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.
Rades dock resumes operations
Rades, Tunisia (PortSEurope) April 30, 2017 – After approximately one year out of service, dock No. 6, dedicated to containers, has resumed services with...
Marseille port meets Pharma Logistics Club
Marseille, France (PortSEurope) May 2, 2017 – At the invitation of the Pharma Logistics Club (PLC), Marseille Fos participated in a conference in...
Damietta signs agreement for new multi-purpose terminal
Damietta, Egypt (Ports Europe) April 29, 2017 – The General Authority of Damietta Port has signed a cooperation agreement with the Engineering Authority...
Spain’s SuardÃaz promotes Vigo-Nantes motorway of the sea at BreakBulk Europe
Vigo, Spain (PortSEurope) April 27, 2017 – Spanish shipping company SuardÃaz was represented by a large team of professionals at BreakBulk Europe fair to...
Andalusian ports demand investments in Mediterranean Corridor connectivity
Seville, Spain (PortSEurope) April 26, 2017 – The seven Andalusian port authorities have today demanded from the central government investments to connect...
USPA to dredge seabed at two Mariupol port docks
Mariupol, Ukraine (PortSEurope) April 25, 2017 – Ukrainian Sea Ports Administration (USPA) plans to start a reconstruction of the hydro-technical part of two...
Barcelona port hosts christening of MSC Cadiz ship
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) April 25, 2017 – The Barcelona Europe South Terminal (BEST) has hosted the christening of the container ship “MSC...
Cadiz starts home port feasibility study
Cadiz, Spain (PortSEurope) April 24, 2017 – Cadiz port authority (Autoridad Portuaria BahÃa de Cádiz) has reported that the start of the high season of...
Santander port starts construction of dock at Raos terminal
Santander, Spain (PortSEurope) April 24, 2017 – Santander port has started work on the construction of dock 9 at Raos terminal, an infrastructure that will...
TFG Transfracht links up with Koper port
Koper, Slovenia (PortSEurope) April 25, 2017 – TFG Transfracht, a provider of containerized seaport hinterland services, is to integrate the Adriatic...
Slovenian Parliament to vote on Koper railway project upgrade on April 26
Koper, Slovenia (PortSEurope) April 25, 2017 – The bill on the project for the upgrade of the railway line connecting Slovenia’s Koper port to the...
Neptune Lines starts operating at Setubal port
Setubal, Portugal (PortSEurope) April 24, 2017 – Greek shipping group Neptune Lines has started operating the “Iberia + Med + Aegean & Black...
Slovene government approves Koper-hinterland rail link
Koper, Slovenia (PortSEurope) April 24, 2017 – Last night, the Slovenian Parliament passed an urgent bill to approve the building of a new high-speed...
Asia-Mediterranean container shipping declines in Jan-Feb 2017
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) April 22, 2017 – According to a recent report by UK consultancy Drewry, container shipping on the Asia-Mediterranean sea...
Enagas, Puertos del Estado to carry out LNG road show in Portugal
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) April 22, 2017 – Spanish gas distributor Enagas and the country’s port agency Puertos del Estado are organising a road...
Alphaliner expects East-West container demand to rise by 5% in April
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) April 22, 2017 – With the launch of new alliances, especially in East-West traffic, as of April 1, the demand for ships and...
USPA to return funding spent for purchase of dredger in four years
Odessa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) April 23, 2017 – Ukrainian Sea Ports Administration (USPA) expects to return the funding spent on the purchase of a ship for...
Repair at La Esfinge dock of Las Palmas port to last for four months
Las Palmas, Spain (Ports Europe) April 22, 2017 – The president of Las Palmas port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Las Palmas), Luis Ibarra, said the...
Odessa port sets up working group for rail overhaul
Odessa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) April 23, 2017 – Odessa port has set up a working group, led by deputy managing director Ruslan Sahautdinov, for the overhaul...
Bulgarian government approves dredging at Burgas port
Burgas, Bulgaria (PortSEurope) April 23, 2017 – Bulgaria’s government has given the green light to a contract for the dredging of Burgas port to reach...