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.
Algeria’s CNAN renews fleet
Algiers, Algeria (Ports Europe) February 13, 2017 – At the moment when the Timgad ship, bought by the Algerian National Shipping Company (CNAN), was...
Marseille port to start construction of two container terminals
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) February 13, 2017 – After preparatory work and studies in 2016, the construction site for the two container terminals of...
Canadian miner Kinross to set up logistics hub at Las Palmas port
Las Palmas, Spain (Ports Europe) February 13, 2017 – Las Palmas port will become a global logistics hub of the Canadian-based gold and mining company...
Leixoes port resumes normal operation of oil terminal
Leixoes, Portugal (Ports Europe) February 8, 2017 – The B position of Leixoes Oil Terminal, which was suspended after an accident between two ships on...
Liebherr delivers equipment to Italian ports
Monfalcone, Italy (Ports Europe) February 7, 2017 – Liebherr has said that it has delivered a LHM 550 crane to Compagnia Portuale, in Monfalcone and two...
EU approves dismantling of ships at Bordeaux port
Bordeaux, France (Ports Europe) February 2, 2017 – Bordeaux port has received an approval by the European Union for the dismantling of ships. The site...
Cartagena port authority launches electronic administration platform
Cartagena, Spain (Ports Europe) February 1, 2017 – Cartagena port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Cartagena) has launched a new project, called...
Valencia port’s five cranes service “Al Dhail” vessel of UASC
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) January 31, 2017 – The five cranes currently in service at APM Terminals Valencia at its Llovera dock worked...
SCZone talks with PSA International over East Port Said container terminal ongoing
Port Said, Egypt (Ports Europe) January 31, 2017 – Talks are ongoing between the Suez Canal Economic Zone (SCZone) and Singapore port-operator PSA...
Aviles port handles its largest project cargo ever
Aviles, Spain (Ports Europe) January 30, 2017 – Spanish company Maritima del Principado (Marprin), owned by Toro y Betolaza Group, successfully...
Marseille port introduces system for power delivery to ferry ships
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) January 30, 2017 – An electrical connection system for ferries, which allows ships to be powered when they are docked...
Marseille port to open ship repair dock in April
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) January 26, 2017 – Chantier Naval de Marseille (CNdM)’s new ship repair dock number 10 at Marseille port will be...
Petlim container port second phase scheduled for Summer
Petkim, Turkey (Ports Europe) January 24, 2017 – Petlim container port second phase will enter service in June of this year,” said SOCAR Turkey Energy...
Limassol issues delays Total hydrocarbon exploration
Limassol, Cyprus (Ports Europe) January 24, 2017 – Total S.A., the French energy company, has informed the Cypriot government that plans to drill for...
First train on TEN-T Adriatic-Baltic corridor to depart from Trieste port on Jan 25
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) January 23, 2017 – The first intermodal train scheduled on the Kiel-Gothenburg route will travel from Trieste port...
Puertos del Estado president says access construction to Punta Langosteira is essential
A Coruna, Spain (Ports Europe) January 23, 2017 – The access to the Punta Langosteira, the outer harbour of A Coruna port, is “a pending...
Cosco continues to develop Piraeus operations
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) January 22, 2017 – Cosco, the Chinese shipping group which operates Piraeus port, is adding to the port’s capacity...
Nador port to start expansion works shortly
Nador, Morocco (Ports Europe) January 20, 2017 – Work on the construction of the integrated platform at Morocco’s Nador port will begin shortly....
Temagra improves operations at Valencia port bulk terminal
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) January 17, 2017 – Terminal Marítima de Graneles, S.L. (Temagra), the operator of the bulk terminal of Valencia port, has...
Transcoma completes reconstruction of facilities at Barcelona port’s logistics zone
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) January 13, 2017 – Spanish company Transcoma has completed the reconstruction of its main facilities, located in the...