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.
PSA Terminal of Voltri Prà remains operational
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) August 28, 2018 –Â A few days after the collapse of the Morandi bridge, a priority is the possible economic and employment...
RFI brings forward re-opening of Genoa railway links
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) August 27, 2018 – Given the emergency situation in Liguria following the collapse of the Morandi viaduct, FS Italiane has...
Greece’s Chania municipal fund investing in Gavdos port upgrade
Gavdos, Greece (Ports Europe) August 28, 2018 – Greece’s Municipal Port Fund of Chania has launched a project to upgrade the infrastructure of Gavdos port...
Rijeka port to finance wastewater treatment plant in Raša
Rijeka, Croatia (Ports Europe) August 28, 2018 – Croatia’s Raša municipality has convened a meeting with representatives of port operator Luka Rijeka d.d....
Barcelona hopes to improve its risk prediction system with SAMOA 2
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) August 24, 2018 – Barcelona port has adhered this summer to SAMOA 2, the second phase of the Meteorological and...
Greece investing €3.7 million in new Ithaca port
Ithaca, Greece (Ports Europe) August 24, 2018 – Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras has examined the project for the construction of the Piso Aetos port on...
Seville port receives mobile crane for Batán dock
Seville, Spain (Ports Europe) August 27, 2018 – Seville port has received on board the Wiebke ship the mobile crane with the biggest capacity than it...
Genoa port copes with Morandi Bridge disaster consequences so far
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) August 24, 2018 – Genoa port has managed to successfully cope with the first consequences of the Morandi bridge collapse, which...
Spain’s iContainers expects difficult maritime transport high season this year
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) August 23, 2018 – Spanish company iContainers has warned that the high season of maritime transport will be especially hard...
Italy’s Fincantieri can rebuild Morandi bridge
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) August 23, 2018 – Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri is capable of rebuilding the collapsed Morandi bridge in Genoa and in this way...
Spain’s government approves road access improvement project to Arrecife cruise pier
Arrecife, Spain (Ports Europe) August 22, 2018 – Spain’s ecology ministry has approved a concession of a land plot to Arrecife city authorities for...
Melilla port discusses enhancement of Naviera Armas, Trasmediterránea service
Melilla, Spain (Ports Europe) August 22, 2018 – Melilla port held meetings with representatives of shipping companies Naviera Armas SA...
Avilés port to incur €2.8 million loss due to environmental protection measures
Avilés, Spain (Ports Europe) August 22, 2018 – Avilés port is expected to incur losses if the new dredging conditions proposed by the Directorate of...
Greece rejects Piraeus port’s application for shipyard constructionÂ
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) August 21, 2018 – Greece’s economy ministry has rejected the application of Piraeus Port Authority SA (PPA) for the...
Valencia port analyses potential locations for new offices
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) August 21, 2018 – Valencia port is studying to expand its hinterland and has commissioned a study to detect the ideal places...
Spain’s Marcor Xove advances tower project at MarÃn port
MarÃn, Spain (Ports Europe) August 20, 2018 – Spanish company Marcor Xove has completed the foundation of the Picamillo beacon tower it has under...
Huelva port to expand perimeter fence
Huelva, Spain (Ports Europe) August 20, 2018 – Huelva port plans to reinforce the security of the port area by carrying out an expansion of the perimeter...
Saint-Nazaire port mulls installation of cruise floating dockÂ
Nantes.Saint-Nazaire, France (Ports Europe) August 20, 2018 – Saint-Nazaire port is considering the installation of a floating dock to serve larger cruise...
Genoa port considers solutions to minimize bridge collapse impact
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) August 18, 2018 – Three days after the collapse of a major bridge that killed dozens in the northwest Italian city of Genoa,...
Port of Genoa fully operational
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) August 18, 2018 – The port of Genoa is fully functional despite the Morandi bridge collapse. The National Association of...