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.
Motril port starts preparations for OPE 2017
Motril, Spain (PortSEurope) May 31, 2017 – Motril port is preparing for Operación Paso del Estrecho 2017 (OPE 2017), an initiative for the facilitation of...
BP, Aegean, Cepsa to keep location of facilities at Las Palmas port after 2027
Las Palmas, Spain (PortSEurope) May 31, 2017 – Las Palmas port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Las Palmas) plans to approve a plan for the encouragement of...
Cartagena port officially launches Alfonso XII dock expansion
Cartagena, Spain (PortSEurope) May 30, 2017 – The expansion of the Alfonso XII dock, in Cartagena, permits the simultaneous docking of two large cruisers...
Asturias government insists on relaunch of Gijón-Nantes Motorway of the Sea
Gijón, Spain (PortSEurope) May 30, 2017 – The Minister of Infrastructures of the Principality of Asturias, Belén Fernández, called on the president of...
Contship increases Hannibal rail connectivity between Melzo and Rotterdam
Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) May 29, 2017 – The ERS Melzo-Rotterdam rail service by Hannibal, Contship’s Multimodal Transport Operator,...
Spanish Public Works Ministry expects Mediterranean Corridor to be completed in three years
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) May 29, 2017 – Spanish Public Works Ministry has assured that “most of the works” of the Mediterranean Corridor...
Dry ports, railway line to boost Bilbao port growth
Bilbao, Spain (PortSEurope) May 29, 2017 – The railway line and the dry ports in Burgos and Álava represent a boost for the development of Bilbao port, the...
Agreement for installation of automatic container management system in Rades port inked
Rades, Tunisia (PortSEurope) May 29, 2017 – A system for automatic management of containers and rolling units will be installed at the port of Rades...
Trieste port’s Pier VII receives crane upgrade
Trieste, Italy (PortSEurope) May 28, 2017 – The upgrading phase of the second crane of Trieste’s container terminal has been carried out in the past...
Reconstruction works at Tanger Port completed at 70% as of May 2017
Tangier, Morocco (PortSEurope) May 28, 2017 – Reconstruction works for the transformation of the Tanger Med Port in a port of pleasure and a terminal for...
Spanish government approves Sagunto port railway access project
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) May 26, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) announced the approval by the Spanish Ministry of...
Castellón port prepares for handling of LW Wind Power wind turbines
Castellón, Spain (PortSEurope) May 26, 2017 – Castellón port is preparing for the start of the export project of Danish company LM Wind Power that will...
Valencia port expects to start receiving applications for ZAL in Jan 2018
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) May 26, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) president Aurelio Martínez expects that the Logistics...
Voltri Terminal Europa orders 21 electric cranes from China’s Zhenhua
Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) May 26, 2017 – Voltri Terminal Europa S.p.A, the operator of Genoa container terminal PSA Voltri Prà has ordered the delivery of...
Seville port’s main advantages are intermodality, location – port authority president
Seville, Spain (PortSEurope) May 26, 2017 – The most important advantages of Seville port are its intermodality services and its location, the president of...
Barcelona, top coffee port in the Mediterranean
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) May 27, 2017 – In a press release, Barcelona Port says that its facilities, international certifications, volume of...
Piraeus Port Authority investment plans tabled at 4th Posidonia Sea Tourism Forum
Piraeus, Greece (PortSEurope) May 25, 2017 – Piraeus Port Authority S.A. (PPASA) is investing €294 million ($330.5 million) over a five-year period to...
Spain’s Baleària introduces “Regina Báltica” ship to Valencia-Mostaganem ferry line
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) May 24, 2017 – Spanish ferry operator Baleària Eurolínias Marítimas S.A. plans to introduce the “Regina...
Basque Country agrees on construction of railway line to Bilbao port
Bilbao, Spain (PortSEurope) May 24, 2017 – The Spanish government and the Basque Country authorities expect the railway line to Bilbao port to be operational...
Ukrainian government saves 16% of Port Yuzhniy dredging cost
Port Yuzhniy, Ukraine (PortSEurope) May 24, 2017 – The cost of dredging in Port Yuzhniy, which the Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority (USPA) was significantly...