Containers
All port activities linked to containers, including traffic volumes, storage and transport to and from ports.
Surprising decline in Georgia’s port cargo handling
Poti, Georgia (Ports Europe) May 31, 2023 – Georgian ports handled 3.5 million tonnes of cargo in the first quarter of 2023, which is -17.8% less than in...
PJSC TransContainer reorientates trade eastwards
Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) May 30, 2023 – PJSC TransContainer has successfully reorientates trade eastwards in response to Western sanctions closing...
EUROGATE Container Terminal Limassol reports TEU fall in Q1 2023
Limassol, Cyprus (Ports Europe) May 30, 2023 – EUROGATE Container Terminal Limassol has reported TEU traffic of 81,982 TEU in the first quarter of 2023,...
EUROGATE Tanger reports TEU traffic down in Q1 2023
Tanger Med, Morocco (Ports Europe) May 30, 2023 – EUROGATE Tanger has reported TEU traffic of 583,262 TEU in the first quarter of 2023, down -3.6% on the...
Contship Italia sees TEU traffic down over -16% in Q1 2023
Milan, Italy (Ports Europe) May 29, 2023 – In the first three months of 2023, Contship Italia’s terminals handled 358,402 containers (TEU), down...
World Bank publishes “The Container Port Performance Index 2022
Vienna, Austria (Ports Europe) May 29, 2023 – The World Bank has published “The Container Port Performance Index 2022: A Comparable Assessment of...
FT: Huge shipping containers surplus after COVID-related shortages
London, United Kingdom (Ports Europe) May 24, 2023 – Global demand for goods is declining after the post-COVID restrictions and boom and this is...
Turkey: Seaport cargo report for April 2023
Ankara, Turkey (Ports Europe) May 12, 2023 – The Turkish authorities have published total cargo handling figures for its seaports in January-April 2023....
Turkey: Seaports – Total TEU handled – Jan-Apr 2023
Ankara, Turkey (Ports Europe) May 12, 2023 – The Turkish authorities have published total container (TEU) handling figures for its seaports in January-April...
Port of Constanta, Busan Port Authority signs MoU
Constanța, Romania (Ports Europe) May 11, 2023 – The Port of Constanta and South Korea’s Busan Port Authority have signed a Memorandum of...
ICTSI container traffic up +9% in Q1 2023
Manila, Philippines (Ports Europe) May 9, 2023 – Global port management company ICTSI handled 3.1 million containers (TEUs) in the first quarter of 2023,...
Georgia’s Poti container terminal with a record TEUs in April
Poti, Georgia (Ports Europe) May 8, 2023 – Georgia’s Black Sea container terminal of APM Terminals in the port of Poti handled in April 53,600 TEUs, which...
VCFI – Export freight from the Port of Valencia fell again in April by 9.28%
The Valencia Containerized Freight Index (VCFI), the indicator that measures the trend and evolution of container transport costs by sea from the Port of...
Italian seaports’ cargo returns to pre-Covid levels
Rome, Italy (Ports Europe) May 3, 2023 – Italian seaports handled a total of 490.1 million tons of goods, up +1.8% on 2021, +10.4% on 2020 and just below...
80% less containers in Russia’s Baltic ports – growth in Far East
Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) May 3, 2023 – In 2023, port container terminals of Northwest Russia will have only 20% of their capacity utilised....
DP World reports gross volume growth of 3.7% on a like-for-like in 1Q2023
DP World Limited handled 19.5 million TEU across its global portfolio of container terminals in the first quarter of 2023, with gross container volumes...
First refrigerated container train on from Moscow to Xi’an
Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) April 26, 2023 – RZD Logistics sent the first refrigerated container train on from Moscow to Xi’an (China)....