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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.

Valencia port’s traffic with Italy rises 39% y/y in Q1

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) April 24, 2019 – Valencia port has recorded a 39% rise in cargo traffic from Italy in the first quarter of 2019. Traffic with...

Grain traffic in Romanian maritime ports increased by 40%

Constanta, Romania (Ports Europe) April 23, 2019 – Total goods traffic registered in the first quarter of 2019 in Romanian maritime ports increased by...

Durrës port cargo traffic declines slightly in 2018

Durrës, Albania (Ports Europe) April 23, 2019 – Durrës port handled 3.614 million tons of goods in 2018, slightly down from 3.684 million tonnes in the...

Aveiro port’s rail freight traffic rises 34% in 2018

Aveiro, Portugal (Ports Europe) April 23, 2019 – Railway traffic in the port of Aveiro grew 34% in 2018, reaching more than 256,000 tonnes and removing an...

Asturias imports 479,000 tonnes of steel via Gijón, Avilés ports

Avilés, Spain (Ports Europe) April 22, 2019 – Asturias region imported 479,083 tonnes of steel products through the ports of Gijón and Avilés in 2018, of...

Malta’s Valletta expects record-high cruise passenger numbers in 2019

Valletta, Malta (Ports Europe) April 18, 2019 – Malta’s Valletta Cruise Port is preparing for a record number of 800,000 cruise passengers...

Yilport Leixões increases TEU handling in Q1 2019

Leixões, Portugal (Ports Europe) April 17, 2019 – In January this year, Yilport Leixões (TCL) handled 55,677 TEU, a year-on-year growth of 21.5%....

COSCO’s European container terminals see improved performance in Q1 2019

Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) April 17, 2019 – In the first three months of 2019, the overseas terminals of China’s COSCO Shipping Ports Limited saw...

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...

A Coruña port to keep cruise sector leadership in northern Spain in 2020

A Coruña, Spain (Ports Europe) April 12, 2019 – A Coruña port will maintain its leadership in 2020 in the sector of cruises in northern Spain with more...

Bilbao port expects about 50 cruise calls this year

Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) April 12, 2019 – The Hamburg cruise ship of the German company Phoenix Reisen opens on April 14 the cruise season...

Bilbao port’s LNG regasification plant increases output in 2018

Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) April 12, 2019 – Bahía de Bizkaia Gas (BBG), owner of the liquefied natural gas (LNG) regasification plant located in Bilbao...

La Spezia port’s cruise traffic to soar 48% in 2019

La Spezia, Italy (Ports Europe) April 11, 2019 – La Spezia port expects to handle about 700,000 cruise passengers in 2019, up 48% compared to last year,...

Genoa, Savona ports to handle 2.1 million cruise passengers in 2019

Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) April 10, 2019 – Genoa and Savona ports expect to handle a total of 2.1 million cruise passengers in 2019, up 13%, according to...

MSC leads container ranking in Vigo port in 2018

Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) April 10, 2019 – The Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) led for the first time in 2018 the movement of containers at...

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...

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