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COSCO SHIPPING calls Port of La Spezia, with 20,000 TEU on regular basis

La Spezia, Italy (Ports Europe) March 17, 2024 – Starting this month, COSCO SHIPPING’s 20,000 TEU container ships will begin regular calls at the...

Ukraine to resume Black Sea container shipments by end-March

Odesa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) March 15, 2024 – Ukraine wants to resume container shipments along the Ukrainian Black Sea corridor by the end of March, the...

Cargo traffic at Port of Barcelona up +5.7% in Jan-Feb 2023

Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) March 15, 2024 – Cargo traffic at the Port of Barcelona increased by +5.7% in the first two months of the year compared...

COSCO SHIPPING adds Genoa port to Asia-Mediterranean Service

Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) March 15, 2024 – COSCO SHIPPING has added new vessels to its Asia-Mediterranean Service (AEM1) which will also call...

VCFI index falls 1.51% in February

Autoridad Portuaria de València (APV – Valenciaport, Port Authority of Valencia) – The Index stands at 1,752.72 points and accumulates growth of...

Container transport in rail freight transport in Germany, 2005-2022

Hamburg, Germany (Ports Europe) March 5, 2024 – The Federal Office for Logistics and Mobility (BALM – Bundesamt für Logistik und Mobilität) has...

New container line from Sfax to Morocco, Spain and Libya

Sfax, Tunisia (Ports Europe) March 4, 2024 – A regular container line from Tunisia’s Mediterranean port of Sfax to Morocco, Spain and Libya has been...

Landlocked Serbia seeks stake in Piraeus or Thessaloniki port

Belgrade, Serbia (Ports Europe) February 28, 2024 – Landlocked Serbia is interested in buying a 5-10% stake in Greece’s Aegean ports of Thessaloniki or...

Spain: Total TEU traffic by port – January 2024

Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) February 26, 2024 – With containers (TEUs), 2024 began with an increase of +5.8% reaching 1.34 million tons, almost...

Russia’s total container market in January, in 2022 and 2023

Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) February 25, 2024 – Russia’s container market grew by 13.3% in January compared to the same month in 2023 to 518,000 TEUs,...

Port of Bilbao as a hub for WEC Lines

Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) February 25, 2024 – WEC Lines (W.E.C. Lines) and the Port of Bilbao have celebrated their shortsea shipping services. Bilbao...

The magnitude of overlapping shipping disruptions

Geneva, Switzerland (Ports Europe) February 25, 2024 – For the first time, the world faces simultaneous disruptions in two major global maritime trade...

Port of Rotterdam sees total cargo down -6.1% in 2023

Rotterdam, Netherlands (Ports Europe) February 20, 2024 – The Port of Rotterdam has recorded total cargo of 438.8 million tonnes, down -6.1% compared to...

Port of Valencia reports container traffic up in January 2024

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) February 19, 2024 – The Port of Valencia has reported January 2024 cargo figures. The port managed 388,366 containers in...

French ports: 3.2% less cargo and 13.4% fewer containers in 2023

Paris, France (Ports Europe) February 18, 2024 – French ports that reported their cargo figures for 2023 show a decline of around 5%. On the container...

Turkey: Cargo report for 2023

Ankara, Turkey (Ports Europe) February 14, 2024 – The Turkish authorities have published cargo figures for 2023. In 2023, total cargo was 521.07 million...

Trieste Marine Terminal sees fall in TEU traffic in January, Red Sea crisis blamed

Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) February 9, 2024 – In January 2024, Trieste Marine Terminal (TMT) handled 43,782 containers (TEU), down from 59,589 TEU in...

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