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.
Sines port to have railway link to Madrid long before Algeciras
Sines, Portugal (PortSEurope) July 11, 2017 – Sines port is one of the main beneficiaries of the isolation of the port of Algeciras from Madrid due to lack...
Ukraine’s Nibulon launches grain transshipment terminal near Kherson port
Kherson, Ukraine (PortSEurope) July 11, 2017 – Ukrainian agricultural holding Nibulon Ltd has put into operation a new terminal for the transshipment of...
Ports de la Generalitat to invest in dredging Vilanova port access channel
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) July 10, 2017 – Catalonia regional ports agency Ports de la Generalitat plans to invest €168,000 ($191,331) in the dredging...
Tersan group receives loan to build new floating dock
Istanbul, Turkey (PortSEurope) July 10, 2017 – Turkey’s Tersan Tersanecilik Sanayi ve Ticaret A.Ş. (Tersan Shipyard Inc.) will receive a €17.12...
TMT expands Trieste-Budapest rail connection
Trieste, Italy (PortSEurope) July 9, 2017 – Trieste Marine Terminal S.p.A. has started a fifth regular weekly block train departure from Trieste to...
Bilbao port to profit from Variante Sur railway project
Bilbao, Spain (PortSEurope) July 7, 2017 – Spanish national port agency Puertos del Estado’s president José Llorca has said that the construction...
Las Palmas port discusses project for transforming into cargo hub with Morocco’s Mass
Las Palmas, Spain (PortSEurope) July 7, 2017 – Las Palmas port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Las Palmas) has met representatives of Moroccan company...
Noatum sends two cranes to Málaga port from Valencia
Málaga, Spain (PortSEurope) July 7, 2017 – The Bigroll Bering vessel, owned by company Bigroll Shipping, which specialises in the loading and transport...
Spain to build Valencia-Castellón line of Mediterranean Corridor with standard gauge track
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) July 6, 2017 – Spanish Public Works Minister Íñigo de la Serna has said the government plans to build the stretch of the...
Reganosa to launch LNG bunkering project at Ferrol port in June 2018
Ferrol, Spain (PortSEurope) July 6, 2017 – Spanish regasification terminal Reganosa is investing €2 million ($2.3 million) in transforming Ferrol port in...
Algeria’s CNAN Nord to increase frequency of service to Bilbao port
Bilbao, Spain (PortSEurope) July 5, 2017 – Algerian shipping company CNAN Nord is considering a potential increase of the frequency of its regular...
Cádiz port to reduce cruise ship fees in 2018
Cádiz, Spain (PortSEurope) July 5, 2017 – Cádiz port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Cádiz) plans to maintain in 2018 its rates and bonuses on the...
DP World announces opening of new passenger terminal in Limassol
Limassol, Cyprus (PortSEurope) July 5, 2017 – This summer, DP World will opening of a new cruise terminal in the Cypriot port of Limassol. The new...
Slovenia to put Port of Koper rail project to referendum on September 24
Koper, Slovenia (PortSEurope) July 5, 2017 – The Slovenian National Assembly has set September 24 as the date for a referendum on the proposed...
Chinese Quechen may set up a plant in French Fos-sur-Mer
Marseille, France (PortSEurope) July 5, 2017 – The Chinese industrial group Quechen Silicon Chemical Co Ltd., the world’s third largest silica producing...
Spain’s Railsider Mediterráneo to build container storage facility in Sagunto
Sagunto, Spain (PortSEurope) July 4, 2017 – Spanish company Railsider Mediterráneo has announced plans to build a container storage facility in Sagunto,...
Marín port extends tugboat fleet
Marín, Spain (PortSEurope) July 3, 2017 – Marín port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Marín) has given the green light to the usage of the “A....
Morocco’s AML incorporates third ship into Gibraltar Strait service
Tangier, Morocco (PortSEurope) July 3, 2017 – Moroccan shipping company Africa Morocco Link (AML) has announced the incorporation of a third ship to the...
Sagunto-Zaragoza railway corridor can be used by up to 54 trains weekly
Sagunto, Spain (PortSEurope) July 3, 2017 – The railway corridor between Sagunto and Zaragoza could accommodate between 48 and 54 trains per week if the...
Spain’s Naviera Armas starts operating jetty at Las Palmas port
Las Palmas, Spain (PortSEurope) July 3, 2017 – Spanish ferry company Naviera Armas Ferries has started operating the jetty East at the terminal it is...