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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.

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...

Portugal’s TSL to expand on Iberian peninsula

Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) April 3, 2017 – Portugal’s youngest shipping company, TSL (Tejo Shipping Lines), established on January 20, and...

Bilbao port authority carries out first LNG bunkering operation

Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) April 3, 2017 – As a result of the collaboration between the Basque Energy Entity (Ente Vasco de la Energía-EVE), Bahia Bizkaia...

Groupe Charles André open Fos logistics platform

Marseille, France (Ports Europe) April 2, 2017 – The Charles André Group (GCA) has opened its new 34,000 m² platform in the logistics areas of the...

Bilbao port launches cruise passenger station

Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) March 30, 2017 – Bilbao port hit a historical landmark in its role as an economic engine with the inauguration of the new...

Balearic Islands port authority starts work on upgrading Savina harbour passenger station

Ibiza, Spain (Ports Europe) March 28, 2017 – Balearic Islands port authority (La Autoridad Portuaria de Baleares) has started work on upgrading and...

Constanta port submits project for public discussion

Constanta, Romania (Ports Europe) March 28, 2017 – Romanian National Company “Maritime Ports Administration” SA Constanta said it has...

Eurogate Intermodal reinforces south-east services to Istanbul

Hamburg, Germany (Ports Europe) March 28, 2017 – Eurogate Intermodal (EGIM) is expanding its intermodal transport network and reinforcing Munich as a hub...

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