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.
Analysis – Russia keeps pushing for development of Caspian Sea ports and Volga-Don Canal
Astrakhan, Russia (PortSEurope) December 14, 2020 – The prospects for the development of container services in the Caspian Sea and the creation of a...
Piraeus Port Authority to proceed with ship repair facility development
Piraeus, Greece (PortSEurope) December 9, 2020 – Piraeus Port Authority SA (PPA) has announced the signing of the agreement to proceed with the project:...
AdSP del Mar Ligure Orientale plans Carrara port development
La Spezia, Italy (PortSEurope) December 8, 2020 – An agreement between Autorita’di Sistema Portuale del Mar Ligure Orientale (AdSP – Eastern...
CSP Iberian Zaragoza Rail Terminal confirms full capacity to operate ferroutage trains
CSP Iberian Zaragoza Rail Terminal (CSPZ), part of the CSP Spain group, has confirmed to ADIF and the regional government of Aragon, its capacity to...
PSA Pra’ terminal employs two new rail cranes
Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) December 1, 2020 – PSA Genova Pra has inaugurated the use of two new rail cranes which will increase precision and reduce...
Venice port to start dredging of Malamocco Marghera canal
Venice, Italy (PortSEurope) November 30, 2020 – Venice port hasd received the required approval to commence dredging of the seabed of the...
Aurelio Martínez: “In 2030 the Port of València will be at maximum capacity”
According to estimates of container traffic growth, when the new North terminal is operational, the Port of València will be handling 7.5 million containers...
Koper port adds port equipment
Koper, Slovenia (PortSEurope) November 27, 2020 – Luka Koper has received an additional three new Kalmar reach stackers for its container terminal. The...
APM Terminals Gijon responds to doubling of container volumes
Since October, APM Terminals Gijon has been receiving significantly higher volumes than usual and exceeding its capacity. This is mainly due to the stevedoring...
New berths for general cargo, grain and oil in Iran’s Anzali port
Anzali, Iran (PortSEurope) November 19, 2020 – Several new projects have been inaugurated in the Iran’s Caspian Sea port of Anzali, 370 km north of the...
Batumi port to inaugurate new multimodal terminal early in 2021
Batumi, Georgia (PortSEurope) November 19, 2020 – In January 2021, Batumi Sea Port, plans to commission a new multimodal terminal built by the company...
Endesa will invest up to €34.5 million in Algeciras port LNG facility
Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) November 19, 2020 – Endesa SA, a leading Spanish electric utility company, is planning a €15.6 million investment to...
Russia seeks strategic port capacity incease
Moscow, Russia (PortSEurope) November 12, 2020 – One of the main documents defining the strategy for the development of the transport industry, the...
Valenciaport warns of the danger of not having double track for Valencia-Castellón and Sagunto-Zaragoza trains
The ports of Sagunto and València are strategic intermodal platforms to facilitate connectivity with the Mediterranean corridor – November 11, 2020...
Calls for Giresun railway development to be in national interests
Giresun, Turkey (PortSEurope) November 10, 2020 – Hasan Çakırmelikoğlu, Chairman of Giresun Chamber of Commerce and Industry, speaking baiut the...
MSC expands door-to-door distribution network ‘Trieste Express’ with new service
Istanbul, Turkey (PortSEurope) November 10, 2020 – MSC-Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) has announced that it has added a vessel to the Trieste...
Baleària starts the refit of the ‘Martín i Soler’ to operate on natural gas
València, Spain (PortSEurope) November 10, 2020 – The Baleària shipping company has started the refit of the ‘Martín i Soler’ ferry, which...
Yilport: The South Pier of Huelva port expands capacity for container storage and logistics
The YILPORT Huelva terminal completes a container storage yard extension of 50,000 m² of total area, planned to take on new operations as from today –...
Barcelona and Civitavecchia ports BClink project draws to a close
Civitavecchia, Italy (PortSEurope) October 27, 2020 – The BClink project, designed to step up Motorways of the Sea connections between the ports of...
Ceneri Tunnel turns Genoa into a fast rail gateway to Europe
Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) November 3, 2020 – The inauguration of the Ceneri Base Tunnel (CBT), part of the new Railway Link through the Alps (NRLA),...