European Ports

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

Commentary

 
Fears that Europe is heading for a Japanese-style decade of snail’s pace economic growth or even stagnation are hardening into reality as the continent faces another year of recession while the rest of the world is in recovery mode.

News & Analysis

 
19 Jun 2013
The European Commission’s social dialogue committee in the port sector launched today in Brussels with port authorities, terminal operators, dockers and other port workers across the European Union.
 
10 Jun 2013
DP World’s London Gateway container port has signed up the U.K.’s biggest food and apparel retailer, Marks & Spencer,
Fireworks announce start of dredging for Liverpool2.
 
10 Jun 2013
Peel Ports has launched dredging operations for its new post-Panamax container terminal at the Port of Liverpool in the U.K.
The new North Rail Terminal at the Port of Felixstowe.
 
07 Jun 2013
The Port of Felixstowe has opened a new rail terminal, doubling rail capacity at the U.K. container port.
The Port of Los Angeles and the Hamburg Port Authority signed a five-year cooperation deal at an industry conference in Munich.
 
07 Jun 2013
The Port of Los Angeles and the Hamburg Port Authority have signed a memorandum of understanding to increase bilateral cooperation.
 
06 Jun 2013
Container throughput for Lithuania’s Klaipėda port totaled 33,030 20-foot-equivalent units in May, an increase of 5.8 percent, or 1,811 TEUs, compared with 31,219 TEUs in May 2012.
 
05 Jun 2013
Contargo, a terminal operator and inland shipping services provider in the Rhine corridor, has affiliated its terminal network with the Port of Rotterdam in the Netherlands with InlandLinks.
 
04 Jun 2013
The British government’s Regional Growth Fund has assigned a grant of £35 million (about US$53.5 million) to dredge the approach channel in Mersey Estuary, which will improve access to Seaforth Dock...
 
04 Jun 2013
Fesco’s first quarter profit dipped 3.8 percent from a year earlier as the Russian shipping, port, rail freight and logistics group sold almost half of its vessels.
 
03 Jun 2013
The Port of Klaipėda in Lithuania has completed the dredging of its channel after one year of work.