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.
Morocco’s new Safi port 75% complete
Safi, Morocco (Ports Europe) August 15, 2017 – The project to create a new port at Safi was started in 2013 and is now 75% complete. At a cost of...
Las Palmas port starts first phase of construction of La Esfinge dock’s interior pier
Las Palmas, Spain (Ports Europe) August 14, 2017 – Las Palmas port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Las Palmas) has started the first phase of the...
Castellón port considers new railway line
Castellón, Spain (Ports Europe) August 11, 2017 – Castellón port is considering the launch of a new railway line to cope with the congestion of the...
Constanta port increases grain handling
Constanta, Romania (Ports Europe) August 13, 2017 – The National Company of Maritime Ports Administration (CNAPM) Constanta SA estimates for 2017 a...
Third container terminal at Algeciras port goes out to public international tender
Algeciras, spain (Ports Europe) August 14, 2017 – The president of Autoridad Portuaria de la Bahía de Algeciras (the Port Authority of the Bay of...
Nantes-St.Nazaire builds to increase capacity
Nantes-Saint.Nazaire (France) August 12, 2017 – The port of Nantes-Saint.Nazaire is building a new logistics platform in a move to make greater use of...
Livorno port trials new water supply
Livorno, Italy (Ports Europe) August 12, 2017 – Livorno port has trialled a new water supply system for ships. The new system, operated from a 350-metre...
Valencia port to redesign Sagunto dock
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) August 9, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) and Sagunto port have agreed today to begin the...
Puertos Canarios, Fred Olsen, Naviera Armas to reduce congestion at ports
Tenerife, Spain (Ports Europe) August 9, 2017 – Canary Islands-based agency Puertos Canarios, shipping companies Fred Olsen and Naviera Armas S.A. are to put...
Vigo port calls tender for expansion of car silo at Bouzas terminal
Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) August 9, 2017 – Vigo port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Vigo) has called a tender for the expansion of the silo of vertical...
Spain’s Tepsa to expand storage capacity at Barcelona port
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) August 9, 2017 – Tepsa, a company specialising in the storage of liquid products, has submitted to Barcelona port authority...
Dredging in Midia port channel completed
Midia, Romania (Ports Europe) August 9, 2017 – The National Company of Maritime Ports Administration (CNAPM) Constanta SA has completed the dredging of...
Ford extends concession area at Valencia port
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) August 8, 2017 – US carmaker Ford Motor Company will have 100,000 more square metres in the North Pier of Valencia port after...
Cartagena port keeps growing in cruise segment
Cartagena, Spain (Ports Europe) August 8, 2017 – Cartagena port continues to grow. During the first half of the year, it has added 50% more cruise tourists...
Barcelona port eyes MoS to Tanger Med
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) August 8, 2017 – The strategy followed in recent years by Barcelona port to promote the launching of short sea shipping...
Multraship allocates tug to Burgas port
Burgas, Bulgaria (Ports Europe) August 8, 2017 – The Azimuth Stern Drive (ASD) tug will be operated by Multraship wholly-owned subsidiary, Bourgas Tug...
Grupo Sesé to manage logistics at Volkswagen’s plant in Algeria
Algiers, Algeria (Ports Europe) August 4, 2017 – Grupo Sesé has been chosen to manage, in its different phases, all the logistics operation in the assembly...