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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.

Cartagena port cargo traffic rises 11% y/y in Jan-July 2017

Cartagena, Spain (Ports Europe) September 4, 2017 – The unstoppable pace of growth of the port of Cartagena in recent years, which has made it the fourth...

Málaga port’s solid bulk traffic soars 

Málaga, Spain (Ports Europe) September 4, 2017 – Málaga port has experienced a major upturn in relation to solid bulk traffic since last week. This...

Azores islands ports expect record-high number of cruise calls in 2017

Ponta Delgada, Azores, Portugal (Ports Europe) September 4, 2017 – The ports of the Azores islands in Portugal expects a record-high number of cruise...

Greece sees reduced cruise ship visitors

Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) September 4, 2017 – Initial figures indicate that the local cruise ship industry will decrease in 2017. The Union of...

Portugal’s Funchal port to handle 20 cruise calls in September

Funchal, Portugal (Ports Europe) September 2, 2017 – The port of Funchal will handle a total of 20 calls of cruise ships in September, while in Porto...

Lisbon port welcomes another ultra-luxury cruise ship

Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) September 2, 2017 – Silver Muse is the latest ultra-luxury cruise ship has arrived in Lisbon August 30, where it ends an...

Sines, Leixões, Lisbon ports are among top 200 largest container hubs globally

Sines, Portugal (Ports Europe) September 2, 2017 – The Portuguese ports of Sines, Leixões and Lisbon are among the 200 largest container ports in the...

Vigo port president says harbour resists to stowage, BIP problems

Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) September 1, 2017 – The president of Vigo port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Vigo), Enrique López Veiga, has presented...

Tenerife port to handle 300,000 cruise passengers this season

Tenerife, Spain (Ports Europe) September 1, 2017 – The cruise season begins in the port of Santa Cruz de Tenerife in September, when it is expected to...

Castellón port cargo traffic rises by 10.9% y/y in Jan-July 2017

Castellón, Spain (Ports Europe) September 1, 2017 – Castellón port cargo traffic rose by 10.9% on the year in the first seven months of 2017,...

Lisbon port container traffic rises 51.2% y/y in Jan-July 2017

Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) August 31, 2017 – Lisbon port’s container traffic rose by 51.2% on the year in the first seven months of 2017. The port...

Valencia, Gandía ports passenger traffic rises 21.5% y/y in Jan-July 2017

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) August 31, 2017 – Valencia and Gandía ports handled 533,115 passengers in the first seven months of 2017, up 21.47% on...

Spanish court imposes fine for cartel activities at Alicante port

Alicante, Spain (Ports Europe) August 30, 2017 – Spanish National Court has found evidence of a cartel formed by container transport companies that...

Sagunto port cargo traffic declines in Jan-July 2017

Sagunto, Spain (Ports Europe) August 30, 2017 – During the first seven months of 2017, the port of Sagunto handled slightly less than 3.6 million tonnes...

Dockworkers strike has uneven impact on Barcelona, Valencia ports

Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) August 30, 2017 – The latest cargo traffic statistics provided by the port authorities of Valencia and Barcelona –...

Málaga port welcomes largest megayacht in the world

Málaga, Spain (Ports Europe) August 30, 2017 – The megayacht “Rising Sun” docked on August 29 at Pier 2 of the port of Málaga, the...

Albanian ports cargo traffic rises 9.4% y/y in Jan-July 2017

Durrës, Albania (Ports Europe) August 29, 2017 – Albanian ports handled a total of 2.319 million tonnes of cargo in the first seven months of 2017 up 9.4%...

Eurogate’s container traffic in Italy declines 5% y/y in H1 2017

Salerno, Italy (Ports Europe) August 29, 2017 – Eurogate group has said it handled a total of 2.405 million tonnes of cargo at its container terminals in...

Valencia port recovers from dockworkers strike

Valencia, Spain (PortS Europe) August 29, 2017 – Valencia port returns to positive figures with a growth of 1.76% of the total traffic until the month of...

Tenerife port expects 4.5% rise in cargo traffic in 2017

Tenerife, Spain (PortS Europe) August 29, 2017 – Tenerife port will close the year with a growth of 4.5% in its total traffic, exceeding 12.5 million...

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