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2022 closes with a 13.1% drop in the cost of export freight from Valenciaport

The Valencia Containerised Freight Index (VCFI) closes the year 2022 with a fall of -13.10% in December compared to November – January 13, 2023 This is...

Koper Port publishes improved preliminary results for 2022

Koper, Slovenia (Ports Europe) January 12, 2023 – Koper Port has published preliminary and unaudited results for 2022, showing an improved performance in...

Trieste Marine Terminal see container handing up +15.8% in 2022

Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) January 12, 2023 – Last year, Trieste Marine Terminal’s container terminal (Molo VII) handled 755,932 containers...

Port of Barcelona sees Jan-Nov cargo growth of 7% in Jan-Nov

Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) January 10, 2023 – Total freight traffic at the Port of Barcelona between January and November last year totalled 64.96...

PSA Italy ends 2022 with container growth

Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) January 10, 2023 – PSA Italy ended 2022 with +3% growth compared to 2021 in terms of containers handled in its terminals...

Belarus reports increased cargo containers export to China

Minsk, Belarus (Ports Europe) January 9, 2023 – Belarus reports increased cargo containers export to China, according to Belta, the national news agency....

Container traffic by train in the Port of Valencia grows by 10.24%

Container traffic by train in the Port of Valencia has grown by more than 10% in the first eleven months of the year – January 4, 2023 A symptom of the...

New Venice, Far East container service starts

Venice, Italy (Ports Europe) January 3, 2023 – Italian Rif Line is a container service operating between Venice and the Far East. The MV Rijnborg, a...

Port of Gioia Tauro handles 17 ships concurrently

Gioia Tauro, Italy (Ports Europe) January 3, 2023 – Yesterday, at 0800 in the Port of Gioia Tauro, 17 ships docked concurrently. Gioia Tauro is...

China Ports Container volume rises 4.2% in from January to November 2022

China Ports Container volume rises 4.2% in from January to November 2022Ningbo Containerized Freight Index decease significantly in December 2022 –...

In first nine months of 2022, Spain’s ports handled 15.82 mln containers

Madrid, Spain (PortSEurope) December 28, 2022 – In the first nine months of 2022, Spain’s seaports handled 15.82 million containers (TEU). This...

Five new regular shipping lines from China to Novorossiysk replace western imports

Novorossiysk, Russia (PortSEurope) December 27, 2022 – Over the past six months, five new regular service lines have been launched from China to the Russian...

Shrinking of containerized cargo transport in Russia continues in November

Moscow, Russia (PortSEurope) December 27, 2022 – The container market of Russia in the January-November 2022 period decreased by 15.6% compared to the same...

Russia’s FESCO keeps increasing its containers fleet filling the sanctions created shortage

Moscow, Russia (PortSEurope) December 25, 2022 – FESCO is filling in the containers void in the Russian market after the largest global logistics companies...

Italy: Top 10 container ports by TEU traffic – Jan-Sep 2022

Rome, Italy (PortSEurope) December 16, 2022 – Assoporti, the Italian ports organisation, has published total cargo figures for January-September 2022,...

Piraeus Container Terminal handled 359.8k TEU in Nov 2022, -10.5%

Piraeus, Greece (PortSEurope) December 19, 2022 – In November 2022, the Piraeus Container Terminal (PCT) handled 359,800 containers (TEU). This is -10.5%...

Total cargo at Valenciaport down in November

València, Spain (PortSEurope) December 19, 2022 – Total cargo handled at Valenciaport was down in November by -6.12% at 73 million tonnes (mt) in the...

Russia plans container lines from China to St. Petersburg and Novorossiysk ports

Moscow, Russia (PortSEurope) December 19, 2022 – Reduced freight rates for sea container transportation are allowing Russian logistics companies to...

Ranking: Top 5 Turkish container ports – January-November 2022

Ankara, Turkey (PortSEurope) December 15, 2022 – Turkish seaports handled 11.32 million containers (TEU) in the first 11 months of 2022. This is a slight...

Containerships will connect YILPORT terminals in Ferrol and Oslo

Ferrol, Spain (PortSEurope) December 13, 2022 – A new service from Containerships will connect YILPORT Oslo with YILPORT Ferrol (Spain). Other ports on...

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