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Azerbaijan Caspian Shipping Company to test Batumi-Constanta ports container service

Constanta, Romania (PortSEurope) August 27, 2019 – At a meeting of the Trans-Caspian International Transport Corridor International Association in...

Messina group starts Genoa-Montreal service

Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) August 26, 2019 – Ignazio Messina & C, the Italian shipping group, has started the regular service of MSC Canada Express...

MSC start service calling at Cagliari port

Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy (PortSEurope) August 15, 2019 – MSC, the Swiss-based shipping company, is to start a new Tyrrhenian feeder service replacing...

CSP Iberian Bilbao & Valencia Terminals handled 1.9 million containers in the first half of the year

Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) August 2, 2019 – In June this year, COSCO Shipping Ports Spain Bilbao and Valencia terminals increased their number of...

Container traffic at Barcelona port grows 5% during the first half

Container traffic of the Port of Barcelona grows 5% during the first half – July 25, 2019 The Port of Barcelona has closed the first half of 2019 with...

Trieste Marine Terminal sets new record in first half of 2019

TMT sets a new record in the first semester of 2019: Teus +12,3%, rail traffic +19.2% – July 19, 2019 During the first six months of 2019, Trieste Marine...

Valenciaport closes first half with growth of 8.72% in container traffic

Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) July 24, 2019 – Valenciaport has reported first half growth of 8.72% in container traffic and a total movement of 2,739,198...

Hutchison Ports BEST increases connection capacity for refrigerated containers

Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) July 23, 2019 – Hutchison Ports BEST terminal (Barcelona Europe South Terminal) has increased its storage and connection...

COSCO Shipping Ports’ overseas terminals see 15.5% rise in June 2019 traffic

Piraeus, Greece (PortSEurope) July 16, 2019 – In June 2019, the overseas terminals of China’s COSCO Shipping Ports Limited saw container throughout...

Morocco expands Tanger Med’s container capacity by 6 million TEUs annually

Tanger Med, Morocco (PortSEurope) June 28, 2019 – Morocco opened on June 27 new terminals at Tanger Med port adding 6 million TEUs of annual capacity...

Bilbao port completes container terminal expansion project

Bilbao, Spain (PortSEurope) June 27, 2019 – Bilbao port has completed a project for the expansion of its container terminal, which has involved an...

COSCO Shipping Ports’ overseas terminals see 13.5% rise in May 2019 traffic

Piraeus, Greece (PortSEurope) June 16, 2019 – In May 2019, the overseas terminals of China’s COSCO Shipping Ports Limited saw container throughout increase...

Leading global shipping companies discuss Black Sea container hub

Odessa, Ukraine (PortSEurope) June 5, 2019 – During the Ukrainian Ports Forum 2019 being held in Odessa, Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority (USPA)...

Maersk to enter Traxens’ capital

Marseille, France (PortSEurope) May 28, 2019 – Maersk plans to join CMA CGM and Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) as a key shareholder and customer...

COSCO Shipping Ports Limited reports higher April throughput at container terminals

Piraeus, Greece (PortSEurope) May 28, 2019 – In April 2019, the overseas terminals of China’s COSCO Shipping Ports Limited saw container throughout...

Trieste Marine Terminal sees increased Jan-Apr 2019 traffic

Trieste, Italy (PortSEurope) May 24, 2019 – Trieste Marine Terminal srl had reported that during the first four months of 2019, the number of TEU handled...

Las Palmas port’s OPCSA container terminal to launch modernisation project

Las Palmas, Spain (PortSEurope) May 22, 2019 – The OPCSA container terminal (Operaciones Portuarias Canarias S.A.) of Las Palmas port plans to...

Container Traffic Working Group presents the advances in the App for transporters

Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) May 22, 2019 – Grupo de Trabajo Tráfico de Contenedores del Puerto de Valencia (Container Traffic Working Group of the...

Ceuta port to introduce measures to attract container transshipment

Ceuta, Spain (PortSEurope) May 20, 2019 – Ceuta port plans to shortly launch a package of measures to encourage and capture transshipment of containers,...

Valencia port climbs one spot in Europe’s container ports ranking

Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) May 17, 2019 – Valencia port has climbed one place in the European ranking of container ports and, according to...

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