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.
Cádiz port to open new container terminal in 2020
Cádiz, Spain (PortSEurope) January 5, 2018 – Cádiz port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de la Bahía de Cádiz) president José Luis Blanco Romero has...
Eurogate increases crane capacity in Limassol port
Limassol, Cyprus (PortSEurope) January 5, 2018 – Eurogate, the container terminal operator, is to install an additional seven container gantry cranes, in...
DP World Group start operations in Ukraine
Yuzhniy, Ukraine (PortSEurope) January 5, 2018 – P&O Maritime, a company owned by port operator DP World Group, started to operate in Ukraine in...
Port Authority of Bilbao summarises its ongoing activities
Bilbao, Spain (PortSEurope) January 4, 2018 – Autoridad Portuaria de Bilbao (Port Authority of Bilbao) currently has the following works in...
Cádiz port to invest €21.2 million in 2018
Cádiz, Spain (PortSEurope) January 3, 2018 – Cádiz port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de la Bahía de Cádiz) plans to invest €21.16 million ($25.43...
Ireland aspires to steal fish traffic from Spain’s Vigo port
Vigo, Spain (PortSEurope) January 3, 2018 – Ireland’s government has chosen Castletownbere to build a warehouse for the storage of fresh and frozen...
COSCO sets up OceanRail Logistics in Greece
Piraeus, Greece (PortSEurope) January 3, 2018 – Chinese COSCO Shipping and Ports Limited has announced the setting up of OceanRail Logistics S.A. The...
Naples port to start handling larger ships in summer of 2018
Naples, Italy (PortSEurope) January 2, 2018 – Naples port expects to complete its dredging project at the end of 2018, but could start handling large...
Ceuta call for links to Moroccan ports
Ceuta, Spain (PortSEurope) January 2, 2018 – Ceuta president, Juan Vivas (PP), has formally made a request to the central Spanish government for the...
EBRD Ukrainian loan to improve connectivity between industrial and agricultural areas and key ports
Odessa, Ukraine (PortSEurope) January 2, 2018 – The EBRD is to make a loan to Ukraine to increase efficiency of Ukrainian Railways (JSC Ukrzaliznytsya...
Container Terminal Odessa will increase the transshipment of containers by using the COSCO Shipping Lines
Odessa, Ukraine (PortSEurope) January 2, 2018 – Container Terminal Odessa (KTO), an HHLA International GmbH company, which processed the first vessel of...
Koper port increases 2017 container handling to 900,000
Koper, Slovenia (PortSEurope) December 31, 2017 – Koper port, operated by Luka Koper d.d., has registered 900,000 containers (TEU) in 2017, exceeding...
Valencia port to invest €6 million in container terminal accesses upgrade
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) December 29, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) plans to invest €6 million ($7.2 million) to...
China’s ZPMC to invest $50m in Anaklia Deep Sea Port
Anaklia, Georgia (PortSEurope) December 29,2017 – A contract has been signed for ZPMC (Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industries Co., Ltd), a Chinese equipment...
Spain’s Cilsa approves €37.3 million capital hike
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) December 28, 2017 – Spanish real estate company Cilsa has approved a €37.3 million ($44.5 million) capital hike to be...
Genoa port to start dredging project next year
Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) December 28, 2017 – Genoa port aims to start a new dredging project next year, as a study has revealed problems in the seabed of...
Agreement signed for improved intermodality at Livorno port
Livorno, Italy (PortSEurope) December 28, 2017 -Rete Autostrade Mediterranee (RAM) has announced that a memorandum of understanding has been signed between...