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Albania ports report total traffic down over 41% in March

Durrës, Albania (Ports Europe) April 28, 2020 – In March 2020, Albanian ports handled 254,384 tonnes of cargo, down from 432,833 tonnes in March in the...

Venice port sees total tonnage down over 10% in Q1 2020

Venice, Italy (Ports Europe) April 28, 2020 – Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mare Adriatico Settentrionale (AdSP – Northern Adriatic Sea Port...

Chioggia port sees total traffic down over 35% in Q1 2020

Venice, Italy (Ports Europe) April 28, 2020 – Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mare Adriatico Settentrionale (AdSP – Northern Adriatic Sea Port...

Vigo port reports best quarter in 12 years

Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) April 27, 2020 – Autoridad Portuaria de Vigo (APV – Port Authority of Vigo) has reported traffic figures for the first...

COVID-19 reduces traffic at Thessaloniki port

Thessaloniki, Greece (Ports Europe) April 26, 2020 – Thessaloniki Port Authority (ThPA) has announced that it in March, container and the conventional...

Italy: Total port cargo 2018/2019 by AdSP and port

Rome, Italy (Ports Europe) April 25, 2020 – Assoporti has published total tonnage in ports in 2018/2019 by Autorità di Sistema Portuale (AdSP) with...

Ports of Genoa ports record 5.4% fall in Q1 2020

Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) April 25, 2020 – Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Ligure Occidentale (AdSP – Western Ligurian Sea Port...

Traffic balance increases by 8.9% in Vilagarcía port

Vilagarcía, Spain (Ports Europe) April 20, 2020 – Autoridad Portuaria de Vilagarcía (APV – Port Authority of Vilagarcía) has closed 2019...

Bilbao port continues its activities, in spite of negative numbers

Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) April 17, 2020 – Between January and March, 8.5 million tons of goods were shipped through the Port of Bilbao, down 4.6%...

Port of Yuzhny sets record in cargo handling in March

Despite the COVID-19 pandemic and the economic crisis affecting not only Ukraine but most of the world, the Southern commercial port continues to reach record...

16% increase port traffic in last Iranian calendar year

Vienna, Austria (Ports Europe) April 23, 2020 – Iranian Transport and Urban Development Minister, Mohammad Eslami, has reported that the capacity of...

21% increase in traffic at Iran’s Abadan ports

Vienna, Austria (Ports Europe) April 23, 2020 – Iran’s Ports and Maritime Organization (PMO) has reported that the unloading and loading operations...

Freight traffic at Barcelona port down 8.3% in March

Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) April 22, 2020 – Freight traffic at Barcelona port totalled 4.9 million tonnes in March, a fall of 8.3% compared to the...

Leixões port increases 12.7% in first quarter

Leixões, Portugal (Ports Europe) April 21, 2020 – In January-March 2020, the Port of Leixões handled 5.3 million tons of cargo, up 12.7% compared to...

Porto da Figueira da Foz grows 22% in first quarter of 2020

Figueira da Foz, Portugal (Ports Europe) April 21, 2020 – In January to March 2020, the port of Figueira da Foz handled 503,226 tons, up 22% compared to...

Porto de Aveiro achieves best first quarter ever in 2020

Aveiro, Portugal (Ports Europe) April 21, 2020 – The Port of Aveiro has reported its best first quarter ever in 2020. Between January and March handled...

Antwerp port sees general cargo up 5.8% in Jan-Mar 2020

Antwerp, Belgium (Ports Europe) April 14, 2020 – The port of Antwerp has published its maritime cargo report for the first quarter of 2020. In the first...

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