Cargo
All aspects of cargo handling by ports. Includes imports, exports, storage and traffic numbers.
Motril port okays concession at Azucenas dock
Motril, Spain (PortSEurope) June 28, 2017 – Motril port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Motril) has given the green light to a concession at Azucenas dock...
Daily rail freight connection Marseille Fos-Geneva opens officially
Marseille Fos, France (PortSEurope) June 28, 2017 – The daily rail freight connection between French port of Marseille Fos and Geneva, Switzerland, has been...
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...
Cartagena hosts TankBank 2017 Congress
Cartagena, Spain (PortSEurope) June 26, 2017 – Cartagena hosted the TankBank 2017 Congress last week, an event that brought together more than 100 delegates...
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%...
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...
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...
A Coruña port approves liquid bulk cargo terminal construction application
A Coruña, Spain (PortSEurope) June 20, 2017 – A Coruña port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de A Coruña) has approved an application by Deep Water Oil...
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,...
Trieste Marine Terminal sees increased May traffic
Trieste, Italy (PortSEurope) June 19, 2017 – In May 2017, the total volumes handled at Trieste Marine Terminal S.p.A. (TMT) increased by 25.7% compared...
Spanish ports face diversion of 34 ships during dock workers strike
Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) June 16, 2017 – The strike of 48 consecutive hours called by dock workers ended on June 16 with a significant economic and...
Russia’s NCSP cargo volumes rise in Jan-May 2017
Novorossiysk, Russia (PortSEurope) June 16, 2017 – NCSP (Novorossiysk Commercial Sea Port) group has reported that its consolidated cargo turnover for...
Durrës port see increased Kosovo goods transit
Durrës, Albania (PortSEurope) June 18, 2017 – Durrës Port Authority has said that in the first five months of 2017, 10% of goods were transitory from...
Boluda Lines sets up shipping agency based in Lisbon port
Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) June 13, 2017 – Boluda Lines, a leading Spanish shipowner and global marine services company, will bet on Lisbon port through...
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...
MacAndrews considers regular service connecting Ferrol port to northern Europe
Ferrol, Spain (PortSEurope) June 8, 2017 – MacAndrews & Company Limited is considering launching a regular service that connects Spain’s Ferrol...