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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.

Montenegro’s Bar port cargo traffic rises 70% y/y in Jan-Jul 2017

Bar, Montenegro (Ports Europe) August 8, 2017 – Montenegro’s Bar port cargo traffic rose by 70% on the year in the first seven months of 2017. The...

Durrës port ferry lines handle 7% more cargo y/y in Jan-Jul 2017

Durrës, Albania (Ports Europe) August 8, 2017 – The Durrës-Bari and Durrës-Ancona-Trieste ferry lines handled 7% more cargo and 4% more...

Durrës port cargo traffic rises 1.8 million tonnes in H1 2017

Durrës, Albania (Ports Europe) August 8, 2017 – Durrës port handled 1.8 million tonnes of cargo in the first half of 2017, or 123,000 tonnes more than...

Huelva port takes advantage of South Pier overhaul

Huelva, Spain (Ports Europe) August 8, 2017 – Huelva port will receive five vessels at the Concasa container terminal this week, adding four calls of OPDR...

Spanish ports can book record-high cargo traffic in 2017 despite strikes of dockers

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) August 4, 2017 – The selective stoppages of stevedores have been felt in the traffic of the main Spanish ports although very...

A Coruña, Ferrol, Vilagarcía ports cargo traffic rises in H1 2017

A Coruña, Spain (Ports Europe) August 4, 2017 – In the northern Spanish region of Galicia, the ports of A Coruña, Ferrol-San Cibrao and Vilagarcía have...

Valletta port cruise a top five Mediterranean cruise location

Valletta, Malta (Ports Europe) August 7, 2017 – The port in Valletta has made the top-five list of Western Mediterranean cruise locations in CruiseCritic...

Baleària handles 53,000 passengers on Valencia-Mostaganem line in H1 2017

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) August 4, 2017 – The ferry line of Spanish company Baleària Eurolínias Marítimas S.A. between the ports of Valencia and...

Lisbon port to handle 24 cruise calls in August

Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) August 3, 2017 – Lisbon port expects to receive 24 cruise calls in August, two more than in the same month last year,...

Maersk keeps reducing cargo traffic at Vigo port

Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) August 7, 2017 – The president of the port of Vigo, Enrique López Veiga, attributes the negligible cargo traffic by Maersk in...

Pontevedra businessmen hail Hapag-Lloyd’s cruise call at Marín port

Marín, Spain (Ports Europe) August 7, 2017 – The first call of a cruise ship in the port of Marín is “a positive news for the area, but what is...

Seville port cargo traffic declines in H1 2017

Seville, Spain (Ports Europe) August 7, 2017 – Seville port cargo traffic has suffered a tremendous setback during the first half of the year. The fall...

Tarragona port breaks paper traffic records

Tarragona, Spain (Ports Europe) August 3, 2017 – Tarragona port has broken records in paper traffic. The Chinese-flagged vessel Saga Jandaia, which docked...

Unloading of 1,524 t of longfin tuna in Basque ports shows a positive trend

Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) August 3, 2017 – The capture of longfin tuna in the northern Basque ports since the beginning of the campaign in early July has...

Ferrol port to handle one of most ecological cruise ships globally

Ferrol, Spain (Ports Europe) August 3, 2017 – On November 9, Ferrol port will handle “Aida Prima”, one of the most ecological cruise ships in...

Valencia-Mostaganem sea transport line handles 53,000 passengers in H1

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) August 3, 2017 – The sea transport line between Valencia and Mostaganem (Algeria), which has been operating in the port of...

Kherson port cargo traffic declines 14.6% y/y in H1 2017

Kherson, Ukraine (Ports Europe) August 3, 2017 – Kherson port cargo traffic declined by 14.6% on the year to 1.502 million tonnes, data by Ukraine Sea Ports...

Chernomorsk port cargo traffic increases 4.2% y/y in H1 2017

Chernomorsk, Ukraine (Ports Europe) August 3, 2017 – Chernomorsk port cargo traffic increased by 4.2% on the year in the first half of 2017 to 8.074 million...

Marín port cargo traffic exceeds 1 million tonnes in H1 2017

Marín, Spain (Ports Europe) August 2, 2017 – The provisional balance of cargo traffic in Marín port during the first six months of the year shows a...

Cartagena port handles 91,000 cruise passengers in H1 2017

Cartagena, Spain (Ports Europe) August 2, 2017 – A total of 91,000 passengers have arrived in Cartagena port on the 59 cruise calls that have docked in the...

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