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.
Spanish court probes into alleged contracting irregularities by A Coruña port
A Coruña, Spain (PortSEurope) May 15, 2019 – Spain’s Court of Accounts has opened a procedure caused by potential accounting irregularities in the...
Motril port aims to become hub for Spanish-Tunisian trade
Motril, Spain (PortSEurope) May 15, 2019 – The president of Motril port authority, José García Fuentes, has met with the Tunisian ambassador to Spain,...
Huelva port, Extremadura government advance alliance to create joint logistics network
Huelva, Spain (PortSEurope) May 15, 2019 – Huelva port and the Extremadura regional government have advanced their alliance to create a joint logistics...
Algeciras port to participate in Spain-China business meeting in Schenzhen
Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) May 15, 2019 – Autoridad Portuaria de la Bahía de Algeciras (APBA – Port Authority of Algeciras) will participate this...
A Chinese delegation of vehicle manufacturers visits Barcelona port
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) May 14, 2019 – A delegation of automotive companies from China and Hong Kong visited Barcelona port last week to study the...
Spanish port traffic exceeds 140 million tons in first quarter of 2019
Madrid, Spain (PortSEurope) May 14, 2019 – The traffic of goods through state ports handled 140,494,899 tons in the first three months of 2019, an...
Bergé leads port digitalisation project of Spanish ports
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) May 14, 2019 – Bergé is leading a project for the digitalisation of Spanish ports through its port operations business unit,...
Balearic Islands port authority awards telecoms contract to Telefónica España
Palma, Spain (PortSEurope) May 14, 2019 – Telefónica España has been awarded a contract with the Balearic Islands port authority to provide...
Las Palmas port, Zona Franca Consortium join forces to promote Free Trade Zone advantages
Las Palmas, Spain (PortSEurope) May 14, 2019 – Las Palmas port and the Consorcio de la Zona Franca will seal in the coming days, after the approval of the...
Global Ports Holding Plc reports stable Q1 2019
Istanbul, Turkey (PortSEurope) May 14, 2019 – Global Ports Holding Plc, a leading global independent cruise port operator, has issued a trading update...
IAPH names Santiago Garcia-Milà president for third consecutive term
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) May 13, 2019 – Santiago Garcia-Milà, a strategy vice president of Barcelona port authority, was re-elected president...
Renfe Mercancías relaunches Algeciras-Madrid Abroñigal rail link
Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) May 13, 2019 – Spanish rail freight services operator Renfe Mercancías relaunched the rail link from Algeciras port to Madrid...
Mediterranean ChemMed Tarragona cluster holds general assembly at Tarragona port
Tarragona, Spain (PortSEurope) May 13, 2019 – The Mediterranean ChemMed Tarragona chemical cluster held its general assembly on Friday at...
Bilbao port cuts value of land in its service area
Bilbao, Spain (PortSEurope) May 13, 2019 – Bilbao port plans to apply a new valuation to decrease of the value of land of its service area, which will...
China’s Cosco brings Valencia port’s expansion project to court
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) May 10, 2019 – Two years’ ago, Chinese group Cosco Shipping Ports Limited, the third largest container shipping company...
Noatum Logistics expands warehouse network in Spain
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) May 12, 2019 – Noatum Logistics has opened a largest logistics warehouse in Ribarroja, Valencia, expanding the company’s...
MSC places sole bid in tender for Valencia port’s northern expansion
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) May 10, 2019 – The Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) has submitted an offer for the construction and operation...
Las Palmas presents offer to offshore sector companies in USA
Las Palmas, Spain (PortSEurope) May 10, 2019 – Las Palmas port authority presented last week its portfolio of services and logistics offer to different...
Arcelor-Mittal’s production cut to affect Gijón, Avilés ports
Gijón, Spain (PortSEurope) May 10, 2019 – The production cut of 700,000 tonnes that Arcelor-Mittal will apply in the factories of Asturias will be...
Motril port executes works to increase ferry passenger safety
Motril, Spain (PortSEurope) May 10, 2019 – Motril port is carrying out works in the vicinity of the ro-ro ramp of the Las Azucenas dock to increase the...