Hackett Associates in its latest Global Port Tracker report produced for the National Retail Federation (NRF) marks an “unusually high” growth in import volumes of US major retail container ports in January 2017, up 12.5% as compared with the previous year, reports NRF. The ports covered by the Global Port Tracker include Los Angeles/Long Beach, […]
On February, 10, container terminal operator Hutchison Port Holdings Trust (HPH Trust) published its 2016 results. The throughput of its deep-water ports fell by 6% as compared with year 2015. The volumes of Yantian International Container Terminals (YICT) dropped by 4%, to 11.697 mln TEU (12.166 mln TEU in 2015). The combined throughput of its Hong […]
Dubai-based port and terminal operator DP World Limited handled 63.7 mln TEU across its global portfolio of container terminals in 2016, as announced in today’s press release of the company. This represents a 3.2% growth of gross container volumes year-on-year on a reported basis, and 2.2% on a like-for-like basis (excluding 4 terminals opened or […]
The year 2016 Spain’s major ports have finished on a positive note, registering growth in their container traffic. Algeciras, that was overtaken by Valencia in 2015, now outperformed its rival and confirmed its status of the country’s largest container hub by generating throughput of 4.759 mln TEU, which is equivalent to an increase of 5.4% […]
The container throughput of Russian ports has grown by 1.4% in 2016, up to 3.99 mln TEU, reported the Association of Russian sea commercial ports. This is seen as a promising recovery after the last year’s fall by 25,4%. It may be reminded that the major drop in 2015 happened in imports (-28.5%), due to […]
International transportation group UCL Holding owning a number of Russian stevedoring companies in the ports of St. Petersburg, Ust-Luga, Taganrog and Tuapse, announced its 2016 results. According to the company’s press release, the total handled volume increased by 3%, up to 34.1 mln tons, the growth explained by a huge leap by 41% of containerized […]
The port of Antwerp is the first of the major European ports to provide the 2016 throughput statistics. According to its press release it handled a total freight volume of 214 mln tonnes in 2016, up 2.7% on the previous year. This was achieved through a strong growth in containerised freight making up the major […]
The total throughput of Russian ports in 2016 reached 721.9 mln tons, which is 6.7% higher than in 2015, announced the Association of Russian sea ports. The ports handled 386.1 mln tons of liquid cargos (+5.9% to 2015), mostly crude oil (228 mln tons, +12.8%) and 335.8 mln tons of dry cargos (+7.5%). The major […]
The container throughput of Russian ports dropped by 0.7% in the first 9 months of 2016 as compared to the same period of 2015, according to the data published by the Association of Russian sea ports. In January-September, 2016 Russian ports handled 2.94 mln TEU, which can be considered stabilization after a drastic drop of 26% […]
In the first nine months of 2016 the container throughput of the port of Rotterdam decreased by 0.4% in TEU, and 1.2% in weight as compared to the same period last year, says the port’s press release. All in all, 9.3 million TEU was handled in the port, or 94.8 million tonnes. While the port […]
