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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.

Thessaloniki Port Authority updates local chamber of commerce on port progress

Thessaloniki, Greece (PortSEurope) July 1, 2018 – President and Managing Director of Thessaloniki Port Authority SA (ThPA/OLTH), Sotiris Theophanis, has...

Libya’s NOC to close two more oil ports

Zueitina, Libya (PortSEurope) June 28, 2018 – Libya’s National Oil Corporation (NOC) has warned that it plans to close two more oil export ports due...

Grimaldi Group handles 157,000 passengers on Livorno-Olbia line in Jan 1-Jun 24

Livorno, Italy (PortSEurope) June 28, 2018 – Italy’s Grimaldi Group said it handled 157,000 passengers and 54,000 vehicles on the Livorno-Olbia-Livorno...

Eurogate, Trasmediterránea, Baleària and Malaga port prepared for Operation Paso del Estrecho

Málaga, Spain (PortSEurope) June 28, 2018 – The Port of Malaga has prepared new infrastructure to service Operation Paso del Estrecho, which began on...

Crimean seaports eye transhipment of coal, wheat to Syria, Iran

Sevastopol, Crimea (PortSEurope) June 28, 2018 – State-owned “Crimean Seaports” is studying the possibilities of launching coal and wheat...

Vilagarcia Port Authority approves 2017 financial accounts, €700,000 profit

Vilagarcía, Spain (PortSEurope) June 27, 2018 – The Board of Directors of Autoridad Portuaria de Vilagarcía (APV – Port Authority of...

Trieste Marine Terminal reports increased container traffic in May 2018

Trieste, Italy (PortSEurope) June 27, 2018 – In May 2018,  Trieste Marine Terminal Spa handled over 56,554 TEUs, an increase of 23.5% compared to the...

Maritime industry generates €1.5 billion for Italy’s Marches economy

Ancona, Italy (PortSEurope) June 27, 2018 – The maritime industry has an economic impact of €1.5 billion ($1.7 million) in the Italian region of the...

Cartagena port to complete Escombreras rail project by end-2018

Cartagena, Spain (PortSEurope) June 27, 2018 – Cartagena port expects to complete the €22 million ($25.6 million) project for the construction of a railway...

COSCO Shipping delegation visits Genoa port

Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) June 27, 2018 – A delegation from China’s COSCO Shipping has visited Vado in Genoa port. This is the location of the...

Cartagena port’s citrus fruits traffic intensifies

Cartagena, Spain (PortSEurope) June 26, 2018 – Traffic of citrus fruits intensifies at Cartagena port. Since the beginning of 2018, about 15,000 tonnes of...

Turkey’s General Directorate of Commerce reports cruise passenger numbers for Jan-May 2018

Istanbul, Turkey (PortSEurope) June 25, 2018 – According to the General Directorate of Commerce data, in January-May 2018 Turkey’s seven harbours...

Italian government to encourage more cargo traffic between its ports and North Africa

Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) June 25, 2018 – Italy’s deputy minister of transport, Edoardo Rixi, has said that the increase of the cargo traffic with...

Berdyansk port sees reduced cargo turnover by 7.1% in Jan May 2018

Berdyansk, Ukraine (PortSEurope) June 25, 2018 – Berdyansk Sea Port in January-May 2018 reduced cargo turnover in comparison with the same period of...

Sagunto port looks to improve automotive handling and attract further business

Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) June 24, 2018 – A working group in Sagunto port is looking into the necessary steps to increase the port’s handling...

Venice port sees rail traffic up 14.5% in Jan-May 2018

Venice, Italy (PortSEurope) June 24, 2018 – Rail wagons moved at the port during the first five months of 2018 were 43,896, up 14.5% compared to the...

Huelva port looks to increase agrifood exports

Huelva, Spain (PortSEurope) June 22, 2018 – The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Rural Development (Consejería de Agricultura, Pesca y Desarrollo...

Austria shows dependence on Koper port for trade

Koper, Slovenia (PortSEurope) June 21, 2018 – The Austrian magazine Verkehr has reported that the Austrian economy relied predominantly on Port of Koper...

Transfesa holds market share of up to 30% in Spain

Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) June 20, 2018 – With a total of 1.13 million tonnes of cargo handled in 2017, Spanish logistics operator Transfesa (Transportes...

Marín port sees increased traffic in January-April 2018

Marín, Spain (PortSEurope) June 19, 2018 – In the first four months of 2018, Marín port handled 804,726 tons of cargo in the first four months, an...

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