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Cargo Traffic Reports

Cargo traffic reports are reports on freight handled by a port, port authority or terminal covering a specific period of time. Often such reports will include statistical information. Sources can be private companies or state-owned enterprises.

38 mln tonnes of cargo via Russia’s Northern Sea Route in 2024

St. Petersburg, Russia (Ports Europe) November 8, 2024 – Cargo transportation along Russia’s Arctic Northern Sea Route (NSR) in 2024 will reach about...

Montenegro seaports see cargo down -3.3% in Q3 2024

Bar, Montenegro (Ports Europe) November 7, 2024 – In the third quarter of 2024, the seaports of Montenegro handled 648,553 tonnes of cargo. This is down...

Turkey: Cruise ships & passengers – January-September 2024

Istanbul, Turkey (Ports Europe) November 7, 2024 – In September 2024, Turkish ports handled 273,814 cruise ship passengers. This compares with 190,593 in...

Algeciras: Total TEU cargo – September 2024

Algeciras, Spain (Ports Europe) November 6, 2024 – Autoridad Portuaria de la Bahía de Algeciras has reported total TEU cargo handling in the port for...

Ukrainian seaports report increased cargo in Jan-Oct 2024

Odessa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) November 5, 2024 – In January-October 2024, Ukrainian ports handled cargo handled 82.1 million tons, up 78.1% from 46.1...

Fourth quarter in a row cargo decline for Russian ports

Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) November 5, 2024 – Cargo turnover at Russian seaports continues to decline: in Q3’2024, transshipment decreased by 1%...

Tunisia: Cargo handled Jan-Sep 2024 – ranked by port

Rades, Tunisia (Ports Europe) November 4, 2024 –  Office de la Marine Marchande et des Ports (OMMP) has reported total cargo handled in...

North Sea Port sees nine-month cargo slightly up

Gent, Belgium (Ports Europe) November 4, 2024 – In the first nine months of 2024, North Sea Port handled 50.3 million tons of seaborne cargo...

Iran: Seaports cargo report – September 2024

Tehran, Iran (Ports Europe) November 4, 2024 – The Iranian Ports and Maritime Organisation (PMO) has reported Iran’s port cargo statistics for...

European Union: Inland waterway cargo traffic down again in 2023

Brussels, Belgium (Ports Europe) November 4, 2024 – In 2023, cargo transport on EU inland waterways was down by 4.6% (or 6 million...

Tunisia: Seaports – Cargo – Jan-Sept 2024

Rades, Tunisia (Ports Europe) November 4, 2024 – In January-September 2024, Tunisian seaports handled 20.55 million tonnes (mt) of cargo. This compares...

Beirut: Cargo traffic – September 2024

Beirut, Lebanon (Ports Europe) November 3, 2024 – In September 2024, total cargo traffic was 450,000 tons, compared with 496,000 tons in the same month...

Beirut: Container (TEU) traffic – September 2024

Beirut, Lebanon (Ports Europe) November 3, 2024 – In September 2024, the Port of Beirut handled 61,558 TEU containers, compared to 69,609 TEU in the...

Chinese ports handled 248.5 million TEUs, up 7.7% – Jan-Sep 2024

Hong Kong, China (Ports Europe) November 1, 2024 – In the first nine months of 2024, Chinese ports handled 2.48.5 million TEUs, up 7.7% on the same...

Piraeus Port Authority, Q3 2024 cargo volumes

Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) October 31, 2024 – The cruise sector grew traffic with a number of ships rising (+9.2%) and the total number of passengers...

Albanian seaports see cargo traffic up in Q3 2024

Durrës, Albania (Ports Europe) October 30, 2024 – In Q3 2024, Albanian seaports handled 1.92 million tons (mt) of cargo, up 12.3% on the same period of...

2024 cargo: 1 mln tonnes for Olya, 4.3 mln tonnes for Astrakhan, Russia

Astrakhan, Russia (Ports Europe) October 30, 2024 – The still-under-construction Russia’s Caspian Sea port of Olya (Astrakhan region) will reach a...

Russia’s ports handled 4.1 mln TEUs in Jan-Sep’24

Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) October 27 – There are two different estimates of Russian container turnover for January-September. According to the...

COSCO SHIPPING Ports (Spain) – TEU traffic – Q3 2024

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) October 26, 2024 – COSCO SHIPPING Ports (Spain) Terminals S.L.U. (CSP Spain) has published container (TEU) traffic for...

Beirut: Container (TEU) traffic – August 2024

Beirut, Lebanon (Ports Europe) October 26, 2024 – In August 2024, total TEU traffic was 69,609, compared with 89,492 in the same month of 2023, a...

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