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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.

Ukrainian ports defy war and difficulties in 2023

Odesa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) December 28, 2023 – The total cargo turnover of all Ukrainian ports in 2023 is expected to be 57 million tonnes. This is...

Cargo handling record for Santander in Jan-Nov’23

Santander, Spain (Ports Europe) December 26, 2023 – The northern Spanish port of Santander achieved its record cargo handling result in the January-November...

Trieste Marine Terminal increased TEU traffic in November 2023

Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) December 21, 2023 – In November 2023, Trieste Marine Terminal (TMT) increased traffic in containers (TEU) by 1% to 56.383...

How much cargo is handled in Makhachkala port?

Makhachkala, Russia (PortSEurope) December 20, 2023 – Different organisations and authorities in Russia report very different port cargo handling figures....

Port of Venice sees cargo traffic down -6.7% in 2023

Venice, Italy (Ports Europe) December 20, 2023 – In 2023, the Port of Venice recorded a -6.7% decrease in cargo handling which totalled 23 million...

Barcelona port traffic consolidates in November 2023

Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) December 19, 2023 – Between January and November, the Port of Barcelona had a total traffic of 59 million tonnes of cargo...

Valenciaport increased traffic by 19.31% in November 2023

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) December 19, 2023 – Valenciaport increased cargo traffic by 19.31% in November 2023 and has three months of consecutive...

Russian ports handled 811.9 mln tonnes of cargo in Jan-Nov 23

Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) December 14, 2023 – Cargo handled by Russian seaports in the January-November period increased by 5.7% compared to the first 11...

Ukraine exports more grain via inland ports in 2023

Kiev, Ukraine (Ports Europe) December 13, 2023 – Cargo turnover of Ukrainian inland ports of the Danube region in January-November 2023 was 29.4 million...

Kazakh ports’ cargo statistics for Jan-Nov don’t make sense

Aktau, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) December 13, 2023 – Cargo turnover of Kazakhstan’s Caspian Sea ports increased by 10% to 6.5 million tonnes in the...

Romanian seaports handled 49.3 mln cargo tonnes in Jan-Sept 2023

ConstanÈ›a, Romania (Ports Europe) December 12, 2023 – Romanian seaports handled 49.3 million tonnes (mt) of cargo in January-September 2023. This was up...

Kazakhstan increase oil exports via Port of Aktau

Aktau, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) December 11, 2023 – In January-November 2023, Kazakhstan exported 3.62 million tons of oil via the port of Aktau. This...

Singapore’s PSA invests €100 million in its Italian terminals

Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) December 7, 2023 – Singapore-based PSA International invested over €100 million in its Italian terminals in 2023, according...

EU ports rebounding from pandemic disruptions

News – EUROSTAT – EU ports rebounding from pandemic disruptions – December 5, 2023 In 2022, the total gross weight of seaborne freight...

PSA Genoa Pra terminal sees slight drop in container traffic in 2023

Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) December 6, 2023 – The PSA terminal in Genoa Pra’ will end 2023 with container traffic of 1.4 million TEUs, down -3%...

Port of Koper reports record car and Ro-Ro traffic

Koper, Slovenia (Ports Europe) December 6, 2023 – The Port of Koper has reported that November was a record month for the terminal which handles car and...

Chinese port cargo up +8.5% in Jan-Oct 2023

Hong Kong, China (Ports Europe) December 1, 2023 – In January to October 2023, total cargo handled by Chinese ports was 14,030.9 million tons, a...

Trieste Marine Terminal reports increased TEU handing in October

Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) November 30, 2023 – Trieste Marine Terminal handled 69,684 containers (TEU) in October 2023, compared to 59,650 TEU in the...

EU: Inland waterway transport hits a decade low in 2022

Brussels, Belgium (Ports Europe) November 29, 2023 – Between 2012 and 2022, transport on the EU’s inland waterways was erratic. Since 2017,...

Kazakhstan’s Kuryk port handled 1.8 mln tonnes of cargo in Jan-Oct’23

Kuryk, Kazakstan (Ports Europe) November 29, 2023 – Kazakhstan’s Caspian Sea port of Kuryk processed more than 1.8 million tonnes of cargo during...

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