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Traffic

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.

Italy’s cruise traffic to rise 7.13% in 2019

Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) April 9, 2019 – Italy’s cruise traffic is expected to rise 7.13% to 11.9 million passengers in 2019, the president of Cemar...

Huelva port’s cargo traffic rises 14% y/y in Q1

Huelva, Spain (Ports Europe) April 9, 2019 – Huelva port closed the first quarter of 2019 with a total traffic of 8.9 million tonnes, up 14% on the...

Motril port to handle 43,000 tonnes of celestine mineral export this week

Motril, Spain (Ports Europe) April 9, 2019 – Motril port is surpassing this week a record in its statistics of cargo with the load of 43,000 tonnes of the...

Cartagena port to handle 16,000 cruise passengers in April

Cartagena, Spain (Ports Europe) April 8, 2019 – Cartagena port expects the arrival of 16,000 cruise passengers in April, Autoridad Portuaria de Cartagena...

Chernomorsk port receives vehicles from Alexandria

Odessa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) April 7, 2019 – The multimodal terminal at Chernomorsk port has received the Suzuka Express ship, travelling from...

Eurogate announces 2018 results; Mediterranean terminal performance

Bremen, Germany (Ports Europe) April 5, 2019 – The EUROGATE Group has announced results for the financial year 2018. The group generated a net...

Naples, Salerno ports container traffic rises 8.4% in Jan-Feb 2019

Naples, Italy (Ports Europe) April 3, 2019 – Naples and Salerno ports handled a total of 164,000 TEUs of container traffic in the first two months of 2019,...

Vigo port to record high cruise traffic in April

Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) April 3, 2019 – April starts strongly in terms of cruise traffic in the port of Vigo, with ten already confirmed calls that make...

Piombino port’s cruise season to start on June 12

Piombino, Italy (Ports Europe) April 2, 2019 – Piombino port’s cruise season will open on June 12, with a busy schedule of 15 ship arrivals until...

Vigo port’s traffic rises 4.8% in February

Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) March 29, 2019 – Autoridad Portuaria de Vigo (APV – Port Authority of Vigo) president Enrique López Veiga has said that...

COSCO Shipping Ports announces FY2018 financial results

Hong Kong, China (Ports Europe) March 28, 2019 – COSCO Shipping Ports Limited, a leading global leading ports operator, has announced full year results...

Bilbao port reaches 2020 traffic target ahead of schedule

Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) March 26, 2019 – Bilbao port has already reached the traffic forecast for 2020, after closing 2018 with 35.6 million tonnes, but...

Livorno port’s rail freight traffic rises 14% in 2018

Livorno, Italy (Ports Europe) March 26, 2019 – Livorno port handled 35,670 carriages and 1,963 trains in 2018, representing a 14% increase in...

Marsa Maroc breaks container traffic record in 2018

Tangier, Morocco (Ports Europe) March 26, 2019 – Marsa Maroc has broken its container traffic record last year, closing 2018 with a turnover up MAD 2.7...

Costa Cruises to relaunch regular calls at Genoa port

Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) March 26, 2019 – Costa Cruises plans to relaunch the regular calls of its ships in the port of Genoa.  Andrea Doria...

APM Terminals Algeciras breaks container ship handling speed record

Algeciras, Spain (Ports Europe) March 26, 2019 – APM Terminals in the port of Algeciras has broken the cargo handling speed record on a container vessel, by...

Cartagena port strengthens links with Brazil

Cartagena, Spain (Ports Europe) March 25, 2019 – Cartagena port handled 15% of Spain’s bilateral trade with Brazil in 2018. Therefore, last...

Gijón port ranks second in Spain for cargo traffic with South America

Gijón, Spain (Ports Europe) March 25, 2019 – Gijón port is ranked second among Spanish harbours for cargo traffic with South America, a situation based...

Montenegrin ports cruise traffic declines 6.3% in 2018

Bar, Montenegro (Ports Europe) March 21, 2019 – Montenegrin ports handled 506,198 cruise passengers in 2018, down 6.3%. The number of cruise ship...

Las Palmas port expects arrival of four platforms, drillers this week

Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain (Ports Europe) March 21, 2019 – Las Palmas port expects the arrival of four platforms and drilling vessels dedicated to...

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