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Leixões port launches new connection to Belgium

Leixões, Portugal (Ports Europe) July 3, 2020 – Operated by CLdN and Yilport Leixões, the new service will provide access to new routes with origin and...

CMA CGM launches new intermodal connection between Italy and Turkey via Taranto port

The CMA CGM Group, a world leader in shipping and logistics, will add on July 10, 2020, a new call in Taranto (Italy) on the TURMED service, which links...

Yilport Gebze plans to invest in rail platform for its terminal

Yilport Gebze, the “home terminal” of Yilport Holding in the Gulf of Izmit in Turkey, has announced a new investment in a rail platform inside the terminal...

Yilport’s Transitex starts new rail link between Elvas and Huelva port

Huelva, Spain (Ports Europe) June 22, 2020 – Transitex, an Iberian logistics and transport company and part of Yilport, has added the port of Huelva to...

NEW NEMO Service starts calling at Malta Freeport

Malta Freeport Terminals has been selected as a port of call on the weekly NEW NEMO service connecting Malta to 7 new ports worldwide stretching from the UK to...

Bunge starts rail tests to transport soybean meal between Barcelona port and Aragon

Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) June 18, 2020 – Bunge, a world leader in sourcing, processing and supplying oilseed and grain products and ingredients,...

CIRCLE: Connecting EU Business Unit launches new “EU Branding” services

Genoa, June 18th, 2020 Circle S.p.A., a company specializing in the analysis and development of automation and digitalization solutions for port and intermodal...

SECH funds new Border Inspection Post at Genoa port

From today, Wednesday 17 July, the port of Genoa has at its disposal the new Border Inspection Post (PIF), built by the SECH terminal with its own investment,...

New rail link serves Turkish boron exports to China via Asyaport

Istanbul, Turkey (Ports Europe) June 15, 2020 – The state-owned company Eti Maden İşletmeleri Genel Müdürlüğü has started exporting products to...

JSV Logistic starts Barcelona service to Turkish ports

Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) June 12, 2020 – Shipping company JSV Logistic and Marmedsa, have set up a shipping service between the APM Terminals...

First container train sets off along China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan multimodal corridor

On June 5, 2020, in the city of Lanzhou, Gansu Province of the People’s Republic of China, the official ceremony of sending the first consignment of 25...

Grimaldi adds Ro-Pax ship to Italy-Greece line

Venice, Italy (Ports Europe) June 5, 2020 – Naples-based Grimaldi Group is to utilise the Ro-Pax ship “Venice”on the...

Taranto port to benefit from new CMA CGM feeder service

Taranto, Italy (Ports Europe) June 4, 2020 – French shipping company, CMA CGM, is to start a feeder service calling at the Turkish ports of Ambarli,...

New Koper port-Libya shipping service starts in July

Koper, Slovenia (Ports Europe) June 4, 2020 – A new service will be launched linking the North Adriatic Slovenian port of Koper and Libya (port unnamed),...

NileDutch extends Mediterranean service offering to Rades, Tunisia

Algeciras, Spain (Ports Europe) June 3, 2020 – NileDutch, a shipping company linking West Africa with Europe, has added the Tunisian port of Rades to its...

Containerships starts container service between Ferrol port and UK ports

Ferrol, Spain (Ports Europe) June 3, 2020 – Containerships, part of CMA CGM, has started a second container service from Ferrol port, Galicia, to ports...

Mars Logistics starts Istanbul-Duisburg intermodal rail cargo service

Istanbul, Turkey (Ports Europe) May 29, 2020 – Mars Logistics, a provider of international logistics, has operated a cargo train running from Eskişehir,...

MSC group links Tekirdağ Asyaport with Anatolia exporters

Istanbul, Turkey (Ports Europe) May 29, 2020 – The Marmaray railway line, operated by TCDD (Turkish Railways), has started handling cargo travelling...

FESCO starts container train to deliver cars from China to Europe

FESCO Transportation Group (FESCO) has been expanding its geography of transit services and has launched a container train for expedited delivery of cars from...

Port of Thessaloniki launched EMR Facility

Thessaloniki, Greece (Ports Europe) May 25, 2020 – On May 1, 2020, Thessaloniki Port Authority (ThPA) launched an Equipment & Maintenance Repair...

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