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COSCO Shipping Ports sees January 2021 container traffic up +2.7%

Hong Kong, China (Ports Europe) 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...

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...

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 -13% on the...

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...

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...

Valencia Containerised Freight Index: Freight starts the year with an increase of 10.41%

The Valencia Containerised Freight Index (VCFI) stands at 1,571.29 points, the highest figure since the start of the series in January 2018 – February 5,...

Turkey: Container handling statistics by ports in 2020

Istanbul, Turkey (PortSEurope) February 4, 2021 – The General Directorate of Maritime Affairs has reported container handling statistics at Turkish ports...

Turkey: Total container handling statistics at Turkish ports in 2020

Istanbul, Turkey (PortSEurope) February 4, 2021 – The Turkish authorities have reported total container handling statistics (TEU) at its ports in 2020....

CSP Spain reports total traffic down 5.55% in 2020

València, Spain (PortSEurope) February 2, 2021 – The Spanish maritime terminals of Cosco Shipping Ports in the ports of Valencia and Bilbao have ended...

Ukraine seeks increased container traffic with Lithuania

The Minister of Infrastructure of Ukraine Vladyslav Krykliy held a video conversation with the Minister of Transport and Communications of the Republic of...

Valenciaport exceeds 5.4 million containers and 80 million tonnes managed in 2020

These figures are similar to those of the previous year and highlight the activity carried out by the port and logistics community during the Covid-19 pandemic...

Israeli’s Haifa port increase TEU traffic in 2020 by 6%

Haifa, Israel (PortSEurope) January 27, 2021 – The northern Israeli city of Haifa, handled a total capacity of about 1.47 million TEU in 2020, an...

Ningbo Containerized Freight Index keep rises in January

From January to December, the container throughput of Chinese ports have a marginal increase compared with the same month last year, and the Ningbo...

New container service connecting Port of Immingham with Bilbao

ABP Humber and W.E.C Lines are proud to announce a new service connecting the UK to Bilbao that will start on 16th January 2021 – January 14, 2021 The...

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