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La Spezia port cargo traffic rises 14.2% y/y in H1 2017

La Spezia, Italy (Ports Europe) July 20, 2017 – La Spezia port has closed the first six months of the year with a growth in traffic to 713,434 TEUs, up...

Valencia port to adapt container terminals to large vessels

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) July 19, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) plans to adapt its three container terminals so that...

Piraeus Container Terminal S.A.- June 2017 container terminal statistics

Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) July 19, 2017 – Piraeus Container Terminal S.A., part of the Chinese Cosco shipping group, has reported June 2017 container...

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

Kumport, Turkey (Ports Europe) July 19, 2017 – Kumport Liman Hizmetleri ve Lojistik Sanayi ve Ticaret A.Ş, part of the Chinese Cosco shipping group, has...

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

Port Said, Egypt (Ports Europe) July 19, 2017 – Suez Canal Container Terminal S.A.E., part of the Chinese Cosco shipping group, has reported June 2017...

Cosco reports June 2017 container terminal statistics

Hong Kong, China (Ports Europe) July 18, 2017 – Cosco Shipping has announced June 2017 container terminals throughput. The three Mediterranean Sea container...

Genoa port books record-high container traffic in May

Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) July 18, 2017 – Genoa port handled record-high 233,995 TEUs of container traffic in May, versus 200,725 TEUs in the fifth month...

Bilbao port reports increased traffic in first half of 2016

Bilbao, Spain (PortSEurope) July 17, 2017 – Key points: Traffic rises 4.4% in first half of year due to liquid bulks recovery, especially gas and...

Chinese delegation considers Constanta port investment

Constanta, Romania (PortSEurope) July 16, 2017 – A Chinese delegation led by Liu Yunshan, member of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee...

Corsica to compensate carriers who distribute traffic across ports

Ajaccio, Corsica, France (PortSEurope) July 14, 2017 – Office des Transports de la Corse (Transport Office of Corsica), in partnership with the...

Re-positioning Greece as a global maritime capital

Piraeus, Greece (PortSEurope) July 14, 2017 – Ernst & Young (EY) has produced a report entitled “Re-positioning Greece as a global maritime...

CMA CGM launches service connecting Algeciras port to Africa

Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) July 7, 2017 – CMA CGM has announced the launch of its new Wazzan II service connecting the port of Algeciras with Morocco in...

The Alliance’s weekly maritime service in Barcelona attracts significant interest

Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) July 6, 2017 – The weekly maritime service between Asia and the Mediterranean launched in April by The Alliance – MOL,...

Yildirim to sell 24% stake in CMA CGM

Marseille, France (PortSEurope) July 6, 2017 –  CMA CGM has confirmed it is in talks with the Yildirim Group over the sale of the Turkish...

Algeria’s CNAN Nord to increase frequency of service to Bilbao port

Bilbao, Spain (PortSEurope) July 5, 2017 – Algerian shipping company CNAN Nord is considering a potential increase of the frequency of its regular...

SRM – The 2017 Report on the Maritime Economy

Naples, Italy (PortSEurope) July 5, 2017 – Studi e Ricerche per il Mezzogiorno (SRM) has published the fourth issue of the Report on the Maritime...

Italian MP recommends special economic zone for Cagliari port

Cagliari, Italy (PortSEurope) July 4, 2017 – Italian Member of Parliament (MP) Mauro Pili has proposed the launch of a strategic plan for the recovery of...

EC approves launch of Ocean Network Express alliance

Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) June 30, 2017 – The European Commission (EC) has given the green light to the launch of the Ocean Network Express alliance...

CMA CGM announces new strategy and introduces new logo

Marseille, France (PortSEurope) June 29, 2017 – Yesterday, June 28, 2017, the French CMA CGM Group unveiled its new strategy and image. 2017 has been a...

Daily rail freight connection Marseille Fos-Geneva opens officially

Marseille Fos, France (PortSEurope) June 28, 2017 – The daily rail freight connection between French port of Marseille Fos and Geneva, Switzerland, has been...

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