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.
Italy to accelerate road projects at Vado Ligure port
Vado Ligure, Italy (Ports Europe) January 22, 2019 – Italy’s government plans to complete the construction of the improved road connections to Vado...
Livorno port completes maintenance works of two berths
Livorno, Italy (Ports Europe) January 21, 2019 – Livorno port has completed the maintenance of two berths after more than a year of repair works....
Cartagena port studying alternatives to El Gorguel project
Cartagena, Spain (Ports Europe) January 15, 2019 – Spain’s Public Works Ministry, together with Puertos del Estado and...
Sapir receives new Liebherr lifting equipment for Ravenna port terminal
Ravenna, Italy (PortSEurope) January 14, 2019 – The Sapir group has received Liebherr lifting equipment worth €7 million ($8.02 million) for its...
Alcoa offers six-month extension to Galician plants
Avilés, Spain (PortSEurope) January 10, 2019 – U.S. aluminium producer Alcoa has offered to turn off the electrolysis series at its plants in A Coruña...
MSC floats out MSC Grandiosa ship at Saint-Nazaire port
Saint-Nazaire, France (PortSEurope) January 8, 2019 – The Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) has launched the MSC Grandiosa ship at the French port...
Noatum Container Terminal Bilbao to increase rail capacity
Bilbao, Spain (PortSEurope) January 8, 2019 – To consolidate its commitment to intermodal transport, Noatum Container Terminal Bilbao is working on the...
Livorno port receives largest self-propelled crane in Europe
Livorno, Italy (PortSEurope) January 2, 2019 – Livorno port has received the largest self-propelled crane in Europe, which will start operating in the coming...
Amazon gets plot concession at Seville port’s logistics zone
Seville, Spain (PortSEurope) December 21, 2018 – Seville port authority has approved the concession of a land plot at its logistics zone to US e-commerce...
Vopak Terquimsa starts liquid bulk operations at Barcelona port terminal
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) December 21, 2018 – Spanish company Vopak Terquimsa, a specialist in the storage, processing and transport...
Vigo port to receive €13 million EU funding for Ro-Ro terminal overhaul
Vigo, Spain (PortSEurope) December 19, 2018 – Vigo port will receive €13 million ($14.9 million) of financing from the European Union (EU) to upgrade its...
Italy’s FdS to improve intermodal infrastructure at Venice’s Mestre railway station
Venice, Italy (PortSEurope) December 19, 2018 – Italian state-owned railway group Ferrovie dello Stato (FdS) plans to launch a project for the...
AdSP Palermo to invest in Termini Imerese port overhaul
Termini Imerese, Italy (PortSEurope) December 17, 2018 – Autorità di Sistema Portuale del Mare di Sicilia Occidentale (AdSP – Western Sicily...
PSA Container Terminal of Sines surpasses TEU record of 2017
Sines, Portugal (PortSEurope) December 14, 2018 – Until December 12, Terminal XXI (Sines container terminal) handled 1,669,295 TEU, up 5% on the same...
“Mediterraneo” floating dock is operational again in Livorno port
Livorno, Italy (PortSEurope) December 14, 2018 – The “Mediterraneo” floating dock is operational again: normal haulage activities suspended...
Rete Ferroviaria Italiana and Venice port authority sign railway upgrade agreement
Venice, Italy (PortSEurope) December 14, 2018 – Maurizio Gentile, Managing Director and General Manager of Rete Ferroviaria Italiana (FS Group), the...
Amazon will open a second logistics centre in Seville port
Seville, Spain (PortSEurope) December 14, 2018 – Amazon, a U.S. electronic commerce, cloud computing, and consumer...
Italy’s RFI approves overhaul of rail network near Venice port
Venice, Italy (PortSEurope) December 13, 2018 – Italian state-owned railway operator Rete Ferroviaria Italiana (RFI) has approved an investment project for...
Carnival set to start operations at new Tenerife port cruise terminal
Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain (PortSEurope) December 13, 2018 – Autoridad Portuaria de Santa Cruz de Tenerife (Port Authority of...
Spain has two of 44 automated ports globally
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) December 12, 2018 – Spain has two of the total 44 ports worldwide with one or more automated terminals, namely Barcelona, with...