Las Palmas ports regular passenger traffic rises 3% in 2018
Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain (PortSEurope) February 21, 2019 – Las Palmas ports registered a 3% increase in passenger traffic on regular lines during the…
Port of Figueira da Foz records small decrease in cargo in 2018
Figueira da Foz, Portugal (PortSEurope) February 21, 2019 - In 2018, the port of Figueira da Foz handled 2.3 million tons of cargo, a decrease…
Santander port expects 4,500 cruise passengers in 2019
Santander, Spain (PortSEurope) February 20, 2019 – Santander port expects the arrival of more than 4,500 cruise passengers this year. There are five calls confirmed…
Cádiz port maintains 4 million tons in 2018 despite reduced MSC cargo
Cádiz, Spain (PortSEurope) February 20, 2019 - Autoridad Portuaria de la Bahía de Cádiz (APBC - Port Authority of Cadiz) has reported it maintained 4…
Livorno port reports record traffic in 2018
Livorno, Italy (PortSEurope) February 19, 2019 - Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Tirreno Settentrionale (AdSP - North Tyrrhenian Sea Port Authority) has report initial…
Cruise business starts return to Odessa port
Odessa, Ukraine (PortSEurope) February 19, 2019 - The Greek company Aegean Experience Maritime Co Ltd and the German Phoenix Reisen company will both send cruise…
Tunisian ports see 7% increase in 2018 cargo traffic
Tunis, Tunisia (PortSEurope) February 18, 2019 - The total volume of commercial activity in Tunisian commercial seaports was 30.7 million tons in 2018, a rise…
Tarragona port ends 2018 with slightly lower revenue and traffic
Tarragona, Spain (PortSEurope) February 18, 2019 - Autoridad Portuaria de Tarragona (APT - Port Authority of Tarragona) has reported that in 2018 the port handled…
Bilbao port sees traffic up 4% in 2018
Bilbao, Spain (PortSEurope) February 17, 2019 - In 2018, traffic in Bilbao port (excluding local traffic and supplies) was 35.6 million tonnes, up 4% on 2017,…
Almería port’s passenger traffic rises 2.5% in January
Almería, Spain (PortSEurope) February 15, 2019 – Almería port started 2019 with an increase of 2.5% in the movement of passengers while the number of vehicles…
Suez Canal to double annual revenue by 2023
Suez, Egypt (PortSEurope) February 15, 2019 – The new channel of the Suez Canal, opened in August 2015, has paid off in the shortest possible…
Valencia port handles one of every three containers that move through Spain
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) February 15, 2019 – A total of 30.12% of the containers that are loaded and unloaded in the 46 state-owned ports in Spain…
Spain: Puertos del Estado – 2018 cargo traffic by port authority
Madrid, Spain (PortSEurope) February 14, 2019 - Puertos del Estado, the state-run ports system, reports December 2018 cargo traffic (tonnes) statistics by port authority, including…
Russia’s NCSP Group reports cargo turnover down 2.3% in 2018
Novorossiysk, Russia (PortSEurope) February 14, 2019 - NCSP Group, a Russian port operator, has reported that cargo turnover for 2018 was 140.209 million tons, down…
Gijón port records highest percentage decline in cargo traffic in Spain last year
Gijón, Spain (PortSEurope) February 14, 2019 – Gijón port was the Spanish port with the highest percentage decline in cargo traffic, of -9.8%, surpassed only by the…
Salerno port’s ro-ro traffic declines in 2018 but prospects are positive
Salerno, Italy (PortSEurope) February 14, 2019 – Salerno port's ro-ro traffic declined by 5% to 7.73 million units in 2018, down from 8.175 million in the…
Santander port’s growth exceeds Spain’s average in 2018
Santander, Spain (PortSEurope) February 14, 2019 – A 6.4% increase in cargo and passenger traffic in Santander port is double the national average of port agency…
Malaga-Melilla connection increases by 31.2% in January 2019
News - Malagaport - Malaga-Melilla connection increases by 31.2% in January 2019 The Malaga-Melilla regular line continues its growth in the port area during the…
Spain’s state ports see cargo rise by 3.3% in 2018
Madrid, Spain (PortSEurope) February 13, 2019 - Provisional data shows that the 46 state-owned ports handled 563,475,196 tons of cargo in 2018, up 3.3% on…
Rijeka port’s container traffic rises 8.1% in 2018
Rijeka, Croatia (PortSEurope) February 13, 2019 – Rijeka port's container traffic rose 8.1% in 2018 to a record-high 227,375 TEUs, with more than 200,000 TEUs handled…