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.
Trieste port and operators discuss improved rail links with Styria, Austria
Trieste, Italy (PortSEurope) October 15, 2018 – A meeting in Graz between Trieste-based and Austrian operators has focussed on additional railway...
Valencia port, capital of sustainable cruises
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) October 15, 2018 – The cruise industry is a sector in continuous expansion throughout the Mediterranean, including large ports...
PREMO inaugurates Tanger Med automotive facility
Tanger Med, Morocco (PortSEurope) October 15, 2018 – PREMO, the Spanish electronic components manufacturer, inaugurated its new factory in Tanger Free...
Mitsui Kinzoku Act sets up new company in Tanger Automotive City
Tanger Med, Morocco (PortSEurope) October 15, 2018 – In July, Japan’s Mitsui Kinzoku Act Corporation, specialised in the manufacture of functional...
Fulmar Barcaioli Ancona receives additional to improve waste management at sea
Ancona, Italy (PortSEurope) October 14, 2018 –Â The Fulmar Barcaioli Ancona Srl, a company that has been operating since the 1980s in the field of boat...
Aveiro port seeks Salamanca rail connection
Aveiro, Portugal (PortSEurope) October 14, 2018 – The President of the Port Community of Aveiro, Nuno Pires, believes that the creation of a container...
PSA Sines to receive new crane equipment
Sines, Portugal (PortSEurope) October 14, 2018 – PSA Sines – Terminais de Contentores S.A., the concessionaire of Terminal XXI of the Port of...
Steel company ArcelorMittal call for union talks at Avilés
Avilés, Spain (PortSEurope) October 13, 2018 – The pressure on car makers to reduce the use of diesel fuels is having effects on the steel industry....
Plans for LNG facility near Kavala port draws local opposition
Kavala, Greece (PortSEurope) October 12, 2018 – The Ministry of Environment and Energy has allocated land for the development of an liquified natural...
Morocco’s Tangier-ville port gets modern marina
Tangier, Morocco (PortSEurope) October 11, 2018 – Tangier port has undergone major changes with a redeveloped marina, as a result of the redevelopment of...
Olivia Petroleum carries out first biodiesel shipment at Cádiz port in 15 years
Cádiz, Spain (Ports Europe) October 11, 2018 – The Free Trade Zone of Cádiz has recovered energy product traffic operations, absent since 2003, thanks to...
Genoa port sees reduced September performance
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) October 11, 2018 – Genoa port registered revenue down 20-25% in the month of September 2018, following the August collapse of...
Anfac highlights Santander port’s 7 millionth car handling
Santander, Spain (Ports Europe) October 10, 2018 – Anfac (Asociación Española de Fabricantes de Automóviles y Camiones) has reported that Santander...
EU to issue tender documents for new Vasiliko LNG terminal
Limassol, Cyprus (Ports Europe) October 10, 2018 – An open tender for the liquefied natural gas (LNG) reception infrastructure (FRSU –Â Floating...
Livorno port’s Lorenzini Terminal to receive largest mobile harbour crane in Europe
Livorno, Italy (Ports Europe) October 8, 2018 – Lorenzini & C, terminal operator, has invested over €4 million in a Konecranes Gottwald HMK 8412-64...
Santander port launches logistics zone for imported vehicles
Santander, Spain (Ports Europe) October 5, 2018 – Santander port has launched a Logistics Activities Zone (ZAL) with an area of 52,258 m² that can...
Spain’s Noatum launches overhaul project at Valencia port
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) October 8, 2018 – Noatum Container Terminal Valencia, concessionaire of the container terminals of the Prince Felipe and...
Italy’s ports lag behind in economic growth generation
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) October 9, 2018 – The total cargo traffic of ports in the Mediterranean region rose by 500% in the last 20 years, whereas the...
Environmentalists to protest against Setúbal port dredging project
Setúbal, Portugal (Ports Europe) October 9, 2018 – Portuguese environmental associations Clube da Arrábida, Sado de Luto and SOS Sado and the fishing...
Mega-ships saturate port terminals
Algeciras, Spain (Ports Europe) October 9, 2018 – The construction of mega-ships, container vessels capable of transporting more than 20,000 TEUs, is...