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Porto Cruise Terminal reports record year in 2023

Leixões, Portugal (Ports Europe) February 16, 2024 – Porto Cruise Terminal has reported a record year in 2023 with 116 cruise calls carrying 148,889...

Update: Russian ports handled 71 mln tonnes of cargo in Jan 24

Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) February 15, 2024 – Cargo turnover of Russian seaports in January 2024 decreased by 6.2% compared to the same month of last...

Ports of Morocco handled 209.4 mln tonnes of cargo in 2023, +7.4%

Casablanca, Morocco (Ports Europe) February 14, 2024 – The ports of Morocco handled 209.4 million tonnes of cargo in 2023, an increase of +7.4% on the...

Turkey sees large increase in cruise tourism is 2023

Istanbul, Turkey (Ports Europe) February 14, 2024 – Last year, 1,192 cruise ships visited 19 ports, up +20% on the previous 12 months. The number of...

Turkey: Cargo report for 2023

Ankara, Turkey (Ports Europe) February 14, 2024 – The Turkish authorities have published cargo figures for 2023. In 2023, total cargo was 521.07 million...

Aktau port handled 360,000 tonnes of cargo in January’24

Aktau, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) February 13, 2024 – Cargo turnover of Kazakhstan’s Caspian Sea port of Aktau in January 2024 increased by 12.7%...

Russian ports handled 71 mln tonnes of cargo in Jan 24

Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) February 13, 2024 – Cargo turnover of Russian seaports in January 2024 decreased by 6.2% compared to the same month of last...

Port of Ravenna sees cargo traffic down -6.9% in 2023

Ravenna, Italy (Ports Europe) February 13, 2024 – The Port of Ravenna has reported total cargo traffic of 25.5 million tonnes (mt) in 2023. This is down...

Port of Bilbao reports positive results for 2023

Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) February 12, 2024 – In 2023, the Port of Bilbao handled 32.8 million tonnes of cargo, up +0.11% on 2022 figures. The trade...

Algiers handled 2 million tonnes of cargo, 68,446 TEUs in Q3’23

Algiers, Algeria (Ports Europe) February 12, 2024 – Algeria’s Mediterranean port of Algiers (Port d’Alger), country’s largest, handling more...

Algeria’s Mostaganem port handled 1.2 mln tonnes of cargo in 2023

Mostaganem, Algeria (Ports Europe) February 11, 2024 – Algeria’s port of Mostaganem handled 1.323 million tonnes of cargo in 2023, which is +11% growth...

Trieste Marine Terminal sees fall in TEU traffic in January, Red Sea crisis blamed

Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) February 9, 2024 – In January 2024, Trieste Marine Terminal (TMT) handled 43,782 containers (TEU), down from 59,589 TEU in...

Port Authority of Pasaia plan vehicle handling improvements

Pasaia, Spain (Ports Europe) February 7, 2024 – The Port Authority of Pasaia (APP) has proposed the improvement and investment projects in the short and...

Porto de Leixões has record year for cruises in 2023

Leixões, Portugal (Ports Europe) February 7, 2024 – In 2023, Porto de Leixões received 116 cruise ships carrying 148,889 passengers, making it the...

Port of Thessaloniki to handle electric buses from China

Thessaloniki, Greece (Ports Europe) February 6, 2024 – Next month, the Port of Thessaloniki is set to receive 110 new, electric buses. The vehicles were...

Cruise season starts in Port of Thessaloniki

Thessaloniki, Greece (Ports Europe) February 6, 2024 – Last Saturday, the cruise season started in Port of Thessaloniki with the arrival of...

Naples, Salerno report very positive passenger numbers for 2023

Naples, Italy (Ports Europe) February 5, 2024 – The ports of Naples, Salerno and Castellammare di Stabia have reported great improved passenger numbers...

Assoporti, SRM produce report on Q3 2023

Rome, Italy (Ports Europe) February 5, 2024 – Assoporti and SRM have published the report “Port Infographics 2024”. It provides statistics...

83,900 ships crossed Bosphorus and Dardanelles Straits in 2023

Istanbul, Turkey (Ports Europe) February 3, 2024 – The Turkish Straits were crossed by 83,900 vessels in 2023, the General Directorate for Maritime...

Taganrog port environmental licensing & the reality

Taganrog, Russia (PortSEurope) February 2, 2023 – The maximum cargo turnover of Taganrog Port, the main stevedoring operator of the harbour, in the...

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