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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.

Tunis port handles first cruise ship for 2017

Tunis, Tunisia (Ports Europe) January 19, 2017 – La Goulette, the port of Tunisian capital Tunis, handled the first cruise ship for 2017 on January 18....

LPG transit through Ukrainian railway lines, ports declines by 23.2% Y/Y in 2016

Odessa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) January 19, 2017 – The transit of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) through Ukrainian railway lines and ports decreased by...

Port Said Container & Cargo Handling Company reports 2015/2016 fiscal year results

Port Said, Egypt (Ports Europe) January 16, 2017 – The general assembly of Port Said Container & Cargo Handling Company announced its 2015/2016...

Turkey leading trade partner for Durrës port

Durrës, Albania (Ports Europe)  January 17, 2017 – Turkey ranks first for the highest volume of goods handled in Durrës port. In 2016, 26% of goods...

Durrës port handles 3.5 million tonnes in cargo

Durrës, Albania (Ports Europe) January 13, 2017 –  In 2016 Durrës port handled nearly 3.5 million tons of cargo, of which more than 1.2 million tons...

Trieste Marine Terminal increases container throughput in 2016

Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) January 17, 2017 – Trieste Marine Terminal S.p.A. ended 2016 with a container throughput of 449,481 TEU, up 1.6% on 2015,...

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...

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