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.
Ireland aspires to steal fish traffic from Spain’s Vigo port
Vigo, Spain (PortSEurope) January 3, 2018 – Ireland’s government has chosen Castletownbere to build a warehouse for the storage of fresh and frozen...
COSCO sets up OceanRail Logistics in Greece
Piraeus, Greece (PortSEurope) January 3, 2018 –Â Chinese COSCO Shipping and Ports Limited has announced the setting up of OceanRail Logistics S.A. The...
Puertos Canarios analyses improvement of harbour accessibility
Las Palmas, Spain (PortSEurope) January 2, 2018 – Puertos Canarios, the operator of regionally-owned ports at the Canary Islands, has carried out a study to...
Naples port to start handling larger ships in summer of 2018
Naples, Italy (PortSEurope) January 2, 2018 – Naples port expects to complete its dredging project at the end of 2018, but could start handling large...
Ceuta call for links to Moroccan ports
Ceuta, Spain (PortSEurope) January 2, 2018 – Ceuta president, Juan Vivas (PP), has formally made a request to the central Spanish government for the...
EBRD Ukrainian loan to improve connectivity between industrial and agricultural areas and key ports
Odessa, Ukraine (PortSEurope) January 2, 2018 – The EBRD is to make a loan to Ukraine to increase efficiency of Ukrainian Railways (JSC Ukrzaliznytsya...
Container Terminal Odessa will increase the transshipment of containers by using the COSCO Shipping Lines
Odessa, Ukraine (PortSEurope) January 2, 2018 –Â Container Terminal Odessa (KTO), an HHLA International GmbH company, which processed the first vessel of...
Koper port increases 2017 container handling to 900,000
Koper, Slovenia (PortSEurope) December 31, 2017 – Koper port, operated by Luka Koper d.d., has registered 900,000 containers (TEU) in 2017, exceeding...
Valencia port to invest €6 million in container terminal accesses upgrade
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) December 29, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) plans to invest €6 million ($7.2 million) to...
China’s ZPMC to invest $50m in Anaklia Deep Sea Port
Anaklia, Georgia (PortSEurope) December 29,2017 – A contract has been signed for ZPMC (Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industries Co., Ltd), a Chinese equipment...
Spain’s Cilsa approves €37.3 million capital hike
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) December 28, 2017 – Spanish real estate company Cilsa has approved a €37.3 million ($44.5 million) capital hike to be...
Genoa port to start dredging project next year
Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) December 28, 2017 – Genoa port aims to start a new dredging project next year, as a study has revealed problems in the seabed of...
ENI to produce joint study on Genoa port LNG facility
Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) December 28, 2017 – Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Ligure Occidentale (AdSP – Western Ligurian Sea Port...
Agreement signed for improved intermodality at Livorno port
Livorno, Italy (PortSEurope) December 28, 2017 -Rete Autostrade Mediterranee (RAM) has announced that a memorandum of understanding has been signed between...
Santander Coated Solutions gets nod to expand facility at port
Santander, Spain (PortSEurope) December 27, 2017 – Santander port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Santander) has given the green light to the extension of...
Oristano issues go-ahead for the Edison natural gas storage depot
Oristano, Sardinia, Italy (PortSEurope) December 27, 2017 – The authorisation process the coastal storage of Edison’s natural gas in the...
Rigel II ferry has been restored to the Durrës-Bari line
Durrës, Albania (PortSEurope) December 26, 2017 – The “Rigel II” ferry has been restored to the Durrës-Bari line due to the increasing...
Ekol Romania invests in new facility
Bucharest, Romania (PortSEurope) December 22, 2017 – Ekol Logistics is expanding in Romania and has signed a 5-year lease contract for a new facility...
PortNet signs three conventions
Casablanca, Morocco (PortSEurope) December 22, 2017 – The annual convention of the single window PortNet was marked by the signature of three conventions...
ADM Romania increases capacity in Constanta port with new floating crane
Constanta, Romania (PortSEurope) December 20, 2017 – ADM Romania has recently been equipped with a new floating crane – “Harvest...