Archives
Hapag-Lloyd with strong first half of 2024
News Release – Hapag-Lloyd – August 14, 2024 Hapag-Lloyd concluded the first half year of 2024 with a Group EBITDA of USD 2 billion (EUR 1.8...
Ports of Rome see cargo traffic down 10.5% in H1 2024
Civitavecchia, Italy (Ports Europe) August 14, 2024 – The Ports of Rome handled 6.22. million tons (Mt) of cargo in the first half of 2024, down 10.5% on...
Authorities seize cocaine in Port of Naples
Naples, Italy (Ports Europe) August 14, 2024 – The customs authorities have seized 188 kilograms of cocaine in the Port of Naples. The drugs came from...
Webinar about port automation and remote machine control
London, United Kingdom (Ports Europe) August 13, 2024 – Nokia is organising a webinar on September 4 at 16:00 CET with expert speakers from Verizon...
148 kg of cocaine seized in Italy’s Livorno port
Livorno, Italy (Ports Europe) August 13, 2024 – 148 kg of cocaine were seized in Italy’s Mediterranean port of Livorno and three Albanian citizens who...
Trieste Marine Terminal: TEU traffic – July 2024
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) August 13, 2024 – Trieste Marine Terminal srl (TMT)Â handled 68,894 containers (TEU) in July 2024. This compares with...
Global Ports Holding delisted from the London Stock Exchange
London, United Kingdom (Ports Europe) August 13, 2024 –Â On August 9, 2024, Global Ports Holding B.V. (Bidco), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Global...
Palermo to develop the local port of Bandito
Palermo, Sicily, Italy (Ports Europe) August 13, 2024 – The Port of Palermo is to invest 16 million euros in developing the local port of Bandito,...
436 kg heroin seized in Bulgaria’s Burgas port
Burgas, Bulgaria (Ports Europe) August 13, 2024 – 436 kg of heroin were seized at Bulgaria’s Black Sea port of Burgas on August 9, the district...
Port Authority of Volos reports improved financials for 2023.
Volos, Greece (Ports Europe) August 13, 2024 – The Port Authority of Volos (OLB) has reported improved turnover and profit for 2023. Top-level figures...
‘Cruisezillas’: How much bigger can cruise ships get? – T & E
Brussels, Belgium (Ports Europe)- August 13, 2024 – Clean energy advocate Transport & Environment has published a report asking how big cruise ships...
Port of Venice sees cargo handled down 3.3% in Q2 2024
Venice, Italy (Ports Europe) August 13, 2024 – In the second quarter of 2024, the Port of Venice handled 6.16 million (Mt) of cargo, down 3.3% on the...
St.Petersburg’s First Container Terminal extends railway capacity
St.Petersburg, Russia (Ports Europe) August 12, 2024 – First Container Terminal in the Big Port of St. Petersburg has increased the length of its railway...
Ports of Aveiro and Figueira da Foz issue towage tender
Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) August 12, 2024 – On 24 May, the Ports of Aveiro and Figueira da Foz launched an international public tender for the...
Authorities seizes 1,700 kilos of cocaine in Barcelona port
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) August 12, 2024 – On July 30, the Civil Guard has seized 1,700 kilos of cocaine among sacks of sugar in the Port of...
Sanctions delayed Rostov-on-Don port relocation
Rostov-on-Don, Russia (Ports Europe) August 12, 2024 – Project documentation for the construction of port infrastructure necessary for the transfer of...
PSA acquires Polish intermodal company
Warsaw, Poland (Ports Europe) August 12, 2024 – PSA Baltics N.V., part of PSA International (PSA), has signed an agreement to acquire an 85% stake in...
Cocaine valued at €23 million seized in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria
Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain (Ports Europe) August 12, 2024 – The Guardia Civil and the Customs Surveillance Service of the Spanish Tax Agency have...
Port managers in drugs trial in Breda, Netherlands
Breda, Netherlands (Ports Europe) August 12, 2024 – The trial started of three directors of a Vlissingen port terminal company last Thursday. They are...
Port of Barletta issues tender to extend dock
Bari, Italy (Ports Europe) August 12, 2024 – The Southern Adriatic Port System Authority has published a tender for the design and works for the...