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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.

ArcelorMittal starts using Gijón harbour for export of rails 

Gijón, Spain (Ports Europe) February 20, 2018 – Luxembourg-based steel giant ArcelorMittal has started using Gijón port to export a 108-metre long rail...

Passengers using Pesaro port in 2017 up on previous year

Pesaro, Italy (Ports Europe) February 20, 2018 – A total of 8,643 passengers passed through the port of Pesaro in 2017. Of these, 8,169 (up 13% on...

Interporto Vespucci reports improved performance in 2017

Livorno, Italy (Ports Europe) February 20, 2018 – Interporto Vespucci has reported improved results and traffic at Livorno port on 2017. In 2017, the...

Castellón port starts 2018 with record-high traffic figures

Castellón, Spain (Ports Europe) February 19, 2018 – Castellón port has started 2018 with record data. During the month of January, a total of 1,825,652...

Port of Leixões with historical record of 19.5M of goods moved in 2017

Leixões, Portugal (Ports Europe) February 18, 2018 – In 2017, 19.5 million tons of cargo were transported at the port, 1.2 million more than in 2016....

Record 18 million tonnes of cargo handled by port of Burgas region in 2017

Burgas, Bulgaria (Ports Europe) February 18, 2018 – A record total of over 18 million tonnes of cargo were handled by the seven ports in the Bay of Burgas in...

COSCO Spain’s cargo traffic rises 3% in 2017

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) February 16, 2018 – COSCO Shipping Lines (Spain) closed 2017 with an approximate increase of 3% of cargo traffic, deputy...

Ceuta port to handle 30,000 cruise passengers in 2018

Ceuta, Spain (Ports Europe) February 15, 2018 – Ceuta port expects to receive more than 30,000 cruise passengers aboard 13 cruise ships this season, which...

Trieste port to boost imports of citrus fruits from Turkey

Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) February 14, 2018 – Forty thousand trucks a year of citrus from Turkey landed by ferries. It is the leap forward that, in tune...

Port of Funchal sees good start to cruise season

Funchal, Portugal (Ports Europe) February 14, 2018 – The Port of Funchal has made a good start to the 2018 cruise season. the number of stopovers was...

Piraeus Port Authority approves 2017 annual financial report

Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) February 13, 2018 – The Board of Directors of Piraeus Port Authority S.A. (PPA) has approved the Annual Financial Report...

Sines port’s container terminal generates 42% of cargo traffic in 2017

Sines, Portugal (Ports Europe) February 13, 2018 – Sines port’s container terminal generated 42% of the total cargo traffic of the harbour in 2017....

Cartagena port cargo traffic rises 9% in 2017

Cartagena, Spain (Ports Europe) February 13, 2018 – Cartagena port handled 34.7 million tonnes of cargo in 2017, up 9%, the highest figure in the history of...

Portugal’s mainland ports cargo traffic rises 2.2% in 2017

Leixões, Portugal (Ports Europe) February 13, 2018 – Portugal’s mainland ports ended last year with a record cargo traffic of 95.9 million tonnes, up...

Pasaia port cargo traffic rises in January

Pasaia, Spain (Ports Europe) February 12, 2018 – The activity of the port of Pasaia rebounded in January, a small relief after closing 2017 with a 13.9%...

Tarragona port handles 34 million tonnes in 2017

Tarragona, Spain (Ports Europe) February 12, 2018 – Tarragona port handled 34 million tonnes of goods in 2017, up 7.8% on 2016, and the highest figure...

Yilport’s Portuguese container terminals increase traffic in 2017

Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) February 11, 2018 – Yilport Iberian terminals registered a 5.8% increase in 2017, with a total of 1,176,496 TEUs handled...

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