Cargo
All aspects of cargo handling by ports. Includes imports, exports, storage and traffic numbers.
Durrës port cargo traffic rises 1.8 million tonnes in H1 2017
Durrës, Albania (Ports Europe) August 8, 2017 – Durrës port handled 1.8 million tonnes of cargo in the first half of 2017, or 123,000 tonnes more than...
Barcelona port eyes MoS to Tanger Med
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) August 8, 2017 – The strategy followed in recent years by Barcelona port to promote the launching of short sea shipping...
A Coruña, Ferrol, VilagarcÃa ports cargo traffic rises in H1 2017
A Coruña, Spain (Ports Europe) August 4, 2017 – In the northern Spanish region of Galicia, the ports of A Coruña, Ferrol-San Cibrao and VilagarcÃa have...
Andalusia ports cargo traffic falls 4.3% y/y in H1 2017
Algeciras, Spain (Ports Europe) August 4, 2017 – Traffic in Andalusian ports has fallen 4.3% to 73.39 million tonnes in the first half of the year. Algeciras...
Maersk keeps reducing cargo traffic at Vigo port
Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) August 7, 2017 – The president of the port of Vigo, Enrique López Veiga, attributes the negligible cargo traffic by Maersk in...
Seville port cargo traffic declines in H1 2017
Seville, Spain (Ports Europe) August 7, 2017 – Seville port cargo traffic has suffered a tremendous setback during the first half of the year. The fall...
Tarragona port breaks paper traffic records
Tarragona, Spain (Ports Europe) August 3, 2017 – Tarragona port has broken records in paper traffic. The Chinese-flagged vessel Saga Jandaia, which docked...
Kherson port cargo traffic declines 14.6% y/y in H1 2017
Kherson, Ukraine (Ports Europe) August 3, 2017 – Kherson port cargo traffic declined by 14.6% on the year to 1.502 million tonnes, data by Ukraine Sea Ports...
Chernomorsk port cargo traffic increases 4.2% y/y in H1 2017
Chernomorsk, Ukraine (Ports Europe) August 3, 2017 – Chernomorsk port cargo traffic increased by 4.2% on the year in the first half of 2017 to 8.074 million...
Genoa-based port authority delays decision on Spinelli concession request
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) August 3, 2017 – The Authority of the Western Ligurian Sea Port System (Autorità Portuale del Mar Ligure Occidentale) has...
MarÃn port cargo traffic exceeds 1 million tonnes in H1 2017
MarÃn, Spain (Ports Europe) August 2, 2017 – The provisional balance of cargo traffic in MarÃn port during the first six months of the year shows a...
Portuguese seaports hit record-high cargo traffic in H1 2017
Leixões, Portugal (Ports Europe) August 2, 2017 – Portuguese seaports moved a record-high 48.6 million tonnes of cargo in the first half of the year, an...
Madeira government to launch tender for ferry services to mainland Portugal
Funchal, Portugal (Ports Europe) August 2, 2017 – The regional government of Madeira is finalising the launch of an international tender for a weekly ferry...
A Coruña port cargo traffic rises 1.52% y/y in H1 2017
A Coruña, Spain (Ports Europe) August 1, 2017 – The port of A Coruña handled more than 6.8 million tonnes of cargo during the first half of the year, the...
Valencia port recovers work rate
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) August 1, 2017 – The activity in the Port of Valencia has normalised after the problems suffered in recent weeks. Finally,...
Santander port cargo traffic increases 8.65% y/y in H1 2017
Santander, Spain (Ports Europe) July 31, 2017 – Santander port cargo traffic increased by 8.65% in the first half of the year to 2.52 million tonnes. Of the...
Genoa-based port authority president expresses support for China’s Silk Road initiative
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) July 31, 2017 – Countries in northern Europe oppose the One Belt, One Road (OBOR) initiative of China, as they want to prevent...
Vigo port cargo traffic declines in June
Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) July 31, 2017 – The stowage strike, the transfer of Maersk’s operations to MarÃn port and the complications encountered by...
Trieste Marine Terminal reports improved traffic for H1 2017
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) July 28, 2017 –Â Data from the first half of 2017 confirm a trend of considerable growth of Trieste Marine Terminal S.p.A....
Port of Santander exceeds 2.5 million tonnes during the first half of 2017
Santander, Spain (Ports Europe) July 28, 2017 – During the first half of the year the traffic at the port of Santander reached 2,523,244 tonnes, up 8.65%...