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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.

Port of Barcelona reports May traffic down -9% on 2022

Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) June 19, 2023 – The Port of Barcelona has reported total cargo traffic of 5.85 million tonnes (mt) in May 2023, compared...

Sanctions force FESCO to look to Egypt and North Africa

St. Petersburg, Russia (PortSEurope) June 19, 2023 – Russian logistics giant FESCO transport group is considering a direct container ship service...

Bank of Italy report supports Port of Gioia Tauro

Rome, Italy (PortSEurope) June 15, 2023 – In an annual report on the Calabria region, the Bank of Italy has written positively about the Southern Port of...

Turkey: Monthly seaports cargo report, Jan-May 2023

Istanbul, Turkey (PortSEurope) June 15, 2023 – The Turkish authorities have published cargo figures for May 2023. Regarding standard cargo, total cargo...

Turkey: Cruise ship & passengers statistics – Jan-May 2023 report

Istanbul, Turkey (PortSEurope) June 14, 2023 – The Turkish authorities have published cruise ship & passengers statistics for January-May 2023. In...

NUTEP container terminal handles its 5-millionth container

Novorossiysk, Russia (PortSEurope) June 14, 2023 – In May 2023, the NUTEP container terminal handled its five-millionth container since it was put into...

Update: Russian seaports cargo by port in Jan-May’23

Moscow, Russia (PortSEurope) June 13, 2023 – Cargo turnover of Russian seaports in the January-May 2023 period increased by 11.2% compared to the first five...

EU, U.S., Australia and Japan no longer top importers from Russia

Moscow, Russia (PortSEurope) June 12, 2023 – All European countries, the United States, Australia and Japan dropped out of the top 10 cargo importers via...

41% growth in Russia-China trade turnover in Jan-May’23

Beijing, China (PortSEurope) June 8, 2023 – Trade turnover between Russia and China in the first five months of 2023 increased in dollar terms by 40.7%...

Russian port capacity reached 1.3 billion tonnes

Moscow, Russia (PortSEurope) June 8, 2023 – The total capacity of the Russian sea ports is 1.3 billion tonnes per year, according to Ruslan Mukhametov,...

China ports container volume rises 4.8% from January to April of 2023

China ports container volume rises 4.8% from January to April of 2023,Ningbo Containerized Freight Index decrease in May 2023 – June 7, 2023 From...

Turkey increases passage fee for Bosphorus and Dardanelles

Istanbul, Turkey (PortSEurope) June 6, 2023 – Turkey has again increased the passage fee for the Bosphorus and Dardanelles Straits. Since October 2022, the...

Operations start at 2nd Passenger Terminal of Port of Thessaloniki

Thessaloniki, Greece (PortSEurope) June 6, 2023 – Operations have started at the 2nd Passenger Terminal in the Port of Thessaloniki with two cruise ships...

Port of Beirut reports slight rise in February TEU traffic

Beirut, Lebanon (PortSEurope) June 5, 2023 – The port of Beirut has reported a slight rise in total container (TEU) handling of 58,537 TEU in February...

Top container ports in the EU in 2022

Rotterdam, The Netherlands (Ports Europe) June 5, 2023 – Most EU ports handled less containers in 2022, compared to 2021. The Q1 2023 TEU results of the top...

Belarus dodging sanctions via ports of sanctioned Russia

Minsk, Belarus (Ports Europe) May 31, 2023 – International sanction-hit Belarus has managed to establish transport and logistics schemes for the delivery of...

Sanctions force Russia to invest 1.1 billion euro in border checkpoints modernisation

Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) May 31, 2023 – Some 95 billion rubles (1.1 billion euro) will be invested in the modernisation of Russian border checkpoints by...

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