Containers
All port activities linked to containers, including traffic volumes, storage and transport to and from ports.
Portugal’s mainland ports cargo traffic rises 2.2% in 2017
Leixões, Portugal (Ports Europe) February 13, 2018 – Portugal’s mainland ports ended last year with a record cargo traffic of 95.9 million tonnes, up...
COSCO Shipping Lines Spain celebrates Chinese New Year in Barcelona
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) February 13, 2018 –Â On February 9, COSCO Shipping Lines Spain celebrated the Chinese New Year in Barcelona. At the...
Tarragona port handles 34 million tonnes in 2017
Tarragona, Spain (Ports Europe) February 12, 2018 – Tarragona port handled 34 million tonnes of goods in 2017, up 7.8% on 2016, and the highest figure...
Portuguese ports see higher traffic 2017
Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) February 11, 2018 –Â Mainland ports ended the year 2017 with the record of the highest volume of cargo ever, reaching...
Yilport’s Portuguese container terminals increase traffic in 2017
Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) February 11, 2018 – Yilport Iberian terminals registered a 5.8% increase in 2017, with a total of 1,176,496 TEUs handled...
Algeciras port to start operating its first direct link to Australia
Algeciras, Spain (Ports Europe) February 9, 2018 – A new weekly service operated by France’s CMA CGM and German Hapag Lloyd AG will be handled at the...
Hamburger Hafen und Logistik sees Odessa terminal growth
Hamburg, Germany (Ports Europe) February 9, 2018 – Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG (HHLA) has reported 2017 group revenue up 6% at €1.25 billion...
Barcelona port publishes traffic statistics and economic results for 2017
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) February 8, 2018 – The Port of Barcelona has produced its traffic statistics and economic results for the year 2017. This...
CMA CGM introduces improvements of service to West Africa via Algeciras
Algeciras, Spain (Ports Europe) February 8, 2018 – French shipping company CMA CGM has announced the introduction of improvements in its EURAF 5 service,...
Hapag-Lloyd expanding on Iberian reefer market
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) February 8, 2018 – German shipping group Hapag-Lloyd, with a fleet with a total capacity of 1.6 million TEUs, more than 7.5...
Bilbao port aspires to gain leadership in Spain’s Atlantic as Pasaia struggles
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) February 7, 2018 – Bilbao port aspires to be the most important harbour for the traffic in the Spanish Atlantic region, as...
Casablanca port applies specific tariffs to capture container traffic from Las Palmas
Casablanca, Morocco (Ports Europe) February 7, 2018 – Agence Nationale des Ports (ANP – National Ports Agency of Morocco) has issued an order...
Turkish investors eye Palermo port’s cruise terminal project
Palermo, Italy (Ports Europe) February 7, 2018 – Turkey has expressed interest in the port of Palermo, in particular in the development of a cruise terminal...
Ukrainian ports see improved January 2017 cargo traffic
Odessa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) February 2018 – In January 2018, cargo handled in the sea ports of Ukraine was 10.8 million tonnes, up 10.9%...
MSC top managers meet in Valencia
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) February 5, 2018 – A total of 76 managers of the Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) met last week at the headquarters of...
Maersk Line eliminates call in La Spezia port to improve US service
La Spezia, Italy (Ports Europe) February 5, 2018 – Danish shipping company Maersk Line has announced the modification of its export and import services to...
La Spezia Container Terminal plans for annual 2 million TEU
La Spezia, Italy (Ports Europe) February 4, 2018 –Â On 1 February 2018, a meeting was held in La Spezia between the Port Community and the top management...
Marseille port produces improved 2017 traffic statistics
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) February 4, 2018 – Thanks to a 2017 year marked by new projects and an increase in all traffic of 8% excluding...
La Spezia port community, LSCT target 2 million TEUs of container traffic in 2020
La Spezia, Italy (Ports Europe) February 2, 2018 – La Spezia Port Community and La Spezia Container Terminal (LSCT), owned by Contship Italia, have joined...
Ravenna port cargo traffic edges up 0.1% in 2017
Ravenna, Italy (Ports Europe) February 2, 2018 – Ravenna port handled a total of 25.99 million tons of cargo in 2017, up 0.1%, while the traffic of cruise...