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PSA Pra’: new EMA container service

First ship of the new containerized maritime service EMA (East Mediterranean – America) managed by the shipping companies ONE / COSCO / OOCL / Yang Ming...

Mersin International Port introduces electronic documentation

Mersin, Turkey (Ports Europe) April 30, 2020 – Mersin International Port Management Inc. (MIP) has announced that agencies can transmit their cargo...

Tuniship vessel docks in Tripoli port, Libya

Tunis, Tunisia (Ports Europe) April 29, 2020 – The first vessel in a new direct shipping line between the port of Sfax and the port of Tripoli, has...

Maersk offers weekly rail service from China to Turkey

Copenhagen, April 29, 2020 Maersk has launched its first rail service from Xi’an, China to Izmit, Turkey. This new route, which is part of Maersk...

Sfax-Tripoli (Libya) shipping service starts

Tunis, Tunisia (Ports Europe) April 25, 2020 – The Ministry of Agriculture has announced that the new direct shipping line between the port of Sfax and...

Sea Lines starts Constanta-Karasu Ro-Ro service

Istanbul, Turkey (Ports Europe) April 13, 2020 – Earlier this month, the ‘Sea Partner’ ship arrived in the port of Constanta, marking the...

Maersk launches new intermodal container service in Russia

Maersk, Ruscon and Transcontainer joined forces in launching an intermodal container service between the seaport of Novorossiysk and Vorsino dry port outside...

FELB and Sinotrans operate first Shenyang-Enns container train

Vienna, Austria (Ports Europe) April 7, 2020 – FELB and Sinotrans have operated the first train from Shenyang, southern China, to Enns in Austria. The...

Mercitalia hub: new “multifiliera” service Padua-Bari-Catania

Catania, Italy (Ports Europe) April 7, 2020 – Polo Mercitalia (FS Italiane Group) has started a new freight service connecting Interporto di Padova to...

MSC presents new flexible cargo service to meet Asian demand

MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company’s new “Suspension of Transit” (SOT) programme is a flexible cargo service that will help to fulfil the imminent...

Maersk’s first intercontinental train from Europe to Asia dispatched from St. Petersburg

The new route reduces the transit time in half and offers attractive complementary product to traditional Ocean services – March 30, 2020 On 28 March...

Malta Freeport introduces new digital-based procedure for release of outgoing import full containers

News – Proactive COVID-19 measure – Malta Freeport introduces a new digital-based procedure for the release of outgoing import full containers...

Sines port carries out first supply of bunker fuel to ship

Sines, Portugal (Ports Europe) March 4, 2020 – Porto de Sines has carried out the first supply of bunker fuel to ships was on February 29, using...

Hutchison BEST adds reefer offer at Barcelona port

Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) March 3, 2020 – Hutchison Ports’ Barcelona Europe South Terminal (BEST) has announced that the local port...

Euroaméricas reinforces its shipping services between Bilbao and USA

Euroaméricas, the joint venture between Onego Shipping and BERGÉ, has reinforced its shipping services between Bilbao and the United States by adding a new...

Brittany Ferries connecting Bilbao port and Rosslare, Ireland, in February

Roscoff, France (Ports Europe) February 4, 2020 – Brittany Ferries (France) have announced that a service between the Port of Bilbao and the Irish port...

Hutchison Ports BEST to set up intermodal service with Bayonne port

Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) January 31, 2020 – Hutchison Ports BEST subsidiary Synergy has signed a contract with Navarra-based GIMEX to establish an...

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