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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.

NCSP reports Jan-Feb 2017 cargo turnover

Novorossiysk, Russia (Ports Europe) March 21, 2017 – NCSP Group has reported its consolidated cargo turnover for January-February 2017, slightly down on...

Damietta port sees 37% increase in January cargo

Damietta, Egypt (Ports Europe) March 20, 2017 – A report issued by the Damietta Port Authority showed a growth ratio of 6.3% in the number of docked...

Berdyansk port cargo traffic declines 44.3% Y/Y in Jan-Feb 2017

Berdyansk, Ukraine (Ports Europe) March 20, 2017 – Berdyansk port handled 160,300 tonnes of cargo in the first two months of 2017, down 44.3% on the...

Coal, steel traffic disappearing from Ligurian ports

Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) March 20, 2017 – Declining maritime freight rates, the closure of coal-fired power plants, industrial transformation: the...

Cosco reports February 2017 container terminal statistics

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

Andalusian ports expect combined cruise traffic to rise by 10% in 2016

Cadiz, Spain (Ports Europe) March 17, 2017 – Andalusian ports expect their combined cruise traffic to rise by between 5% and 10% in 2016, the president...

Castellon port analyses potential to attract cruise traffic

Castellon, Spain (Ports Europe) March 16, 2017 – Castellon port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Castellón) is working on an analysis that allows it to...

Savona, Genoa ports to become backbone of Italian harbour system

Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) March 16, 2017 – The port system of Genoa and Savona will be the backbone of the Italian harbour sector, as guaranteed by...

Alicante port forecasts cruise traffic growth in 2017

Alicante, Spain (Ports Europe) March 16, 2017 – The joint promotion work carried out in recent years by Alicante port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de...

Tenerife port is among top five Spanish ports for container traffic productivity

Tenerife, Spain (Ports Europe) March 16, 2017 – Tenerife port is among the top five in Spain in terms of daily container traffic. At present, the dockers...

Valencia port loses 20% of container traffic in February

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) March 15, 2017 – Valencia port is the most affected harbour by the lower productivity of stevedores who protest against...

Algeciras port cargo traffic declines 11% in February

Algeciras, Spain (Ports Europe) March 15, 2017 – Algeciras port faced a 11% year-on-year decline in cargo traffic in February, due to the labour conflict...

Barcelona port aims to attract more calls of new cruise ships

Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) March 15, 2017 – Barcelona is still a powerful magnet for cruisers and this year the Catalan port authority expects to...

Valencia port expects to service 50 cruise companies in 2020

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) March 15, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) expects the number of cruise companies...

Sicilian ports handle 13.4% of total Italian harbour cargo traffic in 2016

Palermo, Italy (Ports Europe) March 14, 2017 – Sicilian ports handled 13.4% of the total Italian cargo traffic in 2016, the highest stake for the last four...

Malaga port expects passenger traffic increase in 2017

Malaga, Spain (Ports Europe) March 14, 2017 – Malaga port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Мálaga) expects the number of passengers handled in 2017 to...

Castellon port cargo traffic rises 4.4% y/y in Feb 2017

Castellon, Spain (Ports Europe) March 3, 2017 – Castellon port handled record-high 1.293 million tonnes of cargo in February, up 4.4% year-on-year. The cargo...

MSC Cruises to carry out 34 calls at Valencia port in 2017

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) March 14, 2017 – Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) Cruises plans to carry out a total of 34 calls at Valencia port in...

France’s CMA CGM container traffic rises 20% in 2016

Marseille, France (Ports Europe) March 13, 2017 – French shipping group CMA CGM transported a total of 15.6 million TEUs in 2016, up 20%. The rise in...

Trasmediterranea to handle 420,000 cruise passengers at Valencia port in 2017

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) March 13, 2017 – Spanish cruise operator Trasmediterranea expects the number of passengers serviced at Valencia port this...

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