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Russian ports handled 448.6 mln tonnes of cargo in H1 2024

Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) July 12, 2024 – Cargo turnover of Russian seaports in the January-June period decreased by 3.1% compared to the first six...

Turkey: Monthly cargo report – June 2024

Ankara, Turkey (Ports Europe) July 11, 2024 – The Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure has published cargo statistics for June 2024. Total cargo in June...

Iran attracts maritime investment of $1.7 billion

Tehran, Iran (Ports Europe) July 11, 2024 – Iran has attracted total investment in the maritime sector of $1.7 billion, reports the IRNA, the national...

Turkey: Seaports cargo traffic – June 2024

Ankara, Turkey (Ports Europe) July 11, 2024 – The Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure has reported total seaport cargo traffic for June 2024. Below...

Turkey: Seaports TEU traffic – June 2024

Ankara, Turkey (Ports Europe) July 11, 2024 – The Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure has reported container (TEU) traffic for June 2024. Below is...

BMF Port Burgas sees 130,000 TEU, 7.2 mln cargo tonnes in 2023

Burgas, Bulgaria (Ports Europe) July 10, 2024 – Private port operator BMF Port Burgas, concessionaire of Bulgaria’s Black Sea’s Burgas East-2 and Burgas...

France: Total port cargo traffic – Q1 2024

Paris, France (Ports Europe) July 8, 2024 – The Ministry of Ecological Transition (Ministère de l’Écologie) has published cargo statistics for Q1...

French ports see static cargo traffic in Q1 2024

Paris, France (Ports Europe) July 8, 2024 – In the first quarter of 2024, cargo traffic passing through major commercial ports stood still at 71.5...

Dutch seaport traffic down -7.6% in 2023

Rotterdam, Netherlands (Ports Europe) July 5, 2024 – The total volume of goods handled by seaports in the Netherlands decreased by -7.6% to 574 million...

KSK Grain Terminal processed 9.2 mln tons of grain in 23/24

Novorossiysk, Russia (Ports Europe) July 4, 2024 – The KSK Grain Terminal processed a record 9.2 million tons of grain in the 2023/2024 season, up + 20%...

Ukraine ports handled nearly 52.7 mt of cargo in H1 2024

Kiev, Ukraine (Ports Europe) July 2, 2024 – In January-June 2024, Ukrainian ports handled nearly 52.7 million tons of cargo, compared to 31.3 million...

Chinese ports container volume rises 10 % in first five months

Chinese ports container volume rises 10 % in first five months 2024, Ningbo Containerized Freight Index increase significantly in June 2024 – July 2,...

Luka Ploče sees -17% decline in 2024 Q1 cargo traffic

Ploče, Croatia (Ports Europe) July 1, 2024 – In the first three months of 2024, Luka Ploče, operator of Ploče port, handled 973,213 tons of cargo....

Italy: Total TEU by port 2023 – ranking

Rome, Italy (Ports Europe) July 1, 2024 – Industry association Assoporti has published seaport TEU traffic figures for 2023. In 2023, the ports handled...

Italy: Total cargo by port 2023 – ranking

Rome, Italy (Ports Europe) June 30, 2024 – Industry association Assoporti has published seaport cargo figures for 2023. In 2023, the ports handled 473...

EUROKAI sees TEU handling up nearly 12% in Q1 2024

Hamburg, Germany (Ports Europe) June 30, 2024 – In the first quarter of 2024, the container terminals in the EUROKAI Group handled 2.93 million TEUs, up...

Portugal: Seaports cargo report – April 2024

Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) June 28, 2024 – Cargo handling in the mainland’s commercial port system recorded growth of +7.1% in the first four...

Spain’s Port of Marin benefits from Red Sea crisis

Marín, Spain (Ports Europe) June 27, 2024 – The Northwestern Galician Port of Marin has benefitted from the crisis in the Red Sea, reporting 1.05...

Romanian ports see cargo traffic up over +16% in Q1 2024

Constanta, Romania (Ports Europe) June 25, 2024 – In the first quarter of 2024, Romanian sea ports handled 16.23 million tons of cargo, up +16.1% on the...

Spain: Total TEU traffic by port – May 2024

Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) June 24, 2024 – Puertos del Estado has published container numbers for Spanish ports in January-May 2024. Spain’s ports of...

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