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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.

Port of Valencia maintains the downward trend in export freight

València, September 8, 2023.- Export freight rates from the Port of Valencia moderate their fall, but continue to decline. In the month of August the...

Modernised Constanta port to handle 4 mln tonnes of Ukrainian grain monthly

Constanta, Romania (Ports Europe) September 11, 2023 – An ambitious 721.3 million lei (145.2 million euro) plan to modernise the infrastructure at the...

Cargo keeps declining in Georgian ports in Q2 2023

Poti, Georgia (Ports Europe) September 11, 2023 – The Georgian Black Sea ports of Poti and Batumi handled more than 3.5 million tonnes of cargo in Q2 2023,...

Russia’s Caspian ports of Astrakhan, Olya increase cargo turnover in Jan-Jul 23 by 69.5%

Astrakhan, Russia (Ports Europe) September 7, 2023 – Russia’s Caspian Sea ports of Astrakhan and Olya increased cargo turnover in the January-July 23 by...

Piraeus port sees cruise passenger numbers return to pre-Covid levels

Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) September 6, 2023 – The Port of Piraeus sees cruise passenger numbers return to pre-Covid levels of 2019. In the first...

Kazakhstan Railways increases grain handling

Aktau, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) September 4, 2023 – Kazakhstan Railways (KTZ) handled over 1 million tons of grain in the month of August, twice the...

Port of Aktau increases freight handling

Aktau, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) September 4, 2023 – In the January-July period, more than 2.6 million tonnes of dry and oil bulk cargoes were...

Freight transport by barge between North Sea Port and hinterland increases to 60%

In North Sea Port, the transportation of goods to the hinterland by inland waterway continues to increase. Over five years, it rose from 54% to an impressive...

117,000 tonnes of agricultural products exported daily via Ukraine’s Danube ports

Izmail, Ukraine (Ports Europe) September 1, 2023 – During the first 15 days of August, Ukrainian Danube River ports shipped 1,750,000 tonnes of...

Aktau and Kuryk ports increase freight traffic

Aktau, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) September 1, 2023 – In January-August 2023, the volume of freight shipped through Caspian Sea Aktau and Kuryk ports...

China ports container volume rises 4.5% from January to July 2023

From January to July of 2023, the cargo volume of Chinese ports was 9617.1 million tons, a year-on-year increase of 8.0%; the container throughput of Chinese...

Port of Livorno cargo traffic decreased -3.2% in the first half of 2023

Livorno, Italy (Ports Europe) August 30, 2023 – Total traffic in the first half of 2023 for the Port of Livorno was 15,410,621 tons of goods, 3.2% less...

Port of Leixões increases use of rail

Leixões, Portugal (Ports Europe) August 29, 2023 – The modernization and expansion of the railway has played a crucial role in the development of...

Port of Leixões doubles cruise activity in first half of 2023

Leixões, Portugal (Ports Europe) August 29, 2023 – In the first half of 2023, the Port of Leixões handled 68,203 cruise ship passengers, an increase of...

Luka Koper Group ends first half of 2023 with improved numbers

Koper, Slovenia (Ports Europe) August 28, 2023 – The Luka Koper Group concluded the first half of 2023 with improved business results. All financial...

Port of Barcelona cargo traffic down -11.3% in year to July

Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) August 28, 2023 – In January-July 2023, the Port of Barcelona has reported total cargo traffic of 37.91 million tons...

Spain: Seaports – January-July 23 cargo report

Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) August 25, 2023 – In the period January-July 2023, Spanish seaports handled 320.1 million tons of cargo, down -4% on the...

Russian invasion reduces imports of Ukrainian grain in Valencia

The war in Ukraine generated by the invasion of Russia put many countries in check on a crucial issue for food: cereals. The ‘granary of Europe’...

Ports of Genoa sees slight fall in July cargo traffic

Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) August 24, 2023 – In July 2023, the ports of Genoa and Savona-Vado Ligure handled a total of 5.77 million tonnes, down -0.2%...

Global Ports Holding reports recovery in passenger numbers

London, United Kingdom (Ports Europe) August 23, 2023 – Global Ports Holding (GPH), an international cruise port operator, has reported that occupancy...

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