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All aspects of cargo handling by ports. Includes imports, exports, storage and traffic numbers.

Las Palmas port’s cruise, cargo traffic keeps rising in January

Las Palmas, Spain (Ports Europe) February 27, 2018 – Las Palmas port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Las Palmas) has started the year continuing the...

Bilbao increase cargo traffic 7% on 2017

Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) february 27, 2018 – The Port of Bilbao ended 2017 with a 7% traffic growth, a 2.2 million-tonne increase over 2016. This is...

Avilés port cargo traffic rises in January

Avilés, Spain (Ports Europe) February 26, 2018 – Avilés port handled in the first month of the year a total of 525,477 tonnes, up 33.61% on the year,...

Barcelona port traffic increases 54% in January 2018

Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) February 25, 2018 – Total traffic passing through the Port of Barcelona in January increased by 54% compared to the...

Spain: Puertos del Estado – December 2017 cargo traffic by port authority

Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) February 25, 2018 – Puertos del Estado, the state-run ports system, reports December 2017 cargo traffic (tonnes) statistics by...

Vigo port cargo traffic rises 11% y/y in January

Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) February 23, 2018 – Vigo port cargo traffic rose by 10.99% on the year in January to 329,017 tonnes. The data was presented by...

Bayonne port reverses downward cargo traffic trend in 2017

Bayonne, France (Ports Europe) February 22, 2018 – Bayonne port has managed to reverse the downward trend in its traffic figures. In 2017, it handled 1.26%...

Huelva port presents its competitive advantage in short sea sector

Huelva, Spain (Ports Europe) February 21, 2018 – Huelva port promoted its competitive advantage in short sea shipping at a conference in Huelva, organised by...

Genoa Chamber of Commerce takes part in Go Smart Med project

Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) February 21, 2018 – The Genoa Chamber of Commerce continues to participate in the Go Smart Med project, funded under the Interreg...

Avilés port cargo traffic rises 33.6% y/y in Jan 2018

Avilés, Spain (Ports Europe) February 20, 2018 – Avilés port has started the year with a 33.6% cargo traffic increase on the year in January to 525,477...

Castellón port starts 2018 with record-high traffic figures

Castellón, Spain (Ports Europe) February 19, 2018 – Castellón port has started 2018 with record data. During the month of January, a total of 1,825,652...

OOCL to launch weekly service connecting Mediterranean to Middle East, Pakistan, India

Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) February 19, 2018 – OOCL plans to launch in March a regular weekly maritime service that will link the Mediterranean with the...

Port of Leixões with historical record of 19.5M of goods moved in 2017

Leixões, Portugal (Ports Europe) February 18, 2018 – In 2017, 19.5 million tons of cargo were transported at the port, 1.2 million more than in 2016....

Record 18 million tonnes of cargo handled by port of Burgas region in 2017

Burgas, Bulgaria (Ports Europe) February 18, 2018 – A record total of over 18 million tonnes of cargo were handled by the seven ports in the Bay of Burgas in...

AdSP President Corsini visits ArcelorMittal plant

Piombino, Italy (Ports Europe) February 14, 2018 – Stefano Corsini, President of Livorno-based Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Tirreno...

Sines port’s container terminal generates 42% of cargo traffic in 2017

Sines, Portugal (Ports Europe) February 13, 2018 – Sines port’s container terminal generated 42% of the total cargo traffic of the harbour in 2017....

Portugal’s mainland ports cargo traffic rises 2.2% in 2017

Leixões, Portugal (Ports Europe) February 13, 2018 – Portugal’s mainland ports ended last year with a record cargo traffic of 95.9 million tonnes, up...

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