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.
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 MartÃnez 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 Baleà ria introduces “Regina Báltica” ship to Valencia-Mostaganem ferry line
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) May 24, 2017 – Spanish ferry operator Baleà ria EurolÃnias MarÃtimas 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...
Mykolaiv port starts maintenance dredging
Mykolaiv, Ukraine (PortSEurope) May 24, 2017 – Mykolaiv port has started maintenance dredging in its inner area and at berthing lines. Under the project, the...
Sagunto port to start operating Border Inspection Post in 2018
Sagunto, Spain (PortSEurope) May 22, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) has completed a project for the design of the building...
Risoil targets 7 million tonnes of cargo at Chernomorsk port
Chernomorsk, Ukraine (PortSEurope) May 22, 2017 – Kiev-based liquid bulk terminal operator Risoil S.A. targets an annual cargo traffic of 7 million tonnes...
Las Palmas port analyses extension of Santa Catalina dock
Las Palmas, Spain (PortSEurope) May 18, 2017 – Las Palmas port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Las Palmas) plans to extend the dock of Santa Catalina. One...
Basque Country, Navarre governments discuss connectivity of Bilbao, Pasaia ports to Pamplona
Bilbao, Spain (PortSEurope) May 18, 2017 – Representatives of the governments of the Basque Country and Navarre held a working meeting in Pamplona to analyse...
Productivity declines at Valencia port as government prepares new stowage sector law
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) May 17, 2017 – The slight decrease in productivity, which began on May 15 in Valencia port, was consolidated on May 16....
Huelva port awards railway rehabilitation deal to Acciona
Huelva, Spain (PortSEurope) May 17, 2017 – Huelva port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Huelva) and Acciona Construcción S.A. have signed a contract worth...
Spain’s Adif plans actions for overhaul of Bobadilla-Algeciras line
Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) May 17, 2017 – Spanish state-owned railway operator Adif is carrying out the inspection of the Bobadilla-Algeciras railway...