New Service/Product
New services and products. Includes new shipping lines and port calls. Also, new port services and port equipment.
Sea Lines starts Constanta-Karasu Ro-Ro service
Istanbul, Turkey (Ports Europe) April 13, 2020 – Earlier this month, the ‘Sea Partner’ ship arrived in the port of Constanta, marking the...
Maersk launches new intermodal container service in Russia
Maersk, Ruscon and Transcontainer joined forces in launching an intermodal container service between the seaport of Novorossiysk and Vorsino dry port outside...
Tunisia to launch weekly freight trips to Libya
Tunis, Tunisia (Ports Europe) April 9, 2020 – Ministry of Transport and Logistics has announced that a cargo shipping line between Tunisia and Libya will...
FELB and Sinotrans operate first Shenyang-Enns container train
Vienna, Austria (Ports Europe) April 7, 2020 – FELB and Sinotrans have operated the first train from Shenyang, southern China, to Enns in Austria. The...
Mercitalia hub: new “multifiliera” service Padua-Bari-Catania
Catania, Italy (Ports Europe) April 7, 2020 – Polo Mercitalia (FS Italiane Group) has started a new freight service connecting Interporto di Padova to...
MSC presents new flexible cargo service to meet Asian demand
MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company’s new “Suspension of Transit” (SOT) programme is a flexible cargo service that will help to fulfil the imminent...
Maersk’s first intercontinental train from Europe to Asia dispatched from St. Petersburg
The new route reduces the transit time in half and offers attractive complementary product to traditional Ocean services – March 30, 2020 On 28 March...
Malta Freeport introduces new digital-based procedure for release of outgoing import full containers
News – Proactive COVID-19 measure – Malta Freeport introduces a new digital-based procedure for the release of outgoing import full containers...
Sines port carries out first supply of bunker fuel to ship
Sines, Portugal (Ports Europe) March 4, 2020 – Porto de Sines has carried out the first supply of bunker fuel to ships was on February 29, using...
Hutchison BEST adds reefer offer at Barcelona port
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) March 3, 2020 – Hutchison Ports’ Barcelona Europe South Terminal (BEST) has announced that the local port...
Euroaméricas reinforces its shipping services between Bilbao and USA
Euroaméricas, the joint venture between Onego Shipping and BERGÉ, has reinforced its shipping services between Bilbao and the United States by adding a new...
CMA CGM starts Genoa port-Piacenza logistics hub intermodal rail service
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) February 7, 2020 – French shipping and logistics group has announced a new container rail service, the Piacenza Rail Shuttle,...
Hutchison Ports BEST to set up intermodal service with Bayonne port
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) January 31, 2020 – Hutchison Ports BEST subsidiary Synergy has signed a contract with Navarra-based GIMEX to establish an...
Brittany Ferries maintains commitment to Ireland-Spain route; moves departure port to Rosslare
Brittany Ferries – News Release – January 20, 2020 Brittany Ferries has announced that it is to move its Ireland/Spain sailings from Cork to...
New rail service to link Koper port and Bratislava
Koper, Slovenia (Ports Europe) January 26, 2020 – Ljubljana-based intermodal transport company Adria Kombi and Austria’s Rail Cargo Operator have...
Maersk inaugurates a new container line in Huelva port
Huelva, Spain (Ports Europe) January 23, 2020 – From February 10, the Maersk shipping company will start a new feeder service from Huelva port, linking...
Ocean Alliance confirms calls to Italian ports of Genoa, La Spezia and Trieste
Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Ligure Occidentale – January 10, 2020 The Ocean Alliance containerized shipowning alliance has presented the new...
Maersk to introduce Gijón port service
Gijón, Spain (Ports Europe) January 12, 2020 – Maersk Lines is to link its Z03 container service with the port of Gijón commencing January 23,...
Hupac to provide Pescara-Novara intermodal rail service
Pescara, Italy (Ports Europe) December 23, 2019 – Hupac, a leading Swiss network operator in intermodal transport in Europe, will start a new rail link...
New catamaran line between Burgas and Istanbul
Burgas, Bulgaria (Ports Europe) November 16, 2019 – A new catamaran/fast ferry line will start operations on July 1, 2020, between Bulgaria’s second...