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OOCL shipper returns to Port of Lisbon

Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) January 15, 2024 – The OOCL Lady Jane, the first ship of the EEX-Europe East Coast South America Express service, docked...

Israel’s Trucknet plans land connection between Haifa and Dubai

Haifa, Israel (Ports Europe) January 12, 2024 – Israel’s Trucknet is planning a land connection between Haifa and Dubai for cargo delivery. The...

Finnlines develops its Biscay Line

Helsinki, Finland (Ports Europe) January 8, 2024 – Finnlines has announced plans to develop its Biscay Line, which transports rolling goods and connects...

Kombiverkehr increase services to Trieste, Greek & Turkish ports

Frankfurt am Main, Germany (Ports Europe) January 8, 2024 – Starting this month, Kombiverkehr KG has improved its intermodal services with Trieste,...

Taranto port starts new service to transport refrigerated containers

Taranto, Italy (Ports Europe) January 8, 2024 – The Port of Taranto port started a new service to transport refrigerated containers. An agreement has...

Peninsula starts LNG bunkering services at Port of Algeciras

Algeciras, Spain (Ports Europe) January 5, 2024 – Marine fuel supplier Peninsula has started liquefied natural gas (LNG) bunkering services at Port of...

Port of Castellón inaugurates new Libya service

Castellón, Spain (Ports Europe) January 4, 2024 – The Port of Castellón has received a ship which inaugurates a new regular line with Libya from the...

Sparkle launches GreenMed, a new submarine cable system

Milan, Italy (Ports Europe) January 2, 2024 – Sparkle, the first international service provider in Italy and a global operator, is launching a project to...

FESCO launched its line El Dekheila-Novorossiysk

Alexandria, Egypt (Ports Europe) December 27, 2023 – Deprived of opportunities to operate in Europe due to Western sanctions, FESCO, one of the largest...

Maersk launches new Rades-Cagliari Ro-Ro service

Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy (Ports Europe) December 21, 2023 – Maersk has announced a new Ro-Ro service operating between Rades in Tunisia and Cagliari,...

Restart of cargo ferry between Astrakhan and Turkmenbashi

Astrakhan, Russia (PortSEurope) December 20, 2023 – The Caspian Sea regular ferry line between the ports of Russia’s Astrakhan region (Astrakhan and...

MSC World Europa uses dockside power supply in Valletta

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) December 19, 2023 – MSC Cruises’ MSC World Europa ship has successfully used shore-supplied power (OPS –...

Finnlines to connect the ports of Bilbao, Vigo and Zeebrugge

Zeebrugge, Belgium (Ports Europe) December 18, 2023 – Commencing January 2024, Finnlines will consolidate its Biscay services with a twice-weekly service...

New regular Reni-Constanta barge line

Reni, Ukraine (Ports Europe) December 17, 2023 – KTL Ukraine has launched a new self-propelled container barge service, KTL PORT, which connects the...

Baleària launches its second gas-powered ‘fast ferry’

Gijón, Spain (Ports Europe) December 15, 2023 – Baleària has yesterday launched the fast ferry Margarita Salas at the Armon Shipyard in Gijón, where...

Port of Trieste starts first European customs corridor

Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) December 14, 2023 – The Port of Trieste has announced the start of the first European customs corridor, which connects the...

Port of Antwerp to utilise hydrogen-powered tugboat

Antwerp, Belgium (Ports Europe) December 13, 2023 – Port of Antwerp-Bruges and CMB.TECH have announced today that the Hydrotug 1, the first...

Sagunto Terminal to supply LNG to ships – Enagás

Sagunto, Spain (Ports Europe) December 12, 2023 – The Sagunto regasification terminal has been adapted to offer liquefied natural gas (LNG) bunkering...

Malta’s Valletta Cruise Port inaugurates “cold ironing”

València, Spain (Ports Europe) December 4, 2023 – Valletta Cruise Port has inaugurated “cold ironing” with electricity supplied to a docked...

MSC to use Giresun Port in Turkey

Giresun, Turkey (Ports Europe) December 1, 2023 – The international shipper MSC has started using Giresun port on Turkey’s central Black Sea coast....

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