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.
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...
Genoa port to issue new breakwater tender
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) March 28, 2018 – The mayor of Genoa Marco Bucci and the president of Liguria Giovanni Toti have announced that be the spring,...
AlmerÃa port starts maintenance work on mineral loading bay
AlmerÃa, Spain (Ports Europe) March 27, 2018 – AlmerÃa port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de AlmerÃa) has started maintenance work on the Cable Francés...
Spain’s Ferrovial Agroman starts road upgrade project at Cartagena port
Cartagena, Spain (Ports Europe) March 26, 2018 – Cartagena port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Cartagena) is carrying out a series of actions aimed at...
Baleà ria eyes own terminal at Barcelona port
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) March 26, 2018 – Spanish company Baleà ria EurolÃnias MarÃtimas S.A. grew passenger traffic by 5.7% and cargo by 10% in...
Pilkington Italia Spa signs concession until 2024 with Venice port
Venice, Italy (Ports Europe) March 26, 2018 –Â Pilkington Italia Spa, which restarted glass production in Marghera last year, has signed a...
Damietta Port Authority seeks EBRD loan for new terminal
Damietta, Egypt (Ports Europe) March 25, 2018 –Â Damietta Port Authority (DPA) is in talks with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development...
Ravenna discusses dredging of port
Ravenna, Italy (Ports Europe) March 24, 2018 – Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mare Adriatico Centro-Settentrionale (AdSP – Centre-North Port...