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Port of Venice sees cargo handled down 3.3% in Q2 2024
Venice, Italy (Ports Europe) August 13, 2024 – In the second quarter of 2024, the Port of Venice handled 6.16 million (Mt) of cargo, down 3.3% on the...
St.Petersburg’s First Container Terminal extends railway capacity
St.Petersburg, Russia (Ports Europe) August 12, 2024 – First Container Terminal in the Big Port of St. Petersburg has increased the length of its railway...
Ports of Aveiro and Figueira da Foz issue towage tender
Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) August 12, 2024 – On 24 May, the Ports of Aveiro and Figueira da Foz launched an international public tender for the...
Port of Barletta issues tender to extend dock
Bari, Italy (Ports Europe) August 12, 2024 – The Southern Adriatic Port System Authority has published a tender for the design and works for the...
Beirut port: Cargo traffic – June 2024
Beirut, Lebanon (Ports Europe) August 9, 2024 – The Port of Beirut has published total cargo traffic for June 2024. In June 2024, total cargo traffic was...
Beirut port: Cargo traffic – May 2024
Beirut, Lebanon (Ports Europe) August 9, 2024 – The Port of Beirut has published total cargo traffic for May 2024. In May 2024, total cargo traffic was...
Montenegro ports see cargo traffic up over 41% in Q2 2024
Bar, Montenegro (Ports Europe) August 9, 2024 – In the second quarter of 2024, the seaports of Montenegro handled 665,850 tonnes of cargo. This is up...
EDECS starts work on Ain Sokhna container terminal project
Ain Sokhna, Egypt (Ports Europe) August 9, 2024 – The local EDECS construction company has started work on construction of the new Ain Sokhna container...
Med Marine unveils new tugboat for Svitzer
Istanbul, Turkey (Ports Europe) August 9, 2024 – Last month, shipbuilder Med Marine presented the MED-A2800 series tugboat, manufactured for Svitzer at...
MSC Cruises adopts OptiCruise to reduce pollution
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) August 9, 2024 – Swiss-owned MSC Cruises is to adopt OptiCruise, a new itinerary planning optimisation tool, to reduce ship...
Turkmenistan’s tender for two Ro-Ro railway ferries for Caspian
Turkmenbashi, Turkmenistan (Ports Europe) August 9, 2024 – Turkmenistan’s Agency for Transport and Communications (TurkmenDenizDeryayollary) announced...
Update: Makhachkala port road saga
Makhachkala, Russia (Ports Europe) August 9, 2024 – The cost of building the hugely delayed 6.2 km access road to Russia’s Caspian Sea port of...
Belgium inland waterway transport to increase in Q1 2024
Brussels, Belgium (Ports Europe) August 8, 2024 – In the first quarter of 2024, barges transported 39.9 million tonnes of goods on Belgian inland...
Malaga, fastest-growing cargo port in Spain in H1 2024
Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) August 8, 2024 – The Port of Malaga handled 2.2 million tons of cargo during the first half of 2024, up nearly...
New ordinance on railways at the Port of Barcelona
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) August 7, 2024 – The port has approved the new ordinance on railway operations and use of tracks in the railway terminals...
Ukraine exports nearly 60 mln tons of grain in Jan-July 2024
Kiev, Ukraine (Ports Europe) August 7, 2024 – From January to July 2024, Ukraine ports exported 59.9 million tonnes of grain. According to the Ukrainian...
Porto de Lisboa publishes cruise statistics for Jan-Jun 2024
Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) August 7, 2024 – Porto de Lisboa has published cruise statistics for January-June 2024. Porto de Lisboa – Cruise...
Ultra-luxury cruise ship visits Port of Lisbon
Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) August 7, 2024 – The latest ultra-luxury cruise ship from the Ritz-Carlton Yacht Collection has visited the Port of...
Portugal: Mainland ports – May 2024 – cargo statistics
Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) August 7, 2024 – AMT – Autoridade da Mobilidade e dos Transportes has published statistics for cargo traffic in...
Iran’s Caspian ports improve cargo results
Nowshahr, Iran (Ports Europe) August 7, 2024 – Iran’s Caspian Sea ports of Nowshahr (Now Shahr, Noshahr) and Fereydoonkenar (Fereydun Kenar), in the...