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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.

Cargo handling record for Santander in Jan-Nov’23

Santander, Spain (Ports Europe) December 26, 2023 – The northern Spanish port of Santander achieved its record cargo handling result in the January-November...

Trieste Marine Terminal increased TEU traffic in November 2023

Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) December 21, 2023 – In November 2023, Trieste Marine Terminal (TMT) increased traffic in containers (TEU) by 1% to 56.383...

Red Sea crisis sends world’s largest TEU ship to Las Palmas port

Algeciras, Spain (Ports Europe) December 20, 2023 – Attacks by Houthi rebels on shipping in the Red Sea have led ships to seek alternative routes to...

How much cargo is handled in Makhachkala port?

Makhachkala, Russia (PortSEurope) December 20, 2023 – Different organisations and authorities in Russia report very different port cargo handling figures....

Port of Venice sees cargo traffic down -6.7% in 2023

Venice, Italy (Ports Europe) December 20, 2023 – In 2023, the Port of Venice recorded a -6.7% decrease in cargo handling which totalled 23 million...

Barcelona port traffic consolidates in November 2023

Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) December 19, 2023 – Between January and November, the Port of Barcelona had a total traffic of 59 million tonnes of cargo...

Valenciaport increased traffic by 19.31% in November 2023

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) December 19, 2023 – Valenciaport increased cargo traffic by 19.31% in November 2023 and has three months of consecutive...

Port of Rotterdam starts imports of avocados from Rwanda

Rotterdam, Netherlands (Ports Europe) December 15, 2023 – On 27 November, the first reefer container with avocados arrived at Avor in the Dutch town of...

Russian ports handled 811.9 mln tonnes of cargo in Jan-Nov 23

Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) December 14, 2023 – Cargo handled by Russian seaports in the January-November period increased by 5.7% compared to the first 11...

Malta Freeport reports record container handling

Valletta, Malta (Ports Europe) December 14, 2023 – Malta Freeport Terminals has reported a record 14,600 moves on containership Palais Royal, a ship of...

Ukraine exports more grain via inland ports in 2023

Kiev, Ukraine (Ports Europe) December 13, 2023 – Cargo turnover of Ukrainian inland ports of the Danube region in January-November 2023 was 29.4 million...

Kazakh ports’ cargo statistics for Jan-Nov don’t make sense

Aktau, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) December 13, 2023 – Cargo turnover of Kazakhstan’s Caspian Sea ports increased by 10% to 6.5 million tonnes in the...

Romanian seaports handled 49.3 mln cargo tonnes in Jan-Sept 2023

Constanța, Romania (Ports Europe) December 12, 2023 – Romanian seaports handled 49.3 million tonnes (mt) of cargo in January-September 2023. This was up...

Kazakhstan increase oil exports via Port of Aktau

Aktau, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) December 11, 2023 – In January-November 2023, Kazakhstan exported 3.62 million tons of oil via the port of Aktau. This...

Constanta targets 4 mln tonnes/month of Ukrainian grain

Constanta, Romania (Ports Europe) December 11, 2023 – Romania is steadily progressing toward its goal of increasing the monthly processing transit...

Port of Santander starts importing Suzuki vehicles

Santander, Spain (Ports Europe) December 8, 2023 – The Port of Santander has started importing Suzuki vehicles with the first delivery of cars from...

Singapore’s PSA invests €100 million in its Italian terminals

Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) December 7, 2023 – Singapore-based PSA International invested over €100 million in its Italian terminals in 2023, according...

EU ports rebounding from pandemic disruptions

News – EUROSTAT – EU ports rebounding from pandemic disruptions – December 5, 2023 In 2022, the total gross weight of seaborne freight...

PSA Genoa Pra terminal sees slight drop in container traffic in 2023

Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) December 6, 2023 – The PSA terminal in Genoa Pra’ will end 2023 with container traffic of 1.4 million TEUs, down -3%...

Port of Ravenna becomes leading BMW exporter

Ravenna, Italy (Ports Europe) December 4, 2023 – The Port of Ravenna is becoming leading BMW exporter, handling over 20,000 cars since April. Last March,...

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