Containers
All port activities linked to containers, including traffic volumes, storage and transport to and from ports.
Iran: Seaport cargo report – June 2023
Tehran, Iran (PortSEurope) July 9, 2023 – Iran’s Ports and Maritime Organisation (PMO) has published cargo details for its seaports for the month of June...
Italy: Total cargo handled in 2018-2022 – seaports
Rome, Italy (PortSEurope) July 4, 2023 – Assoporti, Italy’s port industry organisation, has published detailed cargo figures for Italian ports in...
Russia pushes for sanctions-busting cargo transport with Turkmenistan
Makhachkala, Russia (PortSEurope) July 3, 2023 – Desperate Russia, looking for ways to bypass Western sanctions is pushing for a regular container ship line...
Spain: Total TEU handled by port – Jan-May 2023
Madrid, Spain (PortSEurope) June 27, 2023 – In January-May 2023, Spanish state ports handled 6.69 million containers (TEU), down -8.3% on the same period...
Turkmenistan’s ferries and container ships run successful lines to Baku
Turkmenbashi, Turkmenistan (PortSEurope) June 26, 2023 – Turkmen ferries Berkarar and Bagtyar made 70 voyages from the country’s largest Caspian Sea port...
Iran: Seaport cargo report – May 2023
Tehran, Iran (PortSEurope) June 19, 2023 – Iran’s Ports and Maritime Organisation (PMO) has published cargo details for its ports for the month of...
NUTEP container terminal handles its 5-millionth container
Novorossiysk, Russia (PortSEurope) June 14, 2023 – In May 2023, the NUTEP container terminal handled its five-millionth container since it was put into...
China ports container volume rises 4.8% from January to April of 2023
China ports container volume rises 4.8% from January to April of 2023，Ningbo Containerized Freight Index decrease in May 2023 – June 7, 2023 From...
Port of Beirut reports slight rise in February TEU traffic
Beirut, Lebanon (PortSEurope) June 5, 2023 – The port of Beirut has reported a slight rise in total container (TEU) handling of 58,537 TEU in February...
Top container ports in the EU in 2022
Rotterdam, The Netherlands (Ports Europe) June 5, 2023 – Most EU ports handled less containers in 2022, compared to 2021. The Q1 2023 TEU results of the top...
Armenia tests container ship line via Georgia to Russia
Yerevan, Armenia (Ports Europe) June 2, 2023 – Armenia, desperate to establish a regular combined rail and sea cargo route to sanctions-hit Russia, is...
Surprising decline in Georgia’s port cargo handling
Poti, Georgia (Ports Europe) May 31, 2023 – Georgian ports handled 3.5 million tonnes of cargo in the first quarter of 2023, which is -17.8% less than in...
PJSC TransContainer reorientates trade eastwards
Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) May 30, 2023 – PJSC TransContainer has successfully reorientates trade eastwards in response to Western sanctions closing...
EUROGATE Container Terminal Limassol reports TEU fall in Q1 2023
Limassol, Cyprus (Ports Europe) May 30, 2023 – EUROGATE Container Terminal Limassol has reported TEU traffic of 81,982 TEU in the first quarter of 2023,...
EUROGATE Tanger reports TEU traffic down in Q1 2023
Tanger Med, Morocco (Ports Europe) May 30, 2023 – EUROGATE Tanger has reported TEU traffic of 583,262 TEU in the first quarter of 2023, down -3.6% on the...
Contship Italia sees TEU traffic down over -16% in Q1 2023
Milan, Italy (Ports Europe) May 29, 2023 – In the first three months of 2023, Contship Italia’s terminals handled 358,402 containers (TEU), down...
World Bank publishes “The Container Port Performance Index 2022
Vienna, Austria (Ports Europe) May 29, 2023 – The World Bank has published “The Container Port Performance Index 2022: A Comparable Assessment of...
FT: Huge shipping containers surplus after COVID-related shortages
London, United Kingdom (Ports Europe) May 24, 2023 – Global demand for goods is declining after the post-COVID restrictions and boom and this is...
EUROKAI sees TEU handling down over 16% in Q1 2023
Hamburg, Germany (Ports Europe) May 17, 2023 – In the first quarter of 2023 the container terminals in the EUROKAI Group saw an overall decline in...
Turkey: Seaport cargo report for April 2023
Ankara, Turkey (Ports Europe) May 12, 2023 – The Turkish authorities have published total cargo handling figures for its seaports in January-April 2023....