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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.

Marseille Fos port reports total cargo traffic in 2020 down over 12%

Marseille, France (PortSEurope) January 26, 2021 – Last year, the southern French port of Marseille Fos recorded 69 million tons of cargo, compared to 79...

Ningbo Containerized Freight Index keep rises in January

From January to December, the container throughput of Chinese ports have a marginal increase compared with the same month last year, and the Ningbo...

Vigo port sees cargo traffic up over 4% in 2020

Vigo, Spain (PortSEurope) January 25, 2021 – According to provisional data from 2020, the northwest port of Vigo reports a record year for merchandise...

Turkey’s Karasu port sees over 25% fall in cargo 2020

Istanbul, Turkey (PortSEurope) January 24, 2021 – Karasu Port, which was constructed by IC İçtaş İnşaat and opened to service in 2017, reached 80%...

Alicante port increases wood exports

Almeria, Spain (PortSEurope) January 22, 2021 – The Port of Almería moved 14,859 tons of wood last year, up 1,400% more than in 2019, a year in which...

Portuguese ports move over 75 million tons by November 2020

Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) January 21, 2021 – Between January and November 2020, ports on mainland Portugal handled a total of 75.09 million tonnes,...

Sines port sees 13% increase in containerized cargo in 2020

Sines, Portugal (PortSEurope) January 21, 2021 – The Port of Sines ended 2020 with a 13% increase in containerized cargo compared to the previous year...

Algeciras port reports reduced cargo traffic in 2020

Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) January 21, 2021 – Autoridad Portuaria de la Bahía de Algeciras (APBA – Port Authority of Algeciras) has published...

Port of Tarragona grew in December about 5% compared to same month of the previous year

Port Tarragona grew 4.9% in December 2020 compared to the same period of the previous year. The signs of recovery shown by the Port of Tarragona during the...

Port Authority of Santa Cruz de Tenerife sees 15% fall in 2020 traffic

Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain (PortSEurope) January 20, 2021 – The Port Authority of Santa Cruz de Tenerife ended the year 2020,...

Port of Cádiz leads the growth of general merchandise in the state port system in 2020

Wednesday, January 13, 2021. The Port of the Bay of Cádiz has closed 2020 with 4,445,600 tons, 0.05% more than in 2019, despite the fact that the pandemic...

Bilbao port exports wind turbine parts to Chile

Bilbao, Spain (PortSEurope) January 20, 2021 – Repsol and Grupo Ibereólica Renovables are developing a joint wind farm in Chile, planned to operate with...

Port of Zeebrugge sees 2020 increase in cargo traffic of 3%

Zeebrugge, Belgium (PortSEurope) January 19, 2021 – Last year the port of Zeebrugge handled 47.0 million tons of goods, an increase of +3.0% on 2019. The...

Taranto port sees increase in Q4 2020 cargo traffic

Taranto, Italy (PortSEurope) January 19, 2021 – In the fourth quarter of 2020, Taranto port handled 4.11 million tons of cargoes, up +5.0% on the same...

Port of Baku increases cargo traffic by 20% in 2020

Baku, Azerbaijan (PortSEurope) January 19, 2021 – Baku International Sea Trade Port (Baku Port) registered total cargo of 4.8 million tons in 2020, up...

Civitavecchia port sees container traffic down over 5% in 2020

Civitavecchia, Italy (PortSEurope) January 19, 2021 – In 2020 the port of Civitavecchia handled a container traffic equal to 106,305 TEU, down 5.3% on...

COSCO Shipping Ports Limited – Overseas terminals see quarterly increase in 2020

Hong Kong, China (PortSEurope) January 19, 2021 – COSCO Shipping Ports Limited’ overseas terminals reported a Q4 2020 increase in container...

Record container traffic for Port of Antwerp in 2020

Antwerp, Belgium (PortSEurope) January 19, 2021 – The Port of Antwerp handled 231 million metric tonnes of cargo in 2020, a fall of 3.1% compared to...

Port of Amsterdam reports 14% transshipment fall in 2020

Amsterdam, Netherlands (PortSEurope) January 19, 2021 – Port of Amsterdam has registered 2020 transshipment of 74.3 million tonnes, a 14% fall compared...

Bandırma port sees rise in cargo traffic in 2021

Bandırma, Turkey (PortSEurope) January 18, 2021 – Çelebi Bandırma Port has reported total cargo of 4.495 million tons in 2020, compared to 3.48...

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