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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.

Valencia region, Basque country demand improvement of Valencia-Bilbao ports railway

Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) April 27, 2017 – Valencia regional government president Ximo Puig said he will hold a working meeting with Basque counterpart...

Barcelona port president, Mexican ambassador analyse trade relations

Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) April 26, 2017 – The president of Barcelona port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Barcelona), Sixte Cambra, and the Mexican...

Algeciras port cargo traffic declines in Q1 2017

Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) April 26, 2017 – Algeciras port cargo traffic fell by 8% on the year in the first quarter of 2017 to 23.7 million tonnes, the...

Valencia port container traffic declines due to labour conflict

Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) April 25, 2017 – In the first three months of the year, total cargo traffic at Valencia port fell by 1.2% and container...

Setubal port cargo traffic falls 4.9% in 2016

Setubal, Portugal (PortSEurope) April 24, 2017 – The first quarter of 2017 is proving very good for Portuguese ports, with Lisbon announcing 33% growth,...

Aveiro port books record-high cargo traffic in Q1 2017

Aveiro, Portugal (PortSEurope) April 24, 2017 – Aveiro port booked a record-high cargo traffic of 1.216 million tonnes for the first quarter of 2017, up 18%....

Figueira da Foz handles its largest ship yet

Figueira da Foz, Portugal (PortSEurope) April 24, 2017 – Figueira da Foz port received its largest cargo ship ever on April 18. The vessel is more than 134...

Pasaia port remains dependent on steel, cars

Pasaia, Spain (PortSEurope) April 25, 2017 – Statistics on port traffic in Pasaia in the first quarter of 2017 reveal its high dependence on steel products...

Trieste handles more trains in Q1 2017

Trieste, Italy (PortSEurope) April 26, 2017 – Trieste port handled more than 2,000 trains in the first quarter of 2017, a 20.06% increase on the same...

Sagunto port consolidates as major Spanish hub for car traffic

Sagunto, Spain (PortSEurope) April 25, 2017 – Sagunto port consolidates as one of the main logistic hubs of Spain for the traffic of cars. With a traffic of...

Santander port handles record number of cars in Q1 2017

Santander, Spain (PortSEurope) April 25, 2017 – Santander port serviced record-high 135,484 cars in the first quarter of 2017, up 19.11% on the year. The...

Valencia port recovers cruise traffic in 2017

Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) April 24, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) and the region’s tourist organisation said...

Berdyansk cargo traffic falls 43.3% y/y in Q1 2017

Berdyansk, Ukraine (PortSEurope) April 23, 2017 – The cargo turnover of Berdyansk port in January-March 2017 amounted to 300,700 tonnes, which is 43.3% lower...

Izmail port cargo traffic falls 12.4% y/y in Q1 2017

Izmail, Ukraine (PortSEurope) April 23, 2017 – The volume of cargo traffic of Ukraine’s Izmail port in January-March 2017 amounted to 951,000 tonnes,...

Petroleum products transit through Ukraine falls in March 2017

Odessa, Ukraine (PortSEurope) April 23, 2017 – In March, the transit of petroleum products through the territory of Ukraine amounted to 61,500 tonnes, which...

Chernomorsk port cargo traffic rises 14% y/y in Q1 2017

Chernomorsk, Ukraine (PortSEurope) April 23, 2017 – The cargo traffic of Chernomorsk port in January-March amounted to 3.85 million tonnes, which is 14.1%...

Piraeus port welcomes first Chinese cruise visitors

Piraeus, Greece (PortSEurope) April 24, 2017 – Leading managers of Piraeus Port Authority S.A. (OLP), owned by China’s Cosco, have welcomed the...

Kernel to increase cargo traffic at Chernomorsk port

Chernomorsk, Ukraine (Ports Europe) April 23, 2017 – Ukrainian Sea Ports Administration (USPA) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Kernel...

Leixoes container terminal operates 25 vessels in April 3-9

Leixoes, Portugal (Ports Europe) April 22, 2017 – In the period between April 3 and 9, Leixoes container terminal received and operated 25 vessels, in a...

Cosco reports March 2017 container terminal statistics

Hong Kong, China (PortSEurope) April 18, 2017 – Cosco Shipping has announced March 2017 container terminals throughput. The three Mediterranean Sea container...

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