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China ports container volume rises 4.9% from Jan-Nov 2023
China port container volume rose 4.9% from January to November 2023, Ningbo Containerized Freight Index had a significant increase in December 2023 –...
New Ukrainian sea corridor exports around 13 million tonnes of cargo
Odessa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) January 4, 2024 – The new Ukrainian sea corridor created by the Ukrainian Navy has exported around 13 million tonnes 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...
First cruise ship of the year arrives at the Port of Piraeus
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) January 4, 2024 – Piraeus Port Authority has welcomed the Costa Deliziosa, the first cruise ship to arrive at the port...
Eco Wave Power Global produces electricity in Port of Jaffa, Israel
Jaffa, Israel (Ports Europe) January 4, 2024 – Eco Wave Power Global AB, a leading wave energy company, has announced that it has started sending clean...
Yilport, GS Marítima seek to control Sotagus, Lisbon
Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) January 4, 2024 – Yilport and GS Marítima have notified Autoridade da Concorrência (AdC), the Portuguese competition...
Train Port Barcelona set up to manage rail activities
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) January 4, 2024 – The Ministry of Transport and Sustainable Mobility and the Ministry of Finance and Public Function will...
Ports of Bari and Brindisi to develop agri-food sector
Bari, Italy (Ports Europe) January 4, 2024 – The Port Authority has received 6.2 million euros in funding from the National Recovery and Resilience Plan...
Port of Taranto issues new breakwater contract
Taranto, Italy (Ports Europe) January 4, 2024 – The Port Authority has awarded the contract for the construction of the new breakwater in the port of...
Port of Heraklion reports improved cruise ship business in 2023
Heraklion, Crete, Greece (Ports Europe) January 4, 2024 – In 2023, cruise traffic in the port of Heraklion increased by +50%, with a record 382,981...
Baku port handles 6 million tonnes of cargo in Jan-Nov’23
Baku, Azerbaijan (Ports Europe) January 4, 2024 – Azerbaijan’s largest Caspian Sea port of Baku handled over 6 million tonnes of cargo during the first 11...
AD Ports Group’s Noatum acquires APM Terminals Castellón, Spain
Castellón, Spain (Ports Europe) January 3, 2024 – AD Ports Group has announced that Noatum Terminals, the business area of port operations of Grupo...
Limassol’s Vassiliko terminal expansion
Limassol, Cyprus (Ports Europe) January 3, 2024 – A revised plan for the expansion of Terminal 2 (Vasiliko, Vassiliko) in southern Cyprus’...
Belarus exported 15 million tonnes of cargo through Russian ports in 2023
Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) January 3, 2023 – The total transhipment of Belarusian export cargo through Russian ports by the end of 2023 was about 15...
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...
Port of Koper reports record for car handling
Koper, Slovenia (Ports Europe) January 2, 2024 – Luka Koper achieved an extraordinary feat just before the end of the year by breaking the vehicle...
Maersk suspends of ship transits through the Red Sea
Copenhagen, Denmark (Ports Europe) January 2, 2024 – Maersk announced today the suspension of all ship transits through the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden....
MSC set to buy 50% of Hutchison BEST terminal, Barcelona
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) January 2, 2024 – MSC – Mediterranean Shipping Company is fset to acquire 50% of the Barcelona container terminal...
Reference – Russia’s Arctic and Far East ports projects
Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) January 2, 2024 – The past year consolidated the trends formed in 2022 (when Russia was hit by Western sanctions for its...
Kazakhstan plans dredging of Ural-Caspian Canal
Astana, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) January 2, 2024 – Kazakhstan plans to start dredging of the Ural River-Caspian Sea Canal in 2024 and include the...