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.
Port of Adria introduces Integrated Management System (IMS)
Bar, Montenegro (Ports Europe) September 24, 2018 – Montenegro’s Bar port cargo terminal operator Port of Adria JSC has officially introduced an...
Alcoa to complete transfer of aluminium traffic to Punta Langosteira in mid-2019
A Coruña, Spain (Ports Europe) September 24, 2018 – The transfer of the aluminium that Alcoa Corporation of the US is currently carrying out from A Coruña...
Mercitalia and PKP Cargo sign agreement to Italy-Poland rail links
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) September 22, 2018 – Italy’s Mercitalia Rail, a company of the Mercitalia Group (FS Italiane Group) and the Polish...
GNV says Genoa port lagging behind in LNG facilities
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) September 21, 2018 –Â Grandi Navi Veloci, the Genoa-based ferry operator, has commented that the port has been slow in...
Cotraport raises Barcelona port issues with Puertos del Estado
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) September 21, 2018 – Cooperativa de Servicios de Transporte (Cotraport) has sent a document to Puertos del Estado, the...
Barcelona port continues to operate at full capacity despite cyber attack
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) September 21, 2018 – Barcelona port continues to operate at full capacity under a contingency plan destined...
Voltri Terminal Europa of Genoa port takes delivery of Chinese electric gantry cranes
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) September 20, 2018 – The Voltri Terminal Europa of the port of Genoa Pra has taken delivery of 21 new electric gantry cranes,...
Koper port constructs new entrance
Koper, Slovenia (Ports Europe) September 21, 2018 – Koper port is construction a new entrance for freight transport which is scheduled to be operational...
Barcelona to become only port in Europe with terminals for Carnival, Royal Caribbean, MSC
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) September 20, 2018 – Barcelona will soon become the only port in Europe where the three largest cruise groups in the world,...
Las Palmas port to reorder container terminal
Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain (Ports Europe) September 20, 2018 – Las Palmas port plans to invest in its container terminal with the aim of transforming...
Monaco Marine to sign for 50-year concession for new shipyard
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) September 20, 2018 – The luxury yacht company, Monaco Marine SA, will sign this week a 50-year concession with...
Huelva port receives 40 bids for tender to build new esplanade for Ro-Ro traffic
Huelva, Spain (Ports Europe) September 18, 2018 – A total of 40 companies have submitted bids to carry out works to enable an esplanade for intermodal...
Koper port creates new lifting equipment
Koper, Slovenia (Ports Europe) September 18, 2018 – Experts at Koper port have developed new port lifting equipment to improve efficiency and safety at...
RFI to reopen Genoa rail link
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) September 18, 2018 – Rete Ferroviaria Italiana (RFI) has announced that the railway line, blocked by the collapsed Morandi...
Koper and Trieste ports to gain from new logistics warehouse near Ljubljana airport
Koper, Slovenia (Ports Europe) September 16, 2018 – Vienna-based forwarder cargo-partner GmbH is constructing a new warehouse near Slovenia’s...
Italy’s GNV urges Genoa port to build more LNG supply facilities
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) September 14, 2018 – Italian shipping company Grandi Navi Veloci (GNV) has called on Genoa port to accelerate its adoptation to...
Spain’s Cementos Tudela VeguÃn to build terminal at Gijón port
Gijón, Spain (Ports Europe) September 13, 2018 – Spanish company Cementos Tudela VeguÃn plans to build a terminal in Gijón port for the reception,...
Marghera port receives Konecranes “Model 6” crane
Venice, Italy (Ports Europe) September 13, 2018 – The latest generation “Model 6” crane produced by Konecranes Gottwald has been tested and will...
Valencia port to invest €1 billion in northern extension
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) September 11, 2018 – Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia (APV – Valenciaport, Port Authority of Valencia)’s board of...
Development plan approved for dry port of Antequera, Málaga
Málaga, Spain (Ports Europe) September 10, 2018 – The Junta de AndalucÃa has approved the Special Plan for the management of Antequera dry port at the...