Containers
All port activities linked to containers, including traffic volumes, storage and transport to and from ports.
Turkey: Seaports TEU traffic – June 2024
Ankara, Turkey (Ports Europe) July 11, 2024 – The Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure has reported container (TEU) traffic for June 2024. Below is...
BMF Port Burgas sees 130,000 TEU, 7.2 mln cargo tonnes in 2023
Burgas, Bulgaria (Ports Europe) July 10, 2024 – Private port operator BMF Port Burgas, concessionaire of Bulgaria’s Black Sea’s Burgas East-2 and Burgas...
Valencia Containerised Freight Index (VCFI) fell by -1.30% in June
Valenciaport – Valencia Containerised Freight Index (VCFI) fell by -1.30% in June – July 8, 2024 Valencia, July 8, 2024.- The Valencia...
Port of Augusta to repair cranes to increase container capacity
Augusta, Sicily, Italy (Ports Europe) July 8, 2024 – The Port of Augusta will repair two gantry cranes at the port to increase its container handling...
France: Total port cargo traffic – Q1 2024
Paris, France (Ports Europe) July 8, 2024 – The Ministry of Ecological Transition (Ministère de l’Écologie) has published cargo statistics for Q1...
Port of Las Palmas receives largest container ship to date
Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain (Ports Europe) July 8, 2024 – The MSC New York, a vessel with a capacity of 16,864 TEU, has been received at the OPCSA...
ULCT handles first vessel call of NewNew Shipping Container Line
St. Petersburg, Russia (Ports Europe) July 4, 2024 – Ust-Luga Container Terminal (ULCT) has handled the first call of NewNew Star containership of Hainan...
COSCO SHIPPING sends megamax carrier to Port of Valencia
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) July 3, 2024 – China’s COSCO SHIPPING Lines has sent the COSCO SHIPPING Solar to the Port of Valencia. The ship has...
Chinese ports container volume rises 10 % in first five months
Chinese ports container volume rises 10 % in first five months 2024, Ningbo Containerized Freight Index increase significantly in June 2024 – July 2,...
Italy: Total TEU by port 2023 – ranking
Rome, Italy (Ports Europe) July 1, 2024 – Industry association Assoporti has published seaport TEU traffic figures for 2023. In 2023, the ports handled...
EUROKAI sees TEU handling up nearly 12% in Q1 2024
Hamburg, Germany (Ports Europe) June 30, 2024 – In the first quarter of 2024, the container terminals in the EUROKAI Group handled 2.93 million TEUs, up...
Portugal: Seaports cargo report – April 2024
Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) June 28, 2024 – Cargo handling in the mainland’s commercial port system recorded growth of +7.1% in the first four...
MSC cancels its first scheduled trip to Odessa since war started
Odesa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) June 27, 2024 – Switzerland-based container operator MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company S.A. cancelled the first scheduled...
Russia’s container market in Jan-May 2024 was 2.76 mln TEUs
Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) June 26, 2024 – Russia’s container market grew 10% in January-May 2024, compared to the first four months of 2023 to 2.76...
CMA CGM launches EMED 1 service linking Turkey, Egypt & Lebanon
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) June 25, 2024 – The French shipper and logistics group CMA CGM will launch the new EMED1 service on July 8, 2024. The...
Spain: Total TEU traffic by port – May 2024
Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) June 24, 2024 – Puertos del Estado has published container numbers for Spanish ports in January-May 2024. Spain’s ports of...
Alphaliner Top 100 container market ranking
Paris, France (Ports Europe) June 23, 2024 – The June 22, 2024 Alphaliner Top 100 global container market figures list 6,986 active ships, 30,046,280...
Maersk adds fourth vessel to Chornomorsk-Constanta line
Chornomorsk, Ukraine (Ports Europe) June 23, 2024 – The Maersk container service between Ukraine’s Black Sea port of Chornomorsk (Chernomorsk) and...
Port of Trieste reports positive cargo in Jan-May 2024.
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) June 19, 2024 – In January-May 2024, the Port of Trieste & Monfalcone handled just over 24 million tonnes (mt) of...
Tahya Misr terminal in Alexandria with 410,000 TEUs in first year
Alexandria, Egypt (PortSEurope) June 19, 2024 – The new multi-purpose Tahya Misr terminal in Egypt’s Mediterranean port of Alexandria, put into operation...