Rotterdam, Antwerp-Bruges and Hamburg have maintained their dominance in the European port rankings in 2024, despite severe geopolitical instability and security challenges.
The combined container throughput of the top three European Union (EU) ports increased by 4.4% in 2024, rebounding from a sharp 7% decline the previous year, according to Theo Notteboom, a member of PortEconomics, the organization responsible for compiling the rankings.
Among the leading ports, Belgium’s Antwerp-Bruges...
PortEconomics member Theo Notteboom compiled a table showing the year-on-year TEU growth in the top 15 container ports in the European Union during the first six months of the year.
“While 2023 was characterized by a strong to moderate traffic decline in most ports, the first half of 2024 brought double-digit growth in seven of the top 15 ports,” pointed out Notteboom.
As seen in the table, Portugal’s port of Sines, Spain’s ports of Valencia and Barcelona, France’s HAROPA complex, Germany’s...
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APS – Ports of Sines and the Algarve Authority and CSN – Steelwork National Company (Brazil) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on 12 July, within the scope of the European Commission’s Global Gateway initiative.
More specifically, this agreement aims at establishing the scope, rules and guiding principles of the developing joint action in order to establish sustainable, green and digital logistical corridors to support a strategy focused on three essential pillars; logistics resilience,...
Port of Sines, a major port in Portugal, and Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional (CSN), a […]
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MSC Michel Cappellini, one of MSC’s giant container vessels with a box capacity of 24,346 TEUs, called at the Port of Sines’ Container Terminal.
The Portuguese port continues to set records and maintains a regular presence on the route of mega container carriers with capacities exceeding 24,000 TEUs, having received the 24,116 TEU MSC Tessa in April that handled around 4,000 boxes in port.
MSC Tessa has now been surpassed by MSC Michel Cappellini with the handling of around 4,376 containers.
The...
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Prominent maritime ports, universities, and innovation hubs from Australia, Brazil, Chile, Portugal, the United […]
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ENGIE, Shell, Vopak and Anthony Veder have agreed to develop a green hydrogen logistic […]
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The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) concerning the project aiming at developing a green hydrogen maritime corridor between Portugal and the Netherlands was signed on 16 December in a ceremony led by Portugal’s minister of infrastructure and housing, Pedro Nuno Santos.
The H2Sines.RDAM Project aims at developing a Green Hydrogen logistic maritime corridor connecting the ports of Sines in Portugal and Rotterdam in the Netherlands.
The project, to be developed by a consortium comprising ENGIE,...
Two energy companies Shell New Energies NL BV and ENGIE, the tank storage provider Vopak and the shipping firm Anthony Veder have signed an agreement to study the feasibility of producing, liquifying and transporting green hydrogen from Portugal to the Netherlands, where it will then be stored and distributed for sale.
The vision of the consortium is to produce hydrogen by electrolysis from renewable energy sources in the industrial zone of the port of Sines in Portugal. Then, it will...
Irish builder Safehaven Marine has delivered a new pilot boat ordered by the Port of Sines in southwestern Portugal near the country’s capital of Lisbon. Designed and b ..
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