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Barcelona port with tenth largest container growth in Europe

Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) September 18, 2107 – Barcelona port was the harbour with the largest growth in container traffic in Europe in the first eight...

CMA CGM to attend Expoalimentaria trade show in Peru

Lima, Peru (Ports Europe) September 18, 2017 – The Expoalimentaria trade show will take place in Lima, Peru, September 27-29, 2017. It is the largest...

International shippers visit 10 Downing Street

London, United Kingdom (Ports Europe) September 15, 2017 –  A delegation of leading figures from the shipping industry has visited Downing Street in...

Domestic and international movements of goods in Greek ports: 1st Quarter 2015-2017

Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) September 15, 2017 – The Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT) has published statistics for domestic and international...

Hellenic Statistical Authority releases Q1 2017 maritime traffic figures

Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) September 15, 2017 – The Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT) has announced data on traffic of passengers, goods and...

Spain’s JSV Logistic incorporates Málaga port in its sea freight routes

Málaga, Spain (Ports Europe) September 15, 2017 – Spanish company JSV Logistic has incorporated Málaga port in its sea freight routes to the Canary...

Piraeus Container Terminal S.A. – August 2017 container terminal statistics

Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) August 24, 2017 – Piraeus Container Terminal S.A., part of the Chinese Cosco shipping group, has reported August 2017...

Suez Canal Container Terminal S.A.E. – August 2017 container terminal statistics

Port Said, Egypt (Ports Europe) August 24, 2017 – Suez Canal Container Terminal S.A.E., part of the Chinese Cosco shipping group, has reported August 2017...

Kumport Liman Hizmetleri ve Lojistik Sanayi ve Ticaret A.Ş – August 2017 container terminal statistics

Kumport, Turkey (Ports Europe) August 24, 2017 – Kumport Liman Hizmetleri ve Lojistik Sanayi ve Ticaret A.Ş, part of the Chinese Cosco shipping group, has...

Reefer Terminal S.p.A. – August 2017 container terminal statistics

Vado Ligure, Italy (Ports Europe) September 25, 2017 – Reefer Terminal S.p.A., operated by Cosco of China, has reported August 2017 container terminal...

Anaklia and Alat ports intend to establish close cooperation

Anaklia, Georgia (Ports Europe) September 14, 2017 – The CEO of the Anaklia Development Consortium Levan s interview to has given an interview...

Spain’s OHL starts container transhipment operations at Tenerife port

Tenerife, Spain (Ports Europe) September 13, 2017 – Spanish company Obrascon Huarte Lain S.A. (OHL) has started container transhipment operations at...

Leixões port keeps breaking container traffic records

Leixões, Portugal (Ports Europe) September 13, 2017 – Leixões port keeps breaking records in the container traffic segment and managed to exceed 3,000...

China’s Cosco books record-high container traffic at Piraeus port in August

Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) September 8, 2017 – China’s Cosco said it handled 344,000 containers at Piraeus port in August, exceeding by 4.2% the...

Morocco’s Tanger Med port container traffic rises 11% y/y in H1 2017

Tangier, Morocco (Ports Europe) September 8, 2017 – Morocco’s Tanger Med port has said its container traffic in the first six months of 2017 rose by...

Ashdod Port Company sees improved H1 2017 performance.

Ashdod, Israel (Ports Europe) September 7, 2017 – In the first half of 2017 Ashdod Port Company recorded total revenue of 616m Israeli shekels (US$173m),...

MSC to increase cargo traffic at Trieste port

Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) September 7, 2017 – Gianluigi Aponte, chairman of Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC), which operates the second largest cargo...

UK Department for Transport UK Port Freight Statistics: 2016 – Short Sea Freight with the European Union

London, United Kingdom (Ports Europe) September 6, 2017 – UK major port traffic with the European Union rose 2% to 206.8 million tonnes in 2016, due...

UK Department for Transport publishes Annual UK Port Freight Statistics 2016

London, United Kingdom (Ports Europe) September 5, 2017 – The Department for Transport has published its Annual UK Port Freight statistics which shows...

HMM starts tests of IoT technology for reefer containers

Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) September 1, 2017 – Hyundai Merchant Marine (HMM) has started a test of the Internet of Things (IoT) technology in its...

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