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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.

Malaga port expects 180,000 cruise passengers during the spring season

Málaga, Spain, March 20, 2019 – The Port of Malaga is forecasting 180,000 passengers and 113 stopovers from March 20 to June 30, thus consolidating...

Cruise ships avoiding the Black Sea due to Crimea annexation

Varna, Bulgaria (Ports Europe) March 19, 2019 – Major cruise companies are avoiding Black Sea ports due to the uncertain geopolitical situation after the...

Trieste Marine Terminal reports increased TEU traffic in first two months of 2019

Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) March 19, 2019 – The first two months of 2019, Trieste Marine Terminal srl (TMT) has reported that it handled over 105,000...

COSCO’s European container terminals see higher throughput in February 2019

Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) March 17, 2019 – China’s COSCO Shipping Ports Limited has reported that in February 2019 output at its overseas...

La Spezia port handles project cargo exported to ITER project in France

La Spezia, Italy (Ports Europe) March 15, 2019 – La Spezia port has handled a project cargo weighing over 200 tonnes, shipped by Master...

Ukrainian seaports increased cargo handling by 2.5 million tons in January-February 2018

Odessa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) March 15, 2019 – In the first two months of 2019, Ukrainian ports processed more than 23 million tons of cargo, up 2.5...

Barcelona port’s Terminal Port Nou carries out project cargo operation

Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) March 14, 2019 – Barcelona port’s Terminal Port Nou carried out on March 12 the unloading of a project cargo load of 96...

Seville port’s container traffic rises backed by rail freight services

Seville, Spain (Ports Europe) March 14, 2019 – Seville port has experienced an annual container traffic increase of 23% in January and February 2019, backed...

Cartagena port to double luxury cruise calls in 2019

Cartagena, Spain (Ports Europe) March 13, 2019 – Cartagena port expects to double the number of luxury cruise ships handled in 2019, exceeding the number of...

Cagliari port’s container traffic continues to decline

Cagliari, Italy (Ports Europe) March 13, 2019 – The container terminal of the industrial port of Cagliari continues to experience a period of crisis —...

Portoferraio opens 2019 cruise season

Portoferraio, Elba, Italy (Ports Europe) March 12, 2019 – Portoferraio port has launched the cruise season with the M/N Arethusa ship that brought its 49...

Tuscany ports’ cargo traffic rises 7.3% in 2018

Livorno, Italy (Ports Europe) March 12, 2019 – Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Tirreno Settentrionale (AdSP – North Tyrrhenian Sea Port...

Romanian seaports register increased cargo traffic in 2018

Constanta, Romania (Ports Europe) March 12, 2019 – Romania’s seaports handled 49.1 million tonnes of cargo in 2018, up 6.3% on 2017. Constanta port,...

Tenerife is Spain’s only large cruise port with traffic decline in January

Tenerife, Spain (Ports Europe) March 11, 2019 – In the first month of 2019, of the seven port authorities with the highest traffic of cruise passengers, in...

Valencia to soon become Europe’s 4th largest container port

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) March 11, 2019 – For the first time in history, Valencia port surpassed that of Bremen for three months of the previous year...

Trieste port to handle largest freight ferry on March 13

Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) March 11, 2019 – The “Ephesus Seaways” vessel, delivered to the Danish DFDS shipowner on January 31, will become...

Málaga port to handle 90,000 new vehicles in 2019

Málaga, Spain (Ports Europe) March 7, 2019 – The traffic of new vehicles in the port of Málaga has set a new record with a movement of 3,737 units in just...

Marín port triples container traffic in just five years

Marín, Spain (Ports Europe) March 6, 2019 – The arrival of shipping company Maersk Line to Marín, in May 2016, has meant a turning point in the activity of...

Sagunto port is Spain’s leader in logistics services

Sagunto, Spain (Ports Europe) March 6, 2019 – Sagunto port was named the best-valued port in terms of logistics services, along with Santander and Pasaia in...

Nogar handles largest ship ever docked at Viana do Castelo port

Viana do Castelo, Portugal (Ports Europe) March 6, 2019 – Spanish company Grupo Nogar, through its subsidiary Nogarport, has reinforced its services in...

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