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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.

Port activity in the Balearic Islands increases in 2017

Palma, Mallorca, Spain (Ports Europe) August 29, 2018 – Port activity in the Balearic Islands continued, during the past year, the line of growth in...

A Coruna improves cargo traffic in June 2018

A Coruña, Spain (Ports Europe) August 29, 2018 – The port of A Coruña closed the month of June with more than 7.6 million tons of goods, an increase of...

Chornomorsk seaport sees increased in January-July 2018

Chornomorsk, Ukraine (Ports Europe) August 30, 2018 – Chornomorsk seaport in January-July 2018 increased cargo handling by 31.2%, compared to the same...

Piraeus to become Mediterranean’s largest port in one and half years

Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) August 30, 2018 – Chinese ports group COSCO Shipping Ports Limited expects Piraeus port to become the largest harbour in the...

Algeciras, Tarifa ports book record OPE figures over the weekend

Algeciras, Spain (Ports Europe) August 30, 2018 – Algeciras and Tarifa ports recorded data in the return phase of Operación Paso del Estrecho (OPE) during...

AdSP del Mar Tirreno Settentrionale (Livorno) sees improved first half figures

Livorno, Italy (Ports Europe) August 29, 2018 – Ports of Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Tirreno Settentrionale (AdSP – North Tyrrhenian...

Algeciras port to handle 105 mln tonnes of cargo in 2018

Algeciras, Spain (Ports Europe) August 29, 2018 – Algeciras port expects to close this year with total cargo traffic of about 105 million tonnes, the...

New record records passenger traffic at Tanger Med port

Tanger Med, Morocco (Ports Europe) August 29, 2018 – As of August 25, Tangier-Med Port Authority (TMPA) said that a total of 842,698 passengers have...

COSCO interim results 2018 – Piraeus, Kumport, Noatum, Vado terminals information

Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) August 28, 2018 – China’s COSCO Shipping Ports Limited has announced results for the six months ended 30 June 2018. Key...

Lebanon’s Tripoli port targets increased traffic

Tripoli, Lebanon (Ports Europe) August 28, 2018 – The Beijing Bridge container ship, operated by CMA CGM, arrived last Thursday at Tripoli port, The...

Galician ports see increased fishing traffic in first seven months of 2018

A Coruña, Spain (Ports Europe) August 28, 2018 –  Traffic of goods in Galician ports registered a year-on-year increase of 11% at the end of the first...

Koper port keeps beating all competitors

Koper, Slovenia (Ports Europe) August 28, 2018 – Slovenia’s Koper port continues to grow and beat competitors, while in Croatia the authorities are still...

Switzerland waits to see effect of Morandi bridge collapse on Genoa port trade

Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) August 27, 2018 – Genoa port is a strategic entry point for many goods transported to Switzerland and the Morandi bridge...

Morandi bridge disaster not to hamper Genoa port’s traffic 

Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) August 24, 2018 – Genoa port will see no reduction of traffic after the collapse of the Morandi bridge, which partially blocked...

Suez Canal books record daily traffic on August 25

Port Said, Egypt (Ports Europe) August 27, 2018 – Suez Canal booked a record daily traffic on August 25 with 49 ships passing by transporting 4.2 million...

Canary Islands-owned ports passenger traffic rises 5.85% in Q2 2018

Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain (Ports Europe) August 27, 2018 – Regular passenger traffic in ports owned by the government of the Canary Islands reached...

Spain’s Almería port handles 370,000 passengers under OPE

Almería, Spain (Ports Europe) August 27, 2018 – About 370,000 passengers have used the port of Almería in the first two months of Operación Paso del...

Valencia port handles 2.3% of OPE traffic in exit phase

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) August 23, 2018 – Valencia port handled 2.3% of the vehicles included in the exit phase of Operación Paso del Estrecho (OPE)...

Santander port traffic rises 14.3% y/y in H1

Santander, Spain (Ports Europe) August 22, 2018 – Santander port closed the first half of 2018 with a total traffic of 2,887,024 tonnes, up 14.3% on the...

Luxury cruise traffic increases at Málaga port

Málaga, Spain (Ports Europe) August 22, 2018 – The cruise traffic of Málaga port of has been increasing in recent years, and it is doing so...

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