Cargo
All aspects of cargo handling by ports. Includes imports, exports, storage and traffic numbers.
Tenerife port cargo traffic rises by 7.8% Y/Y in 2016
Tenerife, Spain (Ports Europe) January 27, 2017 – Tenerife port handled 13.6 million tonnes of cargo in 2016, 7.8% more than in the previous year. The...
Barcelona port operates first call of HDASCO ship as part of Mediterranean service
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) January 27, 2017 – Iranian shipping company Hafez Darya Arya (HDAS Co), belonging to the Islamic Republic of Iran...
Bilbao port cargo traffic declines by 1.39% Y/Y in 2016
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) January 27, 2017 – Bilbao port handled 31.9 million tonnes of goods in 2016, a decline of 1.39% on the year, the port...
Trieste port cargo traffic rises 4% Y/Y in 2016
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) January 27, 2017 – Trieste is a port that is growing by some 4% annually. This is what emerges from the annual statistical...
Sines port cargo traffic rises 16.4% Y/Y in 2016
Sines, Portugal (Ports Europe) January 27, 2017 – Sines port handled 51 million tonnes of cargo in 2016, up 16.4% on the year. All terminals of the...
Santander port books record-high traffic of new cars in 2016
Santander, Spain (Ports Europe) January 25, 2017 – Santander port closed 2016 with a new absolute record in the movement of new vehicles, with a total of...
Valencia port recovers position on Chinese market
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) January 25, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) registered a difficult year with a slight...
Cadiz port delegation visits Canary Islands to promote shipping line
Cadiz, Spain (Ports Europe) January 24, 2017 – A delegation from the port community of Cadiz headed by the president of the port authority, Jose Luis...
Marseille port cargo traffic remains stable in 2016
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) January 24, 2017 – Marseille port generated a cargo traffic of 80.9 million tonnes in 2016, almost unchanged on the...
Portugal expects 60% rise in Setubal port cargo traffic
Setubal, Portugal (Ports Europe) January 23, 2017 – Portuguese Minister of the Sea Ana Paula Vitorino said that the Portuguese government expects a...
Motril port cargo traffic rises 10% Y/Y in 2016
Motril, Spain (Ports Europe) January 23, 2017 – With a total cargo traffic of 2.1 million tonnes and a growth of 10% on the year in 2016, Motril port...
Kartesia takes control of Castellon port solid bulk cargo terminal operator
Castellon, Spain (Ports Europe) January 23, 2017 – Luxembourg-based investment fund Kartesia and Spain’s Gimeno Group have taken control of a...
Damietta reports traffic growth in 2016
Damietta, Egypt (Ports Europe) January 23, 2017 – Damietta Port Authority has reported an increase in the movement of ships and cargo in 2016 compared...
Beirut port revenues down in 2016
Beirut, Lebanon (Ports Europe) January 20, 2017 – The Port of Beirut (PoB) and Port of Tripoli (PoT) reported revenues of $254 million (€237.7...
Cadiz port cargo traffic rises 8.52% Y/Y in 2016
Cadiz, Spain (Ports Europe) January 20, 2017 – Cargo traffic in Cadiz port grew by 8.52% on the year in 2016, reaching 3.979 million tonnes, the best...
A Coruna port cargo traffic falls 2.8% Y/Y in Jan-Nov 2016
A Coruna, Spain (Ports Europe) January 20, 2017 – A Coruna port cargo traffic fell by 2.8% between January and November 2016 due to the decline in solid...
Aviles port cargo traffic declines by 3.91% Y/Y in 2016
Aviles, Spain (Ports Europe) January 19, 2017 – Aviles port handled a total of 4.97 million tonnes of cargo in 2016, down 3.91% on the year, mainly due...