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.
Eurispes project could add 400,000 jobs in Sicily
Palermo, Italy (Ports Europe) July 28, 2018 – The €5 billion ($5.84 billion) Eurispes project to develop Palermo port could ultimately create more than...
Design contract awarded for Darsena Europa, Livorno port
Livorno, Italy (Ports Europe) July 27, 2018 –Â A consortium of F & M Ingegneria Spa, Haskoning-DHV Nederland, HS Marine Srl and G & T Srl has won...
Romania’s Constanta port looks for return of cruise business
Constanta, Romania (Ports Europe) July 24, 2018 – Recent geopolitical issues have seen the cruise industry in the Black Seas shrink. Nicolae Dan...
Valenciaport studies opening an intermodal dry port in Teruel
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) July 24, 2018 – Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia (APV – Valenciaport, Port Authority of Valencia)Â plans to study the...
Spain’s Haizea Wind starts production of wind towers at Bilbao port
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) July 24, 2018 – Spanish company Haizea Wind has completed the production of its first wind towers in the plant in the port of...
Pescara port seeks area for new shipyard
Pescara, Italy (Ports Europe) July 21, 2018 – At a recent meeting at the port, discussions took place to identify possible locations for a new...
Palermo port attracts interest of ferry, cruise companies
Palermo, Italy (Ports Europe) July 23, 2018 – Cruise companies and groups that manage ferry lines and motorways of the sea are ready to invest in the port of...
Mesta port, Chios, remains under-used
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) July 21, 2018 – The coastal connection of the port of Mesta, Chios island, with the port of Piraeus was the main theme of...
Gijón port to increase solid bulk traffic capacity
Gijón, Spain (Ports Europe) July 21, 2018 – In the period January-April 2018, the port of Gijón handled 5,681,940 tons of solid bulk, and the port...
Spain’s RÃa de Arousa positions tugboat in Motril port
Motril, Spain (Ports Europe) July 19, 2018 – Spanish shipping company Naviera RÃa de Arousa has positioned the Paula S tugboat in Motril port,...
Spain’s Tax Agency to complete Castellón port customs building reconstruction in 2019
Castellón, Spain (Ports Europe) July 19, 2018 – Spain’s Tax Agency will obtain in the coming days the building permit to carry out the reform of the...
TBS-SDS container depot in Valencia port grows above forecasts
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) July 19, 2018 – The container base of TBS (TransBase Soler) and SDS (Spanish Depot Service SA) in the northern extension of...
Trabzon Port Operation Co signs a contract related to fuel-oil storage facilities
Trabzon, Turkey (Ports Europe) July 19, 2018 –Â Trabzon Port Operation Co. has signed a lease contract related to fuel-oil storage facilities owned by...
Spain’s Adif approves details for a tender for Zaragoza-Sagunto rail line upgrade
Sagunto, Spain (Ports Europe) July 18, 2018 – The board of directors of Spanish railway operator Adif has approved at its last meeting a tender for...
Valencia port, Dutch consultancy MTBS finishing northern expansion project design
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) July 18, 2018 – Valencia port authority and Dutch consultancy MTBS (Maritime & Transport Business Solutions BV) are...
Marsa Maroc started operating a new information system at Casablanca port
Casablanca, Morocco (Ports Europe) July 17, 2018 – Marsa Maroc started operating a new information system at Casablanca port on July 2 which caused a...
Palermo port starts dismantling silos to open space for new ro-ro terminal
Palermo, Italy (Ports Europe) July 17, 2018 – Palermo port has started works for the dismantling of the silos at the Piave pier. The port plans to build a...
Thessaloniki port railway connections to benefit from NSRF investment
Thessaloniki, Greece (Ports Europe) July 17, 2018 –Â By 2022, Thessaloniki’s commercial harbour will be accessible via a modernized rail link to...
Bonanza port in Cadiz tenders construction work
Cádiz, Spain (Ports Europe) July 16, 2018 – The Ministry of Development and Housing has taken out a tender, worth €300,000, works to improve the...
New maritime terminal of the catamaran in the bay of Cádiz in El Puerto de Santa MarÃa
Cádiz, Spain (Ports Europe) July 16, 2018 – The new maritime terminal of the catamaran of the Bay of Cádiz in El Puerto de Santa MarÃa has put into...