Cargo
All aspects of cargo handling by ports. Includes imports, exports, storage and traffic numbers.
Russia’s NCSP Group reports cargo turnover down 2.3% in 2018
Novorossiysk, Russia (Ports Europe) February 14, 2019 – NCSP Group, a Russian port operator, has reported that cargo turnover for 2018 was 140.209...
Gijón port records highest percentage decline in cargo traffic in Spain last year
Gijón, Spain (Ports Europe) February 14, 2019 – Gijón port was the Spanish port with the highest percentage decline in cargo traffic, of -9.8%, surpassed...
Santander port’s growth exceeds Spain’s average in 2018
Santander, Spain (Ports Europe) February 14, 2019 – A 6.4% increase in cargo and passenger traffic in Santander port is double the national average of port...
Spain’s state ports see cargo rise by 3.3% in 2018
Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) February 13, 2019 – Provisional data shows that the 46 state-owned ports handled 563,475,196 tons of cargo in 2018, up 3.3%...
Eurogate’s traffic in Italy declines in 2018, dragged by Cagliari, Gioia Tauro ports transshipment
Cagliari, Italy (Ports Europe) February 12, 2019 – Germany’s Eurogate Group has reported a 6% decline in the handling of cargo traffic in Italy, with...
Egypt’s Alexandria port sees cargo traffic rise in 2018
Alexandria, Egypt (Ports Europe) February 11, 2019 – Alexandria port handled 62 million tonnes of cargo in 2018, up from 54 million tonnes in the...
USA ousts China as main traffic partner of Valencia port in 2018
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) February 11, 2019 – Valencia port has experienced a historic change in the leadership of its international traffic in 2018,...
Genoa port’s main cargo traffic partner in 2018 is Taranto
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) February 8, 2019 – Genoa port’s largest cargo traffic partner for 2018 was Taranto, followed by Milazzo and Singapore, an...
Valenciaport closes the year 2018 with historical figures: 5,182,665 containers and 820,221 vehicles
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) February 8, 2019 – Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia (APV – Valenciaport, Port Authority of Valencia) has closed 2018...
Vigo port sees record cargo traffic in 2018
Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) February 8, 2019 – Total traffic through Vigo portin 2018 amounted to 4,362,334 tons, a 2.99% increase compared to 2017, with...
AdSP del Mare Adriatico Orientale (Trieste) reports record cargo in 2018
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) February 8, 2019 – Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mare Adriatico Orientale (AdSP – Eastern Adriatic Sea Port...
Vilagarcía port sets a new traffic record of 1.2 million tons in 2018
Vilagarcía, Spain (Ports Europe) February 8, 2019 – Vilagarcía port ended 2018, establishing, for the second consecutive year, an annual record of port...
Huelva port reports improves cargo and revenue in 2018
Huelva, Spain (Ports Europe) February 8, 2019 – Huelva closes 2018 as the new record year with a total volume of port traffic of 33 million tons, an...
AdSP del Mar Tirreno Centro-Settentrionale (Naples) reports strong growth in maritime traffic in the Tyrrhenian Sea ports in 2018
Naples, Italy (Ports Europe) February 7, 2019 – In 2018, the traffic in containers in the ports of AdSP del Mar Tirreno Centro-Settentrionale increased...
Morandi bridge disaster limits Genoa port’s cargo traffic in 2018
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) February 6, 2019 – Genoa port has faced a major impact of the Morandi bridge disaster in August, which limited its cargo traffic...
Balearic Islands cargo traffic rises 5% in 2018
Palma de Mallorca, Spain (Ports Europe) February 6, 2019 – Traffic in the Spanish state-owned ports in the Balearic Islands exceeded in 2018 the 16.2 million...
Barcelona port president requests more tariff autonomy
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) February 6, 2019 – The president of Barcelona port, Mercè Conesa, has called for “greater tariff autonomy” and a...