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Koper port’s cargo traffic falls slightly in Q1

Koper, Slovenia (Ports Europe) April 15, 2019 – Koper port handled 5.919 million tonnes of cargo in the first quarter of 2019, down from 6.077 million...

Puertos del Estado reports February 2019 cargo figures by port authority

Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) April 10, 2019 – Puertos del Estado, the state-run ports system, reports February 2019 cargo traffic (tonnes) statistics by port...

Huelva port’s cargo traffic rises 14% y/y in Q1

Huelva, Spain (Ports Europe) April 9, 2019 – Huelva port closed the first quarter of 2019 with a total traffic of 8.9 million tonnes, up 14% on the...

Hapag-Lloyd cancels calls in Cagliari port

Cagliari, Italy (Ports Europe) April 4, 2019 – Hapag-Lloyd has confirmed the cancellation of the port of Cagliari from the network of its maritime services,...

Naples, Salerno ports container traffic rises 8.4% in Jan-Feb 2019

Naples, Italy (Ports Europe) April 3, 2019 – Naples and Salerno ports handled a total of 164,000 TEUs of container traffic in the first two months of 2019,...

Vigo port’s traffic rises 4.8% in February

Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) March 29, 2019 – Autoridad Portuaria de Vigo (APV – Port Authority of Vigo) president Enrique López Veiga has said that...

Bilbao port reaches 2020 traffic target ahead of schedule

Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) March 26, 2019 – Bilbao port has already reached the traffic forecast for 2020, after closing 2018 with 35.6 million tonnes, but...

Koper port increases export capacity to Austria businesses

Koper, Slovenia (Ports Europe) March 21, 2019 – At a business event near Koper, 26 Austrian companies active in the logistics, transport, IT and civil...

Ukrainian seaports increased cargo handling by 2.5 million tons in January-February 2018

Odessa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) March 15, 2019 – In the first two months of 2019, Ukrainian ports processed more than 23 million tons of cargo, up 2.5...

Barcelona port’s Terminal Port Nou carries out project cargo operation

Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) March 14, 2019 – Barcelona port’s Terminal Port Nou carried out on March 12 the unloading of a project cargo load of 96...

Tuscany ports’ cargo traffic rises 7.3% in 2018

Livorno, Italy (Ports Europe) March 12, 2019 – Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Tirreno Settentrionale (AdSP – North Tyrrhenian Sea Port...

Romanian seaports register increased cargo traffic in 2018

Constanta, Romania (Ports Europe) March 12, 2019 – Romania’s seaports handled 49.1 million tonnes of cargo in 2018, up 6.3% on 2017. Constanta port,...

Azerbaijan, Georgia, Romania, Turkmenistan to promote Black Sea-Caspian Sea multimodal corridor

Bucharest, Romania (Ports Europe) March 6, 2019 – The foreign ministers of Romania, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Turkmenistan have signed a declaration for...

Madeira port see slight increase in 2018 cargo traffic

Funchal, Madeira, Portugal (Ports Europe) March 6, 2019 – Total traffic handled by the ports of Madeira in 2018 was 1.42 million tonnes, up 1% on the...

AdSP del Mare Adriatico (Ancona) reports improved 2018 traffic numbers

Ancona, Italy (Ports Europe) March 4, 2019 – Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mare Adriatico (AdSP – Central Adriatic Sea Port Authority) has...

Ortona port cargo traffic declines 2% in 2018

Ortona, Italy (Ports Europe) March 4, 2019 – Ortona port handled 1.013 million tonnes of cargo in 2018, down 2%, mainly due to a 7% decline in solid bulk. ...

Russian transport projects that will help Azerbaijan’s ports

Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) February 28, 2019 – In February, the Russian government has published detailed information on Russian national projects...

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