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Cargo Traffic Reports

Cargo traffic reports are reports on freight handled by a port, port authority or terminal covering a specific period of time. Often such reports will include statistical information. Sources can be private companies or state-owned enterprises.

FESCO transported almost 25,000 TEU with India, China in 2023

St. Petersburg, Russia (Ports Europe) January 16, 2024 – In 2023, FESCO Transport Group transported 24.,00 containers (TEU) as part of the regular sea...

Delo Group terminals in Novorossiysk set transshipment record

Novorossiysk, Russia (Ports Europe) January 16, 2024 – NUTEP container terminal and the KSK grain terminal have both set a record for transshipment...

Port of Lisbon handled over 700,000 cruise passengers in 2023

Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) January 15, 2024 – The Port of Lisbon handled 758,328 cruise passengers in 2023, up +54% in 2022. The previous record was...

València Containerised Freight Index increases in December

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) January 15, 2024 – The València Containerised Freight Index (VCFI) rose by +4.66 in December for the second time in...

PSA International sees TEU traffic up +4.3% in 2023

Singapore (Ports Europe) January 15, 2024 – PSA International (PSA) handled 94.8 million containers (TEUs) in 2023, an increase of +4.3% on the previous...

Port of Koper sees slight fall in cargo traffic in 2023

Koper, Slovenia (Ports Europe) January 12, 2024 – Luka Koper, operator of Koper port, has reported a slight fall in total cargo traffic in 2023, but...

Terminal Container Ravenna reports satisfactory 2023

Ravenna, Italy (Ports Europe) January 11, 2024 – Terminal Container Ravenna (TCR) is expected to end 2023 with container handling of over 190,000 TEU....

Port of Constanta reports 2023 cargo traffic of over 92 mln tons

ConstanÈ›a, Romania (Ports Europe) January 10, 2024 – The Port of Constanta has reported 2023 cargo traffic of over 92 million tons (mt), compared to...

Port of Antwerp-Bruges reports cargo traffic down -5.5% in 2023

Antwerp, Belgium (Ports Europe) January 10, 2024 – The Port of Antwerp-Bruges has reported total cargo traffic of 271.3 million tonnes, down -5.5% on the...

Update: Belarus exported 18 mln tonnes of cargo through Russian ports in 2023

Minsk, Belarus (Ports Europe) January 9, 2023 – About 18 million tonnes of Belarusian cargo were transported through 20 Russian seaports in 2023, the local...

CPC shipped 63.47 mln tonnes of oil via Novorossiysk in 2023

Novorossiysk, Russia (Ports Europe) January 9, 2024 – Oil shipments at the sea terminal of the Caspian Pipeline Consortium in Russia’s largest port of...

Lebanese Port of Tripoli increases cargo traffic in Jan-Sep 2023

Tripoli, Lebanon (Ports Europe) January 8, 2024 – In January-September 2023, the Lebanese port of Tripoli handled 2.73 million tons of cargo, up +4.52%...

Albanian’s port of Durres handles 154.000 TEUs in Jan-Oct’23

Durres, Albania (Ports Europe) January 6, 2024 – Albania’s Adriatic Seaport Durres (Durrës) container terminal handled 35% more boxes in the first 10...

Port of Gioia Tauro set container handling record

Gioia Tauro, Italy (Ports Europe) January 5, 2024 – The Port of Gioia Tauro handled 3.54 million containers (TEU) in 2023. This is a container handling...

China ports container volume rises 4.9% from Jan-Nov 2023

China port container volume rose 4.9% from January to November 2023, Ningbo Containerized Freight Index had a significant increase in December 2023 –...

First cruise ship of the year arrives at the Port of Piraeus

Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) January 4, 2024 – Piraeus Port Authority has welcomed the Costa Deliziosa, the first cruise ship to arrive at the port...

Port of Heraklion reports improved cruise ship business in 2023

Heraklion, Crete, Greece (Ports Europe) January 4, 2024 – In 2023, cruise traffic in the port of Heraklion increased by +50%, with a record 382,981...

Baku port handles 6 million tonnes of cargo in Jan-Nov’23

Baku, Azerbaijan (Ports Europe) January 4, 2024 – Azerbaijan’s largest Caspian Sea port of Baku handled over 6 million tonnes of cargo during the first 11...

Belarus exported 15 million tonnes of cargo through Russian ports in 2023

Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) January 3, 2023 – The total transhipment of Belarusian export cargo through Russian ports by the end of 2023 was about 15...

Port of Koper reports record for car handling

Koper, Slovenia (Ports Europe) January 2, 2024 – Luka Koper achieved an extraordinary feat just before the end of the year by breaking the vehicle...

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