 2019 – Piraeus Port Authority SA announced that on Monday, November 18, 2019, reached 5 million Teu for the...

Valencia port meets Cosco in Shanghai

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) November 16, 2019 – The president of Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia (APV – Valenciaport, Port Authority of...

Ukraine ambassador to Greece visits Piraeus Port Authority

Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) November 17, 2019 – The Ambassador of Ukraine to Greece, Sergii Shutenko, has visited the Piraeus Port Authority SA (PPA)...

European Investment Bank to provide finance to Piraeus Port Authority

Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) November 12, 2019 – The European Investment Bank (EIB) has agreed to provide €140 million to support expansion and...

Visit of Prime Minister Mitsotakis and President of China Xi Jinping to COSCO’s premises in Piraeus

Government of Greece – November 11, 2019 Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and President of China Xi Jinping, accompanied by their spouses Mareva...

Cosco division acquires 60% of the share capital of Piraeus-based PEARL

Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) November 11, 2019 – Ocean Rail Logistics, part of the COSCO Shipping group, has acquires 60% of the share capital of...

Government spokesman Stelios Petsas reports of prime minister’s visit to China

Government spokesman Stelios Petsas made the following speech to parliament regarding the visit of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis to China this week...

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