Traffic
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.
Malta Freeport issues Red Sea statement
Marsaxlokk, Malta (Ports Europe) January 11, 2024 – Malta Freeport Terminals CEO Alex Montebello has said that the company is maintaining close contact...
Port of Antwerp-Bruges reports cargo traffic down -5.5% in 2023
Antwerp, Belgium (Ports Europe) January 10, 2024 – The Port of Antwerp-Bruges has reported total cargo traffic of 271.3 million tonnes, down -5.5% on the...
Port of Cartagena starts new steel exports to Mexico
Cartagena, Spain (Ports Europe) January 10, 2024 – The Port of Cartagena has started new steel exports to Mexico. It forecasts traffic of over 30,000...
Update: Libya denies oil export via new port in Egypt
Tripoli, Libya (Ports Europe) January 10, 2024 – Mohammed Oun, oil and gas minister in the officially recognised, Tripoli-based Libyan government, said...
Update: Belarus exported 18 mln tonnes of cargo through Russian ports in 2023
Minsk, Belarus (Ports Europe) January 9, 2023 – About 18 million tonnes of Belarusian cargo were transported through 20 Russian seaports in 2023, the local...
Lebanese Port of Tripoli increases cargo traffic in Jan-Sep 2023
Tripoli, Lebanon (Ports Europe) January 8, 2024 – In January-September 2023, the Lebanese port of Tripoli handled 2.73 million tons of cargo, up +4.52%...
Albanian’s port of Durres handles 154.000 TEUs in Jan-Oct’23
Durres, Albania (Ports Europe) January 6, 2024 – Albania’s Adriatic Seaport Durres (Durrës) container terminal handled 35% more boxes in the first 10...
Port of Gioia Tauro set container handling record
Gioia Tauro, Italy (Ports Europe) January 5, 2024 – The Port of Gioia Tauro handled 3.54 million containers (TEU) in 2023. This is a container handling...
China ports container volume rises 4.9% from Jan-Nov 2023
China port container volume rose 4.9% from January to November 2023, Ningbo Containerized Freight Index had a significant increase in December 2023 –...
New Ukrainian sea corridor exports around 13 million tonnes of cargo
Odessa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) January 4, 2024 – The new Ukrainian sea corridor created by the Ukrainian Navy has exported around 13 million tonnes of...
First cruise ship of the year arrives at the Port of Piraeus
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) January 4, 2024 – Piraeus Port Authority has welcomed the Costa Deliziosa, the first cruise ship to arrive at the port...
Port of Heraklion reports improved cruise ship business in 2023
Heraklion, Crete, Greece (Ports Europe) January 4, 2024 – In 2023, cruise traffic in the port of Heraklion increased by +50%, with a record 382,981...
Baku port handles 6 million tonnes of cargo in Jan-Nov’23
Baku, Azerbaijan (Ports Europe) January 4, 2024 – Azerbaijan’s largest Caspian Sea port of Baku handled over 6 million tonnes of cargo during the first 11...
Belarus exported 15 million tonnes of cargo through Russian ports in 2023
Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) January 3, 2023 – The total transhipment of Belarusian export cargo through Russian ports by the end of 2023 was about 15...
QTerminals Antalya, 26 cruise ships, 33,697 passengers in 2023
Antalya, Turkey (Ports Europe) December 29, 2023 – QTerminals Antalya, Turkey’s leading commercial cargo and cruise port, welcomed thousands of...
Ukrainian ports defy war and difficulties in 2023
Odesa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) December 28, 2023 – The total cargo turnover of all Ukrainian ports in 2023 is expected to be 57 million tonnes. This is...
Cargo handling record for Santander in Jan-Nov’23
Santander, Spain (Ports Europe) December 26, 2023 – The northern Spanish port of Santander achieved its record cargo handling result in the January-November...
Trieste Marine Terminal increased TEU traffic in November 2023
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) December 21, 2023 – In November 2023, Trieste Marine Terminal (TMT) increased traffic in containers (TEU) by 1% to 56.383...
Red Sea crisis sends world’s largest TEU ship to Las Palmas port
Algeciras, Spain (Ports Europe) December 20, 2023 – Attacks by Houthi rebels on shipping in the Red Sea have led ships to seek alternative routes to...
How much cargo is handled in Makhachkala port?
Makhachkala, Russia (PortSEurope) December 20, 2023 – Different organisations and authorities in Russia report very different port cargo handling figures....