Containers
All port activities linked to containers, including traffic volumes, storage and transport to and from ports.
Piraeus Container Terminal S.A. – January 2018 container terminal statistics
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) February 20, 2018 – Piraeus Container Terminal S.A., part of China’s COSCO Shipping Ports Limited, has reported January...
Interporto Vespucci reports improved performance in 2017
Livorno, Italy (Ports Europe) February 20, 2018 – Interporto Vespucci has reported improved results and traffic at Livorno port on 2017. In 2017, the...
OOCL to launch weekly service connecting Mediterranean to Middle East, Pakistan, India
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) February 19, 2018 – OOCL plans to launch in March a regular weekly maritime service that will link the Mediterranean with the...
COSCO Spain’s cargo traffic rises 3% in 2017
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) February 16, 2018 – COSCO Shipping Lines (Spain) closed 2017 with an approximate increase of 3% of cargo traffic, deputy...
Tenerife port boosts container transhipment activity
Tenerife, Spain (Ports Europe) February 14, 2018 – In September, Danish shipping group Maersk included Tenerife port in its list of transhipment harbours,...
Sines port’s container terminal generates 42% of cargo traffic in 2017
Sines, Portugal (Ports Europe) February 13, 2018 – Sines port’s container terminal generated 42% of the total cargo traffic of the harbour in 2017....
Portugal’s mainland ports cargo traffic rises 2.2% in 2017
Leixões, Portugal (Ports Europe) February 13, 2018 – Portugal’s mainland ports ended last year with a record cargo traffic of 95.9 million tonnes, up...
Tarragona port handles 34 million tonnes in 2017
Tarragona, Spain (Ports Europe) February 12, 2018 – Tarragona port handled 34 million tonnes of goods in 2017, up 7.8% on 2016, and the highest figure...
Portuguese ports see higher traffic 2017
Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) February 11, 2018 – Mainland ports ended the year 2017 with the record of the highest volume of cargo ever, reaching...
Yilport’s Portuguese container terminals increase traffic in 2017
Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) February 11, 2018 – Yilport Iberian terminals registered a 5.8% increase in 2017, with a total of 1,176,496 TEUs handled...
Algeciras port to start operating its first direct link to Australia
Algeciras, Spain (Ports Europe) February 9, 2018 – A new weekly service operated by France’s CMA CGM and German Hapag Lloyd AG will be handled at the...
Hamburger Hafen und Logistik sees Odessa terminal growth
Hamburg, Germany (Ports Europe) February 9, 2018 – Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG (HHLA) has reported 2017 group revenue up 6% at €1.25 billion...
Barcelona port publishes traffic statistics and economic results for 2017
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) February 8, 2018 – The Port of Barcelona has produced its traffic statistics and economic results for the year 2017. This...
CMA CGM introduces improvements of service to West Africa via Algeciras
Algeciras, Spain (Ports Europe) February 8, 2018 – French shipping company CMA CGM has announced the introduction of improvements in its EURAF 5 service,...
Hapag-Lloyd expanding on Iberian reefer market
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) February 8, 2018 – German shipping group Hapag-Lloyd, with a fleet with a total capacity of 1.6 million TEUs, more than 7.5...
Bilbao port aspires to gain leadership in Spain’s Atlantic as Pasaia struggles
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) February 7, 2018 – Bilbao port aspires to be the most important harbour for the traffic in the Spanish Atlantic region, as...
Turkish investors eye Palermo port’s cruise terminal project
Palermo, Italy (Ports Europe) February 7, 2018 – Turkey has expressed interest in the port of Palermo, in particular in the development of a cruise terminal...