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.
Adif awards Valencia port contract to COPASA
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) April 30, 2020 – Adif, the state-owned railway infrastructure manager, has awarded Copasa, a construction and services...
Valenciaport advances €57.2 million to assist port companies
Until today, April 28, Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia (APV) has paid €6.41 million to its suppliers in the ports of Gandia, Sagunto and Valencia, and...
Barcelona port makes new container storage spaces for operators
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) April 28, 2020 – The Port of Barcelona has provided two new spaces available for port operators for the storage of full,...
Seatrade Cruise Med plans event in Malaga in 2020
News – Seatrade Cruise Med maintains its celebration in Malaga in 2020 – April 27, 2020 The cruise industry, one of the sectors affected by the...
Barcelona port to distribute almost 200,000 masks and 44,200 gloves to Port Community
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) April 27, 2020 – Autoritat Portuària de Barcelona (APB – Port Authority of Barcelona) has reported that it will...
Vigo port reports best quarter in 12 years
Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) April 27, 2020 – Autoridad Portuaria de Vigo (APV – Port Authority of Vigo) has reported traffic figures for the first...
Valenciaport signs contract with Generalitat to allocate 80,000 m2 of Fuente San Luis as provisional container warehouse
The contract between the Valencia Port Authority (APV) and the Generalitat will allow importers and exporters to cut costs and solve the problem of space in...
Ports change rates because they want to support companies – Valenciaport
The president of Valenciaport positively values the measures and the rate reductions as prudent in that they are selective, limited in time, in their...
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...