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.
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...
Vigo port to expand Bouzas ro-ro terminal capacity
Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) August 7, 2017 – Vigo port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Vigo) has decided to launch an ambitious plan, the construction of a...
Spain considers subsidies for relaunching Gijón-Saint Nazaire MoS
Gijón, Spain (Ports Europe) August 7, 2017 – The president of Spanish ports agency Puertos del Estado, José Llorca, has said that the costs for operators...
Naviera Armas applies for extending Las Palmas port concession
Las Palmas, Spain (Ports Europe) August 3, 2017 – Spanish shipping company Naviera Armas S.A. has submitted to Las Palmas port authority (Autoridad Portuaria...
Las Palmas port expects requests for LNG tank facility by end-2017
Las Palmas, Spain (Ports Europe) August 1, 2017 – Las Palmas port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Las Palmas) expects to receive before the end of the year...
Italian Court of Audit provides €39 million funding to La Spezia portÂ
La Spezia, Italy (Ports Europe) August 1, 2017 – Italian Court of Audit has unblocked €39 million ($46.1 million) in financing for the construction of...
Constanta and Gdansk ports sign Three Seas Initiative agreement
Constanta, Romania (Ports Europe) August 1, 2017 – Poland’s PKP Cargo SA and the Port of Gdansk Authority SA signed a Memorandum of Cooperation...
Shipping companies object to being forced to buy power from Damietta port
Damietta, Egypt (Ports Europe) August 1, 2017 – Shipping companies are attempting to convince officials to reverse the Damietta Port Authority’s...
Pemex officially abandons terminal construction at A Coruña port
A Coruña, Spain (Ports Europe) July 31, 2017 – Mexico’s state-owned oil company Pemex has officially announced its intention to abandon...