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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.

New maritime terminal opens in the port of Béjaïa

Béjaïa, Algeria (PortSEurope) July 3, 2017 – A new passenger terminal has been inaugurated in Béjaïa, Algeria’s second largest commercial port, located...

Vigo port cargo traffic rises 2% y/y in Jan-May 2017

Vigo, Spain (PortSEurope) July 3, 2017 – Vigo port saw its cargo traffic in the first five months of 2017 decline by 2% on the year, while the most...

Cádiz port general cargo traffic rises by 40% y/y in Jan-May 2017

Cádiz, Spain (PortSEurope) July 3, 2017 – General cargo traffic in Cádiz port grew by 40.14% in January-May this year compared to the same period last...

Kombiverkehr reports on Greek and Turkish ports traffic

Frankfurt, Germany (PortSEurope) July 3, 2017 – At a shareholders meeting, Kombiverkehr (Kombiverkehr Deutsche Gesellschaft für kombinierten...

Venice attends EU-China forum

Venice, Italy (PortSEurope) July 2, 2017 – The Port of Venice was the only port invited to participate in the 7“ EU-China Forum entitled ‘EU-China...

Málaga port handles biggest bulk carrier in its history

Málaga, Spain (PortSEurope) June 30, 2017 – Málaga port this week operated a call of the ship “Hai Jin”, the largest bulk carrier in the...

Cartagena port has highest rate of return of all Spanish harbours in 2016

Cartagena, Spain (PortSEurope) June 29, 2017 – Cartagena port has the highest rate of return for the sixth consecutive year of all Spanish harbours in 2016,...

A Coruña port breaks monthly cargo traffic record

A Coruña, Spain (PortSEurope) June 29, 2017 – A Coruña port achieved the best monthly record in its history, both in Punta Langosteira outer harbour and in...

Seville port approves balance sheet for 2016

Seville, Spain (PortSEurope) June 28, 2017 – The board of directors of Seville port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Sevilla) has approved the balance sheet...

Lisbon port containerised cargo traffic rises 53% y/y in Jan-May 2017

Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) June 27, 2017 – In the first five months of 2017, the containerised cargo traffic in Lisbon port rose by 53.4% on the year,...

Expanded Panama Canal tops expectations in first year

Panama City, Panama (PortSEurope) June 27, 2017 – The Expanded Panama Canal (Canal de Panama) has set a number of records and surpassed expectations in...

Catalan exports rise 9.2% y/y in Jan-Apr 2017

Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) June 26, 2017 – Catalan exports rose by 9.2% on the year in the first four months of 2017 to record-high €23.157 billion...

Port of Leixões cargo traffic grew 10% in the first 5 months of 2017

Leixões, Portugal (PortSEurope) June 26, 2017 – The Port of Leixões handled 8.1 million tons of commodities in January-May 2017, an increase of 10.3%...

Corsica Linea prospers with Marseille connections

Ajaccio, Corsica, France (PortSEurope) June 25, 2017 – Twelve months ago, Corsica Linea took up the challenge of crossing the Mediterranean with precise...

Portos de Galicia’s investments boost cargo traffic in regional ports

Vigo, Spain (PortSEurope) June 22, 2017 – The cargo traffic of Galician regional ports, i.e. the harbours that are not controlled by the Spanish state, but...

Saga Holidays’ “Saga Pearl II” cruise ship to arrive in Castellón port on June 24

Castellón, Spain (PortSEurope) June 22, 2017 – The “Saga Pearl II” cruise ship of UK company Saga Holidays will call again at Castellón port...

Bari, Durrës ports sign cooperation deal for cargo, passenger traffic

Bari, Italy (PortSEurope) June 21, 2017 – Bari and Durrës ports agreed to set up a cooperation project to facilitate the flow of cargo and passengers...

Steel traffic compensates natural gas decline at Sagunto port in Jan-May 2017

Sagunto, Spain (PortSEurope) June 21, 2017 – The strategy of diversification of traffic at the port of Sagunto, undertaken years ago by Valencia port...

Vigo seeks to attract cruise calls of UK-based companies

Vigo, Spain (PortSEurope) June 20, 2017 – Next year will be one of the poorest in the history of Vigo port in terms of cruise calls. To date, the list of...

Algeciras port books record-high cargo traffic in May

Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) June 20, 2017 – Algeciras port closed May with record-high traffic figures of 9 million tonnes, up 2.3% on the year. However,...

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