Port of Algeciras Archives - The Loadstar Making sense of the supply chain Mon, 04 Nov 2024 13:50:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 31889032 Port of Valencia slowly gets back to work after floods from rainstorms https://theloadstar.com/port-of-valencia-slowly-gets-back-to-work-after-floods-from-rainstorms/ https://theloadstar.com/port-of-valencia-slowly-gets-back-to-work-after-floods-from-rainstorms/#respond Mon, 04 Nov 2024 13:50:24 +0000 https://theloadstar.com/?p=284202 Valencia Port is limping back to cargo activity after it was forced to halt operations in the aftermath of severe rainstorms that lashed the country’s south-eastern region last week.
The devastation from what was said to be the severest flash-flooding in Europe over the past five decades, is reported to have claimed some 100 lives.
Container lines have reported work resumption at Valencia on a “restricted scale”, as multiple landside challenges persist.
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]]> https://theloadstar.com/port-of-valencia-slowly-gets-back-to-work-after-floods-from-rainstorms/feed/ 0 284202 Capacity problems loom as transhipment boxes clog major West Med hubs https://theloadstar.com/capacity-problems-loom-as-transhipment-boxes-clog-major-west-med-hubs/ https://theloadstar.com/capacity-problems-loom-as-transhipment-boxes-clog-major-west-med-hubs/#respond Thu, 09 May 2024 12:31:36 +0000 https://theloadstar.com/?p=271515 Fears of widespread congestion across west Mediterranean container ports may have abated for the present, but a prolonged continuation of the Red Sea crisis could place serious pressure on the region’s port capacity.
“Carriers are optimising their networks constantly, because obviously with the de facto closure of the Suez Canal, they wouldn’t let the ultra-large container ships go into a dead end all the time, as in going to the eastern ...

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]]> https://theloadstar.com/capacity-problems-loom-as-transhipment-boxes-clog-major-west-med-hubs/feed/ 0 271515 Carriers caught in Algeria-Morocco flare up https://theloadstar.com/carriers-caught-in-algeria-morocco-flare-up/ https://theloadstar.com/carriers-caught-in-algeria-morocco-flare-up/#respond Fri, 16 Feb 2024 18:12:46 +0000 https://theloadstar.com/?p=265394 Restrictions in Algeria on imports from Morocco, including containers transhipped over the hub of Tanger and into Algeria’s gateways, have seen carrier schedule adjustments lead to new surcharges being levied.
Tensions between Morocco and Algeria have simmered for years, largely over the former’s occupation of Western Sahara, and flared up in 2021 over the deaths of three Algerian trucks drivers in a rocket attack, after which president Abdelmadjid Tebboune ordered all ...

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]]> https://theloadstar.com/carriers-caught-in-algeria-morocco-flare-up/feed/ 0 265394 Drug smugglers going bananas again https://theloadstar.com/drug-smugglers-going-bananas-again/ https://theloadstar.com/drug-smugglers-going-bananas-again/#respond Fri, 25 Aug 2023 12:27:26 +0000 https://theloadstar.com/?p=253763 Spanish police have intercepted 9.5 tonnes of cocaine hidden in a container of bananas at the port of Algeciras. According to this report, to read which some readers may require Google translate, the police note that the logos of more than 30 different European criminal organisations were detected in the shipment from Ecuador. It is believed that the gang responsible for this latest batch has links with banana exporters from ...

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