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.
Tarragona port starts expansion in central Spain
Tarragona, Spain (PortSEurope) June 21, 2018 – After the signing of the acquisition of a plot of 150,000 square metres on June 12, the president of the port...
New container transfer system from the port of Algiers to dry ports
Algiers, Algeria (PortSEurope) June 20, 2018 – A new system for the transfer of containers from the port of Algiers to dry ports has been put in place by...
AdSP Genoa confirms investments for Vado’s multipurpose platform
Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) June 19, 2018 – The management committee of Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Ligure Occidentale (AdSP – Western...
La Spezia port set for waterfront development
La Spezia, Italy (PortSEurope) June 19, 2018 – The President of the Liguria Region Giovanni Toti, The Mayor of La Spezia, Pierluigi Peracchini, the...
Mostaganem port acquires equipment to facilitate traffic flows
Mostaganem, Algeria (PortSEurope) June 20, 2018 – Mostaganem port has acquired new equipment to facilitate the handling of passengers and vehicles at the...
Portugal to complete Costa Segura port navigation system by end-2018
São José, Azores, Portugal (PortSEurope) June 20, 2018 – The Costa Segura system, which will facilitate navigation control by ports, will be completed by...
Hannibal doubles connections to Switzerland with new daily rail service from Melzo to Niederglatt
Milan, Italy, June 18, 2018 – Hannibal, the Contship Italia Group’s multimodal transport operator, is launching a second rail link to Switzerland...
Gijón port tenders refurbishment of Candás lighthouse
Gijón, Spain (PortSEurope) June 19, 2018 – Gijón port has tendered at €55,001 ($63,887) the refurbishment of the Candás lighthouse, to protect its...
Noatum to install three new container cranes at Málaga port this week
Málaga, Spain (PortSEurope) June 19, 2018 – Noatum Terminals, which manages the facilities of Pier 9 of Málaga port, has decided to attract leading...
Ports of Las Palmas plans Santa Catalina Pier development
Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain (PortSEurope) June 18, 2018 –Â Autoridad Portuaria de Las Palmas (Port Authority of Las Palmas), under the presidency...
Tarragona port acquires land to build the largest intermodal terminal in Spain
Tarragona, Spain (PortSEurope) June 18, 2018 – Port de Tarragona has acquired 150,000 m² in Ciudad del Transporte-Puerta Centro to develop an...
Porto da Figueira da Foz to invest in larger ship handing and increased rail connections
Figueira da Foz, Portugal (PortSEurope) June 17, 2018 – Gonçalo Vieira, president of Comunidade Portuária da Figueira da Foz (Port Community of...
Coated Solutions starts second phase of Santander port project
Santander, Spain (PortSEurope) June 18, 2018 – Spanish company Coated Solutions has started investing the €45 million ($52.2 million) planned for the...
Italy’s Tarros improves service linking La Spezia to Eastern Mediterranean
La Spezia, Italy (PortSEurope) June 15, 2018 – Italian multimodal transport company Tarros SpA has recently updated its “GPS – Great Pendulum...
Suez Canal Authority completes 90% of tunnel construction project
Port Said, Egypt (PortSEurope) June 15, 2018 – Suez Canal Authority has said that the projects for the construction of seven new tunnels between Sinai,...
EC includes Galician rail link into Aveiro port-France corridor
Aveiro, Portugal (PortSEurope) June 15, 2018 – The European Commission has approved the inclusion of the Galician rail link between A Coruña and Palencia in...
Morocco launches fishing port, marina in Tangier
Tangier, Morocco (PortSEurope) June 14, 2018 – One of the last parts of the redevelopment programme for the Tangier city port area has just come into...
Noatum Terminal Castellón starts operating Liebherr craneÂ
Castellón, Spain (PortSEurope) June 13, 2018 – Noatum Terminal Castellón has since the end of April utilised a new Liebherr crane in its machinery...
Start of Oil Deposit Corunna’s project at A Coruña port may be delayed
A Coruña, Spain (PortSEurope) June 13, 2018 – Spanish company Oil Deposit Corunna has said it plans to start operating a terminal for the storage, mixing,...
Tuscany approves canal expansion project
Livorno, Italy (PortSEurope) June 13, 2018 – Tuscany’s regional government has approved the project agreed with the Ministry of Infrastructure and...