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Port of Brindisi see positive cargo traffic trend in February

Brindisi, Italy (Ports Europe) March 16, 2021 – Commercial traffic in the port of Brindisi is growing, especially in the number of trucks and...

Porto Torres in Sardinia hit hard by Covid pandemic in 2020

Porto Torres, Sardinia, Italy (Ports Europe) March 16, 2021 – The reduction of the routes to and from Sardinia due to the Covid-19 coronavirus crisis...

Port of the Bay of Cádiz sees total traffic up over 13% in Jan-Feb 2021

Cádiz, Spain (Ports Europe) March 15, 2021 – The Port of the Bay of Cádiz has reported that freight traffic increased by 13.27% to reach 806,469 tons...

Port of Barcelona container traffic up 18% in Jan-Feb 2021

Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) March 11, 2021 – During the months of January and February, the Port of Barcelona saw container traffic up 18% compared...

Port of Ferrol-San Cibrao sees cargo traffic exceed business plan for 2020

Ferrol, Spain (Ports Europe) March 9, 2021 – The Ferrol-San Cibrao Port Authority ended 2020 with a substantially better result than expected in its...

Ports of Genoa see cargo traffic down -6.3% in January 2021

Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) March 9, 2021 – Commercial traffic in the ports of Genoa in January 2021 was 5,029,731 tonnes down -6.3% compared to the same...

Port of Ravenna sees January 2021 cargo traffic up 4.1%

Ravenna, Italy (Ports Europe) March 4, 2021 – Total cargo handled by Port of Ravenna in January 2021 was 1.91 million tons, up 4.1% (75,439 tons)...

AdSP del Mare Adriatico Meridionale sees ports recovery

Bari, Italy (Ports Europe) March 2, 2021 – AdSP – Southern Adriatic Sea Port Authority has reported a positive start to the year for traffic at its...

Ningbo Containerized Freight Index keep rising in February

In January of 2021, the container throughput of Chinese ports have a increase of 13% compared with the same month last year, and the Ningbo Containerized...

Sharp decrease of oil cargo in Russian ports in Azov and Black Seas in January

Novorossiysk, Russia (Ports Europe) February 28 – Cargo turnover in Russia’s ports in the Azov Sea-Black Sea basin in January decreased by 15.2%...

Spain: Total cargo handled by port authority – January 2021

Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) February 26, 2021 – Puertos del Estado has reported total cargo traffic of Spanish state-owned ports in January 2021 of...

Spanish port system sees traffic down 7.7% in January

Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) February 26, 2021 – Puertos del Estado has reported that in January 2020, Spain’s state-owned ports handled 42.29...

Port of Barcelona turnover down 20% in 2020 and traffic down 11.9%

Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) February 26, 2021 – The Port of Barcelona has reported turnover of €139 million in 2020, 20% less than in 2019, when it...

Port of A Coruña see cargo traffic rise in January 2021

Coruña, Spain (Ports Europe) February 24, 2021 – In January 2021, Port of ACoruña recorded total cargo traffic of 1,03 million tonnes, compared with...

Port of Vigo sees over 9% rise in cargo traffic in January 2021

Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) February 23, 2021 – The Port of Vigo located in Pontevedra, Galicia, registered an increase of +9.47% in merchandise traffic...

Total cargo handled by Italian ports – 2019/2020

Rome, Italy (Ports Europe) February 22, 2021 – The Italian port association, Assoporti, has published the total cargo figures for 2019/2020 for the...

Morocco’s ports see cargo traffic down 7.7% in January

Casablanca, Morocco (Ports Europe) February 20, 2021 – Cargo traffic at Morocco’s ports recorded a total of 7.5 million tonnes for January 2021, down...

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