Cargo
All aspects of cargo handling by ports. Includes imports, exports, storage and traffic numbers.
EU, U.S., Australia and Japan no longer top importers from Russia
Moscow, Russia (PortSEurope) June 12, 2023 – All European countries, the United States, Australia and Japan dropped out of the top 10 cargo importers via...
Russian seaports handled 379 million tonnes of cargo in Jan-May’23
Moscow, Russia (PortSEurope) June 12, 2023 – Cargo turnover of Russian seaports in the January-May 2023 period increased by 11.2% compared to the first five...
41% growth in Russia-China trade turnover in Jan-May’23
Beijing, China (PortSEurope) June 8, 2023 – Trade turnover between Russia and China in the first five months of 2023 increased in dollar terms by 40.7%...
Russian port capacity reached 1.3 billion tonnes
Moscow, Russia (PortSEurope) June 8, 2023 – The total capacity of the Russian sea ports is 1.3 billion tonnes per year, according to Ruslan Mukhametov,...
Port of Beirut reports slight rise in February TEU traffic
Beirut, Lebanon (PortSEurope) June 5, 2023 – The port of Beirut has reported a slight rise in total container (TEU) handling of 58,537 TEU in February...
Belarus dodging sanctions via ports of sanctioned Russia
Minsk, Belarus (Ports Europe) May 31, 2023 – International sanction-hit Belarus has managed to establish transport and logistics schemes for the delivery of...
Surprising decline in Georgia’s port cargo handling
Poti, Georgia (Ports Europe) May 31, 2023 – Georgian ports handled 3.5 million tonnes of cargo in the first quarter of 2023, which is -17.8% less than in...
Sanctions force Russia to invest 1.1 billion euro in border checkpoints modernisation
Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) May 31, 2023 – Some 95 billion rubles (1.1 billion euro) will be invested in the modernisation of Russian border checkpoints by...
EUROGATE Tanger reports TEU traffic down in Q1 2023
Tanger Med, Morocco (Ports Europe) May 30, 2023 – EUROGATE Tanger has reported TEU traffic of 583,262 TEU in the first quarter of 2023, down -3.6% on the...
Contship Italia sees TEU traffic down over -16% in Q1 2023
Milan, Italy (Ports Europe) May 29, 2023 – In the first three months of 2023, Contship Italia’s terminals handled 358,402 containers (TEU), down...
QTerminals Antalya handles cargo of 350,000 tonnes in March
Antalya, Turkey (Ports Europe) May 26, 2023 – QTerminals Antalya, which has an annual capacity of 4 million tons of general and bulk cargo, broke the...
Port of Barcelona sees Jan-Apr cargo traffic down -11.4%
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) May 24, 2023 – In January-April 2023, the Port of Barcelona has reported total cargo of 20.65 million tons, down -11.4%...
Spanish port traffic exceeds 181 mln tons in the first four months
Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) May 23, 2023 – Cargo traffic at Spanish state ports was 181.51 million tons in the first four months of 2023, a decrease of...
Ports of Civitavecchia and Lazio see cargo up +3.2% in Q1 2023
Civitavecchia, Italy (Ports Europe) May 19, 2023 – In the first quarter of 2023, the Ports of Civitavecchia and Lazio handled a total of 3.42 million...
Port of Venice cargo down -3.6% on annual basis
Venice, Italy (Ports Europe) May 18, 2023 – Between April 2022 and March 2023, the Port of Venice handled 24,220,555 tons of cargo, down -3.6%...
HHLA sees container traffic down over 18% in Q1 2023
Hamburg, Germany (Ports Europe) May 15, 2023 – In the first quarter of 2023, container throughput at HHLA’s container terminals decreased overall by...
Montenegro seaport trade down over 15% in Q1, 2023
Bar, Montenegro (Ports Europe) May 15, 2023 – In the first three months of 2023, the seaports of Montenegro handled 544,591 tonnes of cargo, compared to...
Sanctions: Turkish imports from Russia via its seaports up +75% in Jan-Apr 23
Ankara, Turkey (Ports Europe) May 15, 2023 – Imports from Russia, which is under Western sanctions, via Turkish ports skyrocketed to over 29 million...
Russian seaports handled 300.5 million tonnes of cargo Jan-Apr’23
Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) May 14, 2023 – Cargo turnover of Russian seaports in the January-April 2023 period increased by 11.6% compared to the same...
Turkey: Seaport cargo report for April 2023
Ankara, Turkey (Ports Europe) May 12, 2023 – The Turkish authorities have published total cargo handling figures for its seaports in January-April 2023....