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.
Dutch firm Ewalls Cargo Care presents dual trailer freight transport system in Spain
Santander, Spain (PortSEurope) June 29, 2017 – Dutch company Ewalls Cargo Care Holding B.V. presented, for the first time in Spain, a transport system called...
Greece has biggest merchant fleet globally
Piraeus, Greece (PortSEurope) June 28, 2017 – Data from Clarksons Research show that Greek shipowners have taken the lead among merchant ship owners...
Valletta Cruise Port signs up for tourism code
Valletta, Malta (PortSEurope) June 29, 2017 – Valletta Cruise Port in Malta has signed the UNWTO Private Sector Commitment to the Global Code of Ethics...
Daily rail freight connection Marseille Fos-Geneva opens officially
Marseille Fos, France (PortSEurope) June 28, 2017 – The daily rail freight connection between French port of Marseille Fos and Geneva, Switzerland, has been...
KMG International to develop Midia Marine Terminal into Black Sea energy hub
Midia, Romania (PortSEurope) June 28, 2017 – Shareholders of Midia Marine Terminal (MMT), part of KazMunaiGaz International Group, plan to transform the...
Tarragona port to host conference on Mediterranean Corridor
Tarragona, Spain (PortSEurope) June 27, 2017 – Tarragona port will host a meeting to analyse the connections of the harbour to the Mediterranean Corridor on...
Motril port starts OPE with passenger traffic decline
Motril, Spain (PortSEurope) June 27, 2017 – Motril port has started Operación Paso del Estrecho 2017 (OPE 2017), an initiative for the facilitation of the...
A Coruña port calls on government to finance railway line to outer harbour
A Coruña, Spain (PortSEurope) June 27, 2017 – The mayor of A Coruña, Xulio Ferreiro, today asked the central government to donate the necessary...
Ukrtransnafta to start reconstruction of Port Yuzhniy oil terminal
Port Yuzhniy, Ukraine (PortSEurope) June 27, 2017 – Ukrainian oil company Ukrtransnafta plans to start a project for the reconstruction of its oil terminal...
Cosco plans new floating dock for Piraeus port
Piraeus, Greece (PortSEurope) June 27, 2017 – China’s Cosco Shipping Corporation Limited has announced that Piraeus Port Authority S.A.(PPA) is...
Tenerife port to call tender for power supply to ships
Tenerife, Spain (PortSEurope) June 26, 2017 – Tenerife port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Santa Cruz de Tenerife) is to call a tender for the supply of...
Spain’s Renfe MercancÃas to lift traction capacity at Santander port
Santander, Spain (PortSEurope) June 26, 2017 – Santander port will see the traction capacity of state-run freight rail operator Renfe MercancÃas in its...
Spanish Environment Ministry okays A Coruna port’s outer harbour rail project
A Coruña, Spain (PortSEurope) June 26, 2017 – Spanish Ministry of Environment has given the green light to the study of rail access to outer harbour Punta...
Corsica Linea prospers with Marseille connections
Ajaccio, Corsica, France (PortSEurope) June 25, 2017 – Twelve months ago, Corsica Linea took up the challenge of crossing the Mediterranean with precise...
Cagliari to open new fishing dock
Cagliari, Italy (PortSEurope) June 25, 2017 – On June 28, a new fishing dock will be inaugurated in the Sardinian port of Cagliari. The new development...
Spain’s Acideka launches hydrochloric acid line at Bilbao port
Bilbao, Spain (PortSEurope) June 22, 2017 – Spanish company Acideka S.A. has recently completed investment in a new project at its Zierbena facility in the...
Over 30 shipping agencies use Single Window from the start of the Bulgarian system
Burgas, Bulgaria (PortSEurope) June 25, 2017 –Â Over 30 shipping agencies with nearly 100 users use the services of the electronic document processing...
Noatum refurbishment of its Malaga terminal expected to conclude in two years.
Malaga, Spain (PortSEurope) June 20, 2017 – Noatum Maritime has announced that refurbishment works of its Malaga terminal is expected to be completed...
Piraeus Port Authority docks operate at full capacity
Piraeus, Greece (PortSEurope) June 24, 2017 – Piraeus Port Authority S.A. has announced the completion of extensive repairs to the Perama floating dock...
Valencia urges government to provide better port links to Mediterranean Corridor
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) June 22, 2017 – Valencia regional government public works councillor MarÃa José Salvador recommended that the central...