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.
Forme 10 in Marseille: the biggest dry dock in the Mediterranean now fully operational
Marseille, France (PortSEurope) October 31, 2017 – Dry dock no. 10 of Marseille port, the biggest dock in the Mediterranean area and one of the biggest...
Reganosa plans to be marine LNG supplier in Ferrol port region
Ferrol, Spain (PortSEurope) October 30, 2017 – The Spanish energy company Regasificadora del Noroeste S.A. (Reganosa) plans to supply says LNG as a...
Lyon increases container handling from Marseille port
Lyon, France (PortSEurope) October 30, 2017 – Since 1997, Lyon has become the advanced port for Marseille for container traffic. Currently, 50% of...
Virtuo launches logistics park in the Distriport area of Marseille port
Marseille, France (PortSEurope) October 30, 2017 – VIRTUO, a property development company based in Paris, has signed a sales agreement with the port of...
Barcelona port’s Adossat dock tender attracts criticism
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) October 30, 2017 – Barcelona port decided last week to tender the extension of the Adossat dock in the eastern part of...
Vado Ligure terminal to be opened in March 2019
Vado Ligure, Italy (PortSEurope) October 30, 2017 – APM Terminals Italy’s CEO Paolo Cornetto has said the terminal under construction at Vado Ligure...
Poland and Ukraine sign Via Carpathia transport agreement
Kiev, Ukraine (PortSEurope) October 28, 2017 – A memorandum of cooperation for the construction of a trans-European transport route was signed by Poland...
Boluda incorporates new tugboat to fleet in Algeciras
Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) October 27, 2017 – Boluda Towage and Salvage, the maritime towing and salvage division of Boluda Corporación Marítima, has...
Marseille port’s Graving Dock No. 10 (Forme 10) is back in operation
Marseille, October 20, 2017 – Dry dock no. 10 of Marseille Port, the biggest dock in the Mediterranean area and one of the biggest in the world, becomes...
Unctad says Spain is among Mediterranean transport connectivity leaders
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) October 26, 2017 – Spain has one of the highest connectivity of all Mediterranean countries in terms of maritime transport...
Italy’s logistics system should be promoted as single platform, transport minister says
Venice, Italy (PortSEurope) October 26, 2017 – Italy’s logistics system should be promoted as a single system to investors, in order to attract more of...
Turkey set to receive world’s largest FRSU
Mersin, Turkey (PortSEurope) October 26, 2017 – The MOL FSRU Challenger vessel is scheduled to arrive in Turkey this month from South Korea. The...
Kumport’s new warehouse investment will help exporters
Kumport, Turkey (PortSEurope) October 26, 2017 – A new investment by Kumport will provide warehousing for exporters to use before actually exporting any...
Andalusia demands more infrastructure investments
Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) October 25, 2017 – Andalusia regional government president Susana Díaz called on the central Spanish government to...
Barcelona port approves tender for Adossat dock expansion
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) October 25, 2017 – Barcelona port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Barcelona) has approved the start of the tender for...
Italy’s Lisa Group to invest €15 million in factory at Pesaro port
Pesaro, Italy (PortSEurope) October 25, 2017 – Italian company Lisa Group S.r.l. plans to invest €15 million ($17.7 million) in the reconstruction of a...
High speed Basque railway line gets EIB €600M boost
Bilbao, Spain (PortSEurope) October 24, 2017 – The European Investment bank (EIB) has signed a €600m loan with Adif AV to finance the “Y Vasca”...
Barcelona port’s freight railway traffic expands
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) October 24, 2017 – The railway traffic at Barcelona port rose by 7.34% in the first nine months of 2017 to a total of...
Turkey’s Yilport considers Ferrol container terminal to be its most important project
Ferrol, Spain (PortSEurope) October 24, 2017 – Turkish conglomerate Yilport looks at the Ferrol container terminal in Spain with great enthusiasm, due to the...
Marfret uses starcool reefers for import of avocados to Spain
Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) October 23, 2017 – At the Fruit Attraction 2017 fair French shipping group Marfret has presented its services for the...