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Goods or merchandise conveyed in a ship, railway, road, inland waterway involving a port. Includes containers, general, solid, liquid, general and project cargo. Also includes regular traffic statistics includes monthly, quarterly and annual port traffic statistics. This will include imports and exports.

New European assets add to container traffic for CMPort of China

Hong Kong, China (Ports Europe) June 25, 2020 – Deng Renjie, Executive Vice President of China Merchants Group Limited and the Chairman of the Board of...

Valenciaport traffic reflects the slowdown in the economy during the months of confinement due to the Covid-19 crisis

Valenciaport managed close to 400,000 containers in May, 19.68% less than in the same month of 2019. In the accumulated index for the year, activity decreased...

Algeciras port sees total traffic down 4.82% in Jan-May 2020

Algeciras, Spain (Ports Europe) June 23, 2020 – In the period January-May 2020, total throughput at Algeciras port was 44.423 million tons, compared to...

First overseas car freighter with low-emission LNG propulsion in service for Volkswagen Group

News Release – Volkswagen AG – Premiere in Emden: For the first time, vehicles from Europe will be transported from Europe to North and Central...

Jaguar Land Rover vehicles arrive in Koper port for export

Koper, Slovenia (Ports Europe) June 22, 2020 – A train carrying 198 cars of Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has arrived today at Koper port’s Car &...

Ukrainian ports increase Jan-May 2020 cargo by 11%

Odessa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) June 18, 2020 – In the first five months of 2020, port operators in the seaports of Ukraine handled 68.1 million...

Freight traffic falls 17.2% in Barcelona port in first five months of the year

Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) June 18, 2020 – Freight traffic in the Port of Barcelona totalled 23.75 million tons in the first five months of the...

NCSP sees near 17% drop in revenue in Q1 2020

Novorossiysk, Russia (Ports Europe) June 16, 2020 – NCSP Group has announced its consolidated financial results for the three months to 31 March 2020....

Danube river cargo volumes not affected by the COVID-19 pandemic

Persenbeug, Austria (Ports Europe) June 16, 2020 – There was no reduction in cargo ships traffic in the Danube river, during the three months of quarantine,...

COSCO SHIPPING Ports reports container throughput down 3.7% in May

Hong Kong, China (Ports Europe) June 16, 2020 – COSCO SHIPPING Ports Ltd has published container (TEU) throughput for May 2020, which records total...

Ports of Genoa: Covid-19 Update – Issue 20/2020 – The pandemic is leaving Europe, but concerns remain

Global Economic TrendsThe OECD in its latest Economic Outlook reveals the projected impact the COVID-19 pandemic will have on global GDP in 2020. When assuming...

French ports handle disproportionately small cargo volumes compared to Italian and Spanish competitors

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) June 15, 2020 – French ports lag significantly behind their Spanish and Italian counterparts in gross weight of seaborne goods...

Cádiz port sees Jan-May traffic growth

Cádiz, Spain (Ports Europe) June 14, 2020 – Total cargo traffic at Autoridad Portuaria de la Bahía de Cádiz (APBC – Port Authority of Cadiz) in...

Turkish ports: Total cargo handling down over 3.87% in May 2020

Istanbul, Turkey (Ports Europe) June 11, 2020 – Total cargo handling at Turkish ports in May 2020 totalled 37.81 million tons, down 1.52 million tons on...

Trieste Marine Terminal reports improved May TEU traffic

Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) June 11, 2020 – Trieste Marine Terminal srl (TMT) has reported May 2020 TEU handling of 63,002, compared to April (56,373)...

NCSP Group’s consolidated cargo turnover for Jan–Apr 2020 totalled 45.9 mln tons

Novorossiysk, Russia (Ports Europe) June 10, 2020 – NCSP Group has reported that cargo turnover of NCSP Group for January–April 2020 grew by 1.7%...

Berdyansk and Mariupol ports show an increase in cargo handling in Q1 2020

Despite the corona crisis and difficult working conditions associated with the immediate vicinity of the environmental protection zone, Berdyansk and Mariupol...

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