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Spain: Total TEU traffic by port – March & Q1 24

Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) April 24, 2024 – Puertos del Estado has published container numbers for Spanish ports in January-March 2024. Spain’s ports...

FT: Western Mediterranean container ports congested by Red Sea crisis

Algeciras, Spain (Ports Europe) April 23, 2024 – Container ports around the Western Mediterranean are nearing full capacity, raising the risk of higher...

Russia’s container market in Q1’24 was 1.6 million TEUs

Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) April 23, 2024 – Russia’s container market grew by 13% in the January-March period compared to Q1’2023 to 1.608 million...

Port of Barcelona reports +8.1% in cargo traffic, Q1 2024

Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) April 23, 2024 – In the first quarter of 2024, total cargo traffic at the Port of Barcelona reached 16.8 million tonnes,...

Turkey: Seaports TEU traffic – March 2024

Ankara, Turkey (Ports Europe) April 17, 2024 – The Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure has reported container (TEU) traffic for March 2024. Below is...

Port of Antwerp Bruges sees improved Q1 24 traffic

Antwerp, Belgium (Ports Europe) April 17, 2024 – The Port of Antwerp-Bruges handled a total of 70.4 million tonnes of cargo in Q! 2024, up +2.4% compared...

Hapag-Lloyd presents “Strategy 2030”

Hamburg, Germany (Ports Europe) April 16, 2024 – Hapag-Lloyd has presented its Strategy 2030, a comprehensive roadmap determining its pursuit of...

Beirut: Container (TEU) traffic – January 2024

Beirut, Lebanon (Ports Europe) April 15, 2024 – The Port of Beirut has published total container (TEU) traffic for January 2024. In January 2024, total...

Export freight rates from the Port of Valencia grow by 2.13% in March

News Release – Valenciaport – April 12, 2024 Export freight rates from the Port of Valencia stabilized in March and experienced a slight increase...

Portugal: Seaports cargo report – January 2024

Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) April 11, 2024 – Portugal’s seaports got off to a positive start in 2024, handling 7.4 million tonnes of cargo in...

APM Terminals Gijón handles largest container ship ever

Gijón, Spain (Ports Europe) April 10, 2024 – APM Terminals Gijón has recently handled the largest container ship ever to call at the port. The MSC...

NUTEP container terminal in Novorossiysk to increase capacity

Novorossiysk, Russia (Ports Europe) April 9, 2024 – NUTEP Container Terminal in Russia’s Black Sea port of Novorossiysk announced a 7.1 billion rubles...

MSC enhances its Batumi – Gioia Tauro service

Batumi, Georgia (Ports Europe) April 9, 2024 – Batumi International Container Terminal (BICT), part of International Container Terminal Services (ICTSI)...

First ship with containers arrived in Chornomorsk since Feb 2022

Chornomorsk, Ukraine (Ports Europe) April 6, 2024 – The first ship with containers since the start of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in February...

COSCO SHIPPING calls at Eurofos, Marseilles

Marseille, France (Ports Europe) April 3, 2024 – COSCO SHIPPING has started calls at the Eurofos terminal in Marseille as part of the AEM1, MD2 and MED 1...

Turkey: TEU traffic – Feb 2024

Ankara, Turkey (Ports Europe) April 1, 2024 – The Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure has reported container (TEU) traffic for February 2024. Below...

Piraeus Port Authority – TEU traffic – Jan-Feb 2024

Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) April 1, 2024 – Piraeus Port Authority has published container (TEU) traffic for February 2024. Below is the monthly data...

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