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Global Ports Group’s First Container Terminal is first Russian terminal to transfer to paperless export management system

Global Ports Group has launched a service for the digital issuance of orders for the loading of export containers at its First Container Terminal (FCT),...

TransContainer calls for container transportation through Russia to be subsidized by the state

Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) June 9, 2020 – Digitalization, excess of transport capacity, transit of sanctioned goods through Russia, changes in the...

YILPORT LEIXÕES posts record volume in first quarter 2020

Yilport Leixões (Porto, Portugal) handled 182.000 TEUs in the first quarter of 2020, increasing its volume by 8% compared to the same period of the previous...

NileDutch extends Mediterranean service offering to Rades, Tunisia

Algeciras, Spain (Ports Europe) June 3, 2020 – NileDutch, a shipping company linking West Africa with Europe, has added the Tunisian port of Rades to its...

Containerships starts container service between Ferrol port and UK ports

Ferrol, Spain (Ports Europe) June 3, 2020 – Containerships, part of CMA CGM, has started a second container service from Ferrol port, Galicia, to ports...

Thessaloniki Port Authority approves increased 2019 cargo traffic numbers

On May 25th, 2020, the Board of Directors of ThPA S.A. approved the Annual Financial Report for the Fiscal Year 2019, including the following throughput...

Ports of Genoa: Covid-19 Update – Issue 17/2020 – Ports injured but still alive & open to traffic

Covid-19 Update – Issue 17/2020 – Ports injured but still alive & open to traffic – May 26, 2020 Shipping & Logistics World...

Russia to build a new transshipment centre in Rostov-on-Don by end-2020

Rostov, Russia (Ports Europe) May 26, 2020 – A container transshipment complex is to be constructed on the Don River near Rostov, as part of a wider plan...

Mersin International Port reports increased cargo in Q1 2020

Mersin, Turkey (Ports Europe) May 21, 2020 – Mersin International Port (MIP), part of the global PSA group, has reported increased cargo in the first...

Trieste Marine Terminal container traffic up slightly in the first four-month period

Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) May 21, 2020 – Trieste Marine Terminal srl (TMT), the container terminal in Molo VII, has reported container traffic up...

Azerbaijan’s АDY Container LLC reveals data on cargo traffic via Central Asia

May 19, 2020 Transit container traffic of ADY Container LLC through Central Asia to Azerbaijan and in the opposite direction increased by 10% from February...

COSCO’s European container terminals see fall in April traffic

Hong Kong, China (Ports Europe) May 17, 2020 – COSCO SHIPPING Ports Limited has published container throughput for April 2020 showing a global 5.3% fall...

COSCO SHIPPING Ports sees April container throughput down over 5%

Hong Kong, China (Ports Europe) May 17, 2020 – COSCO SHIPPING Ports Limited has published container throughput for April 2020 showing a 5.3% fall...

First dry port in Egypt to receive financing from EBRD and AfDB

Cairo, Egypt (Ports Europe) May 14, 2020 – The first stage of the first dry port in Egypt – Sixth of October (6th of October City), outside capital...

First vessel from the updated AEM6 service calls Koper port

News – First vessel from the updated AEM6 service calls Koper – May 11, 2020 In the past weekend Koper port has berthed the first vessel which...

Ocean Network Express to expand refrigerated container fleet to meet growing demand

News – Ocean Network Express continues to expand refrigerated container fleet to meet growing demand of perishable cargo – May 5, 2020 Ocean...

PSA Pra’: new EMA container service

First ship of the new containerized maritime service EMA (East Mediterranean – America) managed by the shipping companies ONE / COSCO / OOCL / Yang Ming...

Beirut port sees TEU number nearly halve in March 2020

Beirut, Lebanon (Ports Europe) April 30, 2020 – In the month of March 2020, the port of Beirut reported total TEU handling of 35,290, down from 62,217 in...

Tuniship vessel docks in Tripoli port, Libya

Tunis, Tunisia (Ports Europe) April 29, 2020 – The first vessel in a new direct shipping line between the port of Sfax and the port of Tripoli, has...

Barcelona port makes new container storage spaces for operators

Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) April 28, 2020 – The Port of Barcelona has provided two new spaces available for port operators for the storage of full,...

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