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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.

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 – 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 María González, and the president of the Cádiz port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de la...

South Korea’s Hands Corporation to open Tangiers plant

Tangier, Morocco  (Ports Europe) April 13, 2018 – South Korean wheel manufacturer, Hands Corporation, is to construct a factory worth MAD 4.33 billion...

RFI, Central Tyrrhenian port authority to join forces in Naples port overhaul project

Naples, Italy (Ports Europe) April 12, 2018 – Italian railway infrastructure operator Rete Ferroviaria Italiana (RFI) and the Authority of the Central...

Arteixo, A Laracha, Carballo to apply for becoming logistics zones of Punta Langosteira

A Coruña, Spain (Ports Europe) April 12, 2018 – The municipality governments of Arteixo, A Laracha and Carballo announced that they plan to request the Port...

LNG station at Patras port will begin construction in 2020

Patras, Greece (Ports Europe) April 12, 2018 – The LNG (liquefied natural gas) station at the port of Patras is expected to begin construction in 2020. It...

Elengy and subsidiary Fosmax LNG announce construction of LNG facility at Fos Cavaou terminal, near Marseille port

Marseille, France (Ports Europe) April 11, 2018 – Elengy and its subsidiary Fosmax LNG, owner of the Fos Cavaou LNG terminal, have announced the...

Authorities start dredging of port of Cadiz Conil de la Frontera

Huelva, Spain (Ports Europe) April 10, 2018 – The Ministry of Development and Housing, via Agencia Pública de Puertos de Andalucía (APPA –...

Costa Crociere starts managing cruise terminal in La Spezia port

La Spezia, Italy (Ports Europe) April 10, 2018 – In March 2018, Costa Crociere SpA was awarded a contract by Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar...

Arrecife port container terminal operator to make €2 million investment

Arrecife, Canary Islands, Spain (Ports Europe) April 10, 2018 – The company that manages the container terminal of the port of Arrecife is making an...

Las Palmas port authority to approve various infrastructure projects this week

Las Palmas, Spain (Ports Europe) April 10, 2018 – The board of directors of Las Palmas port authority will meet on April 14 to discuss several major...

Vigo port to agree route of rail line to Bouzas terminal with Adif

Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) April 10, 2018 – Crucial progress has been made in the train connection with the vehicle terminal of the Bouzas terminal of Vigo...

Koper port delivers first reefer containers by rail

Koper, Slovenia (Ports Europe) April 10, 2018 – Koper port container terminal has started delivering Israeli goods in reefer containers by rail to...

Dachser launches warehouses in Spain’s Logroño, Zaragoza

Zaragoza, Spain (Ports Europe) April 9, 2018 – Within the strategy of expansion of its network in Iberia, German logistics company, Dachser Group SE &...

Two investments will change the services offered by the Port of Arrecife

Las Palmas, Canary Islands (Ports Europe) April 9, 2018 – The Board of Directors of Autoridad Portuaria de Las Palmas (APP – Port Authority of Las...

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