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’s Gesmar to start operating a new tugboat at Ravenna port by end-2019
Ravenna, Italy (PortSEurope) November 23, 2018 – Italian company Gesmar, a subsidiary of Rimorchiatori Riuniti SpA, expects to start handling a new tugboat...
Vado Ligure port handles 450-tonne crane at reefer terminal
Vado Ligure, Italy (PortSEurope) November 22, 2018 – Vado Ligure port has handled a crane with a weight of about 450 tonnes at its reefer terminal, which...
Italy’s Caronte & Tourist presents LNG-fired ferry as part of Gainn4mos project
Messina, Italy (PortSEurope) November 19, 2018 – Italian company Caronte & Tourist S.p.A. has presented the first liquefied natural gas-fired (LNG)...
Albania’s Vlora port set for €15 million investment
Durrës, Albania (PortSEurope) November 18, 2018 – Albania’s second port, Vlora, is to receive investment worth €15 million ($17.13 million) to...
Luka Koper receives permission for container terminal expansion
Koper, Slovenia (PortSEurope) November 16, 2018 – Luka Koper d.d., operator of Koper port, has received has been informed by the Ministry of the...
Ancona port authority discusses dredging project at San Benedetto del Tronto port
San Benedetto del Tronto, Italy (PortSEurope) November 15, 2018 – San Benedetto del Tronto’s mayor Pasqualino Piunti held a meeting with...
Las Palmas port to overhaul Puerto del Rosario cruise dock
Las Palmas, Spain (PortSEurope) November 15, 2018 – Las Palmas port plans to invest €1.38 million ($1.56 million) to extend the esplanade of the...
Luka Koper gets permit for container terminal expansion project
Koper, Slovenia (PortSEurope) November 13, 2018 – Slovenia’s environment ministry has said it granted a construction permit to port operator Luka Koper...
Ceuta port considers construction of natgas storage tanks
Ceuta, Spain (PortSEurope) November 12, 2018 – Ceuta port aims to develop projects linked to the application of natural gas in the sea transport sector, as...
Cartagena port plans increased Ro-Ro capacity
Cartagena, Spain (PortSEurope) November 10, 2018 –Â Autoridad Portuaria de Cartagena (APC – Port Authority of Cartagena) is to build two new Ro-Ro...
Turkmenbashi port in Turkmenistan – another megalomaniac project or a new Silk Road winner
Turkmenbashi, Turkmenistan (PortSEurope) November 9, 2018 – In a rare acknowledgment of problems with one of his ambitious billion dollar projects, last...
Poor rail infrastructure may hamper Trieste port’s growth
Trieste, Italy (PortSEurope) November 7, 2018 – Trieste port is developing rapidly and aims to expand its container traffic to 3.5...
Tremestieri port dredging to start this week
Chioggia, Italy (PortSEurope) November 7, 2018 – Dredging at the port of Tremestieri will start this week, and it will take an estimated six days to...
Damietta Container and Cargo Handling Company undertakes dredging work
Damietta, Egypt (PortSEurope) November 6, 2018 – Supported by the Damietta Port Authority (DPA), Damietta Container and Cargo Handling Company (DCHC) is...
ArcelorMittal, Fincantieri SpA and Palescandolo set up new company
Trieste, Italy (PortSEurope) November 5, 2018 – ArcelorMittal CLN Distribuzione Italia, Fincantieri SpA and Palescandolo SpA (Iron and Steel Works) have...
Ports to benefit from Bulgarian-Greek rail transport agreement
Sofia, Bulgaria (PortSEurope) November 5, 2018 –Â Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov and Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras signed a joint...
Spain’s Zeuko to upgrade Noatum Container Terminal Valencia cranes
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) November 2, 2018 – Spanish civil engineering company Zeuko expects to start this year the project to overhaul of STS...
Las Palmas port acquires mobile gateways
Las Palmas, Spain (PortSEurope) November 2, 2018 – The growing tourist activity of the port of Las Palmas has led Autoridad Portuaria de Las Palmas (APP...
Tangier automotive developments concern Spanish operators
Tangier, Morocco (PortSEurope) October 30, 2018 – Spanish port operators are increasingly concerned about the developing automotive industry sector in...
Suardiaz Energy Shipping receives second LNG bunker vessel
Bilbao, Spain (PortSEurope) October 30, 2018 – Madrid-based Suardiaz Energy Shipping has taken delivery of Bunker Breeze from Astilleros Zamakona SA...