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.
Caglari port’s container traffic declines, operators launch downsizing
Cagliari, Italy (Ports Europe) March 25, 2019 – Italian company Iterc SRL, an operator assisting the handling of containers at Cagliari port, plans to launch...
Koper port increases export capacity to Austria businesses
Koper, Slovenia (Ports Europe) March 21, 2019 – At a business event near Koper, 26 Austrian companies active in the logistics, transport, IT and civil...
Naviera Armas to complete construction of Las Palmas port terminal in June
Las Palmas, Spain (Ports Europe) March 13, 2019 – Spanish shipping company Naviera Armas SA expects to complete the construction of its terminal at Nelson...
Alicante port to approve bulk terminal project in April
Alicante, Spain (Ports Europe) March 12, 2019 – Autoridad Portuaria de Alicante (APA – Port Authority of Alicante)e is completing the technical...
Varroc Lighting Systems Celebrates Opening Of Greenfield Manufacturing Facility In Morocco
Tangier, Morocco (Ports Europe) March 10, 2019 – Varroc Lighting Systems has opened its new 17,000-m² facility in Tangier, Morocco, which produce...
Spain’s Yecasa launches terminal at Arinaga port
Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain (Ports Europe) March 8, 2019 – Canary Islands business group Yesos Canarias SA (Yecasa) has launched a terminal and...
Davila Reefer Terminal plans Marin port facility expansion
Marín, Spain (Ports Europe) March 5, 2019 – Autoridad Portuaria de Marín y Ría de Pontevedra (APMRP – Port Authority of Marin) has approved a...
APM Terminals’ new container terminal in Vado Ligure now 78% complete
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) March 1, 2019 – The new APM Terminals container terminal in Vado Ligure has reached over 78% completion, and scheduled to...
ANP starts the expropriations phase for new Zenata dry port
Casablanca, Morocco (Ports Europe) March 1, 2019 – Morocco’s Agence Nationale des Ports (ANP – National Ports Agency) is preparing to begin...
Kherson port completes anchorage dredging work
Kherson, Ukraine (Ports Europe) February 27, 2019 – The Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority (USPA) has announced that Kherson port has completed dredging of...
Messina port’s passenger terminal to be commissioned in 2020
Messina, Italy (Ports Europe) February 26, 2019 – The new passenger terminal of Messina port, designed by Ottavio Di Blasi & Partners, will be...
Luka Koper adds rail capacity to speed up vehicle handling
Koper, Slovenia (Ports Europe) February 24, 2019 – Following the announcement last week that the local Kolektor CGP has won the contract to build...
APM Terminals Barcelona increases reefer capacity and lessens CO2 emissions
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) February 22, 2019 – APM Terminals Barcelona has announced a 31% increase in reefer capacity and taken measures to reduce...
Bergé plans automation of Bilbao port facility
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) February 20, 2019 – Bergé, the Spanish multimodal logistics operator, plans to automate its terminal in the port of...
Livorno expands access channel to handle larger vessels
Livorno, Italy (Ports Europe) February 16, 2019 – Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Tirreno Settentrionale (AdSP – North Tyrrhenian Sea Port...
ICTSI inaugurates expansion of Batumi International Container Terminal
Batumi, Georgia (Ports Europe) February 14, 2019 – International Container Terminal Services Inc. (ICTSI), a global port terminal operator, has...
Lidl to open new logistics centre of in Martorell, Barcelona
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) February 11, 2019 – The German supermarket chain Lidl will open a new distribution centre in the town of Martorell in...