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.
Saggas handles 1.4 million tonnes of LNG at Sagunto port in 2017
Sagunto, Spain (Ports Europe) March 13, 2018 – The Sagunto regasification plant, Saggas, handled a total of 1.4 million tonnes of liquefied natural gas (LNG)...
Qingdao port to advise Cartagena on terminal digitisation
Cartagena, Spain (Ports Europe) March 13, 2018 – China’s Qingdao port, the eighth biggest port globally in terms of traffic and the first fully...
New Piraeus III dry dock arrives at port
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) March 12, 2018 –Â The Piraeus Port Authority S.A. has announced the arrival, with the specialized cargo ship “XIN...
Military ships will not be dismantled in Piombino
Piombino, Italy (Ports Europe) March 12, 2018 – A plan for naval vessels to be dismantled in Piombino port seems unlikely to be realised. The plan was...
Grimaldi reorganises the staging area of ​​the trailers in Salerno
Salerno, Italy (Ports Europe) March 11, 2018 – The shipping group Grimaldi, in collaboration with Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Tirreno...
Livorno port focuses on intermodality
Livorno, Italy (Ports Europe) March 11, 2018 – In order to move a significant part of the semi-trailers from road to railways for sections over three...
Disney Cruise Line to launch calls in Cartagena in 2019
Cartagena, Spain (Ports Europe) March 8, 2018 – Only two shipping companies have resisted the port of Cartagena to date. But very soon, the managers of the...
FRS Motril-Tangier line breaks traffic record
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) March 7, 2018 – German company Förde Reederei Seetouristik (FRS) has broken its own record in the line connecting the ports...
Barcelona port relies on cruise sustainabilityÂ
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) March 7, 2018 – Barcelona port has accumulated years of leadership in cruise traffic. And now its main goal is not to...
Cruise companies use larger ships for calls at Valencia port
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) March 7, 2018 – The shipping companies are positioning ships of greater capacity this year than in previous years in the port...
Algeciras port handles largest container ship in Spain
Algeciras, Spain (Ports Europe) March 7, 2018 – The TTI container terminal of the port of Algeciras (Total Terminal International Algeciras SA), located in...
Noatum to incorporate three RTG cranes at Málaga port
Málaga, Spain (Ports Europe) March 7, 2018 – Spanish group Noatum Maritime, the concession company of pier 9 of Málaga port (Noatum Terminal Malaga), plans...
Lebanon’s Tripoli port announces increased revenues for 2017
Tripoli, Lebanon (Ports Europe) March 6, 2018 –Â The port of Tripoli has announced $16.6 million revenues in 2017, up 14.2% on 2016. “The...
Beirut wants to develop its port infrastructure for the next twenty years
Beirut, Lebanon (Ports Europe) March 6, 2018 – Beirut port saw revenue of $245.1 million 2017, up 0.4% on the previous year. “The real increase...
Cargill terminal builds transport facilities at Ukraine’s Yuzhny port
Odessa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) March 6, 2018 – Cargill, the US commodity trader, is constructing a railway unloading station for railway cars and freight...
New intermodal connection from Trieste port to Verona
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) March 6, 2018 – Starting mid-March 2018, Società Alpe Adria in partnership with HGT–Hangartner Terminal will launch a...
Six organizations obtain the Efficiency Network certification at Barcelona port
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) March 6, 2018 –Â Six organizations of the Port Community will obtain certification of the Quality Mark Efficiency Network...
Rajoy announces a 10% drop in port fees at the inauguration of Granadilla port
Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain (Ports Europe) March 6, 2018 –Â The President of the Government, Mariano Rajoy, accompanied by the Minister of...
Bordeaux port named international ship recycling site authorised by the EU
Bordeaux, France (Ports Europe) March 5, 2018 – In January 2018, the European Union has published a list of international ship recycling sites authorised...
Thessaloniki port link to pathe motorway moves forward
Thessaloniki, Greece (Ports Europe) March 4, 2018 – By October 30, 2018, Egnatia Odos SA will have completed the study linking the port of Thessaloniki...