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.
Lidl’s Tailwind Shipping Lines increases capacity
Hamburg, Germany (Ports Europe) July 22, 2024 – Tailwind Shipping Lines has added a further vessel to its fleet, which now totals nine ships. Lidl...
Snam’s Ravenna offshore regasifier on schedule for Q1 2025
Ravenna, Italy (Ports Europe) July 16, 2024 – Work on Ravenna’s offshore regasifier are proceeding according to schedule. It will land 8.5 km from...
Serbia plans to revive Danube port of Prahovo
Belgrade, Serbia (Ports Europe) July 16, 2024 – Serbia will invest 36 million euros in the country’s Danube River port of Prahovo, Minister of...
OOCL’s first 21,000 TEU ship arrives in La Spezia Container Terminal
La Spezia, Italy (Ports Europe) July 14, 2024 – Contship Group’s La Spezia Container Terminal is has welcomed the arrival of Orient Overseas...
Atlantic Copper seeks terminal in Port of Huelva
Huelva, Spain (Ports Europe) July 11, 2024 – The metallurgical company Atlantic Copper has proposed a project to develop and operate its own terminal in...
HAROPA Le Havre receives new port crane
Le Havre, France (Ports Europe) July 10, 2024 – The HAROPA cruise terminal in Le Havre has received a new port crane, part of the development of the...
New fish products facility in Porto de Celeiro, Galicia
A Coruña, Spain (Ports Europe) July 9, 2024 – In October, the Xunta de Galicia plans to complete the modernisation of the new warehouse for the...
Google plans subsea cable between Azores and Sines
Sines, Portugal (Ports Europe) July 5, 2024 – Google has applied for permission to extend the Nuvem subsea cable from the Azores to Sines. When...
Stormalda opens terminal in Port of Las Palmas
Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain (Ports Europe) July 4, 2024 – Fish oil trader Stormalda has opened a new terminal on the Cambulloneros Dock in the Port...
Stellantis expands concession in Port of Vigo
Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) July 4, 2024 – The Port Authority of Vigo has approved a new concession for Stellantis España to occupy an area...
COSCO to expand CSP Iberian Valencia Terminal
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) July 4, 2024 – The Port of Valencia has approved a modification to the concession held by CSP Iberian Valencia Terminal....
Port of Taranto welcomes two cruise ships at the same time
Taranto, Italy (Ports Europe) July 1, 2024 – In a first for the port, it has welcomed two cruise ships simultaneously at the Molo San Cataldo. They were...
Constanta port with 1.5 mln tonnes per year container capacity
Constanta, Romania (Ports Europe) June 20, 2024 – The container capacity of Romania’s Black Sea port of Constanta, managed by United Arab Emirates (UAE)...
Belarus multimodal Arctic terminal near Murmansk in 2028
Tuloma, Russia (Ports Europe) June 18, 2024 – The new multimodal terminal project for transshipment of Belarusian goods in Russia’s port of Lavna in Tuloma...
Port of Santander will begin construction to double vehicle silo
Santander, Spain (Ports Europe) June 17, 2024 – This summer, the Port of Santander will begin construction of the second phase of its vehicle silo with...
H2V, Hy2gen join forces to decarbonise aviation, Marseille
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) June 14, 2024 – H2V, a specialist in the mass production of green hydrogen, and Hy2gen, a producer of sustainable fuels,...
New cruise terminal at the Port of Tarragona inaugurated
Tarragona, Spain (Ports Europe) June 12, 2024 – The Catalan Port of Tarragona has inaugurated its new cruise terminal. The terminal was commissioned by...
Port of Barcelona: environment impact of 2nd container terminal
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) June 10, 2024 – The Port Authority of Barcelona (APB) has released public information on the environmental impact of its...
Port of Gioia Tauro to demolish three large cranes
Gioia Tauro, Italy (Ports Europe) June 9, 2024 – Three large cranes, no longer used by operator Medcenter Container Terminal (MCT), will be demolished....
Global Ports, Leningrad Region plan Ust-Luga expansion
St. Petersburg, Russia (Ports Europe) June 7, 2024 – Global Ports and the Government of the Leningrad Region have signed a cooperation agreement to...