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.
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 – 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 – 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...
Las Palmas port to tender extension of Puerto del Rosario dock this year
Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain (PortSEurope) June 1, 2018 – Las Palmas port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Las Palmas) president Juan José...
Spanish company Viesgo to build power substation at Santander port
Santander, Spain (PortSEurope) June 1, 2018 – Spanish power distributor Viesgo España, S.L. plans to invest €7 million ($8.2 million) in the construction...
INEA signs €109 million grant for rail network development in Slovenia
Koper, Slovenia (PortSEurope) June 1, 2018 – A grant agreement on CEF Transport co-funding for the development of Divača-Koper railway line in...
USPA and Odessa Port Operator sign cooperation agreement
Odessa, Ukraine (PortSEurope) June 1, 2018 – The Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority (USPA) and Odessa Port Operator LLC have signed a memorandum of...
€10 million to be invested in Varna port by 2020
Varna, Bulgaria (PortSEurope) May 31, 2018 – A new investment programme of €10 million ($11.68 million) has been prepared for Port Varna, Bulgarian deputy...
Algeciras port completes overhaul of fish market of Tarifa port
Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) May 31, 2018 – Algeciras port authority (Autoridad Portuaria Bahía de Algeciras) has completed the works of the external...
Tuscany president urges removal of Eni’s pipe from Livorno port
Livorno, Italy (PortSEurope) May 31, 2018 – Tuscany regional government’s president Enrico Rossi has urged Italian oil and gas company Eni SpA to...
Gas Natural ends Trieste port LNG facility plans
Trieste, Italy (PortSEurope) May 30, 2018 – Spanish energy company Gas Natural has ended long-standing plans to build a liquefied natural gas facility in...
Helva port authorises dredging at Juan Carlos I area
Huelva, Spain (PortSEurope) May 30, 2018 – Huelva port has authorised the Provincial Coastal Service in Huelva, at the request of the Ministry of...
Mediterranean Corridor to be ready by end-2023
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) May 29, 2018 – Spanish Secretary of State for Infrastructure, Transport and Housing, Julio Gómez-Pomar, has assured that the...
Noatum launches railway services unit
Bilbao, Spain (PortSEurope) May 29, 2018 – Noatum Logistics, the logistics unit of Noatum Maritime, has launched a new division specialising in offering...
Lebanese ports eye offshore EEZ benefits
Beirut, Lebanon (PortSEurope) May 29, 2018 – The outgoing energy minister said that the first exploration period in blocks 4 and 9 of the EEZ could last...