Spain
Spain (España) is located in Southwest Europe, occupying the Iberian peninsula between the Mediterranean and the Atlantic; a member of the European Union; by tonnage the leading ports are Algeciras, Barcelona and València. State ports are managed by Puertos del Estado which executes port policy of the government; made up of 28 port authorities that manage the 46 ports.
Valenciaport: Export will be key to recovery from COVID-19 economic crisis
Researcher of the Institute of International Economy (IEI), Vicente Pallardó and the president of Valenciaport and professor of economics, Aurelio Martínez...
Port of Barcelona approves new measures and prepares Recovery plan
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) April 22, 2020 – In the coming days, the Port of Barcelona will begin to apply a series of measures aimed at mitigating...
Valenciaport considers photovoltaic plant on top of Grimaldi automobile silo
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) April 22, 2020 – Grupotec has been awarded a contract by Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia (APV – Valenciaport, Port...
Freight traffic at Barcelona port down 8.3% in March
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) April 22, 2020 – Freight traffic at Barcelona port totalled 4.9 million tonnes in March, a fall of 8.3% compared to the...
COVID19. The Port of Algeciras, open and operational
Update – COVID19. The Port of Algeciras, open and operational – April 21, 2020 CONTAINER TERMINALS The Port of Algeciras maintains its operations...
Valenciaport stands up to the drop in traffic caused by COVID-19 and increases its exports by almost 3%
Total container traffic decreased in March by 9.83% in the month of due to the drop in empty container traffic, which contracted by 26.32%. In import / export...
Las Palmas port takes steps to aid port community
Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain (Ports Europe) April 17, 2020 – Autoridad Portuaria de Las Palmas (APP – Port Authority of Las Palmas) is taking...
Puertos del Estado publishes guidelines for pilotage, stevedoring and port community
Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) April 17, 2020 – Puertos del Estado (PdE) has produced four documents because of the global emergence of COVID-19 to support...
APM Terminals Algeciras to install 65 ozone generators to support facility disinfection
APM Terminals will commence using 65 ozone generators next week, considered by the World Health Organization (WHO) as the most effective disinfectants in the...
Valenciaport begins distribution of masks among the port staff
Valenciaport has received 85,500 masks from the consignment coordinated by Puertos del Estado for all Spanish port authorities. Valenciaport also plans to...
Siport21 assesses the nautical feasibility of Tarragona port cruise terminal
Tarragona, Spain (Ports Europe) April 14, 2020 – Siport21, a port-maritime engineering company, has been working with the Catalan port of Tarragona to...
APMT Barcelona: COVID-19 Terminal Status Update – April 7, 2020
News Update – COVID-19 Terminal Status Update – April 7, 2020 General status: APM Terminals Barcelona is operating normally. The action...
Puertos del Estado distributes second batch of masks to maritime sector
The shipment of 840,000 units completes the allocation of 1.1 million decreed in Order TMA / 263/2020, of March 20, of MITMA. Port authorities, SASEMAR and the...
Valenciaport pays €3.6 million in two weeks & provides liquidity to supplier companies
For two weeks now, the Port Authority of Valencia (APV) has accelerated the accounting and bill payment procedures to shorten the period of payment to...
Coronavirus: EU guidance on repatriating cruise ship passengers and protecting ship crews
European Commission – Coronavirus: EU guidance on repatriating cruise ship passengers and protecting ship crews – April 8, 2020 From cruise ship...
European Commission: guidelines on health, travel arrangements and repatriation of persons on board ships – Q & A
Questions and Answers: European Commission presents guidelines on health, travel arrangements and repatriation of persons on board ships – April 8, 2020...
Analysis – COVID-19 does not seriously infect ports yet, but panicked politicians might contaminate their business
Vienna, Austria (Ports Europe) April 8, 2020 – Italy, Spain, France – where the major Mediterranean ports are – have tens of thousands of cases...
Port of Motril continues to be key part of the logistics chain
News – Port of Motril – April 8, 2020 The Port of Motril continues to be a key part of the logistics chain for the supply of essential goods in the...
APM Terminals Algeciras implements a coronavirus action protocol
The container terminal applies a security protocol to mitigate the possible impact of COVID-19 on the company and the industry in which it operates, following...
King of Spain speaks with Valenciaport
The King of Spain, Felipe VI, and his wife Letizia Ortiz, the Queen, have held a video conference to recognize the efforts of the entire port community that...