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.
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...
EC to provide funding for MoS project of Civitavecchia, Barcelona ports
Civitavecchia, Italy (PortSEurope) December 20, 2017 – The European Commission (EC) has said it will provide co-financing for the “BClink: MOS for the...
Santander Coated Solutions to start expansion of factory in March 2018
Santander, Spain (PortSEurope) December 20, 2017 – Spanish company Santander Coated Solutions, a subsidiary of Network Steel Resources, plans to launch the...
Melilla port to invest €326,000 in warehouse construction
Melilla, Spain (PortSEurope) December 19, 2017 – Melilla port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Melilla) plans to invest about €326,000 ($385,000) in the...
Italy’s Liguria to invest €350 million in Vado Ligure port terminal
Vado Ligure, Italy (PortSEurope) December 19, 2017 – Italy’s Liguria region has signed a programme agreement for investments worth €350 million...
Portuguese logistics development held up by infrastructure limitations
Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) December 18, 2017 – The lack of a global strategy in the logistics and freight sector, capable of connecting ports,...
Nantes-Saint.Nazaire calls for container train link to Lyon
Nantes-Saint.Nazaire, France (PortSEurope) December 18, 2017 –Â The French Atlantic seaport of Nantes-Saint-Nazaire is called for the electrification of...