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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.

Dock workers strike has no effect on Balearic port traffic

Palma de Mallorca, Spain (PortSEurope) June 15, 2017 – The 48-hour stevedores strike that started on June 14 and concludes on June 16 is not causing changes...

Ceuta port to handle 260,000 passengers during second stage of OPE

Ceuta, Spain (PortSEurope) June 15, 2017 – Ceuta port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Ceuta) expects the number of passengers to be handled during the...

All dock workers participate in strike at Santander port

Santander, Spain (PortSEurope) June 14, 2017 – All dock workers in Santander port are following the 48-hour general strike that began at 0800 local time on...

Dockworkers strike causes total block of Spanish ports

Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) June 14, 2017 – The 48-hour strike that Spanish dockworkers started at 0800 local time is causing a “total stop”...

Spanish government to support launch of Valencia-Mostaganem ferry line

Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) June 13, 2017 – Spanish central government’s representative in Valencia region, José Vicente Herrera, has discussed the...

Motril to handle 10% more passengers in OPE 2017

Motril, Spain (PortSEurope) June 13, 2017 – Spanish government expects Motril port’s passenger traffic to be higher by 10% during this year’s...

Spain’s Noatum expects Cosco deal to boost container traffic

Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) June 13, 2017 – Spain’s Noatum Port Holdings S.L.U. expects the strategic partnership agreement signed with Cosco...

Venice sees fewer cruise ship visits

Venice, Italy (PortSEurope) June 13, 2017 – Porto di Venezia (Venice port authority) is forecasting a 10% fall in the number of cruise ships visiting Venice...

Ivory Coast port authority shows interest in operating area at Las Palmas port

Las Palmas, Spain (PortSEurope) June 12, 2017 – The Ivory Coast Port Authority has shown interest in operating an area in the free zone of Las Palmas port...

Millionth Renault vehicle transported via Tanger Med Port

Tanger Med, Morocco (PortSEurope) June 11, 2017 – Renault Maroc, part of the French Renault automotive group, and Tanger Med Port celebrated on June 6 the...

Spain: Puertos del Estado – April 2017 cargo traffic by port authority

Madrid, Spain (PortSEurope) June 8, 2017 – Puertos del Estado, the state-run ports system, reports April 2017 cargo traffic (tonnes) statistics by port...

Santander port paralysed on June 9

Santander, Spain (PortSEurope) June 9, 2017 – The third day of scheduled stoppages organised by the stevedoring trade unions in all Spanish ports has again...

Castellón port handles armoured vehicles of Spanish army

Castellón, Spain (PortSEurope) June 8, 2017 – Castellón hosted on June 7 the operation of shipment of vehicles and diverse military equipment of the...

Qatar crisis to cause problems in international shipping – Spediporto

Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) June 8, 2017 – The breakup of diplomatic relations with Qatar, accused by the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and...

Trieste and Duisburg ports to cooperate

Trieste, Italy (PortSEurope) June 9, 2017 – Duisburger Hafen AG (duisport) and the northern Italian port of Trieste are set to increase their...

Barcelona, Buenos Aires port heads meet to discuss business mission details

Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) June 7, 2017 – Barcelona port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Barcelona) president Sixte Cambra and the inspector of Buenos...

Gandia port cargo traffic declines 7.13% y/y in Jan-Apr 2017

Gandia, Spain (PortSEurope) June 7, 2017 – Gandia port, managed by Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia), handled a total of 124,882...

Durrës port reports 7% increase in ferry passengers and vehicle traffic

Durrës, Albania (PortSEurope) June 8, 2017 – In May 2017, the volume of trade by ferry increased by 6-18% compared to the same period of 2016....

Ukraine reports cargo handling statistics for January-May 2017

Odessa, Ukraine (PortSEurope) June 8, 2017 – In January-May 2017 cargo handling volumes in Ukrainian seaports were 55.609 million tons, up 4.5% on the...

Spanish ports total cargo traffic rises 2.6% y/y in Jan-Apr 2017

Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) June 6, 2017 – The total cargo traffic at Spanish ports rose by 2.61% on the year in the first four months of 2017 to 171.3...

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