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.
Eurogate Container Terminal Limassol – one year on
Limassol, Cyprus (Ports Europe) March 19, 2018 – Eurogate has now been managing its container terminal in Limassol port for one year, and has commented...
Container train service starts between Bologna and Livorno port
Livorno, Italy (Ports Europe) March 17, 2018 – The first train from Interporto Felsineo, Bologna, has arrived at the terminal of Lorenzini Terminal Srl...
Dredging of Marina di Carrara port harbour expected to start in summer
Marina di Carrara. Italy (Ports Europe) March 17, 2018 – The entrance of the port of Marina di Carrara will be “lightened” by 100,000 cubic...
Taranto port to have multipurpose cruise complex in 2019
Taranto, Italy (Ports Europe) March 16, 2018 – Taranto port will have a multipurpose complex for the handling of cruise passengers for the 2019 season, the...
Italian associations to cooperate in promoting usage of LNG at ports
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) March 15, 2018 – Italian sector associations have signed an agreement to cooperate in the expansion of the use of liquefied...
Barcelona port’s BEST terminal installs new access system
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) March 14, 2018 – Barcelona Europe South Terminal (BEST) installed a new access system to the terminal on March 5, based on...
Little progress in LNG facility at Augusta port, Sicily
Augusta, Italy (Ports Europe) March 14, 2018 – Whilst an agreement has been signed between the Ministry of Infrastructures and Transport and relevant...
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...