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LSCT (La Spezia Container Terminal) appoints new general manager
La Spezia, Italy (Ports Europe) March 2, 2021 – Yesterday, Walter Cardaci was appointed new General Manager of LSCT – La Spezia Container...
GTS Rail to open Genoa office
Bari, Italy (Ports Europe) March 2, 2021 – Bari-based intermodal freight transport company GTS Rail, is to open an office in Genoa. New staffers will be...
AdSP del Mare Adriatico Meridionale sees ports recovery
Bari, Italy (Ports Europe) March 2, 2021 – AdSP – Southern Adriatic Sea Port Authority has reported a positive start to the year for traffic at its...
Brindisi port finalises location for customs free zone
Brindisi, Italy (Ports Europe) March 2, 2021 – The director general of the Customs and Monopolies Agency (ADM – Agenzia delle dogane e dei...
Mersin International Port plans expansion
Mersin, Turkey (Ports Europe) March 1, 2021 – Last year, Mersin International Port (MIP) handled a total of 2.6 million TEU and 7.6 million tons of...
Trabzon port looks to benefit from opening of the Nakhichevan transport corridor
Trabzon, Turkey (Ports Europe) March 1, 2021 – Last November the Presidents of Russia and Azerbaijan and the Prime Minister of Armenia signed the...
Ukraine invites French business to take part in construction and privatization
Foreign Minister of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba during his working visit to France held a meeting of the business council with representatives of large and...
Port of Barcelona: Four future scenarios for maritime transport in Europe
Port de Barcelona – 25 February 2021 The IV Strategic Plan of the Port of Barcelona, recently presented, includes a projection on the maritime traffic...
Ningbo Containerized Freight Index keep rising in February
In January of 2021, the container throughput of Chinese ports have a increase of 13% compared with the same month last year, and the Ningbo Containerized...
Ukraine deputy minister holds port discussions in Qatar
Doha, Qatar (Ports Europe) March 1, 2021 – On 27 February 2021, Deputy Foreign Minister of Ukraine (CDTO) Dmytro Senik started a working visit to the...
Gefco opens warehouse in Tanger Med Logistics Zone
Tanger Med, Morocco (Ports Europe) February 25, 2021 – Gefco, the French transport and logistics company, has opened a new warehouse in Tanger Med...
Cleveland Cascades supplies equipment to Batumi port, Georgia
Batumi, Georgia (Ports Europe) March 1, 2021 – The UK’s Cleveland Cascades Ltd has supplied Batumi port with a Cascade systems for a ship loading...
Higher prices and container shortages in the next months
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) February 28, 2021 – The container shipping industry needs overall rate levels to increase, and this would be a central...
Sharp decrease of oil cargo in Russian ports in Azov and Black Seas in January
Novorossiysk, Russia (Ports Europe) February 28 – Cargo turnover in Russia’s ports in the Azov Sea-Black Sea basin in January decreased by 15.2%...
CMA CGM with more LNG powered containerships
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) February 28, 2021 – The French shipping and logistics powerhouse CMA CGM Group said that it will dedicate six liquefied...
Spain: Total cargo handled by port authority – January 2021
Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) February 26, 2021 – Puertos del Estado has reported total cargo traffic of Spanish state-owned ports in January 2021 of...
Port of Barcelona turnover down 20% in 2020 and traffic down 11.9%
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) February 26, 2021 – The Port of Barcelona has reported turnover of €139 million in 2020, 20% less than in 2019, when it...