Containers
All port activities linked to containers, including traffic volumes, storage and transport to and from ports.
Italy suspends process for termination of Contship’s Gioia Tauro port concession
Gioia Tauro, Italy (Ports Europe) March 14, 2019 – Italy’s Ministry of Infrastructure & Transport (MIT) has received a list of commitments by Gioia...
Cagliari port’s container traffic continues to decline
Cagliari, Italy (Ports Europe) March 13, 2019 – The container terminal of the industrial port of Cagliari continues to experience a period of crisis —...
Strike blocks container trucks at Barcelona port
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) March 12, 2019 – The autonomous container transporters of the port of Barcelona started their first day of work stoppages,...
Valencia to soon become Europe’s 4th largest container port
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) March 11, 2019 – For the first time in history, Valencia port surpassed that of Bremen for three months of the previous year...
Marín port triples container traffic in just five years
Marín, Spain (Ports Europe) March 6, 2019 – The arrival of shipping company Maersk Line to Marín, in May 2016, has meant a turning point in the activity of...
Cartagena port dismisses Escombreras expansion as alternative to El Gorguel project
Cartagena, Spain (Ports Europe) March 1, 2019 – Autoridad Portuaria de Cartagena (APC – Port Authority of Cartagena) president Joaquín Segado has...
APM Terminals Algeciras beats container operations record
Algeciras, Spain (Ports Europe) February 26, 2019 – APM Terminals’ container terminal in Algeciras port broke a new record in 2018 by registering...
Turkey’s Yilport aims to bring Leixões port’s capacity close to Sines
Leixões, Portugal (Ports Europe) February 25, 2019 – Leixões container terminals will be able to grow 153% over the next two years, given that the Turkish...
COSCO’s European terminals reports increased TEU traffic in January 2019
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) February 25, 2019 – Piraeus Container Terminal SA, operated by China’s COSCO Shipping Ports Limited, has reported...
Piraeus Container Terminal sees over 18% increase in January 2019 traffic
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) February 25, 2019 – Piraeus Container Terminal SA, operated by China’s COSCO Shipping Ports Limited, has reported...
Valencia port records best January container traffic ever
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) February 22, 2019 – Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia (APV – Valenciaport, Port Authority of Valencia) closed the first...
Valencia port handles one of every three containers that move through Spain
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) February 15, 2019 – A total of 30.12% of the containers that are loaded and unloaded in the 46 state-owned ports in Spain...
APM Terminals’ Suez Canal Container Terminal sees improvements
Port Said, Egypt (Ports Europe) February 14, 2019 – APM Terminals has reported that some modifications in the Navis N4 Expert Decking Module, the system...
Russia’s NCSP Group reports cargo turnover down 2.3% in 2018
Novorossiysk, Russia (Ports Europe) February 14, 2019 – NCSP Group, a Russian port operator, has reported that cargo turnover for 2018 was 140.209...
Spain’s state ports see cargo rise by 3.3% in 2018
Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) February 13, 2019 – Provisional data shows that the 46 state-owned ports handled 563,475,196 tons of cargo in 2018, up 3.3%...
Rijeka port’s container traffic rises 8.1% in 2018
Rijeka, Croatia (Ports Europe) February 13, 2019 – Rijeka port’s container traffic rose 8.1% in 2018 to a record-high 227,375 TEUs, with more than...
COSCO Shipping Lines Espana increases container traffic in 2018 by nearly 44%
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) February 12, 2019 – COSCO Shipping Lines (Spain) SA moved a total of 362,165 TEUs in Spain in 2018, an increase of 43.57%...