Strike actions that paralyzed France last week have cut off rail access to the port of Le Havre.

North Europe’s stagnant economy is expected to produce a decline in container volume at the region’s ports during the first half of 2016, Hackett Associates and the Hamburg-based Institute of Shipping Economics and Logistics said.

North European ports are expected to see “relatively strong growth” in the first half of 2014, despite the “miserable results” forecast for 2013...

North Europe’s import volume is projected to fall by 8.9 percent to 12.2 million 20-foot-equivalent units in 2013, despite a 3.9 percent increase in Europe’s overall import volume...

Hackett Associates and the Institute of Shipping Economics and Logistics’ latest Global Port Tracker study predicted that container handling in Europe’s North Range ports will increase a “meager” 1 percent in 2013...

HAROPA, an alliance of three ports on the Seine river, including Ports de Paris, Grand Port Maritime de Rouen and Grand Port Maritime du Havre, reported container traffic in the waterway increased 1 percent year-over-year in tonnage...

Container imports at ports in North Europe will shrink by 0.6 percent to 16.40 million 20-foot-equivalent units for the f

CMA CGM has launched a feeder service linking Bilbao to Le Havre, the Spanish port said this w

Hamburg Sud and its Brazilian affiliate Alianca are restructuring their service between North Europe and the east coast of South America in response to what they call changing market conditions.

The northern French ports of Le Havre, Rouen and Paris are working together on a joint effort to attract business to a logistics corridor along the river Seine.

The port of Amsterdam boosted total cargo traffic by 3 percent in 2011 from a year ago but container volume plummeted 28 percent, as the Dutch port struggled to attract ocean carriers away from rivals

Le Havre will open a $215 million container terminal in early 2012 that will allow France’s biggest box port to handle the largest ships and boost annual capacity by over 1 million 20-foot equiv

The hard-fought reform of French ports takes effect next week amid optimism the nation’s container hubs can win back traffic lost to foreign rivals during years of industrial unrest.

French dockworkers called off their six-week campaign of rolling strikes Feb. 18 after reaching an agreement with port employers over early retirement.

French ports are at a standstill Feb.

French dockers and port workers will stage a four-day nationwide strike on Friday, Jan.