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Traffic

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.

CMA CGM presents new service in Venice

Venice, Italy (Ports Europe) July 25, 2017 – At the historic Ca ‘Foscari University Barracks on July 20, the Venice stage of the French shipper...

Cargo flows across the Swiss Alps

La Spezia, Italy (Ports Europe) July 24, 2017 – In 2016, a total of 40.4 million tons of goods crossed the Swiss Alps, which marks a new record and...

NCSP reports slightly lower cargo for first half 2017

Novorossiysk, Russia (Ports Europe) July 24, 2017 – NCSP Group has said that its consolidated cargo turnover for January-June 2017 totaled 74.8 million...

Port of Leixões cargo throughput up 9% in first half 2017

Leixões, Portugal (Ports Europe) July 24, 2017 – In the first six months of this year, the Port of Leixões handled 9.7 million tons of commodities,...

Barcelona reports record cargo traffic for H1 2017

Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) July 21, 2017 – The first six months of 2017 were the best first half of the history of the Port of Barcelona,...

Vigo port says refrigeration facilities customers could face higher costs

Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) July 20, 2017 – The president of Vigo port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Vigo), Enrique López Veiga, has informed the owners...

Bilbao port presents horticultural trade to Costa Rican delegation

Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) July 20, 2017 – Mercabilbao and Bilbao port received a visit of a delegation of government officials from Costa Rica which...

La Spezia port cargo traffic rises 14.2% y/y in H1 2017

La Spezia, Italy (Ports Europe) July 20, 2017 – La Spezia port has closed the first six months of the year with a growth in traffic to 713,434 TEUs, up...

Leixões port books best ever cruise traffic in May

Leixões, Portugal (Ports Europe) July 20, 2017 – Leixões port continues to book records surpassing the 29,000 passengers in 31 ship stopovers in the first...

Avilés port cargo traffic slightly declines in H1 2017

Avilés, Spain (Ports Europe) July 19, 2017 – Avilés port closed the first half of 2017 with a traffic increase of 1% in relation to the same period of the...

Strikes have limited effect on Santander port’s car traffic 

Santander, Spain (Ports Europe) July 19, 2017 – The seven days of strikes that took place in June in the port of Santander during the conflict of stevedores...

Maderas Villapol, Global Timber Trading carry out largest pine loading in Spain

Ferrol, Spain (Ports Europe) July 19, 2017 – Spanish companies Maderas Villapol S.A. and Global Timber Trading S.L. have carried out the largest bulk loading...

Valencia port to adapt container terminals to large vessels

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) July 19, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) plans to adapt its three container terminals so that...

Piraeus Container Terminal S.A.- June 2017 container terminal statistics

Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) July 19, 2017 – Piraeus Container Terminal S.A., part of the Chinese Cosco shipping group, has reported June 2017 container...

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

Kumport, Turkey (Ports Europe) July 19, 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. – June 2017 container terminal statistics

Port Said, Egypt (Ports Europe) July 19, 2017 – Suez Canal Container Terminal S.A.E., part of the Chinese Cosco shipping group, has reported June 2017...

Cosco reports June 2017 container terminal statistics

Hong Kong, China (Ports Europe) July 18, 2017 – Cosco Shipping has announced June 2017 container terminals throughput. The three Mediterranean Sea container...

Genoa port books record-high container traffic in May

Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) July 18, 2017 – Genoa port handled record-high 233,995 TEUs of container traffic in May, versus 200,725 TEUs in the fifth month...

Castellón port reports improved June 2017 cargo volumes

Castellón, Spain (PortSEurope) july 17, 2017 – In the month of June 2017, merchandise traffic in the port of Castellón increased by 17.7%, in spite of...

Málaga port traffic declines in H1 2017 due to dockers strike, lower agrifood imports

Málaga, Spain (PortSEurope) July 17, 2017 – Paulino Plata, president of Málaga port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Málaga), carried out a press...

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