Cargo
All aspects of cargo handling by ports. Includes imports, exports, storage and traffic numbers.
Leixoes port cargo traffic rises 12% in Jan 2017
Leixoes, Portugal (Ports Europe) February 28, 2017 – The month of January was the best in recent years at the Leixoes port, registering the handling of 1.625...
Madeira ports cargo traffic rises in 2016
Funchal, Portugal (Ports Europe) February 28, 2017 – Madeira ports 1.354 million tonnes of cargo in 2016, up 5% on the year. Containerised cargo traffic...
Aviles port cargo traffic rises 12% in Jan 2017
Aviles, Spain (Ports Europe) February 27, 2017 – Aviles port handled 393,094 tonnes of cargo in January, up 11.9% on the year. The main reason behind the...
Vigo port cargo traffic rises 4% in Jan 2017
Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) February 27, 2017 – Vigo port cargo traffic rose by 3.91% on the year in January to 290,739 tonnes, Vigo port authority...
ZIM unveils restructured network
Haifa, Israel (Ports Europe) February 27, 2017 – ZIM has announced details of its new ZIM MED PACIFIC (ZMP) service, commencing April 2017. ...
Full year result at Marseille Fos reflects wide-ranging strategy
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) February 27, 2017 – Total 2016 cargo of 81 million tonnes at Marseille Fos was on a par with 2015 throughput in a year...
Algeciras port cargo traffic rises by 3.7% Y/Y in Jan 2017
Algeciras, Spain (Ports Europe) February 23, 2017 – Algeciras port handled 8.8 million tonnes of cargo in January, up 3.7% on the year. Container traffic...
Bilbao port expects 2% rise in cargo traffic in 2017
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) February 23, 2017 – Bilbao port expects to close 2017 with a 2% increase in cargo traffic compared to 2016, a year in which...
Nika-Tera port doubles cargo traffic in Jan 2017
Mykolaiv, Ukraine (Ports Europe) February 22, 2017 – Ukrainian private port Nika-Tera, located near Mykolaiv, handled a total of 330,500 tonnes of cargo in...
A Coruna port cargo traffic rises 21% in Jan 2017
A Coruna, Spain (Ports Europe) February 21, 2017 – A Coruna port handled 1.28 million tonnes of cargo in January, up 21.28% from 1.03 million tonnes in...
Russia’s NCSP cargo volumes up in January 2017
Novorossiysk, Russia (Ports Europe) February 21, 2017 – NCSP (Novorossiysk Commercial Sea Port) group has reported that consolidated cargo turnover for...
Marin port processes 715 tonnes of waste in 2016
Marin, Spain (Ports Europe) February 20, 2017 – Marin port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Marín) processed 715 tonnes of waste in 2016, as a result...
Castellon port books record-high traffic in Jan 2017
Castellon, Spain (Ports Europe) February 20, 2017 – Castellon port recorded the best January in terms of cargo traffic in its history. The cargo traffic...
Aveiro port seeks diversification to offset decline in cement traffic
Aveiro, Portugal (Ports Europe) February 20, 2017 – Aveiro port’s cargo traffic declined in 2016, in contradiction to the general growth of...
Suez Canal sees record number and tonnages of crossing vessels.
Port Said, Egypt (Ports Europe) February 20, 2017 – Vice admiral Mohab Mameesh, head of the Suez Canal authority has said that Suez Canal navigational...
90% of Egypt trade volume with the world crosses through maritime ports
Alexandria, Egypt (Ports Europe) February 20, 2017 – Dr. Galal Mustafa Said, transport minister said that 90% of Egypt trade volume with the world...
Oran port reports increase in export operations in 2016
Oran, Algeria (Ports Europe) February 18, 2017 – The port of Oran reported a significant increase in export operations in 2016 compared with last year....
Valencia port cargo traffic rises in January
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) February 17, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) said the total cargo traffic of the three...
A Coruna port cargo traffic declines in 2016
A Coruna, Spain (Ports Europe) February 14, 2017 – A Coruna port handled 13.9 million tonnes of cargo in 2016, down 1.65% on the year. General cargo...
Taganrog port cargo traffic rises in Jan 2016
Taganrog, Russia (Ports Europe) February 13, 2016 – Taganrog port handled 180,900 tonnes of cargo in the first month of 2016, up 9.6% on the year. Traffic of...