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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.

Barcelona port container traffic rises 26% y/y in Jan-Apr 2017

Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) May 16, 2017 – During the first four months of 2017, Barcelona port handled 864,500 TEUs, a figure that represents an increase...

Málaga-Melilla line passenger traffic rises 15% y/y in Jan-April 2017

Málaga, Spain (PortSEurope) May 16, 2017 – The maritime line that connects Melilla and Málaga has registered a 15% increase in the number of passengers and...

Vigo port containerised cargo traffic declines in Q1 2017

Vigo, Spain (PortSEurope) May 15, 2017 – Almost a year after Danish shipping giant Maersk decided to relocate its container hub in Spain to Marin port from...

Leixoes port container traffic rises 4% y/y in Jan-Apr 2017

Leixoes, Portugal (PortSEurope) May 12, 2017 – Leixoes port container terminal handled 204,553 TEUs in the first four months of 2017, up 4% on the year....

Sines port handles 62% of entire Portuguese container traffic in Q1 2017

Sines, Portugal (PortSEurope) May 12, 2017 – The first quarter of the year brought more record TEU numbers to the Portuguese port system. And the container...

Posidonia Sea Tourism Forum looks to promote East Med cruising and yachting

Piraeus, Greece (PortSEurope) May 10, 2017 – The Posidonia Sea Tourism Forum, the biennial trademark event for the international cruise and yachting...

Las Palmas port cargo traffic rises 32% y/y in Jan-Apr 2017

Las Palmas, Spain (PortSEurope) May 10, 2017 – Las Palmas port cargo traffic increased by 32% during the first four months of 2017, due to the favourable...

Portuguese ports cargo traffic rises in Q1 2017

Sines, Portugal (PortSEurope) May 10, 2017 – The Portuguese Mobility and Transport Authority (AMT-Autoridade da Mobilidade e dos Transportes) has released...

Ukraine to expand grain transshipment capacity by 2020

Odessa, Ukraine (PortSEurope) May 9, 2017 – The total grain transshipment capacity of Ukrainian ports can be increased by 29.6 million tonnes by 2020 if all...

Sagunto port cargo traffic rises 17% y/y in Q1 2017

Sagunto, Spain (PortSEurope) May 9, 2017 – Sagunto port closed the first quarter of the year with a total traffic of 1.748 million tonnes, an increase of...

Spanish logistics companies’ turnover rises in Jan-Feb 2017

Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) May 9, 2017 – Spanish freight and logistics companies increased their total turnover in the first two months of 2017 by 5.4%...

Cagliari port increases cruise ship traffic

Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy (PortSEurope) May 9, 2017 – Today, the Cagliari cruise port will simultaneously receive five cruise vessels: MSC Armonia, MSC...

Spanish port cargo traffic grows disproportionately in Q1 2017

Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) May 8, 2017 – The first quarter of 2017 in Spanish port cargo traffic was characterised with a great disparity in the...

Ferrol port cargo traffic grows in Jan-April 2017

Ferrol, Spain (PortSEurope) May 8, 2017 – In the first four months of the year, the cargo traffic at Ferrol port totalled 4.6 million tonnes, 10.56% more...

Barcelona and Miami ports sign cooperation agreement

Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) May 8, 2017 – The ports of Barcelona and Miami have signed an agreement to increase cruise and cargo traffic, and to...

South European maritime ports freight and passenger statistics

Brussels, Belgium (PortSEurope) May 5, 2017 – The latest (2015) available statistical data on freight handling and passenger traffic in ports in...

Port of Lisbon keeps on growing in bunker only calls

Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) May 3, 2017 – On April 21, 2017, the port of Lisbon received several ships, like the M/V Polymnia (bulk carrier) which...

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