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Russian ports handled 886 mln tonnes of cargo in 2023

Moscow, Russia (PortSEurope) January 16, 2024 – Russian ports handled the record 886 million tonnes of cargo in 2023 despite Western sanctions, which is...

Trieste Marine Terminal sees 2023 container traffic slightly down

Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) January 16, 2024 – Trieste Marine Terminal SpA handled 742,708 containers (TEU) in 2023, down -1.74% on 755,932 TEU in the...

FESCO transported almost 25,000 TEU with India, China in 2023

St. Petersburg, Russia (Ports Europe) January 16, 2024 – In 2023, FESCO Transport Group transported 24.,00 containers (TEU) as part of the regular sea...

Delo Group terminals in Novorossiysk set transshipment record

Novorossiysk, Russia (Ports Europe) January 16, 2024 – NUTEP container terminal and the KSK grain terminal have both set a record for transshipment...

Port of Lisbon handled over 700,000 cruise passengers in 2023

Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) January 15, 2024 – The Port of Lisbon handled 758,328 cruise passengers in 2023, up +54% in 2022. The previous record was...

València Containerised Freight Index increases in December

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) January 15, 2024 – The València Containerised Freight Index (VCFI) rose by +4.66 in December for the second time in...

PSA International sees TEU traffic up +4.3% in 2023

Singapore (Ports Europe) January 15, 2024 – PSA International (PSA) handled 94.8 million containers (TEUs) in 2023, an increase of +4.3% on the previous...

Port of Koper sees slight fall in cargo traffic in 2023

Koper, Slovenia (Ports Europe) January 12, 2024 – Luka Koper, operator of Koper port, has reported a slight fall in total cargo traffic in 2023, but...

Terminal Container Ravenna reports satisfactory 2023

Ravenna, Italy (Ports Europe) January 11, 2024 – Terminal Container Ravenna (TCR) is expected to end 2023 with container handling of over 190,000 TEU....

Port of Constanta reports 2023 cargo traffic of over 92 mln tons

Constanța, Romania (Ports Europe) January 10, 2024 – The Port of Constanta has reported 2023 cargo traffic of over 92 million tons (mt), compared to...

Port of Antwerp-Bruges reports cargo traffic down -5.5% in 2023

Antwerp, Belgium (Ports Europe) January 10, 2024 – The Port of Antwerp-Bruges has reported total cargo traffic of 271.3 million tonnes, down -5.5% on the...

Update: Belarus exported 18 mln tonnes of cargo through Russian ports in 2023

Minsk, Belarus (Ports Europe) January 9, 2023 – About 18 million tonnes of Belarusian cargo were transported through 20 Russian seaports in 2023, the local...

CPC shipped 63.47 mln tonnes of oil via Novorossiysk in 2023

Novorossiysk, Russia (Ports Europe) January 9, 2024 – Oil shipments at the sea terminal of the Caspian Pipeline Consortium in Russia’s largest port of...

Finnlines develops its Biscay Line

Helsinki, Finland (Ports Europe) January 8, 2024 – Finnlines has announced plans to develop its Biscay Line, which transports rolling goods and connects...

Lebanese Port of Tripoli increases cargo traffic in Jan-Sep 2023

Tripoli, Lebanon (Ports Europe) January 8, 2024 – In January-September 2023, the Lebanese port of Tripoli handled 2.73 million tons of cargo, up +4.52%...

Albanian’s port of Durres handles 154.000 TEUs in Jan-Oct’23

Durres, Albania (Ports Europe) January 6, 2024 – Albania’s Adriatic Seaport Durres (Durrës) container terminal handled 35% more boxes in the first 10...

China ports container volume rises 4.9% from Jan-Nov 2023

China port container volume rose 4.9% from January to November 2023, Ningbo Containerized Freight Index had a significant increase in December 2023 –...

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