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Gioia Tauro loses container traffic leadership amid conflict of shareholders

Gioia Tauro, Italy (PortSEurope) January 12, 2018 – Gioia Tauro port has lost its leadership on the Italian market for container traffic, as its throughput...

Luka Koper reports improved 2017 throughout and revenues

Koper, Slovenia (PortSEurope) January 11, 2018 – In 2017, total cargo handled was 23.366 million tons, up 6.16% on 2016. General cargo was 1.377 million...

Salerno port container traffic rises 13% in 2017

Salerno, Italy (PortSEurope) January 11, 2018 – Salerno port’s container traffic rose by 13% in 2017 to between 420,000 and 430,000 TEUs, according to...

Germany’s Sloman Neptun to relaunch Cartagena-Benghazi line on Jan 10

Cartagena, Spain (PortSEurope) January 10, 2018 – German shipping company Sloman Neptun Schiffahrts AG plans to relaunch on January 10 its line between...

EuroFos breaks a new traffic record with more than 770,000 containers TEUs handled in 2017

Marseille Fos, France (PortSEurope) January 9, 2018 – For the 4th year in a row, PortSynergy-EuroFos broke a new traffic record with more than 770,000...

Gijón port to book record-high cargo traffic in 2017

Gijón, Spain (PortSEurope) January 9, 2018 – Gijón port closed 2017 with the highest turnover in its history and an absolute record in the movement of...

Cádiz port’s new container terminal handles first ship

Cádiz, Spain (PortSEurope) January 9, 2018 – The new container terminal of Cádiz port has received its first container ship on January 9. At 0830 local...

Nantes.St-Nazaire reports increased traffic in 2017

Nantes.St-Nazaire, France (PortSEurope) January 9, 2018 – In 2017, traffic at Nantes Saint-Nazaire Port amounted to 29.9 million tonnes (Mt), up 17.2%...

Marseille-HAROPA rail links to improve cargo transport times

Marseille, France (PortSEurope) January 6, 2018 – The concerted efforts of the two major French seaports have made it possible to achieve and implement...

In 2017 Ukrainian seaports processed almost 133 million tons of cargo

Odessa, Ukraine (PortSEurope) January 6, 2018 – From January to December 2017, Ukraine’s seaports processed 132.9 million tons of cargo,...

Cádiz port to open new container terminal in 2020

Cádiz, Spain (PortSEurope) January 5, 2018 – Cádiz port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de la Bahía de Cádiz) president José Luis Blanco Romero has...

Eurogate increases crane capacity in Limassol port

Limassol, Cyprus (PortSEurope) January 5, 2018 – Eurogate, the container terminal operator, is to install an additional seven container gantry cranes, in...

Thessaloniki Port Authority sees record container numbers in 2017

Thessaloniki, Greece (PortSEurope) January 3, 2018 – Thessaloniki Port Authority S.A. (ThPA) closed 2017 with more than 400,000 TEUs being transported,...

Naples port to start handling larger ships in summer of 2018

Naples, Italy (PortSEurope) January 2, 2018 – Naples port expects to complete its dredging project at the end of 2018, but could start handling large...

Container Terminal Odessa will increase the transshipment of containers by using the COSCO Shipping Lines

Odessa, Ukraine (PortSEurope) January 2, 2018 – Container Terminal Odessa (KTO), an HHLA International GmbH company, which processed the first vessel of...

Koper port increases 2017 container handling to 900,000

Koper, Slovenia (PortSEurope) December 31, 2017 – Koper port, operated by Luka Koper d.d., has registered 900,000 containers (TEU) in 2017, exceeding...

Naples port container traffic exceeds last year’s

Naples, Italy (PortSEurope) December 29, 2017 – This calendar year, the ports of Naples, Salerno and Castellammare di Stabia have already exceeded the total...

Genoa port to beat container traffic record in 2017

Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) December 28, 2017 – Genoa port expects its container traffic to exceed 2.6 million TEUs in 2017, versus 2.3 million TEUs last...

Genoa port to beat container traffic record in 2017

Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) December 28, 2017 – Genoa port expects its container traffic to exceed 2.6 million TEUs in 2017, versus 2.3 million TEUs last...

Trieste port sees improved traffic in Jan-Nov 2017

Trieste, Italy (PortSEurope) December 28, 2017 – The positive trend is again confirmed in the second half of 2017 characterizing the traffic of the port...

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