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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.

Bilbao port can increase container traffic by 40% in ten years

Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) January 24, 2018 – Bilbao port recorded 7% growth in cargo traffic last year, which is a sign of its strength and stability,...

Algeciras port expects 5 million TEUs of container traffic in 2018

Algeciras, Spain (Ports Europe) January 24, 2018 – Algeciras port closed 2017 with a cargo traffic of 101.4 million tonnes and 4.4 million TEUs in the...

Malta: Cruise traffic increases in Oct-Dec 2017

Valletta, Malta (Ports Europe) January 24, 2018 Total cruise passenger traffic during the fourth quarter of 2017 amounted to 187,280, an increase of 5.5% over...

Avilés port cargo traffic declines in 2017

Avilés, Spain (Ports Europe) January 23, 2018 – Avilés port cargo traffic declined by 3.29% in 2017 to 4.971 million tonnes, despite the higher amount of...

Spain handles 9 million cruise passengers in 2017

Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) January 23, 2018 – Spanish national ports agency Puertos del Estado, emphasized with its presence in the Fitur fair in Madrid...

Huelva port books record-high cargo traffic in 2017

Huelva, Spain (Ports Europe) January 23, 2018 – Huelva port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Huelva) president, José Luis Ramos, has showed his...

Valencia port handles largest container ship ever

Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) January 23, 2018 – Valencia port handled last weekend a call of the “MSC Eloane” vessel, the ship with the largest...

Italy’s Contship executes series of phase-in, phase-out operations at Cagliari port

Cagliari, Italy (Ports Europe) January 23, 2018 – Contship Italia Group has completed a series of phase-in and phase-out operations at Cagliari port of...

Tarragona port receives recognition from Costa Cruises

Tarragona, Spain (PortSEurope) January 22, 2018 – Tarragona port and the members of Tarragona Cruise Port Costa Daurada last week received special...

Barcelona Port welcomed more than 2.7m cruise passengers in 2017

Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) January 22, 2018 – Barcelona port welcomed 2.7 million passengers from cruise ships in 2017, slightly higher than the 2.68...

Fratelli Cosulich increases bunker volume in 2017

Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) January 19, 2018 – The Genoese group Fratelli Cosulich has closed 2017 recording a significant increase in the volume of...

Ukrainian ports of the Danube region are driving the dynamics of cargo turnover

Odessa, Ukraine (PortSEurope) January 19, 2018 Since the beginning of 2018, the ports of the Danube Region have significantly increased the volume of...

A Coruña reports second highest fresh fish traffic since 2000

A Coruña, Spain (PortSEurope) January 19, 2018 – Fresh fish traffic in the port of A Coruña has reached the second highest figure of the century in 2017...

Valencia port to handle 197 cruise calls in 2018

Valencia (Spain) January 18, 2018 – Valencia port will handle 197 cruise calls this year and expects the number of cruise passengers to increase by 3%....

Castellón port books record-high cargo traffic in 2017

Castellón (Spain) January 18, 2018 – Castellón port closed 2017 with a record-high traffic of 17.9 million tonnes, up 4.9%, or 833,951 tonnes more than in...

Motril port officially opens passenger terminal

Motril (Spain) January 18, 2018 – Motril port has taken advantage of the launch of Fitur fair in Madrid on January 17 to deliver symbolically to the...

Cruise business could be key to Marina di Carrara

La Spezia, Italy (PortSEurope) January 18, 2018 – At a recent Porto Lab event in Carrara, the possible role of the cruise industry in the future of...

Andalusian ports boost fresh fish cargo traffic in Jan-Nov 2017

Seville, Spain (PortSEurope) January 17, 2018 – The Andalusian ports owned by the central Spanish government handled 23,539 tonnes of fresh fish in the first...

Cruise industry generates €15 million income in A Coruña

A Coruña, Spain (PortSEurope) January 17, 2018 – Cruise tourism in A Coruña experienced in 2017 a historic year that brought 250,000 people to the city,...

Cádiz port cargo traffic rises in 2017

Cádiz, Spain (PortSEurope) January 17, 2018 – Cádiz port handled 4.1 million tonnes of cargo in 2017, up 12.25%. The largest growth was in the movement...

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