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Valencia to soon become Europe’s 4th largest container port

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) March 11, 2019 – For the first time in history, Valencia port surpassed that of Bremen for three months of the previous year...

Marín port triples container traffic in just five years

Marín, Spain (Ports Europe) March 6, 2019 – The arrival of shipping company Maersk Line to Marín, in May 2016, has meant a turning point in the activity of...

Cartagena port dismisses Escombreras expansion as alternative to El Gorguel project

Cartagena, Spain (Ports Europe) March 1, 2019 – Autoridad Portuaria de Cartagena (APC – Port Authority of Cartagena) president Joaquín Segado has...

APM Terminals Algeciras beats container operations record

Algeciras, Spain (Ports Europe) February 26, 2019 – APM Terminals’ container terminal in Algeciras port broke a new record in 2018 by registering...

Diana Containerships reports results for 2018

Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) February 25, 2019 – Diana Containerships Inc, a global shipping company specializing in the ownership of containerships,...

Turkey’s Yilport aims to bring Leixões port’s capacity close to Sines

Leixões, Portugal (Ports Europe) February 25, 2019 – Leixões container terminals will be able to grow 153% over the next two years, given that the Turkish...

COSCO’s European terminals reports increased TEU traffic in January 2019

Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) February 25, 2019 – Piraeus Container Terminal SA, operated by China’s COSCO Shipping Ports Limited, has reported...

Piraeus Container Terminal sees over 18% increase in January 2019 traffic

Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) February 25, 2019 – Piraeus Container Terminal SA, operated by China’s COSCO Shipping Ports Limited, has reported...

Valencia port records best January container traffic ever

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) February 22, 2019 – Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia (APV – Valenciaport, Port Authority of Valencia) closed the first...

Valencia port handles one of every three containers that move through Spain

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) February 15, 2019 – A total of 30.12% of the containers that are loaded and unloaded in the 46 state-owned ports in Spain...

APM Terminals’ Suez Canal Container Terminal sees improvements

Port Said, Egypt (Ports Europe) February 14, 2019 – APM Terminals has reported that some modifications in the Navis N4 Expert Decking Module, the system...

Russia’s NCSP Group reports cargo turnover down 2.3% in 2018

Novorossiysk, Russia (Ports Europe) February 14, 2019 – NCSP Group, a Russian port operator, has reported that cargo turnover for 2018 was 140.209...

Spain’s state ports see cargo rise by 3.3% in 2018

Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) February 13, 2019 – Provisional data shows that the 46 state-owned ports handled 563,475,196 tons of cargo in 2018, up 3.3%...

Rijeka port’s container traffic rises 8.1% in 2018

Rijeka, Croatia (Ports Europe) February 13, 2019 – Rijeka port’s container traffic rose 8.1% in 2018 to a record-high 227,375 TEUs, with more than...

EUROGATE group’s container handling volumes remain stable in 2018

EUROGATE – Press Release – February 11, 2017 Despite the persistently challenging market environment, the EUROGATE Group was able to keep container...

COSCO Shipping Lines Espana increases container traffic in 2018 by nearly 44%

Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) February 12, 2019 – COSCO Shipping Lines (Spain) SA moved a total of 362,165 TEUs in Spain in 2018, an increase of 43.57%...

Yilport Holding reports 5% increase in container throughput for 2018

Istanbul, Turkey (Ports Europe) February 11, 2019 Yilport Holding has reported a 5% year-on-year increase in container throughput for the full year of 2018....

Memorandum of Understanding between Piraeus and ports of Venice and Chioggia to strengthen cargo flows

Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) February 11, 2019 – The CEO of Piraeus Port Authority Sa (PPA), Captain Fu Chengqiu, and the President of Autorita’ di...

Yilport reports traffic up 5% in 2018

Istanbul, Turkey (Ports Europe) February 11, 2019 – Yilport Holding’s terminals handled container traffic of 6.14 million TEUs in 2018, up 5%....

Cosco Shipping Lines’ container traffic in Spain rises 43.6% in 2018

Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) February 6, 2019 – China’s Cosco Shipping Lines handled a total of 362,165 TEUs of containers in Spain in...

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