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.
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,...
Noatum to complete Bilbao port rail terminal expansion in June
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) January 28, 2019 – Noatum Container Terminal Bilbao will complete in June the expansion of its rail terminal, which will...
Slovenian government agrees to second railway track between Koper and Divača
Koper, Slovenia (Ports Europe) January 28, 2019 – The Slovenian government has agreed to investment in a second railway track between Koper and Divača,...
USPA dredged 10 ports and canals in 2018
Odessa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) January 27, 2019 – In 2018, Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority (USPA) directed the for dredging of six ports and four...
Ravenna port needs dredging to recover cruise traffic
Ravenna, Italy (Ports Europe) January 23, 2019 – Ravenna port sees cruise traffic decline as a result of the draft risk it poses. The number of cruise...
Maersk platform at Italy’s Vado Ligure port 77% completed
Vado Ligure, Italy (Ports Europe) January 23, 2019 – The construction of the multifunctional Maersk platform at Italy’s Vado Ligure port is 77%...
Bayonne port starts dredging project
Bayonne, France (Ports Europe) January 22, 2019 – Bayonne port has started new dredging of the access to the dock and the logistics area of Saint...