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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.

Motril port records highest general cargo traffic rise in Spain for H1 2017

Motril, Spain (Ports Europe) August 28, 2017 – The port of Motril is the one with the highest growth in general cargo traffic of the 28 Spanish ports during...

Vigo port to show greater interest in MSC

Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) August 28, 2017 – The president of Vigo port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Vigo), Enrique López Veiga, has said the...

Piombino port keeps ro-ro sector leadership in Italy

Livorno, Italy (Ports Europe) August 28, 2017 – The good performance of the ro-ro traffic is combined with the significant numbers of the Tyrrhenian Port...

Ferrol port’s outer harbour handles large export of locally-produced stone

Ferrol, Spain (Ports Europe) August 28, 2017 – Ferrol port’s outer harbour received the vessel “Curaçao Pearl” to export some 41,000...

Ukraine port volumes of cargo handling for the six months of 2017 increase by 5%

Odessa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) August 28, 2017 – In January-June 2017, cargo handling in the seaports of Ukraine has amounted to 66.3 million tons,...

Record for cruise ships in the port of Palma

Palma, Mallorca, Spain (Ports Europe) August 27, 2017 – On August 26, five cruise liners with a total of about 20,000 passengers were docked in the port...

Water diverted from Palermo port residents to visiting cruise ships

Palermo, Italy (Ports Europe) August 27, 2017 – Residents of Palermo port have been suffering water shortages, and the reason would appear the diversion...

Vigo handles largest container ship in its history

Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) August 25, 2017 – The arrival of Cezanne ship today will mark another milestone in the history of Vigo port. 300 metres in length,...

Odessa port’s container terminal traffic rises 10% y/y in H1 2017

Odessa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) August 24, 2017 – Odessa port’s container terminal handled 145,000 TEUs in the first half of 2017, up 10% on the year,...

Huelva port to receive LNG import from USA on August 24

Huelva, Spain (Ports Europe) August 24, 2017 – Huelva port will handle on August 24 the LNG carrier ‘Rioja Knutsen’ to discharge 152,000 cubic...

Gijón port boosts cruise traffic in last ten years

Gijón, Spain (Ports Europe) August 24, 2017 – The cruise ship ‘Navigator of the Sea’ docked on August 23 at Gijón port with just over 3,000...

Málaga port to handle 200,000 cruise passengers in summer

Málaga, Spain (Ports Europe) August 24, 2017 – Málaga port expects to handle about 200,000 cruise passengers and 97 calls in the summer period, between...

Tarragona port’s cattle exports surge in second half of August

Tarragona, Spain (Ports Europe) August 24, 2017 – Tarragona port has significantly increased the exports of live animals, especially lambs, to the...

China, USA are largest container traffic partners of Valencia port in H1 2017

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) August 24, 2017 – China and the USA were the main trading partners of Valencia port in the container traffic segment in...

Reefer Terminal S.p.A. – July 2017 container terminal statistics

Vado Ligure, Italy (Ports Europe) August 24, 2017 – Reefer Terminal S.p.A., operated by Cosco of China, has reported July 2017 container terminal...

Kumport Liman Hizmetleri ve Lojistik Sanayi ve Ticaret A.Ş – July 2017 container terminal statistics

Kumport, Turkey (Ports Europe) August 24, 2017 – Kumport Liman Hizmetleri ve Lojistik Sanayi ve Ticaret A.Ş, part of the Chinese Cosco shipping group, has...

Suez Canal Container Terminal S.A.E. – July 2017 container terminal statistics

Port Said, Egypt (Ports Europe) August 24, 2017 – Suez Canal Container Terminal S.A.E., part of the Chinese Cosco shipping group, has reported July 2017...

Piraeus Container Terminal S.A. – July 2017 container terminal statistics

Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) August 24, 2017 – Piraeus Container Terminal S.A., part of the Chinese Cosco shipping group, has reported July 2017 container...

More arrivals than departures from Olbia port in July-August

Olbia, Italy (Ports Europe) August 23, 2017 – More arrivals than departures from the port of Olbia have been recorded since the start of 2017. This is one of...

Suez Canal Authority profit rises 4.66% y/y in July 2017

Port Said, Egypt (Ports Europe) August 23, 2017 – Suez Canal Authority (SCA) said it posted a profit of $447.1 million (€379 million) in July 2017, up...

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