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.
New Algiers Port’s marine passenger terminal to be inaugurated next May
Algiers, Algeria (Ports Europe) April 8, 2018 –Â The new marine passenger terminal of Algiers port will be inaugurated in next May, Minister of Public...
Baleà ria launches the ship ‘Hypatia de AlejandrÃa’, the first ferry powered by LNG from the Mediterranean
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) April 7, 2018 – Baleà ria EurolÃnias MarÃtimas S.A. has completed the floating of the ship Hypatia de AlejandrÃa ,...
Naples port signs railway development agreement
Naples, Italy (Ports Europe) April 6, 2018 – A memorandum of understanding has been signed by Maurizio Gentile, CEO of the Italian Railway Network...
CMA CGM carries out oversized cargo operation at Bilbao port
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) April 5, 2018 – French company CMA CGM, one of the world leaders in maritime transport, has recently demonstrated its ability...
Cargill MV Cargo grain terminal set for first mln tons of grain exports in 2018
Yuzhny, Ukraine (Ports Europe) April 5, 2018 – The grain terminal of Cargill and MV Cargo in Yuzhny port, is forecast to transfer the first one million...
Spain’s Bikote Solar completes construction of PV plant at Bilbao port
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) April 4, 2018 – Spanish company Bikote Solar has recently launched a 100 kW photovoltaic plant for refrigerated storage...
Pasaia port to handle export of train carriages to Amsterdam
Pasaia, Spain (Ports Europe) April 4, 2018 – Pasaia port goes one step further in the logistics of ro-ro cargo of high added value with the start of a new...
ENI considers Genoa port for LNG facility
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) April 4, 2018 – ENI SpA, the energy group, has carried out a feasibility study to locate a liquified natural gas (LNG)...
Spain’s government, Adif sign deal to co-finance rail line to Punta Langosteira
A Coruña, Spain (Ports Europe) April 3, 2018 – Spain’s prime minister Mariano Rajoy has said that Spanish national ports agency Puertos del Estado and...
Cartagena port to complete southwest breakwater before summer
Cartagena, Spain (Ports Europe) April 2, 2018 – Cartagena port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Cartagena) plans to complete before the summer the works to...
MarÃn port starts handling 4,000-TEU container ships
MarÃn, Spain (Ports Europe) April 2, 2018 – The Polar Costa Rica container ship docked on March 29 at the container terminal of the port of Marin, coming...
New Riva Traiana railway park inaugurated in Trieste port
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) March 31, 2018 – AÂ new ro-ro railway park of Riva Traiana, in the Porto Franco Nuovo of Trieste has been...
Ukraine reports results of 2017 dredging activities
Odessa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) March 30, 2018 –Â The Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority (USPA) has presented the results of dredging...
Ukraine allocates funds for inland waterways dredging
Odessa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) March 30, 2018 – The Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority (USPA) is to allocate UAH 80 million (€2.45 million) for...
Duisburg looks to Trieste port
Duisburg, Germany (Ports Europe) March 30, 2018 – The German inland logistics hub of Duisburg is keen to play a role in the new Silk Road, China’s...
MSC considers investments in Gioia Tauro port
Gioia Tauro, Italy (Ports Europe) March 30, 2018 – The Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) considers investments in Gioia Tauro port, the president of the...
MSC to operate Genoa’s Bettolo container terminal as of 2019
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) March 29, 2018 – The Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) plans to invest in the expansion of the container terminal at Bettolo...
Samer & Co completes overhaul of ro-ro terminal at Trieste port
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) March 29, 2018 – Italian company Samer & Co Shipping S.p.A. has officially completed the overhaul of its Riva Traiana Ro-Ro...
Huelva port presents intermodal platform project to INEA
Huelva, Spain (Ports Europe) March 28, 2018 – Managers of Huelva port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Huelva) have held a working meeting with...
The digital transformation path of the port of Trieste continues
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) March 28, 2018 – The digital transformation of the port of Trieste continues with the activities of Sinfomar, the port...