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Tunisia: Total seaport cargo traffic down slightly in 2020

Tunis, Tunisia (Ports Europe) August 21, 2021 – In the year 2020, total cargo handled by the seaports of Tunisia was 26.73 million tonnes, down slightly...

Tunisia: Total cargo handled in 2019/2020 by seaport

Tunis, Tunisia (Ports Europe) August 21, 2021 – L’Office de la Marine Marchande et des Ports (OMMP) has reported total cargo handled in 2019/2020 by...

Tunisia: Total cargo traffic – January-July 2021

Tunis, Tunsia (Ports Europe) August 21, 2021 – L’Office de la Marine Marchande et des Ports (OMMP) has published the total cargo traffic figures for...

Russia’s Port of Taganrog set for new grain handling complex

Taganrog, Russia (Ports Europe) August 17, 2021 – State agency Glavgosexpertiza has announced positive results of engineering surveys for the...

Industry report call for Turkish ports to adopt port authority model

Istanbul, Turkey (Ports Europe) August 13, 2021 – TÜRKLİM”, the Turkish Port Operators Association, has published its “Impact...

Turkish cruise ship traffic starts slow recovery

Istanbul, Turkey (Ports Europe) August 13, 2021 – Following an absence of cruise traffic in January-May this year, Turkish cruise ship traffic started a...

New strike at DP World Limassol

Limassol, Cyprus (Ports Europe) August 11, 2021 – A second strike took place at DP World Limassol following a strike earlier this year. Workers at DP...

Croatian seaports see Q2 cargo traffic up over 10%

In the second quarter of this year, Croatian ports handled 6.22 million tons of goods, up +10.2% over the same period of 2020 – August 11, 2021 Q2 2020...

Modimar srl wins planning contract for AdSP del Mare Adriatico Centrale (Ancona)

Ancona, Italy (Ports Europe) August 10, 2021 – Modimar srl will head a consortium of seven companies which has been awarded the contract to draw up the...

The APM Terminals Castellón-Astraport dispute continues as port loses business

Castellón, Spain (Ports Europe) August 9, 2021 – The strike of the autonomous transporters has been running since July 12 and the port is losing...

Container Terminal of Port of Durres installs Navis’ N4 software-as-a-service solution

Durrës, Albania (Ports Europe) August 9, 2021 – Durres Container Terminal has installed the Navis N4 SaaS from a manually-based system. The new...

Turkey: Cargo handling statistics by port January-July 2021

Istanbul, Turkey (Ports Europe) August 9, 2021 – The General Directorate of Maritime Affairs has reported cargo handling statistics at Turkish ports...

Turkey: Total cargo handling at ports January-July 2021

Istanbul, Turkey (Ports Europe) August 9, 2021 – The General Directorate of Maritime Affairs has reported that in July 2021 its ports handled 43.26...

Turkey: Total container handling statistics, January-July 2021

Istanbul, Turkey (Ports Europe) August 9, 2021 – The General Directorate of Maritime Affairs has reported that in July 2021 Turkish ports handled a total...

U.S. Ambassador Pyatt speaks at Invest in South Aegean Conference

Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) August 4, 2021 – The U.S. Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt has attended the Invest in South Aegean Conference and delivered a...

Ocean Network Express (ONE) reports substantial earnings growth in Q1 2021

Singapore (Ports Europe) August 2, 2021 – For the first quarter of 2021, the company reported the following highlights: Financial Year 2021 – First...

Thessaloniki Port Authority – Information circular for the mandatory public tender offer

News – Thessaloniki Port Authority (ThPA) – July 28, 2021 Approval and publication of the information circular and commencement of the acceptance...

Port of Sines reports first-half traffic growth of over 23%

Sines, Portugal (Ports Europe) July 27, 2021 – In the first six months of 2021, the Port of Sines has reported total cargo traffic of 24 million tons, up...

APM Terminals and Astraport fail to end strike at Port of Castellón

Castellón, Spain (Ports Europe) July 23, 2021 – Talks to stop the transport strike in the Port of Castellón have stalled due to the lack of agreement...

China ports container volume rises 15% in first half of 2021, Ningbo Containerized Freight Index rises in July

In first half of 2021, the cargo volume of China ports was 7643.3million tons, a year-on-year increase of 13.2%; the container throughput of China ports...

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