Capacity
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.
Work on deepening the seabed at the Brajdica container terminal starts
Rijeka, Croatia (PortSEurope) December 21, 2020 – Dredging works costing €97.7 million have started to deepen the seabed of the Brajdica container...
Constanta port ambitious €500 million expansion project
Constanta, Romania (PortSEurope) December 20, 2020 – Romania’s largest Black Sea port of Constanta will start a 500-million-euro enlargement project –...
A new grain terminal to be built in Varna, Bulgaria
Varna, Bulgaria (PortSEurope) December 16, 2020 – Agria Group Holding, a Bulgarian grain producer and trader, is preparing to build a €30 million...
Rail services to Gioia Tauro port resume
Gioia Tauro, Italy (PortSEurope) December 16, 2020 – For the first time snce 2015, rail services are now operating between the port of Gioia Tauro and...
BEST terminal improves the efficiency of container transfer between ADTs
The BEST terminal of the port of Barcelona has registered greater efficiency in the transfer of containers between Termporal Warehouses (ADTs) since on...
Fincantieri signs for a concession to develop shipbuilding in Palermo port
Palermo, Sicily, Italy (PortSEurope) December 15, 2020 – The Trieste-based shipbuiding group Fincantieri SpA has signed an agreement with Autorita’ di...
Analysis – Russia keeps pushing for development of Caspian Sea ports and Volga-Don Canal
Astrakhan, Russia (PortSEurope) December 14, 2020 – The prospects for the development of container services in the Caspian Sea and the creation of a...
AdSP del Mar Ligure Orientale plans Carrara port development
La Spezia, Italy (PortSEurope) December 8, 2020 – An agreement between Autorita’di Sistema Portuale del Mar Ligure Orientale (AdSP – Eastern...
CSP Iberian Zaragoza Rail Terminal confirms full capacity to operate ferroutage trains
CSP Iberian Zaragoza Rail Terminal (CSPZ), part of the CSP Spain group, has confirmed to ADIF and the regional government of Aragon, its capacity to...
PSA Pra’ terminal employs two new rail cranes
Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) December 1, 2020 – PSA Genova Pra has inaugurated the use of two new rail cranes which will increase precision and reduce...
Venice port to start dredging of Malamocco Marghera canal
Venice, Italy (PortSEurope) November 30, 2020 – Venice port hasd received the required approval to commence dredging of the seabed of the...
Aurelio Martínez: “In 2030 the Port of València will be at maximum capacity”
According to estimates of container traffic growth, when the new North terminal is operational, the Port of València will be handling 7.5 million containers...
Koper port adds port equipment
Koper, Slovenia (PortSEurope) November 27, 2020 – Luka Koper has received an additional three new Kalmar reach stackers for its container terminal. The...
APM Terminals Gijon responds to doubling of container volumes
Since October, APM Terminals Gijon has been receiving significantly higher volumes than usual and exceeding its capacity. This is mainly due to the stevedoring...
New berths for general cargo, grain and oil in Iran’s Anzali port
Anzali, Iran (PortSEurope) November 19, 2020 – Several new projects have been inaugurated in the Iran’s Caspian Sea port of Anzali, 370 km north of the...
Batumi port to inaugurate new multimodal terminal early in 2021
Batumi, Georgia (PortSEurope) November 19, 2020 – In January 2021, Batumi Sea Port, plans to commission a new multimodal terminal built by the company...
Russia seeks strategic port capacity incease
Moscow, Russia (PortSEurope) November 12, 2020 – One of the main documents defining the strategy for the development of the transport industry, the...