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.
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...
Spain’s Tepsa to expand storage capacity at Barcelona port
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) August 9, 2017 – Tepsa, a company specialising in the storage of liquid products, has submitted to Barcelona port authority...
Dredging in Midia port channel completed
Midia, Romania (Ports Europe) August 9, 2017 – The National Company of Maritime Ports Administration (CNAPM) Constanta SA has completed the dredging of...
Ford extends concession area at Valencia port
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) August 8, 2017 – US carmaker Ford Motor Company will have 100,000 more square metres in the North Pier of Valencia port after...
Cartagena port keeps growing in cruise segment
Cartagena, Spain (Ports Europe) August 8, 2017 – Cartagena port continues to grow. During the first half of the year, it has added 50% more cruise tourists...
Barcelona port eyes MoS to Tanger Med
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) August 8, 2017 – The strategy followed in recent years by Barcelona port to promote the launching of short sea shipping...
Multraship allocates tug to Burgas port
Burgas, Bulgaria (Ports Europe) August 8, 2017 – The Azimuth Stern Drive (ASD) tug will be operated by Multraship wholly-owned subsidiary, Bourgas Tug...
Lallemand Iberia starts exports from Setúbal port
Setúbal, Portugal (Ports Europe) August 7, 2017 – Setúbal port has seen its partner Lallemand Iberia S.A. carry out the first export of Soluble Must...
Grupo Sesé to manage logistics at Volkswagen’s plant in Algeria
Algiers, Algeria (Ports Europe) August 4, 2017 – Grupo Sesé has been chosen to manage, in its different phases, all the logistics operation in the assembly...
Deepening of Volga river can help development of North-South Corridor
Astrakhan, Russia (Ports Europe) August 7, 2017 – A plan to dredge the Volga river to a greater depth and develop local ports, will speed up the...
Ukraine joins Go-Highway project to develop transport corridor connecting the Baltic and Black Seas
Odessa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) August 7, 2017 – Ukraine is to engage in the development of a transport corridor connecting the Baltic and Black Seas...
Darsena Europa commission to call two tenders in September
Livorno, Italy (Ports Europe) August 4, 2017 – The commission for the management of the project for the construction of the Darsena Europa dock at Livorno...
Santander port works on expanding harbour to interior area
Santander, Spain (Ports Europe) August 7, 2017 – Santander port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Santander) is working on the expansion to the interior of...