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Tarragona port cargo traffic rises 53.5% y/y in June

Tarragona, Spain (Ports Europe) August 9, 2017 – Cargo traffic at Tarragona port rose by 53.53% on the year in June. The terminals of Tarragona reached 2.61...

Montenegro’s Bar port cargo traffic rises 70% y/y in Jan-Jul 2017

Bar, Montenegro (Ports Europe) August 8, 2017 – Montenegro’s Bar port cargo traffic rose by 70% on the year in the first seven months of 2017. The...

Durrës port ferry lines handle 7% more cargo y/y in Jan-Jul 2017

Durrës, Albania (Ports Europe) August 8, 2017 – The Durrës-Bari and Durrës-Ancona-Trieste ferry lines handled 7% more cargo and 4% more...

Durrës port cargo traffic rises 1.8 million tonnes in H1 2017

Durrës, Albania (Ports Europe) August 8, 2017 – Durrës port handled 1.8 million tonnes of cargo in the first half of 2017, or 123,000 tonnes more than...

Barcelona port eyes MoS to Tanger Med

Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) August 8, 2017 – The strategy followed in recent years by Barcelona port to promote the launching of short sea shipping...

A Coruña, Ferrol, Vilagarcía ports cargo traffic rises in H1 2017

A Coruña, Spain (Ports Europe) August 4, 2017 – In the northern Spanish region of Galicia, the ports of A Coruña, Ferrol-San Cibrao and Vilagarcía have...

Andalusia ports cargo traffic falls 4.3% y/y in H1 2017

Algeciras, Spain (Ports Europe) August 4, 2017 – Traffic in Andalusian ports has fallen 4.3% to 73.39 million tonnes in the first half of the year. Algeciras...

Seville port cargo traffic declines in H1 2017

Seville, Spain (Ports Europe) August 7, 2017 – Seville port cargo traffic has suffered a tremendous setback during the first half of the year. The fall...

Tarragona port breaks paper traffic records

Tarragona, Spain (Ports Europe) August 3, 2017 – Tarragona port has broken records in paper traffic. The Chinese-flagged vessel Saga Jandaia, which docked...

Kherson port cargo traffic declines 14.6% y/y in H1 2017

Kherson, Ukraine (Ports Europe) August 3, 2017 – Kherson port cargo traffic declined by 14.6% on the year to 1.502 million tonnes, data by Ukraine Sea Ports...

Chernomorsk port cargo traffic increases 4.2% y/y in H1 2017

Chernomorsk, Ukraine (Ports Europe) August 3, 2017 – Chernomorsk port cargo traffic increased by 4.2% on the year in the first half of 2017 to 8.074 million...

Genoa-based port authority delays decision on Spinelli concession request

Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) August 3, 2017 – The Authority of the Western Ligurian Sea Port System (Autorità Portuale del Mar Ligure Occidentale) has...

Marín port cargo traffic exceeds 1 million tonnes in H1 2017

Marín, Spain (Ports Europe) August 2, 2017 – The provisional balance of cargo traffic in Marín port during the first six months of the year shows a...

Portuguese seaports hit record-high cargo traffic in H1 2017

Leixões, Portugal (Ports Europe) August 2, 2017 – Portuguese seaports moved a record-high 48.6 million tonnes of cargo in the first half of the year, an...

Madeira government to launch tender for ferry services to mainland Portugal

Funchal, Portugal (Ports Europe) August 2, 2017 – The regional government of Madeira is finalising the launch of an international tender for a weekly ferry...

A Coruña port cargo traffic rises 1.52% y/y in H1 2017

A Coruña, Spain (Ports Europe) August 1, 2017 – The port of A Coruña handled more than 6.8 million tonnes of cargo during the first half of the year, the...

Santander port cargo traffic increases 8.65% y/y in H1 2017

Santander, Spain (Ports Europe) July 31, 2017 – Santander port cargo traffic increased by 8.65% in the first half of the year to 2.52 million tonnes. Of the...

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