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.
Koper port receives super post-panamax Liebherr crane
Koper, Slovenia, April 5, 2017 THE BIGGEST IN THE ADRIATIC AND BEYOND Today, the first of two quayside container cranes of super post-panamax (SPPX) dimensions...
Cantabrian-Mediterranean Railway Corridor has annual potential of 1.1 million TEUs
Sagunto, Spain (Ports Europe) April 5, 2017 – The Cantabrian-Mediterranean Railway Corridor, linking Zaragoza to Sagunto port, has a potential demand of...
Baleària acquires ferry ship to operate Valencia-Mostaganem line
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) April 5, 2017 – Spanish shipping company Baleària Eurolínias Marítimas S.A. has expanded its fleet with the acquisition of...
Ekol opens company in Slovenia
Istanbul, Turkey (Ports Europe) April 4, 2017 – Turkish logistics company Ekol Logistics is opening a warehouse near Ljubljana, Slovenia, where services...
Government discusses options for including Luka Koper in Divaca project
Koper, Slovenia (Ports Europe) April 4, 2017 – Representatives of Slovenian Infrastructure Ministry and Luka Koper d.d., the operator of Koper port, have...
Luka Koper supervisory board approves new investment in car storing facility
Luka Koper, d.d., Koper Supervisory Board approves new investment in car storing facility The Supervisory Board of Luka Koper, d.d. has on it regular session...
Luka Koper supervisory board to the bill for the second railway track Divača
Luka Koper, d.d., Koper – Response of the Supervisory board to the bill on the construction, administration and management of the second railway track...
Valencia port liberalises railway manoeuvre services
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) April 3, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) has approved the schedule for the delivery of...
Portugal’s TSL to expand on Iberian peninsula
Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) April 3, 2017 – Portugal’s youngest shipping company, TSL (Tejo Shipping Lines), established on January 20, and...
Bilbao port authority carries out first LNG bunkering operation
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) April 3, 2017 – As a result of the collaboration between the Basque Energy Entity (Ente Vasco de la Energía-EVE), Bahia Bizkaia...
Groupe Charles André open Fos logistics platform
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) April 2, 2017 – The Charles André Group (GCA) has opened its new 34,000 m² platform in the logistics areas of the...
Bilbao port launches cruise passenger station
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) March 30, 2017 – Bilbao port hit a historical landmark in its role as an economic engine with the inauguration of the new...
Balearic Islands port authority starts work on upgrading Savina harbour passenger station
Ibiza, Spain (Ports Europe) March 28, 2017 – Balearic Islands port authority (La Autoridad Portuaria de Baleares) has started work on upgrading and...
Constanta port submits project for public discussion
Constanta, Romania (Ports Europe) March 28, 2017 – Romanian National Company “Maritime Ports Administration” SA Constanta said it has...
Eurogate Intermodal reinforces south-east services to Istanbul
Hamburg, Germany (Ports Europe) March 28, 2017 – Eurogate Intermodal (EGIM) is expanding its intermodal transport network and reinforcing Munich as a hub...
Tremestieri port overhaul to start in August
Messina, Italy (Ports Europe) March 27, 2017 – The capacity upgrade works at Tremestieri port, south of Messina in Sicily, will start in August, transport...
Koper port opposes bill on Divaca railway project
Koper, Slovenia (Ports Europe) March 27, 2017 – Luka Koper d.d, the operator of Slovenia’s Koper harbour, said it finds the content of the government...
Slovenian government publishes bill for Divaca-Koper railway project
Koper, Slovenia (Ports Europe) March 27, 2017 – Slovenian Infrastructure Ministry has published a bill on the project for construction of second rail track...
DP World Limassol welcomes first maiden call cruise ship
Limassol, Cyprus (Ports Europe) March 25, 2017 – DP World Limassol has successfully welcomed the maiden call of the newest cruise ship in the world,...
Bilbao maritime cruise station set to open
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) March 23, 2017 – On 29 March, concurrently with the call of P&O’s Brittania, the new Bilbao maritime cruise station...