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Contship Italia sees TEU traffic down over -16% in Q1 2023

Milan, Italy (Ports Europe) May 29, 2023 – In the first three months of 2023, Contship Italia’s terminals handled 358,402 containers (TEU), down...

Russian ports export record grain volumes – expect much more

Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) May 30 – Grain exports via Russian ports is expected to reach 60 million tonnes in the 2023-2024 season and might continue to...

World Bank publishes “The Container Port Performance Index 2022

Vienna, Austria (Ports Europe) May 29, 2023 – The World Bank has published “The Container Port Performance Index 2022: A Comparable Assessment of...

What are the advantages of the new bridge over the Strait of Messina?

Messina, Italy (Ports Europe) May 29, 2023 – This week, the Italian Senate agreed to convert the decree on the bridge over the Strait of Messina into...

Passenger traffic with Italy at Port of Durrës increases

Durrës, Albania (Ports Europe) May 29, 2023 – Passenger traffic between the Port of Durrës and Italy has maintained an upward trend during the first...

New berth in Odesos port in Varna

Varna, Bulgaria (Ports Europe) May 29, 2023 – Bulgaria’s Black Sea Port Odesos PBM in Varna has started the construction of a new berth. It will be 220...

Port of Durrës to increase port equipment

Durrës, Albania (Ports Europe) May 29, 2023 – The Port of Durrës will increase port equipment to improve container management and ease congestion at...

Belarus seeks new port in Murmansk, Russia

Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) May 27, 2023 – Local press reports say that options have been discussed for building a Belarusian port in Murmansk. The...

LNG Croatia receives its first shipment of LNG from Oman LNG.

Pula, Croatia (Ports Europe) May 26, 2023 – State-owned terminal operator LNG Croatia has received its first shipment of liquefied natural gas (LNG)...

QTerminals Antalya handles cargo of 350,000 tonnes in March

Antalya, Turkey (Ports Europe) May 26, 2023 – QTerminals Antalya, which has an annual capacity of 4 million tons of general and bulk cargo, broke the...

Noatum Maritime launches new Ro-Ro service linking Northern Europe, Turkey

Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) May 26, 2023 – Noatum Maritime, a leading maritime services company, is launching a new regular Ro-Ro service connecting...

Baltic-Adriatic Rail Freight Corridor meeting in Gdansk

Ravenna, Italy (Ports Europe) May 26, 2023 – On 23 May 2023, representatives of Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mare Adriatico Centro-Settentrionale...

METRANS rail service links Rijeka and Budapest

Rijeka, Croatia (Ports Europe) May 26, 2023 – The rail company METRANS will add a new rail cargo link between Rijeka and Budapest starting June 1....

Italian Senate approves bridge over Strait of Messina

Rome, Italy (Ports Europe) May 25, 2023 – After the green light from the Senate to convert the decree on the bridge over the Strait of Messina into law,...

Port of Constanta plans €650 million infrastructure investment

Constanța, Romania (Ports Europe) May 25, 2023 – The Port of Constanta is planning a €650 million infrastructure investment, announced management...

North South Corridor might finally push development of Caspian SEZs

Kazan, Russia (Ports Europe) May 25, 2023 – Large-scale construction works will begin in the coming months in the Olya port special economic zone (SEZ) Lotos...

Port of Barcelona sees Jan-Apr cargo traffic down -11.4%

Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) May 24, 2023 – In January-April 2023, the Port of Barcelona has reported total cargo of 20.65 million tons, down -11.4%...

FT: Huge shipping containers surplus after COVID-related shortages

London, United Kingdom (Ports Europe) May 24, 2023 – Global demand for goods is declining after the post-COVID restrictions and boom and this is...

New Hannibal rail link between HHLA PLT Trieste and Milan

Milan, Italy (Ports Europe) May 24, 2023 – Last month, Contship Italia Hannibal started a new railway service linking the HHLA PLT terminal in Trieste...

FESCO fights sanctions with new ship repair division

Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) May 24, 2023 – The logistics group FESCO has announced plans to create a ship repair division, a direct response to Western...

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