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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...

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