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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.

Tunisian ports see 7% increase in 2018 cargo traffic

Tunis, Tunisia (Ports Europe) February 18, 2019 – The total volume of commercial activity in Tunisian commercial seaports was 30.7 million tons in 2018,...

Tarragona port ends 2018 with slightly lower revenue and traffic

Tarragona, Spain (Ports Europe) February 18, 2019 – Autoridad Portuaria de Tarragona (APT – Port Authority of Tarragona) has reported that in 2018...

Bilbao port sees traffic up 4% in 2018

Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) February 17, 2019 – In 2018, traffic in Bilbao port (excluding local traffic and supplies) was 35.6 million tonnes, up 4%...

Almería port’s passenger traffic rises 2.5% in January

Almería, Spain (Ports Europe) February 15, 2019 – Almería port started 2019 with an increase of 2.5% in the movement of passengers while the number of...

Suez Canal to double annual revenue by 2023

Suez, Egypt (Ports Europe) February 15, 2019 – The new channel of the Suez Canal, opened in August 2015, has paid off in the shortest possible time, the...

Valencia port handles one of every three containers that move through Spain

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) February 15, 2019 – A total of 30.12% of the containers that are loaded and unloaded in the 46 state-owned ports in Spain...

Spain: Puertos del Estado – 2018 cargo traffic by port authority

Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) February 14, 2019 – Puertos del Estado, the state-run ports system, reports December 2018 cargo traffic (tonnes) statistics...

Gijón port records highest percentage decline in cargo traffic in Spain last year

Gijón, Spain (Ports Europe) February 14, 2019 – Gijón port was the Spanish port with the highest percentage decline in cargo traffic, of -9.8%, surpassed...

Salerno port’s ro-ro traffic declines in 2018 but prospects are positive

Salerno, Italy (Ports Europe) February 14, 2019 – Salerno port’s ro-ro traffic declined by 5% to 7.73 million units in 2018, down from 8.175...

Santander port’s growth exceeds Spain’s average in 2018

Santander, Spain (Ports Europe) February 14, 2019 – A 6.4% increase in cargo and passenger traffic in Santander port is double the national average of port...

Malaga-Melilla connection increases by 31.2% in January 2019

News – Malagaport – Malaga-Melilla connection increases by 31.2% in January 2019 The Malaga-Melilla regular line continues its growth in the port...

Spain’s state ports see cargo rise by 3.3% in 2018

Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) February 13, 2019 – Provisional data shows that the 46 state-owned ports handled 563,475,196 tons of cargo in 2018, up 3.3%...

Rijeka port’s container traffic rises 8.1% in 2018

Rijeka, Croatia (Ports Europe) February 13, 2019 – Rijeka port’s container traffic rose 8.1% in 2018 to a record-high 227,375 TEUs, with more than...

EUROGATE group’s container handling volumes remain stable in 2018

EUROGATE – Press Release – February 11, 2017 Despite the persistently challenging market environment, the EUROGATE Group was able to keep container...

Eurogate’s traffic in Italy declines in 2018, dragged by Cagliari, Gioia Tauro ports transshipment

Cagliari, Italy (Ports Europe) February 12, 2019 – Germany’s Eurogate Group has reported a 6% decline in the handling of cargo traffic in Italy, with...

COSCO Shipping Lines Espana increases container traffic in 2018 by nearly 44%

Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) February 12, 2019 – COSCO Shipping Lines (Spain) SA moved a total of 362,165 TEUs in Spain in 2018, an increase of 43.57%...

Yilport Holding reports 5% increase in container throughput for 2018

Istanbul, Turkey (Ports Europe) February 11, 2019 Yilport Holding has reported a 5% year-on-year increase in container throughput for the full year of 2018....

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