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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.

Danube cargo returns to Izmail port

Izmail, Ukraine (Ports Europe) June 8, 2022 – At the May, a river-bound caravan comprising the self-propelled vessel “Captain Shirkov” and...

Port of Almería sees January-April cargo traffic up over 7%

Almería, Spain (Ports Europe) June 8, 2022 – In the period January-April 2022, the port of Almería registered total cargo traffic of 1.2 million...

Bosphorus Strait traffic hit by Russian invasion of Ukraine

Istanbul, Turkey (Ports Europe) June 6, 2022 – In March 2022, cargo shipping traffic using the Bosphorus Strait dropped significantly; this was the first...

Traffic jam of Ukrainian grain ships in the small Romania’s Black Sea port of Sulina

Sulina, Romania (Ports Europe) June 4, 2022 – Dozens of Ukrainian barges, mostly carrying grain, are waiting for hours and days to enter the small...

The two most sanctioned countries try to cheat the West via a logistics bridge across Caspian Sea

Astrakhan, Russia (Ports Europe) June 3, 2022 – The two most sanctioned countries in the world – Russia and Iran – are trying to improve transport links...

Port of Vigo handles record number of containers in April

Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) June 3, 2022 – In the first four months of 2022, the Port of Vigo handled 71,361 TEU, up +10.4% on the same period of 2021. By...

Albanian ports see reduced cargo traffic in April 2022

Durrës, Albania (Ports Europe) June 2, 2022 – In April 2022, ports in Albania handled 425,800 tonnes of cargo, down -5.7% on the same month of the...

Port of Taranto rejects Yilport business plan

Taranto, Italy (Ports Europe) June 2, 2022 – The Port Authority of the Ionian Sea-Port of Taranto (AdSP) has rejected a revised business plan from...

15% less cargo handled by the Russian port of Azov in first five months of 2022

Azov, Russia (Ports Europe) June 2, 2022 – Cargo turnover of Russia’s Port of Azov in January-May of 2022 was 2.7 million tonnes, 15% lower than in the...

Turkey: Cruise ship & passenger statistics 2021-April 2022

Istanbul, Turkey (Ports Europe) June 2, 2022 – The Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure has published cruise ship and passengers statistics. The...

Port of Piraeus forecasts positive cruise ship season

Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) June 1, 2022 – Piraeus Port Authority is forecasting the arrival of 750 cruise ships in the 2022 season, of which 66% will...

Port of Venice sees cargo recovery in first quarter

Venice, Italy (Ports Europe) June 1, 2022 – In the first quarter of 2022, the Port of Venice registered total cargo traffic of over 6.37 million tonnes,...

New opportunities for freight traffic through the port of Constanta, presented in Budapest

The potential of the Port of Constanta and container transport on the Danube between Central European countries and the Black Sea and Caspian Sea area was...

Port of Livorno sees cargo down over 14% in first quarter

Livorno, Italy (Ports Europe) May 31, 2022 – The port system of Livorno-Piombino ended the first quarter with a total handling of 9.5 million tons of...

Ports of Genoa sees total cargo up +4.3% in April

Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) May 31, 2022 – In April, the growth in volumes that had been consolidated in the first quarter slowed down considerably. In...

Luka Koper – Cargo throughput in January – March 2022

Koper, Slovenia (Ports Europe) May 30, 2022 – Luka Koper d.d. has published the Non-audited Report on the Performance of Luka Koper d.d. and Luka Koper...

Port of Vigo cargo traffic fell by 11% year-on-year in April

Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) May 27, 2022 – Total cargo traffic of the Port of Vigo fell by 11% year-on-year in April weighed down by the situation in the...

The Container Port Performance Index 2021- World Bank

London, United Kingdom (Ports Europe) May 27, 2022 – The World Bank has published its “TRANSPORT GLOBAL PRACTICE – The Container Port...

Poland’s port of ÅšwinoujÅ›cie exports Ukrainian iron ore

Warsaw, Poland (Ports Europe) May 25, 2022 – Poland’s port of ÅšwinoujÅ›cie has exported a shipment of Ukrainian iron ore destined for Algeria. OT...

Impact of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on the port of Rotterdam

The war in Ukraine has prompted the European Union and other bodies to impose a number of sanctions on Russia – May 23, 2022 The extensive import of...

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