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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.

Trieste Marine Terminal reports record rail growth in 2016

Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) January 17, 2017 – Rail volumes at Trieste Marine Terminal S.p.A. (TMT) increased by 26.5% in 2016, compared with the...

Gibraltar says 2016 was year of growth for port

Gibraltar (Ports Europe) January 18, 2017 – Gibraltar Port Authority (GPA) has announced another year of growth across most areas of activity following...

Marin port breaks cargo traffic record in 2016

Marin, Spain (Ports Europe) January 18, 2017 – Marin port booked a new record in 2016 by handling 2.34 million tonnes of cargo, up 9.38% on the year,...

Motril port presents plan to promote tourism via ferry lines with Morocco

Motril, Spain (Ports Europe) January 18, 2017 – Motril port has presented at the International Tourism Fair (Fitur) a Plan of Action of Tourism for...

Tenerife port receives second hybrid ship

Tenerife, Spain (Ports Europe) January 18, 2017 – Tenerife port has started seeing the arrival of different hybrid ships that travel from different...

Italian ports boost recovery of container traffic in Mediterranean region

Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) January 17, 2017 – For once the ports of northern Europe are not the best on the continent, the ones that drive the...

Huelva port expects 400% jump in container traffic Y/Y in 2017

Huelva, Spain (Ports Europe) January 16, 2017 – Huelva port plans to increase container traffic by more than 400% this year, from around 12,000 TEUs in 2016...

Ceuta port says Gibraltar Strait line passenger traffic declines in Jan-Nov 2016

Ceuta, Spain (Ports Europe) January 9, 2017 – Ceuta port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Ceuta) said that passenger traffic on the Strait of Gibraltar sea...

Alicante port interested in starting feeder line with Algeciras

Alicante, Spain (Ports Europe) January 16, 2017 – Alicante port is interested in starting the feeder line with Algeciras and relaunching a regular connection...

Malaga port has 289 confirmed cruise calls in 2017

Malaga, Spain (Ports Europe) January 16, 2017 – Malaga port has already confirmed 289 cruise calls for the current season. Of these calls, seven correspond...

Spanish ports service around 8.7 million cruise passengers in 2016

Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) January 16, 2017 – Spanish Public Works Minister Inigo de la Serna has announced that Spanish ports closed 2016 with about...

Baku International Sea Trade Port increases cargo trade in 2016

Baku, Azerbaijan (Ports Europe) January 9, 2016 – In 2016 Baku International Sea Trade Port unloaded 4.5 million tons of cargo, up by 47% compared to...

Ferrol port cargo traffic exceeds 12 million tonnes for sixth consecutive year in 2016

Ferrol, Spain (Ports Europe) January 13, 2017 – For the sixth consecutive year, Ferrol port exceeded 12 million tonnes of cargo, reaching a total of...

Castellon port cargo traffic rises 7.9% Y/Y in Dec 2016

Castellon, Spain (Ports Europe) January 13, 2017 – Castellon port handled 1,685,323 tonnes of cargo in December, which represents an increase of 7.9% on the...

Ponta Delgada port cargo traffic rises 9% Y/Y in Q3 2016

Ponta Delgada, Portugal (Ports Europe) January 13, 2017 – Ponta Delgada port handled 353,000 tonnes of cargo in the third quarter of 2016, up 9% on the year....

Tarragona port handles 325 containers weekly on lines to West Africa

Tarragona, Spain (Ports Europe) January 12, 2017 – Tarragona port maintains a weekly direct service at the DP World container terminal with the African ports...

Naples port container traffic rises in 2016

Naples, Italy (Ports Europe) January 12, 2017 – After nearly three years of and strikes, container traffic at Naples port recorded growth, up 10.3% on the...

Kherson port cargo traffic declines by 10.2% Y/Y in 2016

Kherson, Ukraine (Ports Europe) January 12, 2016 – Kherson port handled 3.71 million tonnes of cargo in 2016, down by 10.2% on the year. The liquid bulk...

Mediterranean ports boost Asia-Europe container traffic

Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) January 12, 2017 – The container traffic between Asia and Europe rose for the sixth consecutive month in November, an increase of...

Huelva port expects container traffic of at least 50,000 TEUs in 2017

Huelva, Spain (Ports Europe) January 11, 2017 – Huelva port closed 2016 with a total cargo traffic of 30.7 million tonnes, an increase of 12% over the...

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