Containers
All port activities linked to containers, including traffic volumes, storage and transport to and from ports.
Suez Canal Container Terminal S.A.E. – December 2017 container terminal statistics
Port Said, Egypt (PortSEurope) January 15, 2017 – Suez Canal Container Terminal S.A.E., part of China’s COSCO Shipping Ports Limited, has reported...
Piraeus Container Terminal S.A. – December 2017 container terminal statistics
Piraeus, Greece (PortSEurope) January 15, 2017 – Piraeus Container Terminal S.A., part of the China’s COSCO Shipping Ports Limited, has reported...
Six Ukrainian seaports see growth in 2017
Odessa, Ukraine (PortSEurope) January 15, 2018 – In 2017, six Ukrainian seaports showed steady growth in cargo turnover, and the number of seaports...
MSC Eloane ship suffers accident, Tanger port refuses its handling
Cádiz, Spain (PortSEurope) January 15, 2018 – The MSC Eloane ship, which with its 400 metres of length by almost 60 metres of beam, is one of the largest...
Tanger Med exceeds for the first time the 50 million tons annual mark
Tangier, Morocco (PortSEurope) January 12, 2018 – The port of Tanger Med recorded an increase in the various indicators of port activity during 2017,...
Damietta handles increased number of vessels in last three years
Damietta, Egypt (PortSEurope) January 12, 2018 – In the last three calendar years (2015, 2016 and 2017) Damietta Port handled 7,782 vessels, compared...
Gioia Tauro loses container traffic leadership amid conflict of shareholders
Gioia Tauro, Italy (PortSEurope) January 12, 2018 – Gioia Tauro port has lost its leadership on the Italian market for container traffic, as its throughput...
Salerno port container traffic rises 13% in 2017
Salerno, Italy (PortSEurope) January 11, 2018 – Salerno port’s container traffic rose by 13% in 2017 to between 420,000 and 430,000 TEUs, according to...
Germany’s Sloman Neptun to relaunch Cartagena-Benghazi line on Jan 10
Cartagena, Spain (PortSEurope) January 10, 2018 – German shipping company Sloman Neptun Schiffahrts AG plans to relaunch on January 10 its line between...
EuroFos breaks a new traffic record with more than 770,000 containers TEUs handled in 2017
Marseille Fos, France (PortSEurope) January 9, 2018 – For the 4th year in a row, PortSynergy-EuroFos broke a new traffic record with more than 770,000...
Gijón port to book record-high cargo traffic in 2017
Gijón, Spain (PortSEurope) January 9, 2018 – Gijón port closed 2017 with the highest turnover in its history and an absolute record in the movement of...
Cádiz port’s new container terminal handles first ship
Cádiz, Spain (PortSEurope) January 9, 2018 – The new container terminal of Cádiz port has received its first container ship on January 9. At 0830 local...
Nantes.St-Nazaire reports increased traffic in 2017
Nantes.St-Nazaire, France (PortSEurope) January 9, 2018 – In 2017, traffic at Nantes Saint-Nazaire Port amounted to 29.9 million tonnes (Mt), up 17.2%...
Marseille-HAROPA rail links to improve cargo transport times
Marseille, France (PortSEurope) January 6, 2018 – The concerted efforts of the two major French seaports have made it possible to achieve and implement...
In 2017 Ukrainian seaports processed almost 133 million tons of cargo
Odessa, Ukraine (PortSEurope) January 6, 2018 – From January to December 2017, Ukraine’s seaports processed 132.9 million tons of cargo,...
Cádiz port to open new container terminal in 2020
Cádiz, Spain (PortSEurope) January 5, 2018 – Cádiz port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de la Bahía de Cádiz) president José Luis Blanco Romero has...
Thessaloniki Port Authority sees record container numbers in 2017
Thessaloniki, Greece (PortSEurope) January 3, 2018 – Thessaloniki Port Authority S.A. (ThPA) closed 2017 with more than 400,000 TEUs being transported,...