Cargo
All aspects of cargo handling by ports. Includes imports, exports, storage and traffic numbers.
Bordeaux increases contact with China in 2017
Bordeaux, France (PortSEurope) December 16, 2017 – Firstly, in Canton (port twinned with Bordeaux Port Atlantique), the ports of Bordeaux and Nantes...
Gijón port cargo traffic rises 17% y/y in Jan-Nov 2017
Gijón, Spain (PortSEurope) December 14, 2017 – Gijón port handled 20.2 million tonnes of cargo in the first eleven months of 2017, up 17% on the year. The...
Barcelona port cargo traffic rises 26% y/y in Jan-Nov 2017
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) December 13, 2017 – Barcelona port handled 56.2 million tonnes of cargo in the first eleven months of 2017, up 26% on the...
Castellón port cargo traffic rises 9.1% y/y in Jan-Nov 2017
Castellón, Spain (PortSEurope) December 13, 2017 – Castellón port has closed November as the best month in its history in total cargo traffic and has also...
Port of Sète receives first cargo of fruits in years
Sète, France (PortSEurope) December 13, 2017 – The Baltic Klipper freighter has docked at Sète port from Toamasina (Madagascar) to deliver 8,000...
Genoa looks to take Swiss traffic from northern European ports
Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) December 12, 2017 – Whilst the Italian port of Genoa has always had a trading relationship with Switzerland, its full...
Valencia port ready to participate in China’s OBOR initiative
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) December 12, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) president Francesc Sánchez has participated in...
Huelva port cargo traffic rises 3.6% y/y in Jan-Nov 2017
Huelva, Spain (PortSEurope) December 12, 2017 – Huelva port handled 29.3 million tonnes of cargo in the first eleven months of 2017, up 3.59% on the year,...
Valenciaport confirms its commitment to the new Silk Road in Tianjin (China)
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) December 11, 2017 – The general director of Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia (APV – Port Authority of Valencia),...
Ukraine reports improved Jan-Nov sea ports traffic
Odessa, Ukraine (PortSEurope) December 10, 2017 – Cargo turnover at the sea ports of Ukraine during the first 11 months of 2017 remains positive....
Metinvest and Fratelli Cosulich work to improve Porto Nagaro
Trieste, Italy (PortSEurope) December 6, 2017 -Russia’s Metinvest Group and Italian partner Fratelli Cosulich S.p.A. have developed a project to increase...
Ferrol port cargo traffic rises in Jan-Nov 2017
Ferrol, Spain (PortSEurope) December 6, 2017 – Ferrol port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Ferrol-San Cibrao) handled 12.2 million tonnes of cargo in the...
Vilagarcía port handles cargo worth €956 million in 2016
Vilagarcía, Spain (PortSEurope) December 5, 2017 – Vilagarcía port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Vilagarcía) handled cargo with a record-high total...
Marín port cargo traffic rises 11% y/y in Jan-Oct 2017
Marín, Spain (PortSEurope) December 5, 2017 – Marín port’s cargo traffic rose by 11% on the year in the first ten months of 2017 to 2.1 million...
Tarragona port cargo traffic rises 10% y/y in Jan-Oct 2017
Tarragona, Spain (PortSEurope) December 5, 2017 – Tarragona port handled 28.3 million tonnes of cargo in the first ten months of 2017, up 10% on the year....
A Coruña port keeps positive cargo traffic trend in Jan-Oct 2017
A Coruña, Spain (PortSEurope) December 4, 2017 – A Coruña port closed the month of October with an increase in traffic, allowing the harbour...
Trieste Marine Terminal reports improved Jan-Oct 2017 traffic numbers
Trieste, Italy (PortSEurope) December 4, 2017 – Total cargo volumes handled at Trieste Marine Terminal (TMT) S.p.A. in October 2017 were up 25%...
Ukrainian prime minister attends Tbilisi Belt & Road Forum
Tbilisi, Georgia (PortSEurope) December 4, 2017 – Prime Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Groysman has attended the Tbilisi Belt & Road Forum and...
Transglory launches Tunisia-China maritime trade service
Rades, Tunisia (PortSEurope) December 3, 2017 – Spanish company Transglory has started a new maritime trade line between Rades port in Tunisia and...
Port helps boost Genoa economy in first half of 2017
Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) December 2, 2017 – In the first half of this year the Genoese economy posted positive signs helped by the more favorable...