Containers
All port activities linked to containers, including traffic volumes, storage and transport to and from ports.
U.N. Ro-Ro extends Trieste port contract
Istanbul, Turkey (Ports Europe) March 14, 2018 – Turkey’s U.N. Ro-Ro has signed a contract to extend its use of Trieste port until 2041, providing...
Qingdao port to advise Cartagena on terminal digitisation
Cartagena, Spain (Ports Europe) March 13, 2018 – China’s Qingdao port, the eighth biggest port globally in terms of traffic and the first fully...
Sines port’s container traffic rises 42% in 2017
Sines, Portugal (Ports Europe) March 13, 2018 – The container terminal of the port of Sines (Terminal XXI) handled almost 42% of the total traffic of the...
Arkas picks Ravenna port’s container terminal for Adriatic service
Ravenna, Italy (Ports Europe) March 13, 2018 – The “Natalia A” ship, a container carrier of the Turkish shipping company Arkas Line, which...
Event: Constanta Port Container Day – March 22, 2018
Constanta, Romania (Ports Europe) March 13, 2018 – Constanta Port Container Day will take place on March 22, 2018, in Cluj-Napoca. At the event, Mihai...
Global Ports provides 2017 ports update
Istanbul, Turkey (Ports Europe) March 13, 2018 – As part of it 2017 annual financial report, Global Ports Holding (GPH) has commented on the activities...
Grimaldi reorganises the staging area of the trailers in Salerno
Salerno, Italy (Ports Europe) March 11, 2018 – The shipping group Grimaldi, in collaboration with Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Tirreno...
Spain’s Cotraport urges measure to tackle slow container traffic transport in Barcelona port
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) March 9, 2018 – Spanish freight transport cooperative Cotraport plans to request an urgent meeting with the management of...
MSC to launch con-ro service linking Trieste to Izmir
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) March 8, 2018 – The Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) plans to launch a new service for the transport of ro-ro, containers...
Finnlines launches Bilbao-Rosyth service
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) March 1, 2018 – Finnish shipping company Finnlines, a subsidiary of Italy’s Grimaldi Group, will launch a new sea...
Boluda launches Canary Islands-Cantabria line
Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) February 28, 2018 – Boluda Corporación Marítima, through Boluda Lines, has launched a Canary Islands-Cantabria line, utilising...
Seago Line to launch service linking Cartagena to Felixstowe
Cartagena, Spain (Ports Europe) February 27, 2018 – A new container transport line will be in operation between the port of Cartagena and England, operated...
Bilbao increase cargo traffic 7% on 2017
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) february 27, 2018 – The Port of Bilbao ended 2017 with a 7% traffic growth, a 2.2 million-tonne increase over 2016. This is...
Barcelona port traffic increases 54% in January 2018
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) February 25, 2018 – Total traffic passing through the Port of Barcelona in January increased by 54% compared to the...
Top 10 container firms control 90% of global container fleet
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) February 21, 2018 – Over 87% of the fleet capacity of the 67 largest global container transport companies is controlled by...
MSC calls for construction of road link of Valencia port to Sagunto
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) February 21, 2018 – The future of the northern extension of the port of Valencia is conditioned to the development of a new...
Reefer Terminal S.p.A. – January 2018 container terminal statistics
Vado Ligure, Italy (Ports Europe) February 21, 2018 – Reefer Terminal S.p.A., operated by China’s COSCO Shipping Ports Limited, has reported January 2018...