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Traffic

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.

Motril port specialising in luxury cruise niche to attract more tourist spending

Motril, Spain (Ports Europe) April 17, 2019 – Motril port, far from wanting to attract the big cruise ships that visit large city ports, has specialised in...

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,...

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...

Italy’s cruise traffic to rise 7.13% in 2019

Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) April 9, 2019 – Italy’s cruise traffic is expected to rise 7.13% to 11.9 million passengers in 2019, the president of Cemar...

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...

Motril port to handle 43,000 tonnes of celestine mineral export this week

Motril, Spain (Ports Europe) April 9, 2019 – Motril port is surpassing this week a record in its statistics of cargo with the load of 43,000 tonnes of the...

Cartagena port to handle 16,000 cruise passengers in April

Cartagena, Spain (Ports Europe) April 8, 2019 – Cartagena port expects the arrival of 16,000 cruise passengers in April, Autoridad Portuaria de Cartagena...

Chernomorsk port receives vehicles from Alexandria

Odessa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) April 7, 2019 – The multimodal terminal at Chernomorsk port has received the Suzuka Express ship, travelling from...

Eurogate announces 2018 results; Mediterranean terminal performance

Bremen, Germany (Ports Europe) April 5, 2019 – The EUROGATE Group has announced results for the financial year 2018. The group generated a net...

Naples, Salerno ports container traffic rises 8.4% in Jan-Feb 2019

Naples, Italy (Ports Europe) April 3, 2019 – Naples and Salerno ports handled a total of 164,000 TEUs of container traffic in the first two months of 2019,...

Piombino port’s cruise season to start on June 12

Piombino, Italy (Ports Europe) April 2, 2019 – Piombino port’s cruise season will open on June 12, with a busy schedule of 15 ship arrivals until...

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