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.
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...
Collapse of the Morandi bridge has hit a main artery to one of Italy’s largest ports – Genoa
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) August 18, 2018 – The collapse of the Morandi Bridge has hit a main artery to one of Italy’s largest ports. The...
Spain’s Haizea Wind gets five Lloyd’s certificatesÂ
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) August 17, 2018 – Spanish company Haizea Wind has obtained five Lloyd’s certificates in just over two months from the...
Spain’s Mercadona considers purchase of land plot from Valencia port
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) August 17, 2018 – Valencia port has decided to extend the closing date of the auction for sale of land it acquired ten...
Norway’s Fred Olsen to celebrate 170th anniversary at Cádiz port
Cádiz, Spain (Ports Europe) August 17, 2018 – Cádiz port has received support from Norwegian shipping company Fred Olsen in its goal of becoming a...
Spain’s Baleà ria acquires “Visemar One” ferry for €55 million
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) August 15, 2018 – Spanish shipping company Baleà ria EurolÃnias MarÃtimas SA has acquired the vessel “Visemar...
APM Terminal receives gantry cranes for Algeciras port
Algeciras, Spain (Ports Europe) August 15, 2018 – The “Zhen Hua 23” ship, specialised in the transport of project cargo and which has been...
Morandi bridge collapse puts Genoa port at risk
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) August 15, 2018 – Italian logistics industry association Federlogistica has asked for the immediate establishment of a crisis...
Rijeka port starts railway infrastructure overhaul project
Rijeka, Croatia (Ports Europe) August 15, 2018 – Rijeka port operator Luka Rijeka d.d. has started a project for the overhaul of the railway line leading to...
Spain’s La Luz Autoport Terminal to build car silo at Las Palmas port
Las Palmas, Canary Islands Spain (Ports Europe) August 15, 2018 – Spanish company La Luz Autoport Terminal SL plans to build a vehicle storage facility in...
Trieste-Munich rail link increases frequency
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) August 15, 2018 – The Bavaria Express block train, which operates between Trieste port and Munich-Riem it set to increase...
U.N. Ro-Ro extends storage licence at Patras port
Patras, Greece (Ports Europe) August 14, 2018 – Turkish shipper U.N. Ro-Ro has requested to the Patras Port Authority to extend its license to use the...
New ferry complex of the Kuryk port, Kazakhstan
Aktau, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) August 14, 2018 –Â A ferry complex at Kuryk Port has been inaugurated and will function as a multimodal hub on the Kazak...