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New feeder container line between Ukraine’s Izmail port, Constanta

Izmail, Ukraine (Ports Europe) February 17, 2023 – The feeder container service between the Romanian Black Sea port of Constanta and the Ukrainian Danube...

Tailwind Shipping Lines is launching a new liner service

Hamburg, 16 February 2023 – Less than a year after its founding, Tailwind Shipping Lines is launching a new liner service that will particularly focus on...

W.E.C. Lines will start a new North Spain Canary Islands service

Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) February 16, 2023 – W.E.C. Lines will start a new North Spain Canary Islands connection, linking with the UK & Portugal...

New passenger service between Libya and Tunisia

Tripoli, Libya (Ports Europe) February 15, 2023 – The first voyage for passengers from the Libyan port of Tripoli to the commercial port of Zarzis in...

MSC to restart DRAGON service

Naples, Italy (Ports Europe) February 10, 2023 – MSC is to restart its DRAGON service that will connect Asia to Israel, Italy and South of France, and...

Elengy and Delta Rail sign an agreement

Elengy, expert in liquefied natural gas (LNG), and Delta Rail, a transport solutions operator, have announced the launch of a new LNG container loading service...

Ignazio Messina starts Ravenna-Segrate cargo rail service

Ravenna, Italy (Ports Europe) February 3, 2023 – Ignazio Messina & C has started a Ravenna-Segrate cargo rail service linking the port with the...

Ellerman City Liners launches USA-Bilbao container service

Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) February 3, 2023 – Ellerman City Liners will launch, in mid-February, a weekly direct service between the Port of Bilbao and...

Piraeus Port Authority starts new car shipment route with COSCO

Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) February 1, 2023 – Piraeus Port Authority S.A. (PPA) had jointly launched a new car shipment route and service with COSCO...

MSC container service links Malta Freeport with India

Valletta, Malta (Ports Europe) January 31, 2023 – MSC has launched the new India-West Med Service which links Malta Freeport with India. The new service...

CMA CGM links Poti by rail with Central Asia

Marseille, France (Ports Europe) January 30, 2023 – French shipper CMA CGM has announced a service linking the Port of Poti with the Caucasus and Central...

Second Caspian feeder line Turkmenistan-Azerbaijan starts with Uzbek cargo

Turkmenbashi, Turkmenistan (Ports Europe) January 26, 2023 – More than 100 (40-foot) containers were transshipped through Turkmenistan’s Caspian Sea port...

Kalypso starts container link with Yilport, Port of Taranto

Taranto, Italy (Ports Europe) January 24, 2023 – The Kalypso container line, part of RifLine, has started a feeder service connection with...

Port of Taranto restarts railway line

Taranto, Italy (Ports Europe) January 23, 2023 – The Port of Taranto has restarted the railway line connection between the multi-purpose pier of the port...

MEDWAY improves port rail connections in Portugal

Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) January 23, 2023 – The MEDWAY transport company will restart the Setúbal – Entroncamento – Leixões rail link during...

NUTEP terminal received the first container ship of the new regular SINOKOR line

Novorossiysk, Russia (Ports Europe) January 22, 2023 – NUTEP Container Terminal in Russia’s Black Sea port of Novorossiysk started processing the...

Civitavecchia Fruit and Forest Terminal benefits from fast road corridor

Civitavecchia, Italy (Ports Europe) January 20, 2023 – Civitavecchia Fruit and Forest Terminal (CFFT) will now benefit from a fast road corridor for...

Lisbon’s Alcântara Container Terminal to have first direct USA link

Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) January 19, 2023 – The Alcântara Container Terminal will have the first regular transatlantic stopover to the...

New Ukrainian rail link with Romania’s Constanta port starts

Constanța, Romania (Ports Europe) January 19, 2023 – A new Ukrainian rail link with Romania’s Constanta port has resumed after a gap of 17 years....

Port of Novorossiysk starts handling container line SINOKOR between Asia and Russia

Novorossiysk, Russia (Ports Europe) January 17, 2023 – The Novorossiysk container terminal of NUTEP has started handling direct ocean services of the...

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