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.
Salerno to benefit from new EU-funded road link
Salerno, Italy (Ports Europe) October 11, 2017 – At a cost of €45.4 million ($53.67 million), a new road is to be constructed in Campania, southern...
Hannibal introduces the fifth movement on the Melzo-Frenkendorf railway service
Milan, Italy (Ports Europe) October 11, 2017 – Hannibal, operator of multimodal transport of the Contship Italia Group, has announced an increase in the...
Marseille’s VASCO2 experiment testing a novel biomass production solution
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) October 11, 2017 – The applied research program Vasco2, involving 12 industrial partners in the Marseille Fos industrial...
Huelva port presents intermodality strategy in Genoa
Huelva, Spain (Ports Europe) October 10, 2017 – Huelva port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Huelva) has presented its intermodality strategy and the...
Spain’s Lacisa expands facility at Barcelona portÂ
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) October 10, 2017 – Spanish company Lavadero de Cisternas, SA (Lacisa) opened on October 6 the extension of its...
Cargo Center Graz expands to handle Koper traffic
Koper, Slovenia (Ports Europe) October 10, 2017 – The Cargo Center Graz in Werndorf is being expanded as it has reached its capacity limit and the...
EBRD to fund Tirana-Durrës railway line
Durrës, Albania (Ports Europe) October 10, 2017 – Albanian Railways (Hekurudha Shqiptare – HSH) is to receive a loan from the European Bank for...
Bulgarian Ports Infrastructure Company updates on Interreg Danube projects progress
Burgas, Bulgaria (Ports Europe) October 10, 2017 – The Bulgarian Ports Infrastructure Company (BIP Co.) has held a meeting to present progress on the...
Sète affected by Saipol slowdown
Sète, France (Ports Europe) October 10, 2017 – Saipol has announced that starting in February 2018, all five of its biodiesel production...
Salerno Container Terminal wins Italian Terminal and Logistics Award
Salerno, Italy (Ports Europe) October 9, 2017 – Salerno Container Terminal (SCT) has won the Italian Terminal and Logistics Award during GIS, the Italian...
MarÃn port to double container capacity in short term
MarÃn, Spain (Ports Europe) October 9, 2017 – MarÃn port plans to double its maximum container ship handling capacity to 4,000 TEUs from 2,000 TEUs in a...
DP World to operate Sète terminal from early 2018
Sète, France (Ports Europe) October 8, 2017 – P&O Ports, a subsidiary of the UAE’s DP World, will begin to operate the container terminal in...
USPA organises press tour of Yuzhny port
Yuzhny, Ukraine (Ports Europe) October 8, 2017 – On October 12, 2017, the Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority (USPA) has organised a press tour of Yuzhny...
Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway will be launched at the end of October
Baku, Azerbaijan (Ports Europe) October 7, 2017 –Â The Baku-Tbilisi-Kars (BTK) railway will be launched at the end of October, Ahmet Arslan, Turkish...
Operatori Portuali Salentini works to improve Brindisi ferry services
Brindisi, Italy (Ports Europe) October 7, 2017 – Operatori Portuali Salentini (OPS – Association of Port Operators Salentini) continues in its...
Bombardier opens new rail maintenance depot in Contship’s Melzo rail hub
Milan, Italy (Ports Europe) October 6, 2017 – Bombardier Transportation, a global leader in rail technology and equipment manufacturing, has opened a...
Valencia port needs good links with Bilbao, Cantabrian coast
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) October 6, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) president Aurelio MartÃnez said that the port...
AlpineIncT aims to improve regional transport
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) October 6, 2017 – Share, implement and realise innovative solutions for the development of combined transport: these were...
Castellón port is ready to cope with future cargo traffic increase
Castellón, Spain (Ports Europe) October 5, 2017 – Castellón port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Castellón) said the harbour is ready to cope with the...
Huelva-Zafira rail line’s traffic exceeds expectations
Huelva, Spain (Ports Europe) October 5, 2017 – Huelva port promotion association HuelvaPort has said the cargo traffic of the railway line connecting the...