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Port Said is an Egyptian city at the northern end of the Suez Canal, on the Mediterranean Sea. It is managed by the Port Said Port Authority (PSPA), a government agency of Egypt, charged with the responsibility to govern, regulate and develop the port facilities. It is the home of the Suez Canal Container Terminal (SCCT) which is operated by APM Terminals.

Suez Canal Container Terminal S.A.E. – TEU handled 2018-2022

Port Said, Egypt (Ports Europe) January 30, 2023 – COSCO Shipping Ports Limited has published the final TEU handling figures for Suez Canal Container...

Egyptian port companies plan local listing next year

Port Said, Egypt (PortSEurope) December 19, 2022 – Damietta Container & Cargo Handling Company and Port Said Container & Cargo Handling Company...

Suez Canal Economic Zone signs seven MoUs for hydrogen development

Port Said, Egypt (PortSEurope) December 8, 2022 – The Suez Canal Economic Zone has signed seven Memorandums of Understanding (MoU) for green hydrogen...

Suez Canal Container Terminal signs expansion agreement

Port Said, Egypt (PortSEurope) November 17, 2022 – The Suez Canal Container Terminal (SCCT) has signed an expansion agreement with the Suez Canal...

New Maersk feeder service connects Vado Ligure with Port Said East

Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) July 4, 2022 – A new feeder container shipping service from Maersk will connect Vado Ligure in Northern Italy with Port Said...

Maersk to reduce transit times by 5 -21 days from Asia to Northern Italy

Genoa, Italy – June 29, 2022 – Maersk aims to reduce transit times and alleviate congestion while offering higher flexibility in current challenging...

SCZONE signs MOU with H2 Industries to establish a new waste-to-hydrogen facility in East Port-Said

Port Said, (Ports Europe) June 14, 2022 – The General Authority for Suez Canal Economic Zone (SCZONE) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with...

SCZONE signs a joint MOU to establish automotive industry complex

Port Said, Egypt (Ports Europe) June 17, 2022 – The Suez Canal Economic Zone (SCZONE) has signed a local Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to establish a...

COSCO SHIPPING Ports Limited – Overseas terminals container throughput 2021

Hong Kong, China (Ports Europe) January 21, 2022 – COSCO SHIPPING Ports Limited has published TEU throughput for 2021, with its overseas terminals which...

COSCO Ports Shipping sees 11-month container handling up 4.1%

Hong Kong, China (PortSEurope) December 21, 2021 – In the first 11 months of 2021, COSCO Ports Shipping Ltd has reported total global TEU handling of...

COSCO SHIPPING Ports Ltd reports October 2021 container terminal throughput

Hong Kong, China (PortSEurope) November 23, 2021 – COSCO SHIPPING Ports Ltd has published container throughput statistics for its terminals in October...

COSCO SHIPPING Ports Limited sees slight fall in Q3 2021 container traffic

Hong Kong, China (PortSEurope) October 17, 2021 – In the third quarter of 2021, the container terminals of COSCO SHIPPING Ports Limited handled 27.6...

COSCO Shipping Ports – Overseas Terminals throughput – July 2021

Hong Kong, China (Ports Europe) August 27, 2021 – In July 2021, COSCO SHIPPING Ports Limited registered global container throughput of 8.9 million TEU,...

COSCO SHIPPING Ports Limited sees increase in June 2021 TEU traffic

Hong Kong, China (Ports Europe) July 19, 2021 – In Jan-June 2021, COSCO SHIPPING Ports Limited registered global container throughput of 51 million TEU,...

COSCO Shipping Ports – Overseas Terminals throughput – May 2021

Piraeus Container Terminal S.A. COSCO SHIPPING Ports (Spain) Terminals S.L.U. CSP Zeebrugge Terminal NV Suez Canal Container Terminal S.A.E. Kumport Liman...

COSCO Shipping Ports sees Q1 2021 container traffic up 9.8%

Hong Kong, China (Ports Europe) April 16, 2021 – In the first quarter of this year the port terminals of COSCO Shipping Ports group handled container...

Last 61 ships blocked by the Suez Canal crisis will cross it on April 3 – global container backlog expected to last up to three more months

Port Said, Egypt (Ports Europe) April 3, 2021 – The last 61 ships blocked by the six days grounding of Ever Given, one of the largest container ships in...

Up to three months to clear the containers backlog after the Suez Canal is unblocked

Port Said, Egypt (Ports Europe) March 30, 2021 – It is expected to take some three months for the delayed containers due to the six-day blockage of the Suez...

Suez Canal Authority: Successful refloating of Ever Given

Suez Canal Authority – March 29, 2021 ​Admiral Osama Rabie, Chairman and Managing Director of the Suez Canal Authority (SCA), has announced today,...

Boskalis: Suez Canal unblocked: “We pulled it off!”

Grounded container vessel Ever Given successfully refloated in the Suez Canal by expert salvage team of Boskalis subsidiary SMIT Salvage – March 29, 2021...

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