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Valencia port president expects reduced container traffic

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) January 30, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) president Aurelio Martinez considers that,...

Chipolbrok starts service to Far, Middle East

Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) January 25, 2017 – US-based shipping company Chipolbrok, which operates its Spanish hub at the port of Bilbao, has started a...

Valencia port container traffic rises 2.32% Y/Y in 2016

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) January 24, 2017 – Valencia port closed 2016 with a container traffic of 4.722 million TEUs, a figure that represents an...

Cosiarma returns to Lisbon port on Jan 22

Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) January 23, 2017 – Italian shipping company Cosiarma S.p.a., which left Lisbon port in 2014, has resumed its maritime...

Cosco continues to develop Piraeus operations

Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) January 22, 2017 – Cosco, the Chinese shipping group which operates Piraeus port, is adding to the port’s capacity...

Trieste Marine Terminal increases container throughput in 2016

Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) January 17, 2017 – Trieste Marine Terminal S.p.A. ended 2016 with a container throughput of 449,481 TEU, up 1.6% on 2015,...

Depot Zona Franca acquires reachstacker

Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) January 18, 2017 – Depot Zona Franca, the logistics operator of Barcelona port’s free trade zone, has invested...

CMA CGM consolidates services at Castellon port

Castellon, Spain (Ports Europe) January 17, 2017 – French shipping group CMA CGM continues to consolidate its commitment to Castellon port. As a result...

Italian ports boost recovery of container traffic in Mediterranean region

Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) January 17, 2017 – For once the ports of northern Europe are not the best on the continent, the ones that drive the...

Spanish company Tamaran starts operating Motril-Genoa container line

Motril, Spain (Ports Europe) January 16, 2017 – Spanish shipping company Naviera Tamaran S.A., a subsidiary of JSV Logistic, has started operating a regular...

Huelva port expects 400% jump in container traffic Y/Y in 2017

Huelva, Spain (Ports Europe) January 16, 2017 – Huelva port plans to increase container traffic by more than 400% this year, from around 12,000 TEUs in 2016...

Alicante port interested in starting feeder line with Algeciras

Alicante, Spain (Ports Europe) January 16, 2017 – Alicante port is interested in starting the feeder line with Algeciras and relaunching a regular connection...

Seago Line announces new calls at Algeciras port

Algeciras, Spain (Ports Europe) January 13, 2017 – Spanish company Seago Line has announced the update of its Levant Sea and North Sea service through the...

Tarragona port handles 325 containers weekly on lines to West Africa

Tarragona, Spain (Ports Europe) January 12, 2017 – Tarragona port maintains a weekly direct service at the DP World container terminal with the African ports...

Naples port container traffic rises in 2016

Naples, Italy (Ports Europe) January 12, 2017 – After nearly three years of and strikes, container traffic at Naples port recorded growth, up 10.3% on the...

Mediterranean ports boost Asia-Europe container traffic

Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) January 12, 2017 – The container traffic between Asia and Europe rose for the sixth consecutive month in November, an increase of...

MacAndrews updates “Valencia Express” service

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) January 10, 2017 – UK shipping company MacAndrews has announced the update of its service “Valencia Express”,...

Huelva port opens container line to Canary Islands

Huelva, Spain (Ports Europe) January 6, 2017 – Huelva port has officially opened a container line with the Canary Islands, operated by local company...

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