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.
Cartagena port okays plan for development of logistics activities zone
Cartagena, Spain (Ports Europe) March 22, 2017 – Cartagena port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Cartagena) gave the green light to a plan for the...
Trieste, port and dry port continue integration
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) March 22, 2017 – The authority that manages Trieste’s port of call continues to expand the complete integration between...
Work on the Marseille north passage continues
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) March 21, 2017 – Work on the expansion of the North Passage continues. The objective is to facilitate access for large...
Andalusia, Aragon jointly request state investment in Algeciras-Tarragona railway
Algeciras, Spain (Ports Europe) March 20, 2017 – The presidents of the Spanish autonomous regions of Andalusia and Aragon have signed a cooperation...
Moroccan government to invest MAD 2.5 billion in port infrastructure this year
Casablanca, Morocco (Ports Europe) March 17, 2017 – This year will be marked by the launch of new infrastructure projects at Moroccan ports, l’Agence...
Seville port suspends Guadalquivir channel dredging project
Seville, Spain (Ports Europe) March 17, 2017 – Seville port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Sevilla) has suspended the project for the dredging of the...
Savona, Genoa ports to become backbone of Italian harbour system
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) March 16, 2017 – The port system of Genoa and Savona will be the backbone of the Italian harbour sector, as guaranteed by...
Bilbao port to officially open cruise passenger station by end-March
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) March 16, 2017 – Bilbao port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Bilbao) said it plans to officially open its new cruise...
Trieste port, AREA Science Park sign cooperation deal
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) March 15, 2017 – Italy’s Eastern Adriatic Sea Port System, managing Trieste port, has signed a cooperation agreement with...
PIR, Edison to build LNG storage facility at Ravenna port
Ravenna, Italy (Ports Europe) March 15, 2017 – Italian provider of logistic solutions for the storage, handling and distribution of bulk liquids, dry goods...
Valencia port expects to service 50 cruise companies in 2020
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) March 15, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) expects the number of cruise companies...
Valencia port sets up terminal access information system
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) March 15, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) has set up an information system on the state...
Navantia to start export of project cargo from Ferrol port
Ferrol, Spain (Ports Europe) March 14, 2017 – Spanish shipyards Navantia plans to carry out a project for the cleaning of the sea bottom at its dock in...
Tugboat operator Rimorchiatori Riuniti to increase fleet
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) March 10, 2017 – Italian tugboat operator Rimorchiatori Riuniti S.p.A. said it plans to increase the size of its fleet, as it...
Spain’s Petronor completes scheduled stop at Bilbao port refinery
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) March 8, 2017 – Spanish company Petronor, which generates more than 40% of the total cargo traffic of Bilbao port, has completed...
Transcoma starts introduces automated picking at Barcelona port logistics zone
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) March 8, 2017 – Spanish company Transcoma Grupo Empresarial has started operating an automated picking process at its...
Santander port handles Höegh Trotter ship
Santander, Spain (Ports Europe) March 3, 2017 – Höegh Trotter ship, the last of the six post-Panamax New Horizon class vessels which the Höegh Autoliners...