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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 La Spezia increases use of rail transport in 2021

La Spezia, Italy (Ports Europe) January 14, 2022 – The Port of La Spezia increased the usage of trains by 11% compared to 2020, and by 6.6% against 2019....

Trieste Marine Terminal handled a total of 652,319 TEU in 2021, down -5.2%

Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) January 14, 2022 – In 2021 Trieste Marine Terminal srl (TMT) handled a total of 652,319 TEU, down -5.2% compared to 2020....

Ukraine’s Nibulon ships over 5.64 million tons of agricultural products in 2021

Yuzhny, Ukraine (Ports Europe) January 14, 2022 – Grain trader Nibulon handled more than 5.64 million tons of agricultural products in 2021. A number of...

Port of Koper sees 2021 cargo traffic up +7%

Koper, Slovenia (Ports Europe) January 14, 2022 – Total maritime throughout in 2021 was 20.8 million tons, up +7% (19.5 million) on the previous 12...

Singapore Closes 2021 with Record Container Throughput of 37.5 Million TEUs

The Port of Singapore remained open and connected to the world in 2021 despite the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Singapore’s port performance saw a record high...

North Sea Port aiming for full recovery in 2022

With nearly 69 million tons of seaborne cargo transhipped in 2021, North Sea Port grew 9% compared to the Covid year of 2020. Indeed, transhipment via inland...

Cargo volume via Northern Sea Route was 35 mln tons in 2021

Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) January 12, 2022 – The cargo volume on the Northern Sea Route (NSR) in 2021 was 34.85 million tons. This is nearly 2...

Port of Huelva ends 2021 with cargo traffic of over 30.5 million tons, +2.5%

Huelva, Spain (Ports Europe) January 13, 2022 – The Port of Huelva has ended 2021 with a total volume of port traffic of over 30.5 million tons, an...

Odesa Sea Trade Port handled 22.56 million tonnes of cargo in 2021, down -3.4%

Odessa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) January 13, 2022 – Odesa Sea Trade Port handled 22.56 million tonnes of cargo in 2021, a reduction of -3.4% compared to...

A bridge over the Strait of Messina subject to study

Messina, Italy (Ports Europe) January 12, 2022 – The Minister of Sustainable Infrastructures and Mobility (Mims), Enrico Giovannini, has reported that...

Ukraine’s Pivdennyi port sees cargo traffic up over 34% in 2021

Odessa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) January 12, 2022 – In January-December  2021, the port of Pivdennyi handled 53.47 million tons of...

Tanger Med handled 7.17 million TEU in 2021, up 24%

Tangier, Morocco (Ports Europe) January 12, 2022 – The Tanger Med Port Authority has reported that the facility handled 7,173,870 TEUs in 2021, up a huge...

New UK-Morocco cargo sea service avoids Brexit red tape

London, United Kingdom (Ports Europe) January 12, 2022 – United Seaways has launched a weekly Ro-Ro service directly linking Poole on the Southern coast...

Port of Olbia sees transshipment up over 30% in 2021

Odessa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) January 11, 2022 – Last year, the Port of Olbia transhipped 5.15 million tons of cargo, 1.24 million tons more than in the...

Total cargo traffic on the Dnieper river in 2021 up over 27%

Kiev, Ukraine (Ports Europe) January 11, 2022 – Last year the Dnieper river handled total cargo traffic of 14.36 million tons, up +27.9% on 2020’s...

Salerno Container Terminal ends 2021 with 316,176 TEU handled, +2%

Salerno, Italy (Ports Europe) January 11, 2022 – Salerno Container Terminal (SCT) ended 2021 with 316,176 TEU handled, an increase of +2.06% compared to...

Analysis laboratory to be established at Samsun Port, Turkey

Samsun, Turkey (Ports Europe) January 10, 2022 – Samsun Provincial Director of Agriculture and Forestry, İbrahim Sağlam, has said that 10 analysis...

Leixões Cruise Terminal forecasts 143 cruise ship visits by the end of 2022

Leixões, Portugal (Ports Europe) January 10, 2022 – The Leixões Cruise Terminal received, January 2, the visit of the ship AIDAsol, which is the first...

PSA Genova Pra’ to introduce container surcharge

Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) January 10, 2022 – Many ports globally are being blocked by the increasing number of containers (TEU) stored at their...

Morocco’s ports forecast pre-Covid cargo traffic in 2022

Casablanca, Morocco (Ports Europe) January 10, 2022 – The Conseil d’Administration of the state-owned Agence Nationale des Ports (ANP), the...

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