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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.

Vilagarcía port breaks cargo traffic record in 2017

Vilagarcía, Spain (PortSEurope) January 12, 2018 – At the end of November, the managers of Vilagarcía port already had more than enough reasons to be...

Gioia Tauro loses container traffic leadership amid conflict of shareholders

Gioia Tauro, Italy (PortSEurope) January 12, 2018 – Gioia Tauro port has lost its leadership on the Italian market for container traffic, as its throughput...

Luka Koper reports improved 2017 throughout and revenues

Koper, Slovenia (PortSEurope) January 11, 2018 – In 2017, total cargo handled was 23.366 million tons, up 6.16% on 2016. General cargo was 1.377 million...

Ceuta port cargo traffic declines 15% y/y in Jan-Nov 2017

Ceuta, Spain (PortSEurope) January 11, 2018 – Ceuta port handled 948,393 tonnes of cargo in the first eleven months of 2017, down 14.89% on the year,...

Santander port cargo traffic doubles in November

Santander, Spain (PortSEurope) January 11, 2018 – Santander port handled 558,638 tonnes of cargo in November, up 46.8% on the year. The liquid bulk cargo...

Salerno port container traffic rises 13% in 2017

Salerno, Italy (PortSEurope) January 11, 2018 – Salerno port’s container traffic rose by 13% in 2017 to between 420,000 and 430,000 TEUs, according to...

Cartagena port to handle 200,000 cruise passengers in 2018

Cartagena, Spain (PortSEurope) January 10, 2018 – Cartagena port is consolidating its position as a leading home port for cruise traffic in the Mediterranean...

EuroFos breaks a new traffic record with more than 770,000 containers TEUs handled in 2017

Marseille Fos, France (PortSEurope) January 9, 2018 – For the 4th year in a row, PortSynergy-EuroFos broke a new traffic record with more than 770,000...

UK ports join Ireland in efforts to gain fishing cargo market share from Spain

Vigo, Spain (PortSEurope) January 9, 2018 – The United Kingdom has joined measures taken by Ireland to lure the handling of fresh fish cargo from...

Gijón port to book record-high cargo traffic in 2017

Gijón, Spain (PortSEurope) January 9, 2018 – Gijón port closed 2017 with the highest turnover in its history and an absolute record in the movement of...

Nantes.St-Nazaire reports increased traffic in 2017

Nantes.St-Nazaire, France (PortSEurope) January 9, 2018 – In 2017, traffic at Nantes Saint-Nazaire Port amounted to 29.9 million tonnes (Mt), up 17.2%...

Reganosa receives first shipment of LNG from Yamal at Ferrol port

Ferrol, Spain (PortSEurope) January 9, 2018 – Reganosa, the Spanish energy company, has received its first shipment of liquified natural gas (LNG) from...

Las Palmas port cruise traffic rises 6.6% in Jan-Nov 2017

Las Palmas, Spain (PortSEurope) January 8, 2018 – Las Palmas port handled 985,662 cruise passengers in the eleven months through November, up 6.6% on the...

Gijón port cargo traffic rises 17.3% y/y in Jan-Nov 2017

Gijón, Spain (PortSEurope) January 8, 2018 – Gijón port handled some 20.2 million tonnes of cargo in the first eleven months of 2017, up 17.3% on the...

Freight transport by sea in Italy increases

Naples, Italy (PortSEurope) January 6, 2018 – The maritime and railway transport of goods is increasing, while the road transport is slightly down,...

In 2017 Ukrainian seaports processed almost 133 million tons of cargo

Odessa, Ukraine (PortSEurope) January 6, 2018 – From January to December 2017, Ukraine’s seaports processed 132.9 million tons of cargo,...

Santander port president expects 15% rise in cargo traffic in 2018

Santander, Spain (PortSEurope) January 5, 2018 – Santander port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Santander) president Jaime González has said he expects...

Valencia port expects 197 cruise calls in 2018

Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) January 5, 2018 – Valencia port has already scheduled 197 cruise calls for 2018, a figure that falls slightly below the 203...

Galician regional ports’ cargo traffic rises in Jan-Nov 2017

A Coruña, Spain (PortSEurope) January 5, 2018 – Galicia regional port agency Portos de Galicia, an institution in charge of the management of the 122...

Ceuta-Algeciras line handles slightly less passengers y/y in Jan-Nov 2017

Ceuta, Spain (PortSEurope) January 4, 2018 – The Gibraltar Strait maritime line established between the ports of Ceuta and Algeciras is close to reaching...

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