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APM Terminals Barcelona awaits electric cranes

Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) December 17, 2024 – Next week, APM Terminals is expecting the arrival of its first electric straddle carriers. These...

APM Terminals’ expanded Medport Tangier port now operational.

Tanger Med, Morocco (Ports Europe) December 17, 2024 – APM Terminals’ newly expanded Medport Tangier port is now operational. The terminal now has...

Finland orders new icebreaker ship

Helsinki, Finland (Ports Europe) December 17, 2024 – The Finnish government has said that it has ordered a new icebreaker ship, the “Aino”,...

Baltic Sea, North Sea states take targeted measures against Russian shadow fleet

Tallinn, Estonia (Ports Europe) December 17, 2024 – A group of littoral states around the Baltic Sea and the North Sea have announced that they will...

Third damaged Russian tanker in three days near Kerch Strait

Kerch, Russia (Ports Europe) December 17, 2024 – A third Russian oil tanker, the 51-year-old Volgoneft-109, sent a distress signal in the early morning...

Future of Larnaca port uncertain

Larnaca, Greece (Ports Europe) December 17, 2024 – Earlier this month, the government announced that the management of Larnaca port would be handed over...

Huawei sets up European logistics hub in Piraeus port

Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) December 17, 2024 – Last week, Huawei Greece announced the launch of its European logistics hub in the port of Piraeus....

Spain’s Port of Cartagena expects to break cruise records

Cartagena, Spain (Ports Europe) December 17, 2024 – In 2025, the Port Authority of Cartagena will surpass its own record for cruise ship tourists. More...

13.5 mln tonnes of cargo via Volga and Don rivers’ system in 2024

Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) December 17, 2024 – Inland waterways cargo transportation via Russia’s Volga and Don rivers in 2024 reached 13.5 million...

Russia’s FESCO with Shanghai-Vladivostok direct container line

Vladivostok, Russia (Ports Europe) December 16, 2024 – In early December, Russia’s FESCO Transport Group, part of the giant RosAtom state corporation,...

Port of Castellon looks for business in Algeria

Castellón, Spain (Ports Europe) December 16, 2024 – Autoridad Portuaria de Castelló (APC – Port Authority of Castellon) has organised a trade...

Update: Cocaine seizure in Burgas port revised down to 73 kg

Burgas, Bulgaria (Ports Europe) December 16, 2024 – The Bulgarian authorities have corrected the amount of seized in the country’s Black Sea port of Burgas...

Turkey: Ranking of TEU traffic by port – January-November 2024

Ankara, Turkey (Ports Europe) December 16, 2024 – The Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure has reported container (TEU) traffic for November 2024...

Turkish Seaports – TEU traffic – January-November 2024

Ankara, Turkey (Ports Europe) December 16, 2024 – The Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure has reported container (TEU) traffic for November 2024....

Tenerife Container Terminal signs deal with CMA CGM

Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain (Ports Europe) December 16, 2024 – After three years of negotiations, Tenerife Container Terminal (TC...

HHLA CTA terminal receives first remote-controlled container gantry crane

Hamburg, Germany (Ports Europe) December 16, 2024 – Container Terminal Altenwerder (CTA) receives three new highly automated container gantry cranes, the...

EBRD lends finance to Casablanca & Jorf Lasfar, Morocco

Casablanca, Morocco (Ports Europe) December 16, 2024 – The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) will loan up to MAD 690 million (65.9...

Update: Kerch Strait – a deadly trap for ships

Taman, Russia (Ports Europe) December 16, 2024 – The disaster of December 15 with the two very old Russian tankers in the Kerch Strait that connects the...

Iran’s Caspian Sea merchant fleet comprises 87 ships

Tehran, Iran (Ports Europe) December 16, 2024 – The country has recently increased the number of ships in its Caspian Sea merchant fleet to 87 vessels,...

Russian oil tanker split in two, another sinks in Kerch Strait

Taman, Russia (Ports Europe) December 15, 2024 – A Russian oil tanker carrying over 4,000 tonnes of oil products split in two during a heavy storm on...

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