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.
Repsol voices worries about Punta Langosteira rail link
A Coruña, Spain (Ports Europe) August 22, 2017 – Spanish oil giant Repsol has called on A Coruña port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de A Coruña) to...
Portugal to invest €2.5 million in constructing dock on Tavira island
Tavira, Portugal (Ports Europe) August 21, 2017 – Portugal’s government has presented a €2.5 million ($2.9 million) project for the construction of a...
New Pitesti-Sibiu highway to Constanta port faces delays
Constanta, Romania (Ports Europe) August 20, 2017 – The contract for the feasibility study of the Pitesti-Sibiu highway, linking Romania’s capital...
Austrian railway set to bypass Koper port
Koper, Slovenia (Ports Europe) August 20, 2017 – Whilst the Slovenian port of Koper has a most favourable position for a transit seaport for central...
Croatia starts preliminary work on LNG facility
Krk, Croatia (Ports Europe) August 18, 217 – Croatia has started preliminary underwater works in the northern Adriatic, the first concrete step in...
Haifa port adds railway connection
Haifa, Israel (Ports Europe) August 18, 2017 – Haifa Port Authority and Israel Railways have cooperated to construct a railway connection to the the...
Valencia port expands area dedicated to car industry
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) August 17, 2017 – Valencia port has reached one million square metres servicing the automobile industry, of which 412,000...
Enlarge Portugal – opinion of the Portuguese Minister of the Sea
Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) August 17, 2017 – August is traditionally a month of vacation for most of the Portuguese. However, in 2017, it will also be...
Russia’s TogliattiAzot advances in project for deepwater port construction in Black Sea
Tuapse, Russia (Ports Europe) August 17, 2017 – Russian chemicals company TogliattiAzot is in the final stage of the construction of a deepwater port for the...
Valencia port completes construction of road to new cruise terminal
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) August 16, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) has approved the completion of the works of the...
Tenerife port confirms tender for dredging at Arinaga basin
Tenerife, Spain (Ports Europe) August 16, 2017 – Tenerife port authority (Autoridad Portuaria Santa Cruz de Tenerife) confirmed the call of a tender for...
Barcelona port boosts short sea shipping lines traffic
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) August 16, 2017 – Barcelona port is offering more short sea shipping (SSS) lines with its main markets in Italy and North...
Cádiz port studies expansion into Andalusian passenger market
Cádiz, Spain (Ports Europe) August 16, 2017 – Cádiz has become in the last years a tourist port par excellence. Especially, in the dock closest to...
Greece completes pier construction at Kos port
Kos, Greece (Ports Europe) August 16, 2017 – Greece’s government has completed a project for the construction of a pier at the port of Kos. The pier...
Odessa port resumes road reconstruction works
Odessa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) August 15, 2017 – In early August, work on the reconstruction of the second stage of Odessa port overpass road was resumed....
Murcia court dismisses appeal against port extension
Cartagena, Spain (Ports Europe) August 15, 2017 – Spanish region of Murcia’s superior court has dismissed the appeal of environmentalist organisation...
Varna Port to invest €6 million in 2017
Varna, Bulgaria (Ports Europe) August 15, 2017 – ($3 million/€2.6 million) for new equipment and another BGN 5 million for improvement of port’s...