Cargo
All aspects of cargo handling by ports. Includes imports, exports, storage and traffic numbers.
Portos de Galicia’s investments boost cargo traffic in regional ports
Vigo, Spain (PortSEurope) June 22, 2017 – The cargo traffic of Galician regional ports, i.e. the harbours that are not controlled by the Spanish state, but...
Bari, Durrës ports sign cooperation deal for cargo, passenger traffic
Bari, Italy (PortSEurope) June 21, 2017 – Bari and Durrës ports agreed to set up a cooperation project to facilitate the flow of cargo and passengers...
Steel traffic compensates natural gas decline at Sagunto port in Jan-May 2017
Sagunto, Spain (PortSEurope) June 21, 2017 – The strategy of diversification of traffic at the port of Sagunto, undertaken years ago by Valencia port...
A Coruña port approves liquid bulk cargo terminal construction application
A Coruña, Spain (PortSEurope) June 20, 2017 – A Coruña port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de A Coruña) has approved an application by Deep Water Oil...
Algeciras port books record-high cargo traffic in May
Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) June 20, 2017 – Algeciras port closed May with record-high traffic figures of 9 million tonnes, up 2.3% on the year. However,...
Trieste Marine Terminal sees increased May traffic
Trieste, Italy (PortSEurope) June 19, 2017 – In May 2017, the total volumes handled at Trieste Marine Terminal S.p.A. (TMT) increased by 25.7% compared...
Spanish ports face diversion of 34 ships during dock workers strike
Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) June 16, 2017 – The strike of 48 consecutive hours called by dock workers ended on June 16 with a significant economic and...
Russia’s NCSP cargo volumes rise in Jan-May 2017
Novorossiysk, Russia (PortSEurope) June 16, 2017 – NCSP (Novorossiysk Commercial Sea Port) group has reported that its consolidated cargo turnover for...
Durrës port see increased Kosovo goods transit
Durrës, Albania (PortSEurope) June 18, 2017 – Durrës Port Authority has said that in the first five months of 2017, 10% of goods were transitory from...
Boluda Lines sets up shipping agency based in Lisbon port
Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) June 13, 2017 – Boluda Lines, a leading Spanish shipowner and global marine services company, will bet on Lisbon port through...
Millionth Renault vehicle transported via Tanger Med Port
Tanger Med, Morocco (PortSEurope) June 11, 2017 – Renault Maroc, part of the French Renault automotive group, and Tanger Med Port celebrated on June 6 the...
Spain: Puertos del Estado – April 2017 cargo traffic by port authority
Madrid, Spain (PortSEurope) June 8, 2017 – Puertos del Estado, the state-run ports system, reports April 2017 cargo traffic (tonnes) statistics by port...
MacAndrews considers regular service connecting Ferrol port to northern Europe
Ferrol, Spain (PortSEurope) June 8, 2017 – MacAndrews & Company Limited is considering launching a regular service that connects Spain’s Ferrol...
Qatar crisis to cause problems in international shipping – Spediporto
Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) June 8, 2017 – The breakup of diplomatic relations with Qatar, accused by the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and...
Harbour strikes affect Canary Islands ports
Tenerife, Spain (PortSEurope) June 9, 2017 – Ports in the Canary Islands (Islas Canarias) have been affected by the strikes by stevedores, who are...
Gandia port cargo traffic declines 7.13% y/y in Jan-Apr 2017
Gandia, Spain (PortSEurope) June 7, 2017 – Gandia port, managed by Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia), handled a total of 124,882...
Durrës port reports 7% increase in ferry passengers and vehicle traffic
Durrës, Albania (PortSEurope) June 8, 2017 – In May 2017, the volume of trade by ferry increased by 6-18% compared to the same period of 2016....
Ukraine reports cargo handling statistics for January-May 2017
Odessa, Ukraine (PortSEurope) June 8, 2017 – In January-May 2017 cargo handling volumes in Ukrainian seaports were 55.609 million tons, up 4.5% on the...
Spanish ports total cargo traffic rises 2.6% y/y in Jan-Apr 2017
Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) June 6, 2017 – The total cargo traffic at Spanish ports rose by 2.61% on the year in the first four months of 2017 to 171.3...
Sagunto port cargo traffic rises 1.63% y/y in Jan-Apr 2017
Sagunto, Spain (PortSEurope) June 6, 2017 – Sagunto port closed the first four months of the year with a total traffic of 2.130 million tonnes, a figure that...