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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.

China ports container volume rises 4.8% in first half of 2022

China ports container volume rises 4.8% in the half year of 2022,Ningbo Containerized Freight Index decrease slightly in July 2023 – August 7, 2023 In...

Cargo activity of Moroccan ports for the first half of 2023

Tanger Med, Morocco (Ports Europe) August 6, 2023 – The overall volume of commercial traffic handled by Moroccan ports, in the first half of 2023,...

Three times more containers from Turkmenbashi to Alat in H1’23

Turkmenbashi, Turkmenistan (Ports Europe) August 1, 2023 – Almost three times more containers (2,362 TEUs) were transported from the Caspian Sea port of...

VTS terminal in Astrakhan handles 15% more cargo YoY

Astrakhan, Russia (Ports Europe) July 31, 2023 – The cargo turnover of Astrakhan Sea Port company terminal (part of the VTS group of companies) in...

Africa, the last resort for Russia’s grain and fertiliser exports

Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) July 31, 2023 – Western sanctions-hit Russia desperately tries to find new markets for its agricultural production (grain) and...

Sanctions slash the value of Russia’s exports by 33%

Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) July 31, 2023 – The value of Russian export decreased by 33% in Q2’23 compared to the same period last year and by 12%...

Port of Ravenna exports BMWs to the Far East

Ravenna, Italy (Ports Europe) July 30, 2023 – Last April, Terminal Container Ravenna (TCR) started exporting cars and since then has handled around 3,000...

Spanish ports – TEU handled Jan-Jun 2023 – ranking

Madrid, Spain (PortSEurope) July 28, 2023 – Puertos del Estado has published figures for container (TEU) by state-owned ports in the first six months of...

Spanish ports – cargo handled Jan-Jun 2023 – ranking

Madrid, Spain (PortSEurope) July 27, 2023 – Total traffic of the ports that make up the state-owned system n the first half of 2023 reached 274 million...

Spanish ports handled 274 million cargo tonnes in the first half of 2023

Madrid, Spain (PortSEurope) July 27, 2023 – Total traffic of the ports that make up the state-owned system n the first half of 2023 reached 274 million...

Port of Lisbon grows 6.8% in the first four months of 2023

Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) July 26, 2023 – In the first four months of 2023, the Port of Lisbon handled 3.6 million tons of cargo, an increase of...

Portuguese ports report increased cargo traffic of +13.8% in April

Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) July 26, 2023 – In April 2023, Portugal’s mainland commercial port system handled 7.8 million tonnes of cargo, an...

Port of Barcelona sees first-half cargo traffic down -10.6%

Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) July 26, 2023 – In the first half of 2023, the Port of Barcelona handled 32.5 million tonnes of cargo, down -10.6% on the...

Port of Taranto sees decline in first half cargo, June shows promise

Taranto, Italy (PortSEurope) July 26, 2023 – In the first six months of 2023, the Port of Taranto handled 7.07 million tons (mt), down -8.2% on 7.7 mt...

Belarus says Russian ports now used for transshipment

Minsk, Belarus (PortSEurope) July 25, 2023 – A total of 19 Russian ports have been handling cargo from Belarus for transshipment to ultimate...

Port of Antwerp sees first-half cargo traffic down -5.5%

Antwerp, Belgium (PortSEurope) July 24, 2023 – Total cargo throughput of Port of Antwerp-Bruges was 139 million tonnes in the first six months of this...

North Sea Port sees cargo transhipment in the first half of 2023, down -11%

Ghent, Belgium (PortSEurope) July 24, 2023 – North Sea Port recorded 33.4 million tons sea cargo transhipment in the first half of 2023, down -11% (-4.2...

Delo Group joins Russian-Turkish Dialogue Association

Ankara, Turkey (PortSEurope) July 24, 2023 – Russia’s Delo Group has signed an agreement to join the Russian-Turkish Dialogue Association. Delo...

Greece increases LNG imports in first half of 2023

Athens, Greece (PortSEurope) July 24, 2023 – In the first half of 2023, the consumption of natural gas in recorded a -21.74% reduction compared to last...

Bilbao port handled 16.6 million tonnes of cargo in H1’23

Bilbao, Spain (PortSEurope) July 23 – Cargo traffic in the Spanish port of Bilbao in the first six months of the year increased by 3% compared with the same...

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