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.
Morocco signs 26 local automotive projects
Tangier, Morocco (PortSEurope) December 12, 2017 – The Moroccan government has signed deals for 26 auto industry projects, including several with Renault...
PSA group and Renault sign further auto agreements in Morocco
Tangier, Morocco (PortSEurope) December 12, 2017 – Morocco has signed agreements for 26 automotive projects linked to its growing industrial capacity in...
China’s BYD to set up electric car production plant in Tangier, Morocco
Tangier, Morocco (PortSEurope) December 12, 2017 – The BYD group of China is to set up a production unit of electric cars near Tangier in the north of...
Siemens exports first wind turbine equipment under “Made in Morocco”
Tangier, Morocco (PortSEurope) December 11, 2017 –Â Following the inauguration of its wind turbine blade factory in October 2017 in Tangier, Siemens...
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation opens new factory in Manisa, Turkey
Izmir, Turkey (PortSEurope) December 11, 2017 – Mitsubishi Electric Corporation has announced that the new factory of Mitsubishi Electric Turkey Klima...
Decathlon unveils largest logistics centre in Morocco in Tangier
Tangier, Morocco (PortSEurope) December 11, 2017 –Â The last stage of the Decathlon logistics platform, with an investment of more than MAD 100 million ,...
Alberia’s new El Hamdania port delayed
El Hamdania, Algeria (PortSEurope) December 11, 2017 – The project of the port of El Hamdania in the region of Tipasa, has been slightly delayed and the...
Marseille makes further logistics space available
Marseille, France (PortSEurope) December 8, 2017 –Â The Port of Marseille Fos is to make an additional fifty hectares on the Feuillane area, in...
Snam and partners to develop gas links in Sardinia
Cagliari, Italy (PortSEurope) December 6, 2017 – Snam, Società Gasdotti Italia (SGI) and its shareholders Macquarie European Infrastructure Fund 4 and...
Spain’s Seat to launch automated logistics centre in 2018
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) December 7, 2017 – Spanish carmaker Seat has started the construction of a smart logistics centre that will be officially...
Sicily port authority to invest €7 million in Milazzo port
Milazzo, Italy (PortSEurope) December 7, 2017 – Sicily port authority plans to invest €7 million ($8.3 million) in the overhaul of the outer breakwater...
Spain’s Mercazaragoza consolidates its leadership
Zaragoza, Spain (PortSEurope) December 7, 2017 – Spanish freight railway terminal tmZ, operated by Mercazaragoza, has consolidated its position as the...
Metinvest and Fratelli Cosulich work to improve Porto Nagaro
Trieste, Italy (PortSEurope) December 6, 2017 -Russia’s Metinvest Group and Italian partner Fratelli Cosulich S.p.A. have developed a project to increase...
NIBULON increases capacity of Mykolaiv transshipment terminal
Mykolaiv, Ukraine (PortSEurope) December 6, 2017 – NIBULON is to enlarge the capacity of its transshipment terminal in Mykolaiv with the support of the...
South European ports to benefit from EU Bolzano investment
Brussels, Belgium (PortSEurope) December 6, 2017 – The European Commission has approved under EU State aid rules an Italian scheme to support the shift...
Baleà ria still interested in Gijón-Nantes Motorway of the Sea
Gijón, Spain (PortSEurope) December 6, 2017 – Spanish company Baleà ria EurolÃnias MarÃtimas S.A. is still interested in the relaunch of the Motorway of...
Tunisia to push Enfidha port development
Tunis, Tunisia (PortSEurope) December 6, 2017 – Minister of Transport Radhouane Ayara said the government will take steps to speed up the completion of...
Cartagena port handles second largest crane worldwide
Cartagena, Spain (PortSEurope) December 5, 2017 – A tower of 135 metres and capacity to handle 14,000 tonnes. These are the characteristics that make the...
Indonesia’s Java Biocolloid sets up facilities at Trieste port
Trieste, Italy (PortSEurope) December 5, 2017 – Indonesian polysaccharide products maker Java Biocolloid has set up own facilities at Trieste port as part...
Huelva port’s intermodality project meets objectives
Huelva, Spain (PortSEurope) December 5, 2017 – Huelva port’s intermodal platform project, co-financed by the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF), has met...