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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.

Russia predicts high cargo volumes for Northern Sea Route

The transformation of the Northern Sea Route (NSR) into a year-round route will increase the volume of cargo transportation to 700 million tons per...

Capacity of Russian seaports set to increase by 50 million tons in 2021

The production capacity of Russian seaports in 2021 is planned to be increased by 50 million tons due to the commissioning of facilities under construction and...

COSCO Shipping Ports Limited reports container traffic slightly down in 2020

Hong Kong, China (PortSEurope) January 18, 2021 – China’s COSCO Shipping Ports Limited has reported global container traffic of 101.8 million...

Odessa port increases traffic in metals

Odessa, Ukraine (PortSEurope) January 15, 2021 – Last year, Odessa port transshipped 5.934 million tons of metal products, up 1.32 million tons (28.7%)...

DeloPorts reports increases container traffic by 30% in 2020

The turnover of DeloPorts terminals, the stevedore asset of the largest Russian transport and logistics holding Delo Group, grew by 36% in 2020 compared to the...

Cargo turnover of Russian seaports ended 2020 down by 2.3%

By the end of 2020, the cargo turnover of Russian seaports decreased by 2.3% compared to the same period in 2019 and amounted to 820.77 million tons –...

Results of transportation across the Dnieper in 2020

Despite the spring quarantine measures and restrictions related to COVID-19, the inland waterway transport market was quite positive – January 12, 2021...

PSA container throughput performance for 2020

PSA International Pte Ltd (PSA) handled 86.6 million Twenty-foot Equivalent Units (TEUs) of containers at its port projects around the world for the year...

Port of the Bay of Cádiz sees slight cargo increase in 2020

Cádiz, Spain (PortSEurope) January 14, 2021 – The Port of the Bay of Cádiz ended 2020 with 4.44 million tons of cargo, 0.05% more than in 2019. In the...

Singapore’s 2020 maritime performance resilient despite COVID-19 pandemic

13 January 2021 – Singapore remains the world’s top bunkering port The Port of Singapore stood resilient in 2020 despite the COVID-19 pandemic....

Koper port: Despite pandemic, container segment remained stable in 2020

The pandemic of the coronavirus had a substantial impact on global cargo flows and affected also the performance of Luka Koper. Despite this, the strategic...

Port of Tarragona moves more than 800,000 tons of agri-food products in the first three months of SEA system

The system has been robust and efficient during the first months of operation – January 13, 2021 Nearly 13,000 orders have been placed which have...

Main EU ports see cargo traffic down 27% in Q2 2020

At 755 million tonnes, the gross weight of goods handled in the main EU ports decreased by 17.0% in the 2nd quarter of 2020 compared to the same quarter of...

Koper port publishes cargo traffic and revenues for 2020

Koper, Slovenia (PortSEurope) January 12, 2021 – Luka Koper, d.d., operator of Koper port, has published revenue details and cargo transhipment for the...

Cartagena port increases glycerin exports

Cartagena, Spain (PortSEurope) January 11, 2021 – The Port of Cartagena has reported a 150% increase in the export of glycerin in 2020, a by-product of...

Port of Almería sees heavily reduced passenger traffic

Almeria, Spain (PortSEurope) January 11, 2021 – The Port of Almería has reported that it closed 2020 with 126,788 passengers, a decrease of 86.4%,...

Mariupol port is the second largest ferrous metal transshipment among Ukrainian ports

Mariupol, Ukraine (PortSEurope) January 11, 2021 – In the year 2020, Mariupol seaport handled to 7.25 million tons of cargo, an increase of 8.4% on...

Iran’s Astara terminal sees increased cargo handling

Astara, Iran (PortSEurope) January 8, 2021 – ADY Express LLC, operator of the Astara cargo terminal in Iran, has reported increased cargo handling by the...

Mersin International Port sets 2 million TEU record

Mersin, 7 January 2021 – Mersin International Port (MIP), Turkey’s largest container port, has become the first port in the country to exceed the 2...

Ukraine’s Olbia port reports increased cargo traffic in 2020

Odessa, Ukraine (PortSEurope) January 7, 2021 – In 2020, the seaport of Olbia handled record transshipment cargo traffic reaching 3.91 million tons, up...

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