Containers
All port activities linked to containers, including traffic volumes, storage and transport to and from ports.
Marín port to double container capacity in short term
Marín, Spain (Ports Europe) October 9, 2017 – Marín port plans to double its maximum container ship handling capacity to 4,000 TEUs from 2,000 TEUs in a...
JSV Logistic’s shortsea route offers new opportunities to Мálaga port
Мálaga, Spain (Ports Europe) October 9, 2017 – JSV Logistic S.L. has been operating the Short Sea Shipping line that links Мálaga port with the Canary...
Malta Freeport launches Malta-South America cargo service
Malta (Ports Europe) October 9, 2017 – Malta Freeport has launched a weekly service connecting Malta with ports in Argentina and Brazil. The service will...
Ukrainian seaports see increased traffic in first nine months of 2017
Odessa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) October 8, 2017 – Cargo processing in the seaports of Ukraine for the first nine months of 2017 was 98 million...
CMA CGM improves service to Tripoli, Lebanon
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) October 7, 2017 – CMA CGM, the French global shipping group, is bolstering its service offering to Lebanon, serving...
APL adds four new port calls to Asia-Europe services
Singapore (Ports Europe) October 7, 2017 – APL has announced the addition of Durrës (Albania) and Thessaloniki (Greece) as new ports of call to its...
Finland’s Containerships launches line linking Barcelona port to Algeria, Turkey
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) October 6, 2017 – Finnish shipping group Containerships has launched a regular service connecting Barcelona port with Algeria...
Trieste port increases intermodal traffic to Budapest
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) October 5, 2017 – “Hungary is becoming Trieste’s first reference market, as for port railway container traffic”,...
Genoa’s PSA Voltri-Pra achieves 1 million TEUs in 2017
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) October 4, 2017 – On September 5, the PSA Voltri-Pra Terminal reached a goal of handling 1 million TEUs since the start of...
DP World chairman to visit Sète port
Sète, France (Ports Europe) September 29, 2017 – Carole Delga, President of the Occitanie/Pyrénées-Méditerranée Region and Jean Claude Gayssot,...
Ashdod port reviews year’s activities
Ashdod, Israel (Ports Europe) September 2017 – In January-August 2017, 1,040,000 TEUs were handled by the port, an increase of 4% compared to the same...
Tenerife port loses 2.76% of total port traffic in the first eight months of 2017
Tenerife, Spain (Ports Europe) September 28, 2017 – The Port of Santa Cruz de Tenerife has reported a drop in its total traffic of -2.76% in the first...
Damietta port reports improved August figures
Damietta, Egypt (Ports Europe) September 27, 2017 – Damietta Port hit a new record last August where cargo handling volume increased by 40% from 2.5...
TMT shows 20% container growth in first eight months of 2017
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) September 26, 2017 – The volumes of the container terminal of the Port of Trieste confirm the growing trend of the last...
Greece-China, meeting of the 12th Interministerial Committee in Athens
Athens, Greece (Ports Europe) September 20, 2017 – Greece and China discussed strengthening trade and investment exchanges during the 12th...
Yilport Leixões yields 11,900 TEU
Leixões, Portugal (Ports Europe) September 22, 2017 – Between September 11-17, 2017, (week no. 37), Yilport Leixões received and operated 24 ships....
Valencia port books record-high container traffic in August
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) September 20, 2017 – Valencia port recorded the best month of August ever in terms of container traffic. The harbour’s...
Procter & Gamble I-Trade CEO Academy analyses container traceability at Barcelona port
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) September 19, 2017 – Procter & Gamble I-Trade CEO Academy has started an analysis into the traceability of exports of...
CMA CGM signs contract with Infosys to improve IT capabilities
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) September 18, 2017 – French container shipping company CMA CGM Group has signed a strategic partnership with Infosys,...
Spain’s Boluda Lines to launch regular line linking Cape Verde to Spain in October
Las Palmas, Spain (Ports Europe) September 18, 2107 – Spanish company Boluda Lines, the international freight transport subsidiary of Boluda Corporación...