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.
Spain’s Hercules to launch warehouse at Punta Langosteira
A Coruña, Spain (PortSEurope) May 16, 2018 – The works in the new facilities at A Coruña port’s Punta Langosteira outer harbour continue at full...
Spain’s Rudder Logistics opens office at Santander port
Santander, Spain (PortSEurope) May 14, 2018 – Spanish company Rudder Logistics launched in March a project to an office at the port of Santander as part of...
Huelva port, Enagás to launch temperature-controlled logistics hubÂ
Huelva, Spain (PortSEurope) May 14, 2018 – Huelva port, Spanish group Enagás SA and HuelvaPort foundation announced a project for the launch of a logistics...
Caminha port sees pier extension increasing fishing capacity
Viana do Castelo, Portugal (PortSEurope) May 14, 2018 – The newly expanded fishing pier of Caminha port has been inaugurated, now with 1,660 square...
Durrës port to benefit from EU investment in rail services
Durrës, Albania (PortSEurope) May 14, 2018 – The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is set to provide up to €36.9 million ($44.14...
VTR moves from terminal area in Genoa port
Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) May 13, 2018 – The continuous increase in traffic volume has led to a reorganisation of the terminal areas. The VTR area for...
Gaeta port looks to revive shipbuilding industry
Civitavecchia, Italy (PortSEurope) May 3, 2018 – At a meeting between the Municipality of Gaeta and Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Tirreno...
RFI part of study to upgrade the La Spezia-Migliarina station
La Spezia, Italy (PortSEurope) May 13, 2018 – The Peracchini Administration has announces that the feasibility study to upgrade the La Spezia-Migliarina...
Pesaro port sees cruise ship development
Pesaro, Italy (PortSEurope) May 13, 2018 – The cruise ships “Arethusa” and “Artemis” of the Grand Circle Cruise Line have both...
AdSP del Mare Adriatico Settentrionale (Venice) and RFI sign agreement
Venice, Italy (PortSEurope) May 12, 2018 –Â After the signature of an agreement in February 2018, to identify the necessary steps “for the updating...
Agrifood International Congress consolidates Tarragona port’s leadership in the agri-food sector
Tarragona, Spain (PortSEurope) May 12, 2018 –Â The Port of Tarragona has closed the Agrifood International Congess consolidating its position in the...
Córdoba wants to market halal products through the port of Algeciras
Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) May 12, 2018 –Â The port of Algeciras has received halal certification issued by the Muslim authority of Spain, which...
Maersk offers Zaragoza companies rail line for exports via Vigo port
Vigo, Spain (PortSEurope) May 11, 2018 – The conviction of the Vigo port community that Maersk would never completely abandon the harbour but would increase...
Bilbao port completes construction of ro-ro ramp
Bilbao, Spain (PortSEurope) May 11, 2018 – Bilbao port authority has said it completed the construction of a ro-ro ramp number 8 at the harbour.  The works...
Costa Cruises to officially launch new flagship in Savona port in Nov 2019
Savona, Italy (PortSEurope) May 10, 2018 – Costa Cruises plans to officially launch its new flagship, Costa Smeralda, in Savona, on November 3, 2019. The...
MSC Cruises starts procedure for terminal construction at Barcelona port
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) May 9, 2018 – MSC Cruises has started the procedures necessary for the construction of a passenger terminal at the Adossat...
New Motril port operations building on schedule for completion
Motril, Spain (PortSEurope) May 8, 2018 – The project to build a new port operations building, including a future headquarters of the National Police,...
Cyprus Shipping Chamber welcomes new DP World Limassol port cruise terminal
Limassol, Cyprus (PortSEurope) May 8, 2018 – On May 3, 2018, DP World inaugurated its new passenger cruise ship terminal in the Cypriot port of Limassol....
Andalusia insists on overhaul of railway line to Algeciras port
Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) May 8, 2018 – Andalusia’s regional government has asked the central Spanish government to invest in the modernisation of the...
Motril port constructs offices for cargo agents
Motril, Spain (PortSEurope) May 8, 2018 – Motril port has constructed offices for cargo agents who work daily in the port area, which, together with new...