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.
La Gronda project set to benefit Genoa port.
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) October 16, 2017 –Â The “La Gronda” is an infrastructure project that aims to increase the logistics potential of...
Valencia port tenders technical assistance for special plan drafting
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) October 13, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) has tendered the technical assistance for...
Covestro launches logistics centre in Tarragona
Tarragona, Spain (Ports Europe) October 13, 2017 – Covestro, a subsidiary of German pharma giant Bayer AG, specialising in the production of high-performance...
Zaragoza-Sagunto rail freight traffic to soar at end-October
Sagunto, Spain (Ports Europe) October 13, 2017 – At the end of October, freight traffic on the Zaragoza-Teruel-Sagunto railway corridor will quintuply on the...
Anaklia port construction to start end-2017
Anaklia, Georgia (Ports Europe) October 13, 2017 –Â The first phase of construction of a deep-sea port in Anaklia will start in late December,...
CMA CGM installs logistics storehouse in the Bekaa valley in Lebanon
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) October 12, 2017 –Â The French CMA CGM group has opened the first logistics storehouse in Lebanon in the Bekaa valley in...
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...