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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

ConstanÈ›a, 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...

New breakbulk services between the Far East and Middle East by HMM and NBP

Seoul, South Korea (Ports Europe) January 9, 2023 – South Korean shipping group, Hyundai Merchant Marine (HMM), and Japan’s NYK Bulk & Projects...

New Venice, Far East container service starts

Venice, Italy (Ports Europe) January 3, 2023 – Italian Rif Line is a container service operating between Venice and the Far East. The MV Rijnborg, a...

Second feeder container line across Caspian from Turkmenistan to Azerbaijan

Baku, Azerbaijan (Ports Europe) December 31, 2022 – Turkmenistan’s Merchant Marine Fleet will provide its Balkan vessel for the second feeder container...

Cruise ships resume services between Turkey and Libya

Istanbul, Turkey (PortSEurope) December 21, 2022 – Cruise ships have resumed services between Turkey and Libya with a vessel leaving Izmir in Turkey for...

Baleària starts daily Motril-Tanger Med cargo service

Motril, Spain (PortSEurope) December 21, 2022 – Baleària has started up a new cargo line to connect the ports of Motril and Tangier Med on a daily...

Uzbekistan sends block train to Burgas, Bulgaria

Burgas, Bulgaria (PortSEurope) December 21, 2022 – Uzbekistan has send its first block train to Burgas, Bulgaria along the “Middle Corridor”....

Next sanctions-busting shipping line launched between Novorossiysk and Istanbul

Novorossiysk, Russia (PortSEurope) December 16, 2022 – In another attempt to bypass western sanctions against Russia, logistics operator PEK (First...

Suardíaz, Stellantis set up new Port of Vigo, Liverpool shipping line

Vigo, Spain (PortSEurope) December 13, 2022 – Spanish logistics group Suardíaz and Stellantis are to set up a shipping line between Vigo and the port of...

Containerships will connect YILPORT terminals in Ferrol and Oslo

Ferrol, Spain (PortSEurope) December 13, 2022 – A new service from Containerships will connect YILPORT Oslo with YILPORT Ferrol (Spain). Other ports on...

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