Higher prices and container shortages in the next months
Marseille, France (PortSEurope) February 28, 2021 - The container shipping industry needs overall rate levels to increase, and this would be a central part of…
MSC to operate Antwerp and Vienna freight rail service
Vienna, Austria (PortSEurope) February 25, 2021 - Starting in April this year, Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) is to manage a twice-weekly freight rail service between…
Azerbaijan’s Railways transshipment offer to Argentina via Mersin and Poti ports
Baku, Azerbaijan (PortSEurope) February 25, 2021 – Azerbaijan Railways (AZD) has proposed the transportation of goods and a primary route scheme for containers moving from…
Luka Koper see 2020 net profit down 21%
Koper, Slovenia (PortSEurope) February 23, 2021 - Luka Koper, the operator of Koper port, has reported net profit of €32 million ($38.9 million), 1% ahead…
Hapag-Lloyd expects red-hot container market to stretch into Q3
Hamburg, Germany (PortSEurope) February 22 - The domino effect from port congestion and the resulting containers shortages will continue to be felt from North America…
Port of Rotterdam sees total cargo traffic down 6.9% in 2020
Rotterdam, Netherlands (PortSEurope) February 21, 2021 - In the year 2020, the Port of Rotterdam recorded total cargo traffic of 436.8 million tonnes, down 6.9%…
Container ships operators’ ranking as of February 2021
Vienna, Austria (PortSEurope) February 22 - APM-Maersk, member of A.P. Moller-Maersk Group, is the world’s biggest container ship operator as of February 2021, according to…
Strength of exports consolidates Valenciaport’s leadership in containers, motorway traffic and vehicles
Export container traffic has been on the rise for six consecutive months, with an average growth of 11% - February 19, 2021 In January 2021,…
Turkey: Container handling by port – January 2021
Istanbul, Turkey (PortSEurope) February 18, 2021 - General Directorate of Maritime Affairs has published container handling statistics at Turkish ports according to the harbour masters…
Turkish ports handled 986,025 TEU in January 2021
Istanbul, Turkey (PortSEurope) February 18, 2021 - The local General Directorate of Maritime Affairs has reported that in January 2021 its ports handled 986,025 containers…
COSCO Shipping Ports – Overseas terminals –
Piraeus, Greece (PortSEurope) February 18, 2021 - In the first month of 2021, COSCO Shipping Ports Ltd has reported container traffic of over 8.6 million…
COSCO Shipping Ports sees January 2021 container traffic up +2.7%
Hong Kong, China (PortSEurope) February 18, 2021 - In the first month of 2021, COSCO Shipping Ports Ltd has reported container traffic of over 8.6…
DP World sees freight load rise with recent railway investment
DP World Yarimca Port, the key container terminal in Turkey’s industrial and coastal province of Kocaeli, posted a considerable increase in its loads in 2020…
ECO train to link Islamabad, Tehran and Istanbul
Tehran, Iran (PortSEurope) February 16, 2021 – The long dormant project for a container-carrying Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) train, which made only one maiden voyage…
Trieste Marine Terminal sees increase in January TEU cargo
Trieste, Italy (PortSEurope) February 15, 2021 - Trieste Marine Terminal (TMT) has reported container traffic in January increased by 8.1%, compared to the same month…
Valenciaport starts the year positive thanks to the export dynamism of companies
In January 2021, 6,712,048 tons of cargo were handled, 8.36% more than the same month of the previous year. The number of containers rose to 467,103,…
Port of Trieste sees cargo traffic down -13% in 2020
Trieste, Italy (PortSEurope) February 15, 2021 - In 2020 the port of Trieste handled over 54 million tons of goods, with a decrease of about…
Jordan’s Aqaba container terminal handled 7% more TEUs in 2020 compared to 2019
Aqaba, Jordan (PortSEurope) February 14, 2021 - Aqaba Container Terminal (ACT), the gateway for the Levant region, including Iraq, had a total throughput of 857,283…
Constanta also sounds the alarm about the global container shortage
Constanta, Romania (PortSEurope) February 12, 2021 – Romania’s largest port of Constanta on the Black Sea has joined the chorus of port facilities sounding an…
DP World reports +7.6% gross volume growth in Q4 2020 and flat growth for FY2020
News Release - DP World - February 8, 2021 DP World Limited handled 19.1 million TEU (twenty-foot equivalent units) across its global portfolio of container…