Containers
All port activities linked to containers, including traffic volumes, storage and transport to and from ports.
Maersk and MSC to relocate operations away from Malta’s Freeport
Freeport, Malta (PortSEurope) May 14, 2019 – Malta Freeport has said that the shipping companies Maersk and MSC plan to reduce their operations at...
France’s CMA CGM launches service linking Adriatic Sea to Algeria
Koper, Slovenia (PortSEurope) May 14, 2019 – French shipping company CMA CGM has activated the new Adrinaf weekly line service that directly...
Lisbon port’s container traffic keeps declining in Jan-Feb 2019
Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) May 9, 2019 – Lisbon port’s container traffic continues to decline in the first two months of 2019, recording a...
Portos de Galicia to start operating large-dimension containers
Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) May 1, 2019 – Galicia regional ports agency Portos de Galicia has announced that it will open in the coming months a new...
Trieste Marine Terminal traffic increases 16.7% in Q1 2019
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) April 24, 2019 – In the first three months of 2019 container traffic moved by Trieste Marine Terminal srl (TMT) increased...
Yilport Leixões increases TEU handling in Q1 2019
Leixões, Portugal (Ports Europe) April 17, 2019 – In January this year, Yilport Leixões (TCL) handled 55,677 TEU, a year-on-year growth of 21.5%....
COSCO’s European container terminals see improved performance in Q1 2019
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) April 17, 2019 – In the first three months of 2019, the overseas terminals of China’s COSCO Shipping Ports Limited saw...
Tarros launches weekly service linking Tarragona port to Turkey
Tarragona, Spain (Ports Europe) April 16, 2019 – The container terminal of the port of Tarragona, DP World, has started handling a new container shipping...
Koper port’s cargo traffic falls slightly in Q1
Koper, Slovenia (Ports Europe) April 15, 2019 – Koper port handled 5.919 million tonnes of cargo in the first quarter of 2019, down from 6.077 million...
MSC leads container ranking in Vigo port in 2018
Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) April 10, 2019 – The Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) led for the first time in 2018 the movement of containers at...
Uiltrasporti says Hapag Lloyd eliminates Cagliari port from its services
Cagliari, Italy (Ports Europe) April 1, 2019 – Hapag Lloyd, the German transport company, has decided to eliminate the Sardinian port of Cagliari from its...
COSCO Shipping Ports announces FY2018 financial results
Hong Kong, China (Ports Europe) March 28, 2019 – COSCO Shipping Ports Limited, a leading global leading ports operator, has announced full year results...
Marsa Maroc breaks container traffic record in 2018
Tangier, Morocco (Ports Europe) March 26, 2019 – Marsa Maroc has broken its container traffic record last year, closing 2018 with a turnover up MAD 2.7...
Trieste Marine Terminal reports increased TEU traffic in first two months of 2019
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) March 19, 2019 – The first two months of 2019, Trieste Marine Terminal srl (TMT) has reported that it handled over 105,000...
COSCO’s European container terminals see higher throughput in February 2019
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) March 17, 2019 – China’s COSCO Shipping Ports Limited has reported that in February 2019 output at its overseas...
Spain’s Sintraport to continue protest action next week
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) March 15, 2019 – Spanish autonomous truck drivers association Sintraport plans to continue its protest action in...
Seville port’s container traffic rises backed by rail freight services
Seville, Spain (Ports Europe) March 14, 2019 – Seville port has experienced an annual container traffic increase of 23% in January and February 2019, backed...
Italy suspends process for termination of Contship’s Gioia Tauro port concession
Gioia Tauro, Italy (Ports Europe) March 14, 2019 – Italy’s Ministry of Infrastructure & Transport (MIT) has received a list of commitments by Gioia...
Cagliari port’s container traffic continues to decline
Cagliari, Italy (Ports Europe) March 13, 2019 – The container terminal of the industrial port of Cagliari continues to experience a period of crisis —...
Strike blocks container trucks at Barcelona port
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) March 12, 2019 – The autonomous container transporters of the port of Barcelona started their first day of work stoppages,...