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Goods or merchandise conveyed in a ship, railway, road, inland waterway involving a port. Includes containers, general, solid, liquid, general and project cargo. Also includes regular traffic statistics includes monthly, quarterly and annual port traffic statistics. This will include imports and exports.

Germany: Maritime transport in 2020: volume of goods loaded and unloaded down 6.4% on 2019

In 2020, the handling of goods in German seaports fell by 6.4% compared to the previous year. A total of 275.7 million tons of goods were handled. As...

AdSP del Mar Tirreno Centro-Settentrionale reports total cargo traffic down -5.2% in January

Naples, Italy (Ports Europe) March 17, 2021 – In January 2021, the ports of Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Tirreno Centro-Settentrionale (AdSP...

Port of Brindisi see positive cargo traffic trend in February

Brindisi, Italy (Ports Europe) March 16, 2021 – Commercial traffic in the port of Brindisi is growing, especially in the number of trucks and...

Porto Torres in Sardinia hit hard by Covid pandemic in 2020

Porto Torres, Sardinia, Italy (Ports Europe) March 16, 2021 – The reduction of the routes to and from Sardinia due to the Covid-19 coronavirus crisis...

Port of the Bay of Cádiz sees total traffic up over 13% in Jan-Feb 2021

Cádiz, Spain (Ports Europe) March 15, 2021 – The Port of the Bay of Cádiz has reported that freight traffic increased by 13.27% to reach 806,469 tons...

Turkey: Container handling by port – Jan-Feb 2021

Istanbul, Turkey (Ports Europe) March 15, 2021 – General Directorate of Maritime Affairs has published container handling statistics at Turkish ports...

Turkish ports handled 967,149 TEU in February 2021

Istanbul, Turkey (Ports Europe) March 15, 2021 – The local General Directorate of Maritime Affairs has reported that in February 2021 its ports handled...

Grain, fertilizers, coal/coke and Ro-Ro drive Russian seaport exports

Novorossiysk, Russia (Ports Europe) March 14, 2021 – Rosmorrechflot, the Federal Agency for Maritime and River Transport, has reported that grain,...

Global Ports’ trading statement shows business hit by pandemic

Istanbul, Turkey (Ports Europe) March 14, 2021 – Last Friday, Turkey’s Global Ports Holding Ltd (GPH) reported its trading statement for 2020 which...

DP World Limassol marks four years of successful operations

More than 250 cruise ships and 400,000 passengers served since 2017 while over 3,500 commercial vessels and three million tonnes of cargo processed by the...

Mersin Chamber of Shipping Chairman reviews port activities

Mersin, Turkey (Ports Europe) March 12, 2021 – Mersin Chamber of Shipping (MDTO) Chairman Cihat Lokmanoğlu has visited Mersin International Port and met...

Russian seaports record cargo traffic down 3.2% in Jan-Feb 2021

Cargo turnover of the seaports of Russia in January-February this year compared with the same period last year decreased by 3.2% to 128.3 million tons –...

NIBULON chairman visits Jordan

Mykolaiv, Ukraine, (Ports Europe) March 11, 2021 – Andriy Vadaturskyy, the Chairman of the Supervisory Board at NIBULON, has visited Jordan, a key market...

Port of Barcelona container traffic up 18% in Jan-Feb 2021

Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) March 11, 2021 – During the months of January and February, the Port of Barcelona saw container traffic up 18% compared...

In January-February 2021, freight traffic on the Dnieper shows significant growth

Odessa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) March 11, 2021 – According to the River Information Service of Ukraine (RIS), in the first two months of 2021 freight...

Capabilities of NIBULON’s modern fleet confirmed by new export records

Taking a course for the record 2020/21 marketing year, NIBULON continues to demonstrate new achievements in the third quarter – in February, the company...

MSC reports another successful year for its reefer cargo services

Shipping over 1.9 million refrigerated containers (also known as ‘reefer’) in 2020 alone, topping its previous record of 1.8 million in 2019, MSC continues...

Port of Ferrol-San Cibrao sees cargo traffic exceed business plan for 2020

Ferrol, Spain (Ports Europe) March 9, 2021 – The Ferrol-San Cibrao Port Authority ended 2020 with a substantially better result than expected in its...

Ports of Genoa see cargo traffic down -6.3% in January 2021

Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) March 9, 2021 – Commercial traffic in the ports of Genoa in January 2021 was 5,029,731 tonnes down -6.3% compared to the same...

Global Ports Investments announces operational results and consolidated financial statements for 2020

London, United Kingdom (Ports Europe) March 5, 2021 – Global Ports Investments PLC has reported operational and financial results for 2020. Operational...

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