Port Operations
The strike continues as Bilbao port loses business
Bilbao, Spain (PortSEurope) November 24, 2020 – There have been nearly 50 days of strikes at Bilbao port and neither side is giving ground as they seek...
Algeciras port traffic down -2.74% in first 10 months of 2020
Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) November 24, 2020 – In October 2020, total cargo handled at Algeciras port was 9.38 million tons, down 0.07% on the same...
Ningbo Containerized Freight index rises significantly in November
From January to October, the Container throughput of Chinese ports remains same Compared with the same month last year, and the Ningbo Containerized Freight...
Turkmenbashi seeks to restart ferry connections with Makhachkala and expand transit corridors
Turkmenbashi, Turkmenistan (PortSEurope) November 16, 2020 – Dagestan is considering a proposal to resume a ferry service between the Caspian Sea ports...
Greek prime minister praises COSCO investment in Piraeus port
Piraeus, Greece (PortSEurope) November 16, 2020 – The investment of the Chinese COSCO Shipping in the largest Greek port is a mutually beneficial...
U.S. Secretary Pompeo set to visit Georgia
Tbilisi, Georgia (PortSEurope) November 15, 2020 – U.S. Secretary of State Michael Pompeo is currently in France on a tour which will include Turkey,...
Global Ports Holding announces Q3 2020 and 9 month results
Global Ports Holding Plc (GPH), the world’s largest independent cruise port operator, today announces its unaudited results for the nine months...
Court of Auditors reviews financial accounts of Autorità di Sistema Portuale dello Stretto (AdSP – Strait)
Messina, Italy (PortSEurope) November 10, 2020 – The Corporate Control Section of the Court of Auditors (La Corte dei conti) has reviewed the financial...
COVAXX and Maersk enter partnership to supply COVID-19 vaccines globally
The goal is to bring a much needed COVID-19 vaccine to emerging and developing nations. The agreement establishes integrated logistics to enable efficient...
New freight train service between Trieste and Nuremberg
Trieste, Italy (PortSEurope) November 6, 2020 – A new train service that will connect the port of Trieste with the hub of Nuremberg, Germany, started...
COSCO Shipping Ports – Overseas terminals – Q1,Q2,Q3 2020 TEU throughput
Hong Kong, China (PortSEurope) October 29, 2020 – Below is the container (TEU) throughput of COSCO Shipping Ports’ overseas terminals for the first...
Valenciaport: Immediate arrival of EU structural funds key to economic recovery
Aurelio Martínez: “The aid from Europe has to arrive now. They must serve to save the sick, not to resuscitate corpses ” – October 29, 2020 He...
JP Morgan considers sale of 49% of CSP (Spain)
València, Spain (PortSEurope) October 28, 2020 – Reports in Spain suggest that funds JP Morgan Asset Management and Stichting Pensionenfonds ABP are...
Istanbul hosts the first-ever Turkish–Libyan Economic Forum
Istanbul, Turkey (PortSEurope) October 27, 2020 – The Libyan-Turkish Economic Platform started on October 13 in Istanbul aiming to boost bilateral...
In the third quarter the traffic of goods in the port of Venice decreased by -8.0%
Venice, Italy (PortSEurope) October 26, 2020 – In the third quarter of 2020, the decline in the traffic of goods handled by the port of Venice, ongoing...
Ningbo Containerized Freight index rises remains stable in October
From January to September, the Container throughput of Chinese ports still decease slightly Compared with the same month last year ,and the Ningbo...
Algeciras port sees slight increase in September container traffic
Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) October 22, 2020 – In September 2020, container traffic at Algeciras port is reported at 438,000 TEU, 2 +2% increase on...
Naturgy wins second contract in port of Bilbao
Bilbao, Spain (PortSEurope) October 21, 2020 – The Ibaizabal Group has awarded a second contract to Naturgy to carry out nearly 100 liquified natural gas...
Turkey – Total port container handling by seaport – Jan-Sep 2020
Istanbul, Turkey (PortSEurope) October 21, 2020 – The Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure (Ulaştırma ve Altyapı Bakanı) has published total...
Turkey – Total port container handling – Jan-Sep 2020
Istanbul, Turkey (PortSEurope) October 21, 2020 – In the first nine months of 2020, Turkish seaports handled a total of 5.39 million container units,...