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.
Batumi and Poti ports join Lapis Lazuli transit corridor
Batumi, Georgia (PortSEurope) November 19, 2017 – Georgia is to join the Lapis Lazuli Corridor, a transport route connecting Europe and Asia by road,...
Sicily gets €490,000 EU funding for overhaul of port near Trapani
Trapani, Italy (PortSEurope) November 16, 2017 – Sicily regional government has agreed on a €486,525 ($573,275) funding from the European Union (EU) for...
APM Terminals adds tugboat capacity at Poti port, Georgia
Poti, Georgia (PortSEurope) November 16, 2017 – APM Terminals Poti has added two Azimuth Stern-Drive (ASD) tugboats from the Maersk Transport &...
Spain’s Concasa acquires crane for container terminal at Cádiz port
Cádiz, Spain (PortSEurope) November 15, 2017 – Cádiz port authority (Autoridad Portuaria Bahía de Cádiz) has said company Compañía Gaditana de...
Dredging works announced for Chornomorsk port
Chornomorsk, Ukraine (PortSEurope) November 14, 2017 – The Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority (USPA) has announced the procedure of open bidding for the...
Andalusia government to promote cruise offer at CruiseWorld fair in Florida
Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) November 14, 2017 – Andalusia’s regional government and Andalusia Cruises, an association that includes the seven...
Naviera Armas applies for operation of terminal at Arrecife port
Las Palmas, Spain (PortSEurope) November 14, 2017 – Spanish shipping company Naviera Armas, S.A. has requested from Las Palmas port authority (Autoridad...
Valenciaport promotes the Cantabrian-Mediterranean corridor to businessmen from Navarra and La Rioja
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) November 14, 2017 – The general director of L’Autoritat Portuària de València (APV – Valencia Port...
Trieste, Koper ports handle more trains than Rotterdam
Ravenna, Italy (PortSEurope) November 13, 2017 – Italy’s Trieste and Slovenia’s Koper ports together handle more trains weekly than Rotterdam...
Plovdiv-Burgas railway phase 2 gets government approval
Burgas, Bulgarian (PortSEurope) November 13, 2017 – The Managing Authority of Operational Program “Transport Infrastructure” 2014-2020 is to...
Event: Porto de Setúbal – A solution for the Lisbon region, November 22, Setúbal
Setúbal, Portugal (PortSEurope) November 11, 2017 – The Conference Porto de Setúbal – A solution for the Lisbon region | More Capacity, Greater...
Figueira da Foz port commences dredging work
Figueira da Foz, Portugal (PortSEurope) November 11, 2017 – Surveys for the deepening of the navigation channel and interior area of Porto...
Sines port promotes sardine sustainability
Sines, Portugal (PortSEurope) November 11, 2017 – The Portuguese Secretary of State for Fisheries has said in the port of Sines that Portugal is...
Turkmenistan’s new port to open new trade opportunities
Turkmenbashi, Turkmenistan (PortSEurope) November 10, 2017 – The Turkmen government is constructing a new Caspian Sea port at Turkmenbasho nd recently...
Gibraltar attends International Bunker Industry Association convention in Singapore
Gibraltar (PortSEurope) November 10, 2017 – Gibraltar Port Authority CEO and Captain of the Port, Manuel Tirado, has attended the International Bunker...
Valencia port to expand docks in its northern area
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) November 9, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) president Aurelio Martínez has announced an...
Progeco to build warehouse at Bilbao port
Bilbao, Spain (PortSEurope) November 9, 2017 – Progeco Bilbao, a specialist in the storage and transport of containers, is preparing the construction...
Santander port to tender northern access construction by end-2017
Santander, Spain (PortSEurope) November 8, 2017 – The works of the new direct link to Santander port from the A-67 road will be tendered before the end...
Tarragona port to discuss strategies for becoming alternative to ports in northern Europe
Tarragona, Spain (PortSEurope) November 8, 2017 – Tarragona port will hold on November 23-24 a conference to discuss strategies for enhancing the role...
Valencia port to install OCR system for management of railway container traffic
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) November 8, 2017 – Valencia port has developed over the last decade a large number of projects in the railway sector with...