Monthly traffic has doubled since May.

Contship sees port-to-door services as an effective means to compete with northern European ports.

The Eurokai group increased traffic by just shy of 1 percent in the first nine months of the year, with its Italian terminals posting the strongest growth.

Eurogate has signed a contract to operate the Limassol Container Terminal, expanding the German port group’s Mediterranean footprint.

German container terminal group Eurogate warned of growing headwinds in the container handling market due to reduced global traffic growth and the forthcoming reshuffle among liner shipping alliances, after it reported increased earnings in 2015.

Contship Italia, Italy’s largest container terminal operator, has signed a strategic memorandum of understanding with Sina Port and Marine, Iran’s biggest port company, to take advantage of moves by the U.S. and the EU to ease sanctions following the nuclear deal with Tehran.

Eurogate, Europe’s largest container stevedore, last year handled more than 14 million standard containers for the first time since the global recession in 2008, as a strong performance by its Mediterranean terminals outweighed a decline in its domestic German market.

Contship Italia boosted traffic at its five Italian container terminals by almost one-fifth in 2013, despite a stagnating Italian economy, while its part-owned Moroccan terminal handled more than...

Eurogate, Europe’s largest container stevedore, saw profit shrink 30 percent in 2012 due to start-up costs for Germany’s first deep-sea terminal in the port of Wilhelmshaven and lower investment income.