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.
Seville port suspends Guadalquivir channel dredging project
Seville, Spain (Ports Europe) March 17, 2017 – Seville port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Sevilla) has suspended the project for the dredging of the...
Savona, Genoa ports to become backbone of Italian harbour system
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) March 16, 2017 –Â The port system of Genoa and Savona will be the backbone of the Italian harbour sector, as guaranteed by...
Alicante port forecasts cruise traffic growth in 2017
Alicante, Spain (Ports Europe) March 16, 2017 – The joint promotion work carried out in recent years by Alicante port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de...
Bilbao port to officially open cruise passenger station by end-March
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) March 16, 2017 – Bilbao port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Bilbao) said it plans to officially open its new cruise...
Trieste port, AREA Science Park sign cooperation deal
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) March 15, 2017 – Italy’s Eastern Adriatic Sea Port System, managing Trieste port, has signed a cooperation agreement with...
PIR, Edison to build LNG storage facility at Ravenna port
Ravenna, Italy (Ports Europe) March 15, 2017 – Italian provider of logistic solutions for the storage, handling and distribution of bulk liquids, dry goods...
Valencia port expects to service 50 cruise companies in 2020
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) March 15, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) expects the number of cruise companies...
Valencia port sets up terminal access information system
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) March 15, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) has set up an information system on the state...
Navantia to start export of project cargo from Ferrol port
Ferrol, Spain (Ports Europe) March 14, 2017 – Spanish shipyards Navantia plans to carry out a project for the cleaning of the sea bottom at its dock in...
Tugboat operator Rimorchiatori Riuniti to increase fleet
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) March 10, 2017 – Italian tugboat operator Rimorchiatori Riuniti S.p.A. said it plans to increase the size of its fleet, as it...
Spain’s Petronor completes scheduled stop at Bilbao port refinery
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) March 8, 2017 – Spanish company Petronor, which generates more than 40% of the total cargo traffic of Bilbao port, has completed...
Transcoma starts introduces automated picking at Barcelona port logistics zone
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) March 8, 2017 – Spanish company Transcoma Grupo Empresarial has started operating an automated picking process at its...
Lebanon’s Tripoli port increases capacity
Tripoli, Lebanon (Ports Europe) March 7, 2017 – Tripoli port has received a delivery of cranes and equipment from China which should help increase port...
Santander port handles Höegh Trotter ship
Santander, Spain (Ports Europe) March 3, 2017 – Höegh Trotter ship, the last of the six post-Panamax New Horizon class vessels which the Höegh Autoliners...
Alternative Tasimacilik A.S. receives EBRD loan
Istanbul, Turkey (Ports Europe) March 3, 2017 – The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) will provide a senior loan to Alternative...
OPDR, Boluda start operation of Seville port container terminal
Seville, Spain (Ports Europe) March 1, 2017 – German company OPDR, part of the CMA CGM group, and Spain’s Boluda Corporación MarÃtima, have...
Germany supports USPA to complete construction of container terminal in Odessa
Odessa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) March 1, 2017 –Â State Secretary of the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure Rainer Bomba has visited...
Gas Natural, Baleà ria present LNG engine for vessels at Barcelona port
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) March 1, 2017 – Spanish companies Gas Natural Fenosa and Balearia officially presented the first liquefied natural gas...
Pasaia port analyses railway capacity upgrade
Pasaia, Spain (Ports Europe) February 23, 2017 – Pasaia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Pasaia) has set up a working group to study a potential...
Leixoes port container terminal quickens handling of trucks
Leixoes, Portugal (Ports Europe) February 21, 2017 –Â Productivity combined with fast processing of trucks. This is how the activity of Leixoes container...