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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.

Algeciras port cargo traffic rises by 3.7% Y/Y in Jan 2017

Algeciras, Spain (Ports Europe) February 23, 2017 – Algeciras port handled 8.8 million tonnes of cargo in January, up 3.7% on the year. Container traffic...

Bilbao port expects 2% rise in cargo traffic in 2017

Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) February 23, 2017 – Bilbao port expects to close 2017 with a 2% increase in cargo traffic compared to 2016, a year in which...

Nika-Tera port doubles cargo traffic in Jan 2017

Mykolaiv, Ukraine (Ports Europe) February 22, 2017 – Ukrainian private port Nika-Tera, located near Mykolaiv, handled a total of 330,500 tonnes of cargo in...

Cosco reports January 2017 container terminal statistics

Hong Kong, China (Ports Europe) February 21, 2017 – Cosco Shipping has announced January 2017 container terminals throughput. The three Mediterranean Sea...

A Coruna port cargo traffic rises 21% in Jan 2017

A Coruna, Spain (Ports Europe) February 21, 2017 – A Coruna port handled 1.28 million tonnes of cargo in January, up 21.28% from 1.03 million tonnes in...

Sines port container terminal handles record-high traffic in Jan 2017

Sines, Portugal (Ports Europe) February 21, 2017 – Sines port’s Terminal XXI handled 162,000 TEUs in January, the largest traffic serviced by a...

Castellon port to launch plan to boost cruise traffic

Castellon, Spain (Ports Europe) February 21, 2017 – Castellon port’s development foundation PortCastello plans to launch a plan to increase the...

Russia’s NCSP cargo volumes up in January 2017

Novorossiysk, Russia (Ports Europe) February 21, 2017 – NCSP (Novorossiysk Commercial Sea Port) group has reported that consolidated cargo turnover for...

Marin port processes 715 tonnes of waste in 2016

Marin, Spain (Ports Europe) February 20, 2017 – Marin port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Marín) processed 715 tonnes of waste in 2016, as a result...

Castellon port books record-high traffic in Jan 2017

Castellon, Spain (Ports Europe) February 20, 2017 – Castellon port recorded the best January in terms of cargo traffic in its history. The cargo traffic...

Aveiro port seeks diversification to offset decline in cement traffic

Aveiro, Portugal (Ports Europe) February 20, 2017 – Aveiro port’s cargo traffic declined in 2016, in contradiction to the general growth of...

Suez Canal sees record number and tonnages of crossing vessels.

Port Said, Egypt (Ports Europe) February 20, 2017 – Vice admiral Mohab Mameesh, head of the Suez Canal authority has said that Suez Canal navigational...

Oran port reports increase in export operations in 2016

Oran, Algeria (Ports Europe) February 18, 2017 – The port of Oran reported a significant increase in export operations in 2016 compared with last year....

Valencia port cargo traffic rises in January

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) February 17, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) said the total cargo traffic of the three...

Container traffic at Spanish ports hits record-high in 2016

Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) February 15, 2017 – Container traffic in Spanish ports throughout 2016 came in at record-high 15,080,009 TEUs, a figure...

A Coruna port cargo traffic declines in 2016

A Coruna, Spain (Ports Europe) February 14, 2017 – A Coruna port handled 13.9 million tonnes of cargo in 2016, down 1.65% on the year. General cargo...

Taganrog port cargo traffic rises in Jan 2016

Taganrog, Russia (Ports Europe) February 13, 2016 – Taganrog port handled 180,900 tonnes of cargo in the first month of 2016, up 9.6% on the year. Traffic of...

Luka Koper reports increased container traffic in January 2017

Koper, Slovenia (Ports Europe) February 13, 2017 – Despite a strong wind that obstructed the work at the container terminal for some days in January, we...

Andalusia ports handle half of total fruits, vegetables in Spanish harbours in 2016

Algeciras, Spain (Ports Europe) February 13, 2017 – The ports of general interest in the southern Spanish region of Andalusia account for half the total...

Punta Langosteira handles a third of total solid bulk at A Coruna port

A Coruna, Spain (Ports Europe) February 13, 2017 – Punta Langosteira, the outer harbour of A Coruna port, already handles one-third of the port’s...

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