AIIB loans $100 million to Damietta Alliance Container Terminal
Damietta, Egypt (Ports Europe) December 20, 2023 – The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) has approved a $100 million loan to Damietta Alliance Container Terminal, concessionaire of the port...
View ArticleNew Ro-Ro line between Trieste and Damietta
Cairo, Egypt (Ports Europe) January 23, 2024 – An agreement to launch a roll-on/roll-off (Ro-Ro) sea freight line with a capacity of 420 trucks every week between the Italian port of Trieste and the...
View ArticleEgypt cancels listing of port companies
Port Said, Egypt (Ports Europe) January 25, 2024 – The Egyptian government will abandon the temporary listing of the Port Said Container and Cargo Handling Company (PSCCHC) and the Damietta Container...
View ArticleDamietta Container & Cargo Handling joins the Portchain Connect Network
Damietta, Egypt (Ports Europe) January 30, 2024 – Damietta Container & Cargo Handling Co (DCHC) has joined the Portchain Connect network. DCHC were one of the first pilot terminals to trial...
View ArticlePossible new Ro-Ro line Burgas to Alexandria or Damietta
Cairo, Egypt (Ports Europe) February 11, 2024 – There is a possibility for the opening of a Ro-Ro (roll-on/roll-off) line between Bulgaria’s Black Sea port of Burgas and Egypt’s Mediterranean Sea ports...
View ArticleMaersk, Hapag-Lloyd’s Gemini Cooperation to rely on 15 main ports
London, United Kingdom (Ports Europe) March 30, 2024 – Fifteen ports will play a key role in A.P. Moller-Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd’s Gemini Cooperation new best-in-class network announced in January that...
View ArticleDamietta Alliance signs contract for superstructure works
Damietta, Egypt (Ports Europe) April 26, 2024 – Damietta Alliance Container Terminals has signed a contract with Rowad Modern Engineering for superstructure works for the Tahya Misr 1 Container...
View ArticleRussian oil ship-to-ship operations seek new ports in the Mediterranean Sea
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) May 26, 2024 – Earlier this month, Greece started issuing NAVTEX notices which inform all shipping to stay away from certain sea areas because of naval exercises. Such...
View ArticleDamietta port to host new ship scrapping & recycling project
Damietta, Egypt (Ports Europe) May 30, 2024 – Damietta port will be the location for a new ship scrapping & recycling project to be set up by state-owned Holding Company for Maritime and Land...
View ArticleONE updates the Egypt Lebanon Turkey (ELT) service
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) June 5, 2024 – Ocean Network Express (ONE) has announced an update to the Egypt Lebanon Turkey (ELT) service. This service will continue to offer direct connections from...
View ArticleLivorno signs agreement with Port of Damietta, Egypt
Livorno, Italy (Ports Europe) June 27, 2024 – The Ports of Livorno and Damietta have signed an agreement to develop energy traffic. The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed by Autorita’ di...
View ArticleVoith Schneider to deliver propellers for tugs in Egypt
Damietta, Egypt (Ports Europe) July 16, 2024 – Voith Schneider will deliver a total 22 Voith Schneider Propellers (VSP) to the Egyptian Ship Repairs & Building Co. The equipment will be installed...
View ArticleDFDS to start Trieste-Damietta service
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) September 17, 2024 – Danish shipper DFDS will start a Ro-Ro service between Trieste and Damietta in Egypt in November. The new service from the port of Damietta will dock...
View ArticleSouthern Mediterranean shore transhipment hubs
Paris, France (Ports Europe) November 12, 2024 – From Tanger Med to Damietta, transhipment hubs in the Mediterranean are developing rapidly on the Mediterranean Sea’s southern shore. Moroccan and...
View ArticleDamietta Alliance Container Terminals receives five new STS cranes
Damietta, Egypt (Ports Europe) November 12, 2024 – Damietta Alliance Container Terminals has announced receipt of the first set of five Ship-to-Shore (STS) cranes. Manufactured by China’s Qingdao Haixi...
View ArticleEgypt may privatise seaport companies
Cairo, Egypt (Ports Europe) December 5, 2024 – Local media sources are reporting that the Egyptian government is considering selling equity stakes in Port Said Container and Cargo Handling Company...
View ArticleNew shipbreaking yard in Egypt’s Damietta port
Damietta, Egypt (Ports Europe) December 14, 2024 – An enterprise for shipbreaking that will dismantle and dispose of sea vessels will be created in Egypt’s Mediterranean Sea port of Damietta by the...
View ArticlePort of Damietta publishes trade cargo import-export details
Damietta, Egypt (Ports Europe) January 13, 2025 – The Mediterranean Port of Damietta received over 175,000 tons of various goods over the past week, with 71 container and general cargo ships arriving...
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