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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.

Castellón port moves 20 million tonnes of cargo year-to-date

Castellón, Spain (PortSEurope) December 18, 2018 – Castellón port exceeded in December the barrier of 20 million tonnes of cargo moved in a year, which is...

Labour conflict causes decline in container traffic at Setúbal port

Setúbal, Portugal (PortSEurope) December 18, 2018 – Labour instability has resulted in heavy losses in container handling in October in the ports of Lisbon,...

Port of Barcelona reports over 3 million Containers (+15%) Jan-Nov 2018

Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) December 17, 2018 – In January-November 2018, Barcelona port handled total traffic of more than 62.1 million tonnes, an...

Trieste traffic sees 10-month increase of over 3%

Trieste, Italy (PortSEurope) December 14, 2018 – With 52.9 million tons of goods handled, the total traffic volume in the port of Trieste grew by 3.48%...

PSA Container Terminal of Sines surpasses TEU record of 2017

Sines, Portugal  (PortSEurope) December 14, 2018 – Until December 12, Terminal XXI (Sines container terminal) handled 1,669,295 TEU, up 5% on the same...

Rete Ferroviaria Italiana and Venice port authority sign railway upgrade agreement

Venice, Italy (PortSEurope) December 14, 2018 – Maurizio Gentile, Managing Director and General Manager of Rete Ferroviaria Italiana (FS Group), the...

Castellón port ends November with a growth of 21.3% in goods traffic

Castellón, Spain (PortSEurope) December 13, 2018 – The port of Castellón closed the month of November with a 21.3% growth in goods traffic,...

Ancona port reports improved cruise traffic in 2018

Ancona, Italy (PortSEurope) December 12, 2018 – Ancona port has closed the cruise season of 2018 with a total of 67,000 passengers handled. The port closed a...

Setúbal port strike delays pig exports to China

Setúbal, Portugal (PortSEurope) December 13, 2018 – An export of pigs from Portugal to China will be delayed to January from December, due to the strike of...

After Morando bridge collapse, Genoa port traffic down 9%, Savona stable

Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) December 12, 2018 – Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Ligure Occidentale (AdSP – Western Ligurian Sea Port...

Spain: Puertos del Estado – October 2018 fish landed by port authority

Madrid, Spain (PortSEurope) December 11, 2018 – Puertos del Estado, the state-run ports system, reports October 2018 fish landed (tonnes) statistics by...

Spain: Puertos del Estado – October 2018 cargo traffic by port authority

Madrid, Spain (PortSEurope) December 11, 2018 – Puertos del Estado, the state-run ports system, reports October 2018 cargo traffic (tonnes) statistics...

Georgian ports see reduced cargo traffic inJan-Sep 2018

December 10, 2018 Georgia’s major Black Sea ports have seen a serious downturn in volume in the first three quarters of 2018, compared to 2017. The 1.1....

Port Authority of Almería see increased traffic in Jan-Oct 2018

Almería, Spain (PortSEurope) December 9, 2018 – Autoridad Portuaria de Almería (APA – Port Authority of Almería), which manages the ports of...

AdSP Civitavecchia reports improved Jan-Sep 2018 traffic numbers

Civitavecchia, Italy (PortSEurope) December 8, 2018 – Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Tirreno Centro-Settentrionale (AdSP – Centre-North...

Melilla port, a victim of Spain-Morocco’s trade blockade

Melilla, Spain (PortSEurope) December 7, 2018 – The hardening of the commercial rows between Morocco and Spain has sunk the activity of the port of Melilla....

Genoa port loses 9% of traffic after Morandi bridge disaster

Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) December 7, 2018 – Genoa port has lost approximately 9% of its cargo traffic since the collapse of the Morandi bridge in August,...

Croatia working to attract Chinese cargo traffic to Rijeka port

Rijeka, Croatia (PortSEurope) December 5, 2018 – Croatia’s government is working on attracting Chinese cargo traffic to Rijeka port,...

Trieste port may become gateway for Europe’s banana imports from India

Trieste, Italy (PortSEurope) December 5, 2018 – A shipment of 22 tonnes of bananas from India has been handled at Trieste port, which will be donated to...

Suez Canal revenues rise 6.8% year-on-year in October

Suez, Egypt (PortSEurope) December 3, 2018 – Suez Canal revenues rose to $506.1 million (€445.9 million) in October from $473.9 million (€417.5...

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