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.
Urbaser awarded road cleaning and waste collection contract
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) December 19, 2019 – Urbaser SA has been awarded a contract for road cleaning and collection waste in public areas of the...
Barcelona port approves the reform of Club Natació Barcelona
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) December 19, 2019 – The Board of Directors of the Port of Barcelona has approved the Recovery project, reform and...
Valenciaport exceeds 5 million containers in November and continues growth
Accumulated traffic January-November of Valenciaport records 5,018 million TEUs (up 5.86%) and 74.78 million tons (6.49% more). Number of passengers exceeds...
Basque minister visits Bilbao port
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) December 18, 2019 – The Basque Government Minister for Employment and Justice, María Jesús San José, has visited the Port...
President of Tarragona port visits the Essity paper production plant in Puigpelat
The meeting has served to know the end of the logistics chain of paper pulp from the Port of Tarragona to the end customer Essity imports 50% of the cellulose...
Cádiz port seeks integration into TEN-T transport network
Cádiz, Spain (Ports Europe) December 18, 2019 – Autoridad Portuaria de la Bahía de Cádiz (APBC – Port Authority of Cadiz) has started the...
Freight traffic at Barcelona port totals 62.7 million tonnes through November
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) December 17, 2019 – Cargo traffic in the Port of Barcelona in the first 11 months of the year totaled a 62.7 million...
Algeciras port to invest €233 million in the next four years
Algeciras, Spain (Ports Europe) December 17, 2019 – Autoridad Portuaria de la Bahía de Algeciras (APBA – Port Authority of Algeciras)’ Board...
Fundación Valenciaport and Dominican Port Authority sign collaboration agreement
Fundación Valenciaport (Valenciaport Foundation) – November 28, 2019 Yesterday afternoon saw the signing of the collaboration agreement between the...
Valencia port plans new passenger terminal
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) December 16, 2019 – Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia (APV – Valenciaport, Port Authority of Valencia) plans to...
Valenciaport presents new seal management service to shipping companies
Mar Chao, commercial and business development director of the Port Authority of Valencia (APV), has presented the new seal management service enabled on the...
Court rejects appeal against Valencia port ZAL
The Superior Court of Justice of the Valencian Community rules against the appeal filed by the association “Per l’Horta”, dismisses the...
Board of Trustees of Fundación Valenciaport approves Strategic Plan 2025
Fundación Valenciaport has promoted, during 2019, €48 million of budget for the development of European projects, 45 of them as direct financing for the...
European ECCLIPSE project to help ports in SUDOE region to minimise the effects of climate change
Valencia – 05.12.19. The European project ECCLIPSE – Assessment of climate change in ports in Southwestern Europe, led by the Fundación...
Vilagarcía port sets new annual cargo traffic record at end November, over 1.2 million tons
Vilagarcía, Spain (Ports Europe) December 10, 2019 – By end-November this year, Vilagarcía port registered cargo traffic of 1,207,801 tons, compared to...
Valencia port: Maritime transport assumes a freight increase of 9.75% due to adoption of less polluting fuels and tariff tensions
The Valencia Container Freight Index (VCFI) indicator experiences its greatest historical growth and accumulates a rise of 14.37 points in 2019, Autoridad...
Tarragona port presents Logistics Activities Zone
Autoridad Portuaria de Tarragona – December 5, 2019 Today, December 5, 2019, the Councilor for Territory and Sustainability of the Generalitat of...
COSCO Shipping Lines Spain maintains commitment to develop intermodal logistics services
Barcelona – December 2, 2019 Last Friday, November 29, COSCO Shipping Lines Spain organized the traditional meeting to celebrate Christmas, gathering at...
Co-Evolve4BG project will promote the sustainable development of tourism activities in coastal areas
Fundación Valenciaport (Valenciaport Foundation) – November 29, 2019 The Valenciaport Foundation has started working on the project Co-Evolve4BG...
Valencia port commits to transparency via CSR group
Valencia, December 5, 2019 – Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia (APV – Valenciaport, Port Authority of Valencia), as a member of the Social...