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.
Spain’s Yecasa launches terminal at Arinaga port
Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain (Ports Europe) March 8, 2019 – Canary Islands business group Yesos Canarias SA (Yecasa) has launched a terminal and...
Davila Reefer Terminal plans Marin port facility expansion
MarÃn, Spain (Ports Europe) March 5, 2019 – Autoridad Portuaria de MarÃn y RÃa de Pontevedra (APMRP – Port Authority of Marin) has approved a...
Cartagena port dismisses Escombreras expansion as alternative to El Gorguel project
Cartagena, Spain (Ports Europe) March 1, 2019 – Autoridad Portuaria de Cartagena (APC – Port Authority of Cartagena) president JoaquÃn Segado has...
APM Terminals’ new container terminal in Vado Ligure now 78% complete
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) March 1, 2019 – The new APM Terminals container terminal in Vado Ligure has reached over 78% completion, and scheduled to...
ANP starts the expropriations phase for new Zenata dry port
Casablanca, Morocco (Ports Europe) March 1, 2019 – Morocco’s Agence Nationale des Ports (ANP – National Ports Agency) is preparing to begin...
Kherson port completes anchorage dredging work
Kherson, Ukraine (Ports Europe) February 27, 2019 – The Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority (USPA) has announced that Kherson port has completed dredging of...
Messina port’s passenger terminal to be commissioned in 2020
Messina, Italy (Ports Europe) February 26, 2019 – The new passenger terminal of Messina port, designed by Ottavio Di Blasi & Partners, will be...
Luka Koper adds rail capacity to speed up vehicle handling
Koper, Slovenia (Ports Europe) February 24, 2019 – Following the announcement last week that the local Kolektor CGP has won the contract to build...
APM Terminals Barcelona increases reefer capacity and lessens CO2 emissions
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) February 22, 2019 – APM Terminals Barcelona has announced a 31% increase in reefer capacity and taken measures to reduce...
Bergé plans automation of Bilbao port facility
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) February 20, 2019 – Bergé, the Spanish multimodal logistics operator, plans to automate its terminal in the port of...
Livorno expands access channel to handle larger vessels
Livorno, Italy (Ports Europe) February 16, 2019 – Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Tirreno Settentrionale (AdSP – North Tyrrhenian Sea Port...
ICTSI inaugurates expansion of Batumi International Container Terminal
Batumi, Georgia (Ports Europe) February 14, 2019 – International Container Terminal Services Inc. (ICTSI), a global port terminal operator, has...
APM Terminals’ Suez Canal Container Terminal sees improvements
Port Said, Egypt (Ports Europe) February 14, 2019 – APM Terminals has reported that some modifications in the Navis N4 Expert Decking Module, the system...
Lidl to open new logistics centre of in Martorell, Barcelona
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) February 11, 2019 – The German supermarket chain Lidl will open a new distribution centre in the town of Martorell in...
Decathlon doubles logistics area in ZAL, Barcelona port
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) February 11, 2019 – Decathlon SA, the French seller of sports equipment, is to rent a site of 96,000 m² in ZAL (La Zona...
Noatum Logistics to open two new facilities
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) February 5, 2019 – Noatum Logistics, the division of Noatum Maritime specialising in logistics, international transport...
Trieste port’s new FREEeste logistics area already operational
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) February 5, 2019 – Italy’s Trieste port plans to officially open its free trade zone, named FREEeste, on February...
Livorno port improves rail access to Darsena Toscana terminal
Livorno, Italy (Ports Europe) February 5, 2019 – Livorno port has introduced new procedures for rail traffic entering and exiting the Varco Ferrovia...
Croatian government approves financing for Krk LNG terminal
Rijeka, Croatia (Ports Europe) January 31, 2019 – The Croatian government has approved a decision on financing the €234 million first stage of the...
MSC to build Portugal’s largest dry port
Lousado, Portugal (Ports Europe) January 30, 2019 – The Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) plans to build Portugal’s largest dry port through Medway,...