European Ports

Latest news and analysis on Europe's ports, including Rotterdam and Antwerp.

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News & Analysis

 
17 May 2013
MSC Belgium has introduced a new container release system that allows customers in the Port of Antwerp in Belgium to collect their containers quickly in a secure environment.
 
16 May 2013
The Port of Hamburg handled 32.8 million tons of seaborne cargo in the first three months of 2013, putting the German port “back on a growth course,” fueled in particular by a 6.3 percent year-over-year increase in bulk cargo.
 
14 May 2013
Bob Goldfield, CEO of the Port of Dover’s harbor board, will step down on May 31, 2013, after 11 years in the post.
 
14 May 2013
Intermodal service between Vienna and Rostock, Germany, has created a direct link between Central Europe and Scandinavia, Finland and the Baltic states.
 
14 May 2013
Hamburg Hafen und Logistik AG’s profit jumped 13.2 percent in the first quarter, as Hamburg’s biggest stevedore increased container traffic by 5 percent on sharply higher Asian and Baltic shipments.
 
12 May 2013
ECT Delta Terminal and Euromax Terminal Rotterdam, both in the Netherlands, will receive maiden calls from three new ships next week...
 
09 May 2013
JadeWeserport in Germany has handled 33,000 containers since it opened in September 2012...
 
08 May 2013
NUTEP, a container terminal operator in the Black Sea Port of Novorossiysk, has completed the latest phase of its development program with the upgrade of its railway facilities.
 
08 May 2013
At least seven people have died, two are missing and five are injured after a roll-on, roll-off container ship slammed into a control tower at the Italian port of Genoa.
 
07 May 2013
St. Peter Port Harbour in Guernsey, U.K., has received delivery of a Terex Gottwald HMK 170 E mobile harbor crane from Terex Port Solutions.