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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.

Cosco Shipping reports 2017 Interim Results (Overseas terminals)

Hong Kong, China (Ports Europe) September 10, 2017 – Cosco Shipping has reported its 2017 interim results for the six months ended 30 June 2017. The...

Dubrovnik wants to halve cruise visitors

Dubrovnik, Croatia (Ports Europe) September 10, 2017 – Dubrovnik Mayor Mato Franković has contacted the Cruise Line International Association (CLIA),...

Brindisi receives last shipment of pipes for TAP project

Brindisi, Italy (Ports Europe) September 10, 2017 – The last shipment of offshore line pipes for the Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) project has been...

SMET managing director comments on Salerno growth

Naples, Italy (Ports Europe) September 2017 – In the first half of 2017, Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Tirreno Centrale (Central Tyrrhenian Sea...

China’s Cosco books record-high container traffic at Piraeus port in August

Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) September 8, 2017 – China’s Cosco said it handled 344,000 containers at Piraeus port in August, exceeding by 4.2% the...

Morocco’s Tanger Med port container traffic rises 11% y/y in H1 2017

Tangier, Morocco (Ports Europe) September 8, 2017 – Morocco’s Tanger Med port has said its container traffic in the first six months of 2017 rose by...

Ashdod Port Company sees improved H1 2017 performance.

Ashdod, Israel (Ports Europe) September 7, 2017 – In the first half of 2017 Ashdod Port Company recorded total revenue of 616m Israeli shekels (US$173m),...

Bilbao port prepares for autonomous vessels era

Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) September 7, 2017 – The president of Bilbao port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Bilbao), Asier Atutxa, has announced that the...

Azores Islands’ ports to handle 54 cruise calls Sep-Dec 2017

Ponta Delgada, Azores, Portugal (Ports Europe) September 7, 2017 – The first week of September marks the return of cruise ships to the Azores. Portos dos...

Six Croatian ports to receive €41.2 million funding

Rijeka, Croatia (Ports Europe) September 7, 2017 – The six Croatian ports that handle international passenger traffic received a funding of a total of HRK...

Ukrainian ports cargo traffic rises in Jan-Aug 2017

Odessa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) September 7, 2017 – Ukrainian sea ports handled 86.95 million tonnes of cargo in the first eight months of 2017, up 1.6% on...

Pasaia port cargo traffic declines 22.6% y/y in Jan-July 2017

Pasaia, Spain (Ports Europe) September 6, 2017 – Pasaia port handled a total of 1.6 million tonnes of cargo in the first seven months of 2017, down by...

Tenerife port handles its biggest container ship ever

Tenerife, Spain (Ports Europe) September 6, 2017 – Tenerife port handled on September 5 and 6 the Maersk Guayaquil container ship, with a length of 337...

Izmir tourism visitors increases steadily

Izmir, Turkey (Ports Europe) September 5, 2017 – Aegean Touristic Hotels and Investors Associations – ETIK has published a report showing that Turkish...

UK Department for Transport UK Port Freight Statistics: 2016 – Short Sea Freight with the European Union

London, United Kingdom (Ports Europe) September 6, 2017 – UK major port traffic with the European Union rose 2% to 206.8 million tonnes in 2016, due...

UK Department for Transport publishes Annual UK Port Freight Statistics 2016

London, United Kingdom (Ports Europe) September 5, 2017 – The Department for Transport has published its Annual UK Port Freight statistics which shows...

Vigo port sees signs of recovery in July

Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) September 5, 2017 – After an adverse first half in terms of cargo traffic, marked by the announcements of the strike of dockers...

A Coruña port expects record-high cruise traffic in September

A Coruña, Spain (Ports Europe) September 5, 2017 – With the double call of the vessels “Silver Muse” and “Sea Cloud II”, on...

Vilagarcía port breaks monthly cargo traffic record in August 

Vilagarcía, Spain (Ports Europe) September 5, 2017 – Vilagarcía port has just surpassed in August its best historical monthly record of cargo traffic....

Cartagena port’s strategy of low fees pays off

Cartagena, Spain (Ports Europe) September 4, 2017 – Cartagena port has begun to recover from the drop in cargo traffic last year, which stood at 2.2%....

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