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.
Relocation of Livorno port Darsena Petroli is an AdSP priority
Livorno, Italy (PortSEurope) April 22, 2018 – Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Tirreno Settentrionale (AdSP – North Tyrrhenian Sea Port...
Monaco Marine opens Marseille shipyard
Marseille, France (PortSEurope) April 21, 2018 – Monaco Marine has welcomed its first customer at its new Marseille facility, which will operate as a...
Andalusian logistics community criticizes central government for investment
Huelva, Spain (PortSEurope) April 21, 2018 – The Andalusian logistics and transport sector is starting to show signs of frustration with local...
Rijeka port signs development contracts worth €37.6 million
Rijeka, Croatia (PortSEurope) April 20, 2018 – Kolektor-koling and Euro-Asphalt have signed a contract with the Port Authority of Rijeka and HŽ...
Spain’s Bergé Group opens corporate building in Barcelona
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) April 19, 2018 – Spain’s Bergé Group has just opened a corporate building in Barcelona. The new facilities, which house...
Carnival invests €30 million in second terminal at Barcelona port
Santander, Spain (PortSEurope) April 19, 2018 – Carnival Corporation, the largest cruise company in the world, has invested €30 million ($37.1 million) in...
Two companies get Barcelona port’s Quality Mark Efficiency NetworkÂ
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) April 19, 2018 – The Quality Mark Efficiency Network of the port of Barcelona has recently certified two companies, MarÃtima...
Cádiz port works for launching container rail link to Madrid
Cádiz, Spain (Ports Europe) April 18, 2018 – The port community of Cádiz has not rested since Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) operated container...
Spanish government says needs to update Málaga port underground rail link
Málaga, Spain (Ports Europe) April 18, 2018 – The central Spanish government said on February 23 that the railway connection between Málaga port and MarÃa...
Koper port plans new Ro-Ro berth
Koper, Slovenia (Ports Europe) April 17, 2018 –Â Koper port is planning to build a new Ro-Ro berth in Basin 3 which will be designed to meet the mooring...
EMSA auditors arrive at Kherson State Maritime Academy
Odessa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) April 17, 2018 – The auditors of the European Marine Safety Agency (EMSA) on April 16, 2018, have arrived at the Kherson...
Grimaldi to move SSS line to Sagunto port
Sagunto, Spain (Ports Europe) April 17, 2018 – Italian company Grimaldi will shortly transfer its short sea shipping service (SSS) between Valencia, Cagliari...
Genoa port calls breakwater design tender
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) April 17, 2018 – The €14 million ($17.3 million) tender for the design of the largest port work in Italy after World War Two,...
Genoa port needs more cruise docks
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) April 16, 2018 – Genoa port needs new docks dedicated to cruise ships, if it wants to continue to grow in this sector, the CEO of...
Fenatport again warns against truck congestion at Spanish ports
Algeciras, Spain (Ports Europe) April 16, 2018 – The Spanish federation of port transporters (Fenatport) has announced the convening of an extraordinary...
Dredging of the port of Barletta commences
Bari, Italy (Ports Europe) April 16, 2018 – Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mare Adriatico Meridionale (AdSP – Southern Adriatic Sea Port...
New breakwater construction to have limited effect on Genoa port activities
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) April 15, 2018 – Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Ligure Occidentale (AdSP – Western Ligurian Sea Port...
Piraeus port launches the new “Piraeus III” floating tank
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) April 15, 2018 – The Piraeus Port Authority S.A. (PPA) has announces that after the completion of its permanent...
First ship with large Chinese cranes for the new container platform arrived in the port of Vado Ligure
Vado Ligure, Italy (Ports Europe) April 15, 2018 –Â The first ship with maxi cranes for the new APM Terminals container platform has arrived in the port...
Cádiz port, government join forces to promote railway link to container terminal
Cádiz, Spain (Ports Europe) April 13, 2018 – Cádiz mayor José MarÃa González, and the president of the Cádiz port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de la...