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China International Marine Containers to acquire Maersk Container Industry

Copenhagen, Denmark (Ports Europe) September 29, 2021 – A.P. Moller – Maersk (Maersk) is to sell its reefer manufacturer, Maersk Container Industry...

China ports container volume rises 11.3% from January to August 2021, Ningbo Containerized Freight Index rises in September

From January to August 2021, the cargo volume of China ports was 10260.3 million tons, a year-on-year increase of 10.4%; the container throughput of China...

Trieste Marine Terminal sees TEU traffic up over +8% in August

Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) September 22, 2021 – In August this year, Trieste Marine Terminal (TMT) saw container (TEU) movement up +8.3% compared to...

Rif Line started new Civitavecchia-China container service

Civitavecchia, Italy (Ports Europe) September 20, 2021 – The Rif Line Group has launched a new container line service connecting the ports of Shanghai...

Valenciaport handled 3,000 export containers a day in August 2021

València, September 19, 2021.- Valenciaport operated during the month of August 3,000 full containers of cargo (export) per day to reach a total of 89,745...

The railway already takes more than 160,000 lorries off the road in the València-Madrid corridor

València, September 16th, 2021.- The railway already takes out of the race 160,000 lorries a year with containers (calculated in TEUs, or units equivalent to...

Handling of MSC container vessel highlights Gioia Tauro’s capacity

Gioia Tauro, Italy (Ports Europe) September 15, 2021 – The MSC Gulsum, which until last year held the record as the largest container ship in the world,...

METRANS to build new HUB terminal in Zalaegerszeg, Hungary

Budapest, Hungary (Ports Europe) September 13, 2021 – Intermodal transport provider METRANS is to invest €40 million ($47.19 million) in new HUB...

EUROKAI GmbH & Co. KGaA – Interim report for the first quarter 2021

September 10, 2021 – EUROKAI GmbH & Co. KGaA reported the following information: In the first quarter of the business year 2021 the container...

CMA CGM signs contract to use Alexandria Container & Cargo Handling Co. terminals in Damietta port

Damietta, Egypt (Ports Europe) September 7, 2021 – The French shipping and logistics group CMA CGM has signed a two-year contract with Alexandria...

Turkey: Total container handling statistics by ports, January-August 2021

Istanbul, Turkey (Ports Europe) September 6, 2021 – The General Directorate of Maritime Affairs has reported that in August 2021 Turkish ports handled a...

Valanciaport: The VCFI index reflects that freight rates continue to rise and grow 2.51% in August

València, September 3, 2021 – The Valencia Containerized Freight Index (VCFI) for August has grown again, although more timidly than the previous...

Container rail traffic at the Port of Barcelona grows by 46% in the first half of the year

Container rail traffic at the Port of Barcelona has grown by 46% in the first six months of 2021, totalling 161,735 TEUs, compared to 111,132 TEUs in the same...

Valenciaport already manages 40% of Spanish imports and exports by sea

Valencia, September 2, 2021 – During the first seven months of the year, Valenciaport managed a total of 1,434,840 import and export containers. This...

Yilport Holding’s 2021 half year business results confirm strong growth

Yilport Holding’s 22 owned terminals across the world handled 2.506.000 TEU containers in the first half of 2021, recording 18% growth compared to H1 2020...

Iranian ports see 14% growth by end-August 2021

Tehran, Iran (Ports Europe) September 1, 2021 – The Director General of Port Affairs of the Ports and Maritime Organization (PMO), Ravanbakhsh Behzadian,...

DeloPorts completes two years of operation of berth No. 38 of the NUTEP Container Terminal

Novorossiysk, Russia (Ports Europe) August 31, 2021 – DeloPorts, a stevedore division of Delo Group, has published performance details of the deep-water...

ICTSI Iraq hits 3 million TEU milestone

Basra Gateway Terminal (BGT), International Container Terminal Services, Inc.’s (ICTSI) subsidiary operating at the Port of Umm Qasr in Iraq, recently...

Ocean Network Express (ONE) collaborates with Paris Optimal Transport Planning Solution (PARIS) to optimise a greener inland supply chain

Ocean Network Express (ONE) Inland Operations and PARIS Optimal Transport Planning Solution (PARIS), a wholly owned subsidiary of Hutchison Port Holdings,...

Luka Koper – 1H 2021 – Cargo throughput in selected competitor European ports

Luka Koper – Ljubljana Stock Exchange announcement – August 27, 2021 In the first half of 2021, Luka Koper Group achieved good business results....

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