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.
Venice port completes dredging project
Venice, Italy (PortSEurope) June 13, 2018 – Venice port has completed the project for the expansion of Malamocco-Marghera canal, which will increase the...
Tangier port initiates new fishing port and marina
Tangier, Morocco (PortSEurope) June 12, 2018 – As part of the Tangier port area rehabilitation program, King Mohammed VI initiated a new fishing port...
Venice ports completes canal work to welcome larger vessels
Venice, Italy (PortSEurope) June 12, 2018 – The project to excavate and improve the Malamocco-Marghera canal has been completed. The operation, which is...
Completion of Trentaremi safety work at Naples
Naples, Italy (PortSEurope) June 11, 2018 – The works to secure the beach and the marine area in front of the Trentaremi Bay in Posillipo have been...
AdSP Genoa president attends Phine-Alpine corridor conference in Brussels
Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) June 11, 2018 – The president of Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Ligure Occidentale (AdSP – Western Ligurian Sea...
PSA Voltri-Prà to install electric cranes
Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) June 12, 2018 – PSA Voltri-Prà is continuing the electrification process at its terminal, replacing old diesel yard cranes...
Aveiro port looks to develop logistics platform
Aveiro, Portugal (PortSEurope) June 12, 2018 – The Infrastructure Project for the Logistics and Industrial Activities Zone of Porto de Aveiro (ZALI...
Castellón port installs traffic lights to control truck traffic, reduce pollution
Castellón, Spain (PortSEurope) June 11, 2018 – Castellón port has installed traffic lights in the perimeter road of the north zone of the port with the aim...
Introduction of Vizzavona ship demonstrates success of Corsica Linea
Marseille, France (PortSEurope) June 11, 2018 – The private French shipping company Corsica Linea is to introduce the Vizzavona vessel, a mixed cargo...
Consorzio Bettolo signs contract to build new container terminal in Genoa port
Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) June 11, 2018 – Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Ligure Occidentale (AdSP – Western Ligurian Sea Port Authority)...
Tenerife port applies for change of status of land plotÂ
Tenerife, Spain (PortSEurope) June 8, 2018 – Tenerife port has applied with the Tenerife City Council for the change of the usage of a land plot it owns in...
Pantelleria, Navy divers in action to ‘free’ the port
Trapani, Italy (PortSEurope) June 7, 2018 – A navy operation has destroyed a huge boulder that prevented the docking of the ferries at Pantelleria port....
Alcúdia municipal government prohibits scrap handling at port
Alcúdia, Spain (PortSEurope) June 7, 2018 – The municipality of Alcúdia decided at the end of May to initiate a precautionary measure to suspend the...
Sines port looks to increase LNG capacity
Sines, Portugal (PortSEurope) June 5, 2018 –Â Portugal is looking to expand its deep-water port of Sines to handle greater liquefied natural gas (LNG)...
Sardinian ports to develop its bunkering services
Cagliari, Italy (PortSEurope) June 5, 2018 – The future growth of Sardinian ports also includes activities for the supply of natural gas to ships. Not only...
MSC Cruises new flagship to use Barcelona as home port
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) June 5, 2018 – MSC Cruises has officially received, its new flagship, the “MSC Seaview”, in the Fincantieri de...
President of Ukraine opens the first stage of Cargill/MV Cargo grain terminal launch
Odessa, Ukraine (PortSEurope) June 5, 2018 – President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko and shareholder MV Cargo Andriy Stavnitser have launched the first...
Delta Vilmar signs contract to build soybean processing plant in Yuzhny port
Odessa, Ukraine (PortSEurope) June 3, 2018 –Â Delta Vilmar CIS Ltd has signed a contract with the Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority (USPA) to construct of a...
Naples progresses LNG project
Naples, Italy (PortSEurope) June 3, 2018 – Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Tirreno Centrale (AdSP – Central Tyrrhenian Sea Port...
Alti Fondali quay is now operational in Porto Torres, Sardinia
Porto Torres, Sardinia, Italy (PortSEurope) June 3, 2018 – The Alti Fondali quay is now operational and is the largest pier in the port. The...