Israel’s Port of Ashdod handles record 1.5 million containers in 2020
Ashdod, Israel (PortSEurope) May 12, 2021 - Ashdod Port has reported an operational record of unloading 1,584,000 containers (TEU) in 2020 - a historic all-time…
Valenciaport exceeds one million export containers for the first time in a year
València, May 11, 2021.- For the first time in the history of the Port of València, containers destined for export (cargo) have exceeded the figure of…
Algeciras ranks top European port in Container Port Performance Index
Algeciras is the first in Europe and is the only non-Asian port that is in the TOP 10 of this ranking led by the Japanese…
TradeLens available in China through collaboration with China Unicom Digital Tech
China Unicom Digital Tech, the subsidiary of China Unicom, the global leading telecommunication service provider, announced their partnership with TradeLens to enable its official commercialization in…
Turkey: Container handling by port – Jan-Apr 2021
Istanbul, Turkey (PortSEurope) May 10, 2021 - General Directorate of Maritime Affairs has published container handling statistics at Turkish ports according to the harbour masters…
Turkey: Total port container traffic – Jan-Apr 2021
Istanbul, Turkey (PortSEurope) May 10, 2021 - The General Directorate of Maritime Affairs has reported that in Aptil 2021 its ports handled 1.041 million containers…
Port of Setúbal welcomes “Mediterranean Pendulum Service (MPS) operated by MacAndrews
Setúbal, Portugal (PortSEurope) May 10, 2021 - The Port of Setúbal has started to receive the regular container line "Mediterranean Pendulum Service (MPS) operated by…
ICTSI 1Q2021 net income up 51% driven by strong performance of international portfolio
6 May 2021 Throughput grew 8% to 2.7 million TEUs Revenues increased 16% to USD435.6 millionEBITDA 25% higher to USD264.8 million Enrique K. Razon Jr., ICTSI…
Valencia Containerised Freight Index (VCFI) exceeds 2,000 points with a growth in April of 17.39%
València, May 7, 2021 - The Valencia Containerised Freight Index (VCFI) continues its upward trend, reaching 2,314.89 points in April, an increase of 17.39% over…
Efficiency and speed in ports’ handling of containers and use of boxes inland can greatly ease shortages
Piraeus, Greece (PortSEurope) May 5, 2021 – Shipping companies cannot keep buying ever more expensive containers; newly ordered container ships will start arriving after 2023;…
New Silk Road: Services between Hamburg and Xuzhou successfully established
The Port of Hamburg is a top destination for rail services between China and Germany. Since November last year, a new link has become established…
VSC partners with the new Maersk transcontinental service from Asia to the ports of the Black Sea
Vostochnaya Stevedoring Company (VSC), part of Global Ports Group, has started to serve the new transcontinental service Maersk AE77. Containers will be transported from Asian…
In the last quarter of 2020, Eurokai’s port terminals handled 2.9 million containers (+ 7.2%)
The German group closed the year with a net loss of -30.6 million euros - April 29, 2021 After a long series of annual profits,…
UNCTAD – Why container freight rates have surged
UNCTAD examines the complex factors behind the unprecedented shortage of containers hampering trade’s recovery, and how to avoid a similar situation in the future -…
Port of Sines reports Q1 2021 container cargo up 16%
Sines, Portugal (PortSEurope) April 23, 2021 - In the first three months of 2021 the Port of Sines reported container traffic of 440,645 TEU, a…
China ports container volume rises 14.6% in March of 2021, Ningbo Containerized Freight Index decreases in April
In March of 2021, the cargo volume of China ports was 1276.8 million tons, a year-on-year increase of 16.2%, the container throughput of China ports…
DP World reports strong start to 2021 with 10% volume growth in 1Q
DP World Limited handled 18.9 million TEU (twenty-foot equivalent units) across its global portfolio of container terminals in the first quarter of 2021, with gross…
Trieste Marine Terminal cargo still growing in first quarter
TEUs handled both ship to shore and by train are growing again at the container terminal of Molo VII of the Port of Trieste -…
Port of Barcelona container traffic grows by 25% in the first quarter
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) April 20, 2021 - In the first three months of 2021, container traffic at the Port of Barcelona was 907,010 TEUs, up…
Valenciaport is managing normally 32,313 containers affected by the Suez Canal blockage
Between 6 and 16 April, the docks of the port area have assumed the loading and unloading operations of 10 vessels detained in the Suez…