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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.

Ege Port Kuşadası celebrates two decades

Kuşadası, Turkey (Ports Europe) August 14, 2023 – Ege Port Kuşadası, Turkey’s leading cruise port has celebrated its 20th anniversary. It...

LNG Croatia’s Krk terminal receives 70th vessel

Krk, Croatia (Ports Europe) August 14, 2023 – Yesterday, LNG Croatia’s Krk terminal received its 70th vessel since starting operations in 2021. The...

Montenegro – cargo report – Q2 2023

Bar, Montenegro (Ports Europe) August 11, 2023 – In the second quarter of 2023, the seaports of Montenegro handled 470,004 tonnes of cargo, down -27.9%...

Swiss Ports sees inland water traffic up +19.1% in first half of 2023

Basel, Switzerland (Ports Europe) August 10, 2023 – In the first half of 2023, the inland Swiss ports of Kleinhüningen, Birsfelden and Auhafen Muttenz...

Port of La Spezia receives first 24,000 TEU vessel

La Spezia, Italy (Ports Europe) August 10, 2023 – The Port of La Spezia has received the MSC Nicola Mastro, the first 24,000 TEUs container ship to touch...

Lisbon port sees traffic up over 6% in first half of 2023

Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) August 9, 2023 – In the first six months of 2023, around 5.5 million tons were handled in the Port of Lisbon, up +6.3%...

Croatia’s Luka Rijeka sees cargo traffic down in Jan-Jun 2023

Rijeka, Croatia (Ports Europe) August 9, 2023 – In the first half of 2023, the Luka Rijeka Group handled 3.06 million tons of goods, down -9% (3.3...

Cargo activity of Moroccan ports for the first half of 2023

Tanger Med, Morocco (Ports Europe) August 6, 2023 – The overall volume of commercial traffic handled by Moroccan ports, in the first half of 2023,...

Three times more containers from Turkmenbashi to Alat in H1’23

Turkmenbashi, Turkmenistan (Ports Europe) August 1, 2023 – Almost three times more containers (2,362 TEUs) were transported from the Caspian Sea port of...

VTS terminal in Astrakhan handles 15% more cargo YoY

Astrakhan, Russia (Ports Europe) July 31, 2023 – The cargo turnover of Astrakhan Sea Port company terminal (part of the VTS group of companies) in...

Africa, the last resort for Russia’s grain and fertiliser exports

Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) July 31, 2023 – Western sanctions-hit Russia desperately tries to find new markets for its agricultural production (grain) and...

Sanctions slash the value of Russia’s exports by 33%

Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) July 31, 2023 – The value of Russian export decreased by 33% in Q2’23 compared to the same period last year and by 12%...

Port of Ravenna exports BMWs to the Far East

Ravenna, Italy (Ports Europe) July 30, 2023 – Last April, Terminal Container Ravenna (TCR) started exporting cars and since then has handled around 3,000...

Spanish ports – TEU handled Jan-Jun 2023 – ranking

Madrid, Spain (PortSEurope) July 28, 2023 – Puertos del Estado has published figures for container (TEU) by state-owned ports in the first six months of...

Spanish ports – cargo handled Jan-Jun 2023 – ranking

Madrid, Spain (PortSEurope) July 27, 2023 – Total traffic of the ports that make up the state-owned system n the first half of 2023 reached 274 million...

Spanish ports handled 274 million cargo tonnes in the first half of 2023

Madrid, Spain (PortSEurope) July 27, 2023 – Total traffic of the ports that make up the state-owned system n the first half of 2023 reached 274 million...

Portuguese ports report increased cargo traffic of +13.8% in April

Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) July 26, 2023 – In April 2023, Portugal’s mainland commercial port system handled 7.8 million tonnes of cargo, an...

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