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.
Santander port analyses competition of Bilbao, Gijón harbours
Santander, Spain (Ports Europe) February 23, 2018 – The strategy of Santander port to keep its competitiveness at the service of the economy of Cantabria...
VTP may help realisation of Pula port cruise terminal
Venice, Italy (Ports Europe) February 23, 2018 – The director of Pula Port Authority in Croatia has said that it intends to proceed with plans for a...
Yilport announces Lisbon and Leixões port container terminal investments
Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) February 22, 2018 – Yilport, an operator of several port terminals in Portugal, intends to invest around €200 million...
Top 10 container firms control 90% of global container fleet
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) February 21, 2018 – Over 87% of the fleet capacity of the 67 largest global container transport companies is controlled by...
MSC calls for construction of road link of Valencia port to Sagunto
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) February 21, 2018 – The future of the northern extension of the port of Valencia is conditioned to the development of a new...
Santander offers best quality of bulk handling globally
Santander, Spain (Ports Europe) February 21, 2018 – Santander port has been listed as the best harbour in the world in the handling of bulk by Bimco, the...
Leixões port to receive €510 million investment
Leixões, Portugal (Ports Europe) February 21, 2018 – The port of Leixões, in Matosinhos, Porto district, will receive an investment of €510 million...
Alicante port approves specifications of solid bulk handling project
Alicante, Spain (Ports Europe) February 20, 2018 – Alicante port authority has approved the specifications in the tender for the construction of a new...
Italian investor to launch dry dock at Naples port
Naples, Italy (Ports Europe) February 20, 2018 – “Napoli Dry Docks”, a joint venture of Palumbo Group Naples and La Nuova Meccanica Navale srl,...
Spain’s Autoterminal, Abu Dhabi Ports set up JV to build car terminal in UAE
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) February 20, 2018 – Autoterminal, a subsidiary of the Noatum Maritime Group and Abu Dhabi Ports, have signed an agreement for...
Constanta port to benefit from EU Cohesion funding
Constanta, Romania (Ports Europe) February 20, 2018 – €1.3 billion ($1.61 billion) from the EU Cohesion Fund is to be invested in the modernisation of...
Livorno port presents new port regulations
Livorno, Italy (Ports Europe) February 20, 2018 –Â Admiral Giuseppe Tarzia, Maritime Director of Tuscany and Commander of the Port Authority of Livorno,...
Livorno port to develop railway capacity
Livorno, Italy (Ports Europe) February 20, 2018 – Rail freight traffic is increasing significantly in Livorno. Since the direct connection between the...
Spain’s Adif launches 2nd phase of Valencia-Castellón railway upgrade
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) February 19, 2018 – Spanish state-run railway operator Administrador de Infraestructuras Ferroviarias (Adif) has started the...
Leixões received inaugural scale of one of the largest ro-ro ships
Leixões, Portugal (Ports Europe) February 18, 2018 – On, February 14, the Port of Leixões received, for the first time, one of the largest ro-ro...
Baleà ria orders two ferries from Cantiere Navale Visentini
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) February 18, 2018 – Baleà ria EurolÃnias MarÃtimas S.A. has reached an agreement with the Italian shipyard Cantiere...
Bergé MarÃtima starts 2018 with three port terminal expansion projects
Cartagena, Spain (Ports Europe) February 16, 2018 – Spanish company Bergé MarÃtima S.L. has started 2018 with three port terminal expansion projects. The...
Mazara del Vallo port dredging to start in short term
Mazara del Vallo, Sicily, Italy (Ports Europe) February 16, 2018 – The dredging of the seabed of the port of Mazara del Vallo, on Sicily’s southwest coast,...
Bulgaria, Macedonian discuss Pan-European Transport Corridor VIII
Sofia, Bulgaria (Ports Europe) February 16, 2018 – Transport corridor VIII is a priority for the BUlgarian government as it links its ports with Albania,...
MSC eyes Naples port-Nola dry port rail link
Naples, Italy (Ports Europe) February 15, 2018 – Representatives of the Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) plan to discuss on February 16 the potential...