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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.

Azeri oil exports through Novorossiysk port rise 31% y/y in H1 2017

Novorossiysk, Russia (Ports Europe) August 2, 2017 – The exports of Azeri oil through Russia’s Novorossiysk port rose by 31% on the year in the first...

A Coruña port cargo traffic rises 1.52% y/y in H1 2017

A Coruña, Spain (Ports Europe) August 1, 2017 – The port of A Coruña handled more than 6.8 million tonnes of cargo during the first half of the year, the...

Valencia port recovers work rate

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) August 1, 2017 – The activity in the Port of Valencia has normalised after the problems suffered in recent weeks. Finally,...

Kuşadası becomes top cruise ship destination in Turkey

Kuşadası, Turkey (Ports Europe) August 1, 2017 – Turkey’s cruise passenger traffic was 118,087 people in the first half of 2017 and most of the...

Container traffic, record growth for the port of Salerno

Salerno, Italy (Ports Europe) August 1, 2017 – The Salerno Container Terminal (SCT) saw growth of 20% in the second quarter of 2017. Containers at the...

Santander port cargo traffic increases 8.65% y/y in H1 2017

Santander, Spain (Ports Europe) July 31, 2017 – Santander port cargo traffic increased by 8.65% in the first half of the year to 2.52 million tonnes. Of the...

Huelva port’s container traffic soars in H1 2017

Huelva, Spain (Ports Europe) July 31, 2017 – Huelva port increased container traffic by 362% on the year in the first half of 2017, thanks to the start-up...

Vigo port cargo traffic declines in June

Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) July 31, 2017 – The stowage strike, the transfer of Maersk’s operations to Marín port and the complications encountered by...

Genoa port handles record-high container traffic in H1 2017

Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) July 31, 2017 – Genoa port handled record-high 1.283 million TEUs of container traffic in the first half of 2017, versus 1.133...

Trieste Marine Terminal reports improved traffic for H1 2017

Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) July 28, 2017 – Data from the first half of 2017 confirm a trend of considerable growth of Trieste Marine Terminal S.p.A....

Port of Santander exceeds 2.5 million tonnes during the first half of 2017

Santander, Spain (Ports Europe) July 28, 2017 – During the first half of the year the traffic at the port of Santander reached 2,523,244 tonnes, up 8.65%...

Port of La Gomera grows in passengers and goods in the first half of the year

La Gomera, Canary Islands, Spain (Ports Europe)  July 28, 2017 – The port of San Sebastián de La Gomera grew in the first half of 2017 in both...

IndaMed – new container service from Malta Freeport

Freeport, Malta (Ports Europe) July 28, 2017 – A new weekly service IndaMed will call at Freeport, linking it with major ports in India, Pakistan,...

Fransabank organises port of Beirut export to China

Beirut, Lebanon (Ports Europe) July 28, 2017 – In July 2016, Fransabank organized a “One Belt & One Road to Beijing” in the Chinese capital where...

ODN TAY IV platform leaves for Almería after undergoing improvements in Tenerife

Tenerife, Spain (Ports Europe) July 27, 2017 – The platform  ODN TAY IV has left the port of Santa Cruz de Tenerife after undergoing repairs, and is now...

Port of Algeciras reports reduced traffic in first half of 2017

Algeciras, Spain (Ports Europe) July 27, 2017 – Algeciras Port has registered a decline in activity in the first half of this year 2017. Total traffic...

Port of Gandia closes first half of the year with a 37% increase in exports

Gandia, Spain (Ports Europe) July 27, 2017 – The port of Gandia has channeled a total of 180,853 tonnes in the first half of 2017, a decrease of 7.13%...

Cruise traffic using Koper port increases

Koper, Slovenia (Ports Europe) July 26, 2017 – Koper port welcomed its 33rd cruise liner of the current season and around 40,500 cruise passengers have...

General merchandise grows in Puertos de Las Palmas above 20% in H1 of 2017

Las Palmas, Spain (Ports Europe) July 26, 2017 – General merchandise traffic, container movement, liquid bulk and total port traffic show double-digit...

Sagunto port reports traffic for H1 2017

Sagunto, Spain (Ports Europe) July 26, 2017 – The port of Sagunto has handled 3,045,200 tonnes during the first half of 2017, representing a decrease of...

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