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.
Huelva port launches weekly container train service to Madrid
Huelva, Spain (Ports Europe) April 16, 2019 – Huelva port has launched a new weekly container train service between Madrid and its South Pier, joining the...
Tarros launches weekly service linking Tarragona port to Turkey
Tarragona, Spain (Ports Europe) April 16, 2019 – The container terminal of the port of Tarragona, DP World, has started handling a new container shipping...
Seville port launches Guadalquivir estuary maintenance dredging tender
Seville, Spain (Ports Europe) April 12, 2019 – Autoridad Portuaria de Sevilla (APS – Port Authority of Seville) has launched a tender for the...
A Coruña port to keep cruise sector leadership in northern Spain in 2020
A Coruña, Spain (Ports Europe) April 12, 2019 – A Coruña port will maintain its leadership in 2020 in the sector of cruises in northern Spain with more...
Valencia port promotes shortsea shipping services to Navarre businessmen
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) April 12, 2019 – Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia (APV – Valenciaport, Port Authority of Valencia) has promoted the short...
Gijón port books €7 million net profit in 2018
Gijón, Spain (Ports Europe) April 12, 2019 – Autoridad Portuaria de Gijón (APG – Port Authority of Gijón) recorded a net profit of about €7...
Bilbao port expects about 50 cruise calls this year
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) April 12, 2019 – The Hamburg cruise ship of the German company Phoenix Reisen opens on April 14 the cruise season...
Bilbao port’s LNG regasification plant increases output in 2018
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) April 12, 2019 – Bahía de Bizkaia Gas (BBG), owner of the liquefied natural gas (LNG) regasification plant located in Bilbao...
Spain to launch Gandía port’s southern road access on April 11
Gandía, Spain (Ports Europe) April 11, 2019 – Spain’s Public Works Ministry plans to launch the southern road access to Gandía port on April 11...
Las Palmas port, Costa Cruises discuss 2019/2020 cruise season objectives
Las Palmas, Spain (Ports Europe) April 11, 2019 – Las Palmas port and Costa Cruises have discussed the objectives for the 2019/2020 cruise...
Vopak Terquimsa completes second phase of Tarragona port terminal development
Tarragona, Spain (Ports Europe) April 11, 2019 – Vopak Terquimsa has said it completed the second phase of expansion of its facilities at the Chemistry Wharf...
Puertos del Estado approves sale of Naval Gijón shipyards by Gijón port
Gijón, Spain (Ports Europe) April 11, 2019 – Gijón port authority’s board of directors has received the approval of the national ports agency Puertos...
Pasaia port’s board of directors may dismiss president at extraordinary meeting on April 11
Pasaia, Spain (Ports Europe) April 11, 2019 – Pasaia port authority board will analyse today in extraordinary session the conflict...
Spanish trade union CCOO calls port workers strike on April 17
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) April 11, 2019 – Spanish trade union CC OO union has called a strike of 21 hours of port workers on April 17. The reason is...
Spain’s ICL Iberia investing €77.3 million in terminal at Barcelona port
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) April 10, 2019 – The new terminal of ICL Iberia in the port of Barcelona will start operating later this year after an...
Spain’s Tradebe to recycle fuel extracted from Bay of Biscay leak
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) April 10, 2019 – The tugboat ‘Ría de Vigo’ has unloaded in the port of Bilbao 333 tonnes of fuel collected in...
Spain’s government approves resignation of Cartagena port president
Cartagena, Spain (Ports Europe) April 10, 2019 – Spain’s government has approved the termination at Joaquín Segado’s term as president of...
MSC leads container ranking in Vigo port in 2018
Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) April 10, 2019 – The Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) led for the first time in 2018 the movement of containers at...
Puertos del Estado reports February 2019 cargo figures by port authority
Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) April 10, 2019 – Puertos del Estado, the state-run ports system, reports February 2019 cargo traffic (tonnes) statistics by port...
Huelva port’s cargo traffic rises 14% y/y in Q1
Huelva, Spain (Ports Europe) April 9, 2019 – Huelva port closed the first quarter of 2019 with a total traffic of 8.9 million tonnes, up 14% on the...