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.
Koper-Divaca referendum campaign starts on Aug 25
Koper, Slovenia (Ports Europe) August 25, 2017 – The electoral campaign ahead of the referendum for the construction of the second track of the railway line...
Portuguese cargo transport firms visit Leixões port
Leixões, Portugal (Ports Europe) August 24, 2017 – Portuguese association of public transport carriers of goods ANTRAM and TCL – Terminal de...
Gijón port receives new crane for EBHI S.A. terminalÂ
Gijón, Spain (Ports Europe) August 24, 2017 – Gijón port received on August 23 the parts of the new crane that US company Gottwald-Terex has produced for...
Cepsa becomes first supplier of RMK500 marine fuel in the port of Barcelona
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) August 25, 2017 – Cepsa, the energy company, has started marketing RMK500 fuel in the port of Barcelona to meet customer...
Malta Freeport introduces new terminal operating system
Freeport, Malta (Ports Europe) August 25, 2017 – Malta Freeport Terminals has successfully introduced the most advanced Terminal Operating System (TOS)...
Greek government acquires pilot vessels for Piraeus port
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) August 24, 2017 – Greek Ministry for Development, Competitiveness and Shipping has signed a €600,000 ($708,077) contract...
Arkas Morocco to operate news services locally
Tangier, Morocco (Ports Europe) August 24, 2017 – Arkas Morocco S.A., a subsidiary of Turkey’s Arkas Line (the brand name of Arkas Container...
Alexandria port to build complex for storage of cars
Alexandria, Egypt (Ports Europe) August 23, 2017 – Alexandria port has signed a EGP 285 million ($16.1 million/€13.6 million) contract for the...
Repsol voices worries about Punta Langosteira rail linkÂ
A Coruña, Spain (Ports Europe) August 22, 2017 – Spanish oil giant Repsol has called on A Coruña port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de A Coruña) to...
Portugal to invest €2.5 million in constructing dock on Tavira island
Tavira, Portugal (Ports Europe) August 21, 2017 – Portugal’s government has presented a €2.5 million ($2.9 million) project for the construction of a...
New Pitesti-Sibiu highway to Constanta port faces delays
Constanta, Romania (Ports Europe) August 20, 2017 – The contract for the feasibility study of the Pitesti-Sibiu highway, linking Romania’s capital...
Austrian railway set to bypass Koper port
Koper, Slovenia (Ports Europe) August 20, 2017 –Â Whilst the Slovenian port of Koper has a most favourable position for a transit seaport for central...
Croatia starts preliminary work on LNG facility
Krk, Croatia (Ports Europe) August 18, 217 – Croatia has started preliminary underwater works in the northern Adriatic, the first concrete step in...
Haifa port adds railway connection
Haifa, Israel (Ports Europe) August 18, 2017 – Haifa Port Authority and Israel Railways have cooperated to construct a railway connection to the the...
Valencia port expands area dedicated to car industry
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) August 17, 2017 – Valencia port has reached one million square metres servicing the automobile industry, of which 412,000...
Vigo port aims to include four more ports to MoS with Nantes
Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) August 17, 2017 – The president of Vigo port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Vigo), Enrique López Veiga, has said that the...
Enlarge Portugal – opinion of the Portuguese Minister of the Sea
Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) August 17, 2017 – August is traditionally a month of vacation for most of the Portuguese. However, in 2017, it will also be...
Russia’s TogliattiAzot advances in project for deepwater port construction in Black Sea
Tuapse, Russia (Ports Europe) August 17, 2017 – Russian chemicals company TogliattiAzot is in the final stage of the construction of a deepwater port for the...
Valencia port completes construction of road to new cruise terminal
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) August 16, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) has approved the completion of the works of the...
Tenerife port confirms tender for dredging at Arinaga basin
Tenerife, Spain (Ports Europe) August 16, 2017 – Tenerife port authority (Autoridad Portuaria Santa Cruz de Tenerife) confirmed the call of a tender for...