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.
Barcelona port boosts short sea shipping lines traffic
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) August 16, 2017 – Barcelona port is offering more short sea shipping (SSS) lines with its main markets in Italy and North...
Cádiz port studies expansion into Andalusian passenger market
Cádiz, Spain (Ports Europe) August 16, 2017 – Cádiz has become in the last years a tourist port par excellence. Especially, in the dock closest to...
Greece completes pier construction at Kos port
Kos, Greece (Ports Europe) August 16, 2017 – Greece’s government has completed a project for the construction of a pier at the port of Kos. The pier...
Odessa port resumes road reconstruction works
Odessa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) August 15, 2017 – In early August, work on the reconstruction of the second stage of Odessa port overpass road was resumed....
Murcia court dismisses appeal against port extension
Cartagena, Spain (Ports Europe) August 15, 2017 – Spanish region of Murcia’s superior court has dismissed the appeal of environmentalist organisation...
New advanced Multraship tugboat for Port of Burgas
Burgas, Bulgaria (Ports Europe) July 15, 2017 – The Black Sea fleet of the towage and salvage specialist Multraship will be strengthened by an advanced...
Varna Port to invest €6 million in 2017
Varna, Bulgaria (Ports Europe) August 15, 2017 –  ($3 million/€2.6 million) for new equipment and another BGN 5 million for improvement of port’s...
Puertos Canarios to invest in improvement of Corralejo port mooring service
Fuerteventura, Spain (Ports Europe) August 14, 2017 – Canary Island’s port operator Puertos Canarios plans to invest €435,783 ($513,221) in works to...
ArcelorMittal and TIS build storage facility for metal goods at Yuzhny port
Yuzhny, Ukraine (Ports Europe) August 14, 2017 – ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih and Transinvestservice stevedoring company (TIS) have opened an indoor...
Morocco’s new Safi port 75% complete
Safi, Morocco (Ports Europe) August 15, 2017 – The project to create a new port at Safi was started in 2013 and is now 75% complete. At a cost of...
Las Palmas port starts first phase of construction of La Esfinge dock’s interior pier
Las Palmas, Spain (Ports Europe) August 14, 2017 – Las Palmas port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Las Palmas) has started the first phase of the...
Castellón port considers new railway line
Castellón, Spain (Ports Europe) August 11, 2017 – Castellón port is considering the launch of a new railway line to cope with the congestion of the...
Constanta port increases grain handling
Constanta, Romania (Ports Europe) August 13, 2017 –Â The National Company of Maritime Ports Administration (CNAPM) Constanta SA estimates for 2017 a...
Third container terminal at Algeciras port goes out to public international tender
Algeciras, spain (Ports Europe) August 14, 2017 –Â The president of Autoridad Portuaria de la BahÃa de Algeciras (the Port Authority of the Bay of...
Nantes-St.Nazaire builds to increase capacity
Nantes-Saint.Nazaire (France) August 12, 2017 –Â The port of Nantes-Saint.Nazaire is building a new logistics platform in a move to make greater use of...
Livorno port trials new water supply
Livorno, Italy (Ports Europe) August 12, 2017 – Livorno port has trialled a new water supply system for ships. The new system, operated from a 350-metre...
Ancona-based port authority starts dredging works at San Benedetto del Tronto port
Ancona, Italy (Ports Europe) August 10, 2017 – The Authority of the Central Adriatic Sea Port System (Autorità di sistema portuale del mare...
Valencia port to redesign Sagunto dock
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) August 9, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) and Sagunto port have agreed today to begin the...
Puertos Canarios, Fred Olsen, Naviera Armas to reduce congestion at ports
Tenerife, Spain (Ports Europe) August 9, 2017 – Canary Islands-based agency Puertos Canarios, shipping companies Fred Olsen and Naviera Armas S.A. are to put...
Vigo port calls tender for expansion of car silo at Bouzas terminal
Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) August 9, 2017 – Vigo port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Vigo) has called a tender for the expansion of the silo of vertical...