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.
Lanzarote mayor asks Las Palmas port to guarantee Arrecife cruise dock construction
Las Palmas, Spain (Ports Europe) April 20, 2017 – Lanzarote mayor has asked the president of the Las Palmas port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Las...
Naples port dredging to begin in July
Naples, Italy (Ports Europe) April 20, 2017 – The dredging of Naples port seabed will start in July and will last for two years or so, the president of the...
Sfax Chamber of Commerce promotes launch of logistics area
Sfax, Tunisia (Ports Europe) April 19, 2017 – The Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Sfax, in synergy with all economic players of the region, has...
Valencia port railway terminal to operate 24 hours a day
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) April 18, 2017 – The railway terminal of Valencia port will be able to operate rail services 24 hours a day, thanks to the...
USPA starts operational dredging of Odessa port
Odessa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) April 18, 2017 – Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority (USPA) started on April 13 the operational dredging of Odessa port with its own...
Vigo port launches ro-ro ramp at Bouzas terminal
Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) April 17, 2017 – Vigo port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Vigo) has completed the rearangement of the huge parking lot at...
Mariupol port sets up cluster for grain handling
Mariupol, Ukraine (Ports Europe) April 7, 2017 –Mariupol port said it plans to set up a cluster for the handling of grain, together with companies STT and...
Contship expands Hannibal rail services
Milan, Italy (Ports Europe) April 15, 2017 – Hannibal, the multimodal transport operating division of the Contship Italia Group, is expanding with a...
Ilhavo mayor calls for more investment in Aveiro port
Aveiro, Portugal (Ports Europe) April 14, 2017 – The mayor of Ilhavo municipality is satisfied with the way the relations with Aveiro port have evolved....
Moroccan government studies improvement of Tarfaya port access
Tarfaya, Morocco (Ports Europe) April 14, 2017 – Moroccan Ministry of Equipment, Transport, Logistics and Water, represented by the Provincial Directorate of...
Catalan Government calls for timetable for Mediterranean Railway Corridor
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) April 13, 2017 – At a meeting of the strategic board for the Mediterranean Railway Corridor, Spanish Minister for...
Naples port starts LNG bunkering project
Naples, Italy (Ports Europe) April 11, 2017 – Naples port will launch later this year an expression of interest for a liquefied natural gas bunker. This was...
Noatum starts operating six new cranes at Valencia port
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) April 11, 2017 – Noatum Container Terminal Valencia, the operator of container terminals at the Principe Felipe and Costa del...
Bouygues Travaux Publics to produce concrete blocks at Marseille port
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) April 12, 2017 – The extension of six hectares of the area of the Principality of Monaco will lead to the construction of...
Volkswagen starts using Tarragona port as hub in Spain
Tarragona, Spain, April 11, 2017 – German carmaker Volkswagen has recently started using Tarragona port as one of its three hubs in Spain, after...
Leixoes port container traffic’s rise is constant
Leixoes, Portugal (Ports Europe) April 11, 2017 – The days when Leixoes Container Terminal reaches 3,000 TEUs or is very close, are becoming more frequent....
USPA completes maintenance dredging at Olvia port
Olvia, Ukraine (Ports Europe) April 11, 2017 – Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority (USPA) has completed the first stage of the maintenance dredging project at...
Luka Koper unsure about Hungarian financial support for railway project
Koper, Slovenia (Ports Europe) April 10, 2017 – Hungary’s financial participation in the project for the construction of a second rail track serving...
Ferrol starts operating container terminal with MacAndrews vessel
Ferrol, Spain (Ports Europe) April 7, 2017 – The first operation of container handling at the Ferrol Container Terminal (FCT), located in the outer harbour...
Contship Italia Group – April 2017 – quarterly newsletter
Milan, Italy, March 30, 2017 Contship Italia Group has published the latest edition of CS WINdow, a quarterly newsletter, providing news, views, analysis and...