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A category including news about container terminals including ownership, throughput, investment, construction and investment.

DP World and Algeria discuss future port development plans

Algiers, Algeria (Ports Europe) October 5, 2017 – Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem, DP World Group Chairman and CEO, has met with the Algerian Minister of Public...

Genoa’s PSA Voltri-Pra achieves 1 million TEUs in 2017

Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) October 4, 2017 – On September 5, the PSA Voltri-Pra Terminal reached a goal of handling 1 million TEUs since the start of...

Commission clears acquisition of Mersin International Port by IFM and PSA

Brussels, Belgium (Ports Europe) October 3, 2017 – The European Commission has approved, under the EU Merger Regulation, the acquisition of Mersin...

DP World chairman to visit Sète port

Sète, France (Ports Europe) September 29, 2017 – Carole Delga, President of the Occitanie/Pyrénées-Méditerranée Region and Jean Claude Gayssot,...

The evolution of Terminal automation, how the technologies impact of terminal performance

September 4, 2017 The evolution of Terminal automation, how the technologies impact of terminal performance Motorways of the Sea  The world of shipping is...

Eurogate targets Limassol transit traffic

Limassol, Cyprus (Ports Europe) September 28, 2017 – Since taking over the management of the Limassol container port in January 2017, Eurogate (parent...

TMT shows 20% container growth in first eight months of 2017

Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) September 26, 2017 – The volumes of the container terminal of the Port of Trieste confirm the growing trend of the last...

Voltri Terminal Europa Presents the Terminal of the Future

Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) September 26, 2017 – Voltri Terminal Europa (VTE)  has produced a video which highlights the innovations at the terminal...

Second phase of Petlim container terminal launched

Izmir, Turkey (Ports Europe) September 22, 2107 – The stage 2 of Petlim container terminal was launched on September 19. The completed container terminal...

Yilport Leixões yields 11,900 TEU

Leixões, Portugal (Ports Europe) September 22, 2017 – Between September 11-17, 2017, (week no. 37), Yilport Leixões received and operated 24 ships....

Valencia, Tianjin ports to facilitate trade relations between both hinterlands

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) September 19, 2017 – Valencia port and the Chinese harbour of Tianjin have set the basis for the signing of an agreement to...

Ravenna announces the “Hub portuale Ravenna 2017” development plan

Ravenna, Italy (Ports Europe) September 17, 2017 – Daniele Rossi, chairman of Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mare Adriatico Settentrionale (Port...

Spain’s OHL starts container transhipment operations at Tenerife port

Tenerife, Spain (Ports Europe) September 13, 2017 – Spanish company Obrascon Huarte Lain S.A. (OHL) has started container transhipment operations at...

Leixões port keeps breaking container traffic records

Leixões, Portugal (Ports Europe) September 13, 2017 – Leixões port keeps breaking records in the container traffic segment and managed to exceed 3,000...

China Merchants Port Holdings reports improved Kumport performance

Kumport, Turkey (Ports Europe) September 10, 2017 – China Merchants Port Holdings Company Limited has announced the interim results of the company and...

Cosco announces express cargo shipping to Europe via Piraeus port

Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) September 5, 2017 – A new service called “China-Europe Sea-Land Express Cargo” is being started by Cosco...

New environmental study for proposed Barreiro Container Terminal in Lisbon

Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) September 5, 2017 – The current environmental impact assessment of the Barreiro Container Terminal will be stopped and a...

Bordeaux port expects bids for TCSO terminal operation

Bordeaux, France (Ports Europe) September 4, 2017 – Bordeaux port invited bids for the operation of the Terminal Conteneurs du Sud-Ouest (TCSO)...

Sines, Leixões, Lisbon ports are among top 200 largest container hubs globally

Sines, Portugal (Ports Europe) September 2, 2017 – The Portuguese ports of Sines, Leixões and Lisbon are among the 200 largest container ports in the...

Former employees of MCT block Gioia Tauro port

Gioia Tauro, Italy (Ports Europe) September 2, 2017 – Employees of Medcenter Container Terminal (MCT), Contship Italia Group’s flagship hub in the...

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