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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,...

Triton International reports operating performance and outlook

News – Triton International Reports First Quarter 2020 Results and Declares Quarterly Dividends – April 24, 2020 Operating Performance...

Top European container ports in the Mediterranean have same ranking in 2019 led by Piraeus

Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) April 28, 2020 – For a second year in a row in 2019, Piraeus is the largest European container port in the Mediterranean Sea...

COVID-19 reduces traffic at Thessaloniki port

Thessaloniki, Greece (Ports Europe) April 26, 2020 – Thessaloniki Port Authority (ThPA) has announced that it in March, container and the conventional...

Italy: Total port traffic handled in 2019; by AdSP and port

Rome, Italy (Ports Europe) April 25, 2020 – Assoporti has published total tonnage in ports in 2019 by Autorità di Sistema Portuale (AdSP) with...

ICTSI terminals respond to mitigate COVID effects

International Container Terminal Services, Inc. (ICTSI) terminals across its portfolio, both individually and collectively, and in unity with its host...

16% increase port traffic in last Iranian calendar year

Vienna, Austria (Ports Europe) April 23, 2020 – Iranian Transport and Urban Development Minister, Mohammad Eslami, has reported that the capacity of...

Piraeus port sees 15% fall in March container throughout

Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) April 17, 2020 – COSCO SHIPPING Ports Ltd has published container (TEU) throughput for March 2020, which records total...

COSCO SHIPPING Ports Ltd records near 5% fall in container traffic in March

Hong Kong, China (Ports Europe) April 17, 2020 – COSCO SHIPPING Ports Ltd has published container (TEU) throughput for March 2020, which records total...

Trieste Marine Terminal volumes stable in first quarter 2020

News – Trieste Marine Terminal (TMT) volumes stable in first quarter 2020 – April 13, 2020 Despite the slow-down due to the CoViD-19 emergency,...

Easing of procedures for the storage of goods – Marseille port

News – Port of Marseille Fos – April 10, 2020 During this period of health crisis, the Port of Marseille-Fos and the Union Maritime et Fluviale...

Maersk launches new intermodal container service in Russia

Maersk, Ruscon and Transcontainer joined forces in launching an intermodal container service between the seaport of Novorossiysk and Vorsino dry port outside...

Tunisia to launch weekly freight trips to Libya

Tunis, Tunisia (Ports Europe) April 9, 2020 – Ministry of Transport and Logistics has announced that a cargo shipping line between Tunisia and Libya will...

FELB and Sinotrans operate first Shenyang-Enns container train

Vienna, Austria (Ports Europe) April 7, 2020 – FELB and Sinotrans have operated the first train from Shenyang, southern China, to Enns in Austria. The...

Malta Freeport introduces new digital-based procedure for release of outgoing import full containers

News – Proactive COVID-19 measure – Malta Freeport introduces a new digital-based procedure for the release of outgoing import full containers...

NCSP Group reports consolidated cargo turnover of 11.8 million tons in January 2020, up 5.6%

The NCSP Group reports that the normalized cargo turnover of the NCSP Group (including the sale of LLC NZT) for January 2020 year increased by 5.6% compared...

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