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.
Ilhavo mayor calls for more investment in Aveiro port
Aveiro, Portugal (Ports Europe) April 14, 2017 – The mayor of Ilhavo municipality is satisfied with the way the relations with Aveiro port have evolved....
Moroccan government studies improvement of Tarfaya port access
Tarfaya, Morocco (Ports Europe) April 14, 2017 – Moroccan Ministry of Equipment, Transport, Logistics and Water, represented by the Provincial Directorate of...
Catalan Government calls for timetable for Mediterranean Railway Corridor
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) April 13, 2017 – At a meeting of the strategic board for the Mediterranean Railway Corridor, Spanish Minister for...
Naples port starts LNG bunkering project
Naples, Italy (Ports Europe) April 11, 2017 – Naples port will launch later this year an expression of interest for a liquefied natural gas bunker. This was...
Noatum starts operating six new cranes at Valencia port
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) April 11, 2017 – Noatum Container Terminal Valencia, the operator of container terminals at the Principe Felipe and Costa del...
Bouygues Travaux Publics to produce concrete blocks at Marseille port
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) April 12, 2017 – The extension of six hectares of the area of the Principality of Monaco will lead to the construction of...
Volkswagen starts using Tarragona port as hub in Spain
Tarragona, Spain, April 11, 2017 – German carmaker Volkswagen has recently started using Tarragona port as one of its three hubs in Spain, after...
Leixoes port container traffic’s rise is constant
Leixoes, Portugal (Ports Europe) April 11, 2017 – The days when Leixoes Container Terminal reaches 3,000 TEUs or is very close, are becoming more frequent....
USPA completes maintenance dredging at Olvia port
Olvia, Ukraine (Ports Europe) April 11, 2017 – Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority (USPA) has completed the first stage of the maintenance dredging project at...
Luka Koper unsure about Hungarian financial support for railway project
Koper, Slovenia (Ports Europe) April 10, 2017 – Hungary’s financial participation in the project for the construction of a second rail track serving...
Ferrol starts operating container terminal with MacAndrews vessel
Ferrol, Spain (Ports Europe) April 7, 2017 – The first operation of container handling at the Ferrol Container Terminal (FCT), located in the outer harbour...
Contship Italia Group – April 2017 – quarterly newsletter
Milan, Italy, March 30, 2017 Contship Italia Group has published the latest edition of CS WINdow, a quarterly newsletter, providing news, views, analysis and...
Koper port receives super post-panamax Liebherr crane
Koper, Slovenia, April 5, 2017 THE BIGGEST IN THE ADRIATIC AND BEYOND Today, the first of two quayside container cranes of super post-panamax (SPPX) dimensions...
Cantabrian-Mediterranean Railway Corridor has annual potential of 1.1 million TEUs
Sagunto, Spain (Ports Europe) April 5, 2017 – The Cantabrian-Mediterranean Railway Corridor, linking Zaragoza to Sagunto port, has a potential demand of...
Baleària acquires ferry ship to operate Valencia-Mostaganem line
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) April 5, 2017 – Spanish shipping company Baleària Eurolínias Marítimas S.A. has expanded its fleet with the acquisition of...
Ekol opens company in Slovenia
Istanbul, Turkey (Ports Europe) April 4, 2017 – Turkish logistics company Ekol Logistics is opening a warehouse near Ljubljana, Slovenia, where services...
Government discusses options for including Luka Koper in Divaca project
Koper, Slovenia (Ports Europe) April 4, 2017 – Representatives of Slovenian Infrastructure Ministry and Luka Koper d.d., the operator of Koper port, have...
Luka Koper supervisory board approves new investment in car storing facility
Luka Koper, d.d., Koper Supervisory Board approves new investment in car storing facility The Supervisory Board of Luka Koper, d.d. has on it regular session...
Luka Koper supervisory board to the bill for the second railway track Divača
Luka Koper, d.d., Koper – Response of the Supervisory board to the bill on the construction, administration and management of the second railway track...
Valencia port liberalises railway manoeuvre services
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) April 3, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) has approved the schedule for the delivery of...