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Traffic of goods in Barcelona port drops with 15,2% in February

Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) April 9, 2020 – In February, the traffic of goods in the port of Barcelona decreased by 15.2% (4.51 million tons) in...

Spain’s Puertos del Estado reports February 2020 cargo figures by port authority

Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) April 1, 2020 – Puertos del Estado reports February 2020 cargo figures by port authority.  The state-owned Puertos del...

Spain: 90 million tons moved in first two months of 2019

Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) April 1, 2020 – Puertos del Estado (PdE) has reported that state-managed ports handled 90.172, million tons in the first two...

Russia’s Taganrog port sees fall in 2019 cargo traffic

Taganrog, Russia (Ports Europe) March 31, 2020 – In 2019, Taganrog Commercial Sea Port JSC has reported total cargo of 1.16 million tons, a fall of 7%,...

Taranto port sees cargo traffic down over 11% in 2019

Taranto, Italy (Ports Europe) March 25, 2020 – In the calendar year of 2019, the south Italian port of Taranto handled 18.1 million tons, down 11.3% on...

Genoa port reports slight cargo traffic fall in Jan-Feb 2019

Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) March 24, 2020 – In the period January-February 2019 Genoa reports that traffic reduced by 0.3%, compared to the period of...

Greek ports see increased cargo in Q3 2019

Hellenic Statistical Authority – Traffic of passengers, goods and mobile units in greek ports: 3rd quarter 2019 (Provisional data) – March 17, 2020...

Moroccan ports see 11.3% increase in traffic in 2019

Rabat, Morocco (Ports Europe) March 15, 2020 – In 2019, Morocco ports handled a total of 153.1 million tonnes, up 11.3% on the previous year. A key...

Casablanca port sees rising traffic in first two months of 2020

Casablanca, Morocco (Ports Europe) March 15, 2020 – In the first two months of 2020, the port of Casablanca registered total traffic of 4.8 million...

Livorno and Piombino ports see increased traffic in 2019

Livorno, Italy (Ports Europe) March 12, 2020 – The ports of the Upper Tyrrhenian Sea, handled 44,973,226 tons of goods, closing the year positively with...

Algeciras port sees positive January 2020 traffic

Algeciras, Spain (Ports Europe) March 9, 2020 – Puertos del Estado, the state-owned organisation responsible for the management of state-owned ports, has...

Spain’s Puertos del Estado reports January 2020 cargo figures by port authority

Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) March 9, 2020 – Puertos del Estado reports January 2020 cargo figures by port authority. The state-owned Puertos del Estado...

Port of Marseille Fos confirms its cargo leadership in France in 2019

With a turnover of €169.5 million in 2019, the Port of Marseille Fos confirms its 6-year growth in turnover, with in particular a clear increase in its land...

Valenciaport sees January container traffic down 2.18%

During the month of January, container traffic receded by 2.18%, a figure that reflects the change in trend that has already begun to be perceived during the...

Suez Canal traffic increases over 12% in February 2019

Port Said, Egypt (Ports Europe) March 2, 2020 – Osama Rabie, the head of the Suez Canal Authority (SCA), has announced that in the month of February...

Koper port see cargo traffic down 5% in 2019

Koper, Slovenia (Ports Europe) March 1, 2020 – Luka Koper d.d., operator of Koper port, has published cargo throughput numbers for 2019. Maritime...

Trieste port see higher container traffic data in 2019

Trieste, Italy (PortSEuope) February 26, 2020 – Trieste is the leading port in Italy with 62,000,000 tons moved, ending 2019 with two important...

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