The Slovenian Port of Koper on the north Adriatic will be highlighted at this week's Amsterdam's Intermodal Europe conference on container logistics, highlighted as the fastest growing box port, up 40 per cent this year to 450,000 TEU.
    Tomas Martin Jamnik vice president of Koper port management board will speak of the port's trajectory through investment in quayside extensions and handling equipment, postpanamax cranes and hinterland connectivity.
    The port now numbers 67 weekly block train services to Hungary, Slovakia, Austria, Germany and the Czech Republic.
    Koper's container volume has nearly doubled over the past five years attributed to new services in the Mediterranean and to the Far East together with regular well organised rail services of a double-track railway. It also boasts one of the biggest car terminals in the Mediterranean that handled 570,000 finished vehicles in two years.
    Its numbers giant ocean carriers of Maersk, CMA CGM, Coscon, Hanjin, K Line, Yang Ming and CSAV who benefit from the direct service from Asia saving 2,000 nautical miles in comparison to other northern Europe hubs.

Source: shipping online