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EU, U.S., Australia and Japan no longer top importers from Russia

Moscow, Russia (PortSEurope) June 12, 2023 – All European countries, the United States, Australia and Japan dropped out of the top 10 cargo importers via...

Russian seaports handled 379 million tonnes of cargo in Jan-May’23

Moscow, Russia (PortSEurope) June 12, 2023 – Cargo turnover of Russian seaports in the January-May 2023 period increased by 11.2% compared to the first five...

41% growth in Russia-China trade turnover in Jan-May’23

Beijing, China (PortSEurope) June 8, 2023 – Trade turnover between Russia and China in the first five months of 2023 increased in dollar terms by 40.7%...

Russian port capacity reached 1.3 billion tonnes

Moscow, Russia (PortSEurope) June 8, 2023 – The total capacity of the Russian sea ports is 1.3 billion tonnes per year, according to Ruslan Mukhametov,...

Port of Beirut reports slight rise in February TEU traffic

Beirut, Lebanon (PortSEurope) June 5, 2023 – The port of Beirut has reported a slight rise in total container (TEU) handling of 58,537 TEU in February...

Belarus dodging sanctions via ports of sanctioned Russia

Minsk, Belarus (Ports Europe) May 31, 2023 – International sanction-hit Belarus has managed to establish transport and logistics schemes for the delivery of...

Surprising decline in Georgia’s port cargo handling

Poti, Georgia (Ports Europe) May 31, 2023 – Georgian ports handled 3.5 million tonnes of cargo in the first quarter of 2023, which is -17.8% less than in...

EUROGATE Tanger reports TEU traffic down in Q1 2023

Tanger Med, Morocco (Ports Europe) May 30, 2023 – EUROGATE Tanger has reported TEU traffic of 583,262 TEU in the first quarter of 2023, down -3.6% on the...

Contship Italia sees TEU traffic down over -16% in Q1 2023

Milan, Italy (Ports Europe) May 29, 2023 – In the first three months of 2023, Contship Italia’s terminals handled 358,402 containers (TEU), down...

QTerminals Antalya handles cargo of 350,000 tonnes in March

Antalya, Turkey (Ports Europe) May 26, 2023 – QTerminals Antalya, which has an annual capacity of 4 million tons of general and bulk cargo, broke the...

Port of Barcelona sees Jan-Apr cargo traffic down -11.4%

Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) May 24, 2023 – In January-April 2023, the Port of Barcelona has reported total cargo of 20.65 million tons, down -11.4%...

Spanish port traffic exceeds 181 mln tons in the first four months

Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) May 23, 2023 – Cargo traffic at Spanish state ports was 181.51 million tons in the first four months of 2023, a decrease of...

Ports of Civitavecchia and Lazio see cargo up +3.2% in Q1 2023

Civitavecchia, Italy (Ports Europe) May 19, 2023 – In the first quarter of 2023, the Ports of Civitavecchia and Lazio handled a total of 3.42 million...

Port of Venice cargo down -3.6% on annual basis

Venice, Italy (Ports Europe) May 18, 2023 – Between April 2022 and March 2023, the Port of Venice handled 24,220,555 tons of cargo, down -3.6%...

HHLA sees container traffic down over 18% in Q1 2023

Hamburg, Germany (Ports Europe) May 15, 2023 – In the first quarter of 2023, container throughput at HHLA’s container terminals decreased overall by...

Montenegro seaport trade down over 15% in Q1, 2023

Bar, Montenegro (Ports Europe) May 15, 2023 – In the first three months of 2023, the seaports of Montenegro handled 544,591 tonnes of cargo, compared to...

Russian seaports handled 300.5 million tonnes of cargo Jan-Apr’23

Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) May 14, 2023 – Cargo turnover of Russian seaports in the January-April 2023 period increased by 11.6% compared to the same...

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