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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.

UK-based Segro to build warehouses in Madrid, Barcelona

Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) January 17, 2018 – UK investment fund Segro continues its commitment to increase its presence in Spain with the acquisition of...

Civitavecchia hosts “Connecting Italy” conference

Civitavecchia, Italy (PortSEurope) January 17, 2018 – The Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Tirreno Centro-Settentrionale (Centre-North Tyrrhenian...

Piraeus port expecting arrival of Chinese giga carrier container ship

Piraeus, Greece (PortSEurope) January 17, 2018 – On February 12, 2018, Piraeus port is expecting the arrival of the China Cosco Aries container ship....

Alexandroupoli set to emerge as an energy hub

Alexandroupoli, Greece (PortSEurope) January 16, 2018 – The Greek port of Alexandroupoli is gearing up for becoming energy and commercial hub. The port...

Castellón port to open 300 jobs via infrastructure works in 2018

Castellón, Spain (PortSEurope) January 16, 2018 – Castellón port plans to make investments worth €16.7 million ($20.4 million) in 2018. This is the...

Valencia port handles 7% of land cargo by rail

Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) January 16, 2018 – Valencia port has set as one of its priority objectives to develop railway connectivity as it is an element...

Castellón port loses only freight rail line to Bilbao

Castellón, Spain (PortSEurope) January 15, 2018 – Castellón port no longer has the rail service that allowed the transfer of goods to Bilbao. The only...

Vigo port to dredge seabed of Bouzas dock

Vigo, Spain (PortSEurope) January 15, 2018 – The shipyard dock of Bouzas will overcome the obstacles that have caused so many troubles for operators so far...

Alicante port to handle 96,000 cruise passengers in 2018

Alicante, Spain (PortSEurope) January 15, 2018 – The relaunch of the cruise calls of the Britannia ship (part of P & O Cruises) starting in June will be...

MSC Eloane ship suffers accident, Tanger port refuses its handling 

Cádiz, Spain (PortSEurope) January 15, 2018 – The MSC Eloane ship, which with its 400 metres of length by almost 60 metres of beam, is one of the largest...

Italy’s Fercam opens second office in Romania

Bucharest, Romania (PortSEurope) January 15, 2018 – Italian logistics company Fercam SpA has opened a new office in Bucharest, which is its second in...

Tuapse Commercial Sea Port plans substantial investment in 2018

Tuapse, Russia (PortSEurope) January 15, 2018 – Financing of investment programs JSC Tuapse Commercial Sea Port (TMTP – part of the UCL Holding)...

Friuli Venezia Giulia Region approves financing of projects to transport slabs on rail and ship

Monfalcone, Italy (PortSEurope) January 14,2018 – On January 3, 2018, the Friuli Venezia Giulia Region allocated €1.222 million to Fratelli Cosulich...

Government looks to speed up DP World work on Algiers port container terminal

Algiers, Algeria (PortSEurope) Janury 14, 2018 – Minister of Public Works and Transport Abdelghani Zaalane highlighted on Saturday during an inspection...

PSA set for automotive exports from Tanger Med, Morocco

Tanger Med, Morocco (PortSEurope) Jnauary 14, 2018 – A well-honed operation is being put in place to sell Groupe PSA-manufactured vehicles in...

OTEKO and VostokCoal announce the creation of a global hub for the transfer of pulverized coal mixture

Taman, Russia (PortSEurope) January 14, 2018 – OTECO and VostokCoal have agreed on the creation of a global hub in the port of Taman to supply coal to...

Italian media highlight opening of new terminal of Baku International Sea Trade Port

Baku, Azerbaijan (PortSEurope) January 13, 2018 – The Italian press has widely covered the opening of the new Ro-Ro terminal at the Baku International...

APM Terminals submits design for expansion of the Poti Sea Port

January 9, 2018 APM Terminals Poti and Poti New Terminals Consortium have submitted a conceptual design for a first stage construction permit for the expansion...

Koper port concession area expanded

Koper, Slovenia (PortSEurope) January 12, 2018 – The Slovenian government has adopted a decree expanding the concession area of the port of Koper. With...

Spain’s Hermes Logística gets IFS certificate for warehouses in Las Palmas, Valencia

Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) January 12, 2018 – Hermes Logística, S.A., a subsidiary of Trasmediterránea S.A., has received the IFS Logística...

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