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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.

Portugal’s mainland ports cargo traffic rises 2.2% in 2017

Leixões, Portugal (Ports Europe) February 13, 2018 – Portugal’s mainland ports ended last year with a record cargo traffic of 95.9 million tonnes, up...

Pasaia port cargo traffic rises in January

Pasaia, Spain (Ports Europe) February 12, 2018 – The activity of the port of Pasaia rebounded in January, a small relief after closing 2017 with a 13.9%...

Tarragona port handles 34 million tonnes in 2017

Tarragona, Spain (Ports Europe) February 12, 2018 – Tarragona port handled 34 million tonnes of goods in 2017, up 7.8% on 2016, and the highest figure...

Portuguese ports see higher traffic 2017

Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) February 11, 2018 – Mainland ports ended the year 2017 with the record of the highest volume of cargo ever, reaching...

Yilport’s Portuguese container terminals increase traffic in 2017

Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) February 11, 2018 – Yilport Iberian terminals registered a 5.8% increase in 2017, with a total of 1,176,496 TEUs handled...

MEDports: Port authorities join to enhance the international visibility of Mediterranean basin

Marseille, France (Ports Europe) February 9, 2018 – The launching ceremony of the MEDports association allowed all the representatives of the ports on...

Taganrog Sea Commercial Port sees increased cargo traffic in 2017

Taganrog, Russia (Ports Europe) February 9, 2018 – In 2017, Taganrog Sea Commercial Port (TSCP, a company of UCL Holding) handled 1.59 mln t of cargo,...

Tuapse Sea Commercial Port handled 14.2 mln t in 2017

Tuapse, Russia (Ports Europe) February 9, 2018 – In 2017, Tuapse Sea Commercial Port JSC (TSCP) handled 14.2 million t, slightly up on 14.2 mln t in...

Hamburger Hafen und Logistik sees Odessa terminal growth

Hamburg, Germany (Ports Europe) February 9, 2018 – Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG (HHLA) has reported 2017 group revenue up 6% at €1.25 billion...

Barcelona port publishes traffic statistics and economic results for 2017

Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) February 8, 2018 – The Port of Barcelona has produced its traffic statistics and economic results for the year 2017. This...

Castellón port nearly triples traffic of ceramic products in seven years

Castellón, Spain (Ports Europe) February 8, 2018 – Castellón port has multiplied by 2.4 the volume of the traffic of ceramic products since 2010, from 2.8...

Bilbao port aspires to gain leadership in Spain’s Atlantic as Pasaia struggles

Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) February 7, 2018 – Bilbao port aspires to be the most important harbour for the traffic in the Spanish Atlantic region, as...

Ukrainian ports see improved January 2017 cargo traffic

Odessa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) February 2018 – In January 2018, cargo handled in the sea ports of Ukraine was 10.8 million tonnes, up 10.9%...

Spain: Puertos del Estado – November 2017 cargo traffic by port authority

Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) February 6, 2018 – Puertos del Estado, the state-run ports system, reports November 2017 cargo traffic (tonnes) statistics by...

Bordeaux port produces a positive response to adverse conditions

Bordeaux, France (Ports Europe) February 5, 2018 – For the Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Grand Maritime Port of Bordeaux (GPMB), Pascal...

Balearic ports to break cargo traffic records in 2018

Ibiza, Spain (Ports Europe) February 5, 2018 – The harbours under the management of the Balearic Islands port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Baleares) are...

Marseille port produces improved 2017 traffic statistics

Marseille, France (Ports Europe) February 4, 2018 – Thanks to a 2017 year marked by new projects and an increase in all traffic of 8% excluding...

Marseille port plans for 1.75 million cruise passengers in 2018

Marseille, France (Ports Europe) February 3, 2018 – After a disappointing year 2017, marked by a decline of 7% in cruise trade, the President of the...

La Spezia port community, LSCT target 2 million TEUs of container traffic in 2020

La Spezia, Italy (Ports Europe) February 2, 2018 – La Spezia Port Community and La Spezia Container Terminal (LSCT), owned by Contship Italia, have joined...

Ravenna port cargo traffic edges up 0.1% in 2017

Ravenna, Italy (Ports Europe) February 2, 2018 – Ravenna port handled a total of 25.99 million tons of cargo in 2017, up 0.1%, while the traffic of cruise...

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