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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.

Cádiz port to handle more than 300 cruise calls in 2017

Cádiz, Spain (PortSEurope) December 14, 2017 – Cádiz port could end the year, for the first time, with more than 300 cruise calls. A total of 320,000...

Barcelona port cargo traffic rises 26% y/y in Jan-Nov 2017

Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) December 13, 2017 – Barcelona port handled 56.2 million tonnes of cargo in the first eleven months of 2017, up 26% on the...

Castellón port cargo traffic rises 9.1% y/y in Jan-Nov 2017

Castellón, Spain (PortSEurope) December 13, 2017 – Castellón port has closed November as the best month in its history in total cargo traffic and has also...

Spanish government expects another record-high year at ports

Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) December 13, 2017 – The cargo traffic will once again beat its absolute record in the ports of Spain. This was confirmed by the...

Baleària cancels 12 ferry trips to Melilla 

Melilla, Spain (PortSEurope) December 13, 2017 – Spanish company Baleària Eurolínias Marítimas S.A. has suspended 12 ferry trips between the ports of...

Port of Sète receives first cargo of fruits in years

Sète, France (PortSEurope) December 13, 2017 – The Baltic Klipper freighter has docked at Sète port from Toamasina (Madagascar) to deliver 8,000...

LafargeHolcim starts cement exports from Algeria’s Arzew port

Oran, Algeria (PortSEurope) December 13, 2017 –  LafargeHolcim Algeria has completed its first cement export on Tuesday – 16600 tons of gray...

Genoa looks to take Swiss traffic from northern European ports

Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) December 12, 2017 – Whilst the Italian port of Genoa has always had a trading relationship with Switzerland, its full...

Valencia port ready to participate in China’s OBOR initiative

Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) December 12, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) president Francesc Sánchez has participated in...

Huelva port cargo traffic rises 3.6% y/y in Jan-Nov 2017

Huelva, Spain (PortSEurope) December 12, 2017 – Huelva port handled 29.3 million tonnes of cargo in the first eleven months of 2017, up 3.59% on the year,...

China, Switzerland eye investments in Italian ports on the Tyrrhenian Sea 

Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) December 12, 2017 – China has a strong interest in investing in Italian ports and especially in the Tyrrhenian Sea, the president...

Marseille Fos port attends SIFEL trade show in Agadir

Agadir, Morocco (PortSEurope) December 12, 2017 – In November 2017, representatives of the port of Marseille Fos attended the 15th edition of the...

Mallorca ports face increased concession charges

Mallorca, Spain (PortSEurope) December 12, 2017 – Ports in Spain are owned by the government and leased to companies under concession deals, but this is...

Genoa port looks to increase business as part of the new Silk Road

Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) December 12, 2017 – Following a trade mission to Hong Kong and Shenzen in November and organized by the Propeller club, the...

Valenciaport confirms its commitment to the new Silk Road in Tianjin (China)

Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) December 11, 2017 – The general director of Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia (APV – Port Authority of Valencia),...

Siemens exports first wind turbine equipment under “Made in Morocco”

Tangier, Morocco (PortSEurope) December 11, 2017 – Following the inauguration of its wind turbine blade factory in October 2017 in Tangier, Siemens...

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

Madrid, Spain (PortSEurope) December 11, 2017 – Puertos del Estado, the state-run ports system, reports October cargo traffic (tonnes) statistics by port...

Gijón port to handle 17 cruise calls next year

Gijón, Spain (PortSEurope) December 11, 2017 – Gijón port has scheduled for next year a total of 17 cruise calls for the period between April and...

Spediporto expects rise in Chinese e-commerce exports by sea

Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) December 11, 2017 – Italian shipment companies association Spediporto (Associazione Spedizionieri Corrieri E Trasportatori...

Ukraine reports improved Jan-Nov sea ports traffic

Odessa, Ukraine (PortSEurope) December 10, 2017 – Cargo turnover at the sea ports of Ukraine during the first 11 months of 2017 remains positive....

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