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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.

Huelva-Zafira rail line’s traffic exceeds expectations

Huelva, Spain (Ports Europe) October 5, 2017 – Huelva port promotion association HuelvaPort has said the cargo traffic of the railway line connecting the...

Mayor of Dubrovnik meets cruise industry representatives

Dubrovnik, Croatia (Ports Europe) October 5, 2017 – The Mayor of the City of Dubrovnik, Mato Franković, has met with Cruise Lines International...

Trieste port increases intermodal traffic to Budapest

Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) October 5, 2017 – “Hungary is becoming Trieste’s first reference market, as for port railway container traffic”,...

Grandi Navi Veloci increases passenger traffic in Q3 2017

Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) October 5, 2017 – Grandi Navi Veloci (GNV) is performing better than expected and saw the number of passengers increase by...

Genoa’s PSA Voltri-Pra achieves 1 million TEUs in 2017

Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) October 4, 2017 – On September 5, the PSA Voltri-Pra Terminal reached a goal of handling 1 million TEUs since the start of...

Vigo port traffic rises in August

Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) October 3, 2017 – Vigo port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Vigo) is moderately optimistic about the growth of port traffic,...

Málaga port forecasts 12.5% rise in cruise traffic this year

Málaga, Spain (Ports Europe) October 2, 2017 – Málaga port estimates to close 2017 with a 12.5% increase in the number of cruise passengers, which would...

Event: The Silk Road Summit – Constanta port, October 4-6, 2017.

Constanta, Romania (Ports Europe) September 29, 2017 – The Silk Road Summit is an event organized by the National Company of Maritime Ports...

Ashdod port reviews year’s activities

Ashdod, Israel (Ports Europe) September 2017 – In January-August 2017, 1,040,000 TEUs were handled by the port, an increase of 4% compared to the same...

Venezia Terminal Passeggeri financial statements approved by shareholders

Venice, Italy (Ports Europe) September 28, 2017 – At the end of August 2017, a shareholders’ meeting of Venezia Terminal Passeggeri S.p.A. approved the...

Eurogate targets Limassol transit traffic

Limassol, Cyprus (Ports Europe) September 28, 2017 – Since taking over the management of the Limassol container port in January 2017, Eurogate (parent...

Tenerife port loses 2.76% of total port traffic in the first eight months of 2017

Tenerife, Spain (Ports Europe) September 28, 2017 – The Port of Santa Cruz de Tenerife has reported a drop in its total traffic of -2.76% in the first...

Damietta port reports improved August figures

Damietta, Egypt (Ports Europe) September 27, 2017 – Damietta Port hit a new record last August where cargo handling volume  increased by 40%  from 2.5...

Slovenia and Vietnam sign cooperation protocol

Koper, Slovenia (Ports Europe) September 27, 2017 – Slovenian Economic Development and Technology Minister Zdravko Počivalšek and Vietnamese Minister...

TMT shows 20% container growth in first eight months of 2017

Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) September 26, 2017 – The volumes of the container terminal of the Port of Trieste confirm the growing trend of the last...

Yilport Leixões yields 11,900 TEU

Leixões, Portugal (Ports Europe) September 22, 2017 – Between September 11-17, 2017, (week no. 37), Yilport Leixões received and operated 24 ships....

Algeciras port cargo traffic rises 5.8% y/y in Jan-Aug 2017

Algeciras, Spain (Ports Europe) September 22, 2017 – Algeciras port handled 65.2 million tonnes of cargo in the first eight months of 2017, up 5.8% on the...

A Coruña port welcomes MSC Cruises’ MSC Fantasia ship for first time

A Coruña, Spain (Ports Europe) September 22, 2017 – MSC Cruises’ managing director for Spain, Emiliano González, has said he considers A Coruña to...

Pasaia port’s cargo traffic keeps declining

Pasaia, Spain (Ports Europe) September 22, 2017 – Pasaia port cargo traffic returned to negative figures at the end of August, with losses of 21.9% compared...

Venice port loses 500,000 cruise passengers since 2013

Venice, Italy (Ports Europe) September 22, 2017 – The Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA) said Venice port has lost nearly 500,000 cruise...

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