Barcelona Europe South Terminal (BEST), the company of the Hong Kong's Hutchison Ports group handling the container terminal at the Moll Prat of the port of Barcelona, has ordered the Chinese ZPMC Supply Two New Super Quay Cranes post-Panamax that will be taken over in the first half of the of 2026 and will be located in the northern area of the terminal. In addition today BEST announced the activation of the first of seven new automated blocks that, once they all become operational at the beginning of next year, will make it possible to increase yard storage capacity by 25% of the Spanish terminal.

Meanwhile, the terminal operator APM Terminals of the group Danish shipowner A.P. Møller-Mærsk announced today the completion of the expansion phase of its container MedPort Tangier terminal in the Moroccan port of Tanger Med which has additional traffic capacity equal to two million TEUs, raising the total to 5.2 million of TEU. The company highlighted that the increase in capacity will also allow Gemini volumes to be served Cooperation, the vessel sharing agreement agreed by the companies Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd to become operational next February.