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A category including news related to increasing output and production of ports. Additional port equipment adding capacity; port expansion adding cargo capacity, shipping lines adding larger vessels and increased land traffic capacity by rail and road.

Port of Poti opens new PACE group seaport facility

Poti, Georgia (Ports Europe) January 31, 2022 – Last Saturday saw the official opening of a new terminal in Poti on the Southern Georgian Black Sea...

New desalinisation plant planned for Port city of Casablanca

Casablanca, Morocco (Ports Europe) January 27, 2022 – State-owned Office National de l’Électricité et de l’Eau (ONEE – National Office of...

Maersk opens its logistics center for South Western Europe at port of Barcelona

Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) January 24, 2022 – A.P. Moller-Maersk has opened its newly built 8,168 m² facility to provide logistics services to the...

Boluda Towage Spain adds 7,000 HP tugboat to Valencia port fleet

The VB SIDI has a 72.5-ton bollard pull Valencia, 20 January 2022 The arrival of the VB SIDI tug, with a 72.5 ton-bollard pull and nearly 7,000 horsepower,...

Boluda Towage adds capacity at Port of València

València, Spain (Ports Europe) January 21, 2022 – Boluda Towage Spain has added a tug vessel “VB SIDI” to its fleet operating at the Port...

Brittany Ferries management visit new terminal in Port of Santander

Santander, Spain (Ports Europe) January 20, 2022 – The president of the Port Authority of Santander, Francisco Martín, has visited the site of the new...

The second track of the Divaca-Koper railway line is progressing

Koper, Slovenia (Ports Europe) January 19, 2022 – A consortium led by Kolektor CPG has completed the digging works on the first kilometre of tunnels...

Dredging of Varna port could stop after €222 million spent to improve access to a terminal privatised by a controversial local politician

Varna, Bulgaria (Ports Europe) January 17, 2022 – The dredging of the two main access canals of Bulgaria’s largest Black Sea port of Varna to a depth of up...

Noatum Terminals acquires new crane for Port of Castellón facility

Castellón, Spain (Ports Europe) January 10, 2022 – Noatum Terminal Castellón has completed the acquisition of a Liebherr automobile crane for its port...

Emmar Group and Albanian government keep promising start of realisation of the tourist port of Durres

Durrës, Albania (Ports Europe) January 7, 2022 – The first phase of the construction of the new tourist port in Durrës – cleaning the sea and the old...

CS Wind ASM to invest in Port of Aveiro

Aveiro, Portugal (Ports Europe) January 5, 2022 – CS Wind ASM is to invest around €260 million ($293.6 million) over the next four years to triple...

Yilport Liscont to install four new Mitsui cranes

Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) January 4, 2022 – In the New Year, Yilport Liscont will install four new, ship-to-shore electric Mitsui E&S Machinery...

Port of Santander to invest €48 million in the expansion of the automobile silo

Santander, Spain (PortSEurope) December 15, 2021 – The Port Authority of Santander is set to approve an investment of €48 million ($54 million) in the...

Kocaeli companies seek capacity increase

Kocaeli, Turkey (PortSEurope) December 14, 2021 – At the December council meeting of Kocaeli Metropolitan Municipality on Thursday, the request of four...

Mersin port – a new champion in the Eastern Mediterranean

Mersin, Turkey (PortSEurope) December 14, 2021 – Mersin International Port (MIP), Turkey’s largest container terminal, will handle 2.1 million TEU (export,...

Ership adds a new crane in its facilities in Port of Tarragona

Tarragona, Spain (PortSEurope) December 13, 2021 – The company Ership has added a new crane in its facilities in the Port of Tarragona, the seventh such...

NUTEP container terminal sets a terminal record

Novorossiysk, Russia (PortSEurope) December 9, 2021 – On December 7, 2021, the NUTEP container terminal handled four container ships at its berths...

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