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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.

Koper port generates 10 times higher revenue than Croatian competitor Rijeka

Koper, Slovenia (Ports Europe) March 5, 2019 – Koper port last year generated revenues of €226 million ($255 million), which is 7% more than in 2017. Net...

AdSP del Mare Adriatico (Ancona) reports improved 2018 traffic numbers

Ancona, Italy (Ports Europe) March 4, 2019 – Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mare Adriatico (AdSP – Central Adriatic Sea Port Authority) has...

Ortona port cargo traffic declines 2% in 2018

Ortona, Italy (Ports Europe) March 4, 2019 – Ortona port handled 1.013 million tonnes of cargo in 2018, down 2%, mainly due to a 7% decline in solid bulk. ...

Ancona port confirms leadership in Adriatic Motorways of the Sea

Ancona, Italy (Ports Europe) March 4, 2019 – Ancona port has confirmed its position as a leading player in the Motorways of the Sea in the Adriatic region by...

Cádiz port to handle 280 cruise calls in 2019

Cádiz, Spain (Ports Europe) March 4, 2019 – Cádiz port expects to handle 280 cruise calls in 2019, with May being the month with the highest number of...

Palermo port’s cruise traffic rises 25.8% in 2018

Palermo, Italy (Ports Europe) February 28, 2019 – Palermo port recorded a 25.8% surge in the number of cruise passengers in 2018, Pasqualino Monti,...

Sète port to handle 125,000 cruise passengers in 2019

Sète, France (Ports Europe) February 26, 2019 – Port de Sète’s cruise season expects to handle 125,000 cruise passengers in 2019, up from 115,000...

Italy’s MSC to double cruise passenger numbers at Livorno port in 2019

Livorno, Italy (Ports Europe) February 25, 2019 – The Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) has said it plans to double the number of cruise passengers...

Puertos del Estado reports 2018 cargo figures by port authority

Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) February 25, 2019 – Puertos del Estado, the state-run ports system, reports 2018 cargo traffic (tonnes) statistics by port...

COSCO’s European terminals reports increased TEU traffic in January 2019

Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) February 25, 2019 – Piraeus Container Terminal SA, operated by China’s COSCO Shipping Ports Limited, has reported...

Piraeus Container Terminal sees over 18% increase in January 2019 traffic

Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) February 25, 2019 – Piraeus Container Terminal SA, operated by China’s COSCO Shipping Ports Limited, has reported...

Bayonne port gain ground as multimodal platform in 2018

Bayonne, France (Ports Europe) February 22, 2019 – Bayonne port has developed its role as a multimodal platform and in 2018 recorded an overall growth in...

Valencia port records best January container traffic ever

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) February 22, 2019 – Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia (APV – Valenciaport, Port Authority of Valencia) closed the first...

Las Palmas ports regular passenger traffic rises 3% in 2018

Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain (Ports Europe) February 21, 2019 – Las Palmas ports registered a 3% increase in passenger traffic on regular lines during...

Port of Figueira da Foz records small decrease in cargo in 2018

Figueira da Foz, Portugal (Ports Europe) February 21, 2019 – In 2018, the port of Figueira da Foz handled 2.3 million tons of cargo, a decrease of 1.8%...

Santander port expects 4,500 cruise passengers in 2019

Santander, Spain (Ports Europe) February 20, 2019 – Santander port expects the arrival of more than 4,500 cruise passengers this year.  There are five calls...

Livorno port reports record traffic in 2018

Livorno, Italy (Ports Europe) February 19, 2019 – Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Tirreno Settentrionale (AdSP – North Tyrrhenian Sea Port...

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