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In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, the ports of the Pacific Northwest reported a sharp decline in their cargo traffic during April, following the economic impacts of the outbreak.

Following the COVID-19 outbreak and the impacts that has brought within the shipping industry, the European largest port, Port of Rotterdam started to slightly recover from the pandemic.

The Northwest Seaport Alliance handled 247,675 TEUs in April 2020, as total container volumes declined 23.5% year over year.

In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, Valencia Port Authority (PAV) invested approximately €10 million as urgent and compensatory measures to reduce the economic impacts of the outbreak.

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Ports Sustainability Program’s COVID19 Task Force recently released its updated 4th version of its guidance document for ports.

The British Ports Association published new data according to which 36% of UK ports feel confident about their business outlook over the next 12 months and 86% reported either substantial or severe impacts on shipping and customer activities

Following the COVID-19 outbreak and the crew changes issue that has arise, MS Norwegian Star is expected to arrive at Port of Rotterdam in order to repatriate its crewmembers.

Following the COVID-19 outbreak, British Ports Association (BPA) welcomed UK decision to extend Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme for additional four months, meaning until October 2020.

Economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic continued to affect trade at the Port of Long Beach in April with fewer cargo containers moving through the seaport.

As COVID-19 is significantly affecting Brazil, workers at its ports are starting to fall ill. As of now, at least three privately-run terminals have registered two cases each of COVID-19 in the past two weeks.