Shipping company CLdN has announced the launch of a new weekly container service between the Belgian port of Zeebrugge and Ireland. From 10 May 2025, the 800 TEU M/V JSP Rover will operate between Albert II and the ports of Cork and Dublin, offering customers lift-on/lift-off (LoLo) services alongside its existing four weekly RoRo services on the same routes.
During the negotiations between the Chairman of the Board of JSC KazMunayGas Askhat Khasenov and the CEO of AD Ports Group Mohammed Al Shamisi, it became known about the joint development of a container ship project with a capacity of up to 780 TEU. The vessel is being created taking into account the rapid growth of cargo traffic on the Trans-Caspian international transport route.
The Baltic Hub container terminal in Gdansk received the MSC Maura as part of the launch of the second ocean service of the Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) shipping line, which includes the Gdansk port in the Albatros route connecting the Far East with Europe. The 366-metre-long vessel with a capacity of 16,464 TEU sailed along the route via Asian and European ports, including Shanghai, Singapore, London and Bremerhaven.
In the first quarter of 2025, the container throughput of the port of Antwerp-Bruges reached 3.44 million TEU, which is 4.5% more than in the same period of 2024 and 2.6% higher than in the previous quarter. This allowed the port to overtake Rotterdam, which handled 3.36 million TEU, and top the ranking of container ports in Europe.
Sweden’s second-largest container port, Helsingborg, has reported a 50% reduction in container handling after implementing the N4 operating system from Kaleris. The solution has improved the overall efficiency of the terminal through digital berth planning, dynamic yard management and advanced analytics of operations.
In June, dredging works aimed at restoring the design depth to 7.7 meters will start in the Aktau seaport. This was announced by the Chairman of the Board of the Aktau International Sea Trade Port Abay Turikpenbayev at the Caspian and Central Asia forum in Baku. Currently, due to the lowering of the Caspian Sea level, tankers cannot be fully loaded – instead of 12 thousand tons, they take about 10 thousand.
French shipping group CMA CGM, through its subsidiary Ceva Logistics, has signed an agreement to acquire Turkish logistics company Borusan Tedarik Zinciri Çözümleri ve Teknoloji A.Ş., owned by the Borusan conglomerate. The deal is valued at $440 million, subject to working capital adjustments.
In the first quarter of 2025, the port of Antwerp-Bruges handled 67.7 million tonnes of cargo, down 4% compared to the same period in 2024. The main reason for the decline was a sharp decline in liquid bulk cargo, especially gasoline, naphtha and LNG, while container traffic, on the contrary, grew by 4.6% by weight and by 4.5% by TEU, strengthening the port’s position in the global ranking – from 15th to 14th place.
In the first quarter of 2025, container terminals at the Port of Gdansk handled over 624,000 TEU, up 17% year-on-year. The growth was driven by infrastructure investments in recent years, expansion of logistics links and an increase in the number of ocean services of the world’s largest container ships. In total, 18.4 million tonnes of cargo passed through the port, indicating stability amid global economic challenges.
From 23 to 25 April, a high-level delegation from the ports of Hamburg and Lübeck visited Estonia to strengthen ties between the German and Estonian logistics sectors. The delegation was hosted at the Paldiski South Harbour and the Muuga Harbour, where representatives from the Port of Tallinn and Rail Baltica and HHLA TK presented key projects, including sustainable logistics solutions and process digitalisation.
