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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.

Ceuta port says Gibraltar Strait line passenger traffic declines in Jan-Nov 2016

Ceuta, Spain (Ports Europe) January 9, 2017 – Ceuta port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Ceuta) said that passenger traffic on the Strait of Gibraltar sea...

Alicante port interested in starting feeder line with Algeciras

Alicante, Spain (Ports Europe) January 16, 2017 – Alicante port is interested in starting the feeder line with Algeciras and relaunching a regular connection...

Malaga port has 289 confirmed cruise calls in 2017

Malaga, Spain (Ports Europe) January 16, 2017 – Malaga port has already confirmed 289 cruise calls for the current season. Of these calls, seven correspond...

Spanish ports service around 8.7 million cruise passengers in 2016

Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) January 16, 2017 – Spanish Public Works Minister Inigo de la Serna has announced that Spanish ports closed 2016 with about...

Baku International Sea Trade Port increases cargo trade in 2016

Baku, Azerbaijan (Ports Europe) January 9, 2016 – In 2016 Baku International Sea Trade Port unloaded 4.5 million tons of cargo, up by 47% compared to...

Ferrol port cargo traffic exceeds 12 million tonnes for sixth consecutive year in 2016

Ferrol, Spain (Ports Europe) January 13, 2017 – For the sixth consecutive year, Ferrol port exceeded 12 million tonnes of cargo, reaching a total of...

Castellon port cargo traffic rises 7.9% Y/Y in Dec 2016

Castellon, Spain (Ports Europe) January 13, 2017 – Castellon port handled 1,685,323 tonnes of cargo in December, which represents an increase of 7.9% on the...

Ponta Delgada port cargo traffic rises 9% Y/Y in Q3 2016

Ponta Delgada, Portugal (Ports Europe) January 13, 2017 – Ponta Delgada port handled 353,000 tonnes of cargo in the third quarter of 2016, up 9% on the year....

Tarragona port handles 325 containers weekly on lines to West Africa

Tarragona, Spain (Ports Europe) January 12, 2017 – Tarragona port maintains a weekly direct service at the DP World container terminal with the African ports...

Naples port container traffic rises in 2016

Naples, Italy (Ports Europe) January 12, 2017 – After nearly three years of and strikes, container traffic at Naples port recorded growth, up 10.3% on the...

Kherson port cargo traffic declines by 10.2% Y/Y in 2016

Kherson, Ukraine (Ports Europe) January 12, 2016 – Kherson port handled 3.71 million tonnes of cargo in 2016, down by 10.2% on the year. The liquid bulk...

Mediterranean ports boost Asia-Europe container traffic

Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) January 12, 2017 – The container traffic between Asia and Europe rose for the sixth consecutive month in November, an increase of...

Huelva port expects container traffic of at least 50,000 TEUs in 2017

Huelva, Spain (Ports Europe) January 11, 2017 – Huelva port closed 2016 with a total cargo traffic of 30.7 million tonnes, an increase of 12% over the...

Rostov-on-Don port cargo traffic rises 13.3% Y/Y in 2016

Rostov-on-Don, Russia (Ports Europe) January 11, 2016 – Rostov-on-Don port handled 19.385 million tonnes of cargo in 2016, up 13.3% on the year,...

Azov port cargo traffic edges up 0.8% Y/Y in 2016

Azov, Russia (Ports Europe) January 11, 2016 – Azov port handled 9.755 million tonnes of cargo in 2016, up 0.8% on the year, harbourmaster Vladimir Bragin...

Port Yuzhniy cargo traffic declines by 19% Y/Y in 2016

Mykolaiv, Ukraine (Ports Europe) January 9, 2017 – Port Yuzhniy handled 39.292 million tonnes of cargo in 2016, down 19.12% on the year, Ukrainian national...

Gioia Tauro port trade unions say harbour depends entirely on MSC

Gioia Tauro, Italy (Ports Europe) January 10, 2017 – “The global crisis that hit the transshipment sector has been exacerbated by the gradual and...

Mykolaiv port cargo traffic rises 0.6% Y/Y in 2016

Mykolaiv, Ukraine (Ports Europe) January 10, 2017 – Mykolaiv port cargo traffic edged up by 0.6% on the year in the first eleven months of 2016 to 23.37...

Malaga port handles three ships with destination Melilla

Malaga, Spain (Ports Europe) January 10, 2017 – Three ships with destination Melilla port coincided for the first time at Malaga port on January 8. Between...

Ukrainian ports export 40.2 million tonnes of grain in 2016

Odessa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) January 9, 2017 – Ukrainian ports exported 40.249 million tonnes of grain in 2016, customs statistics showed. The total value...

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