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.
Strike blocks container trucks at Barcelona port
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) March 12, 2019 – The autonomous container transporters of the port of Barcelona started their first day of work stoppages,...
Las Palmas port installs 72 photovoltaic panels
Las Palmas, Spain (Ports Europe) March 12, 2019 – Autoridad Portuaria de Las Palmas (APP – Port Authority of Las Palmas) has just put into operation 72...
Kalmar to supply Servicios Logisticos Portuarios SLP in Bilbao port with forklift trucks
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) March 11, 2019 – Kalmar, part of Cargotec, has an agreement to supply Servicios Logisticos Portuarios SLP, a leading...
Minister visits Motril port in support of investment
Motril, Spain (Ports Europe) March 11, 2019 – The Minister of Development, Infrastructure and Territorial Planning of the Junta de Andalucía, Marifrán...
Vigo port seeks compensation for exclusion from Europe’s main transport network
Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) March 11, 2019 – Vigo port is demanding compensation for the decision of the European Commission not to include the railway with...
Tenerife is Spain’s only large cruise port with traffic decline in January
Tenerife, Spain (Ports Europe) March 11, 2019 – In the first month of 2019, of the seven port authorities with the highest traffic of cruise passengers, in...
Valencia to soon become Europe’s 4th largest container port
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) March 11, 2019 – For the first time in history, Valencia port surpassed that of Bremen for three months of the previous year...
Motril port’s new president takes office
Motril, Spain (Ports Europe) March 8, 2019 – Spain’s Official State Gazette (BOE) has published the appointment of José García Fuentes as president...
Spain’s Yecasa launches terminal at Arinaga port
Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain (Ports Europe) March 8, 2019 – Canary Islands business group Yesos Canarias SA (Yecasa) has launched a terminal and...
Cartagena port books record-high revenue in 2018
Cartagena, Spain (Ports Europe) March 7, 2019 – Autoridad Portuaria de Cartagena’s (APC – Port Authority of Cartagena) revenue has exceeded...
Spain’s Boluda breaks revenue record in 2018
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) March 7, 2019 – Boluda Corporación Marítima has broken its turnover and growth record in 2018. The company...
Melilla, Ceuta ports to develop joint projects
Melilla, Spain (Ports Europe) March 7, 2019 – The president of Melilla port authority, Miguel Marín, has met Ceuta counterpart, Juan Manuel Doncel to...
Málaga port to handle 90,000 new vehicles in 2019
Málaga, Spain (Ports Europe) March 7, 2019 – The traffic of new vehicles in the port of Málaga has set a new record with a movement of 3,737 units in just...
ANESCO calls for reduction of port fees in Spain
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) March 6, 2019 – Spain’s Asociación Nacional de Empresas Estibadoras (ANESCO – Spanish National Association of...
Huelva port participates in European Atlantic Corridor working group meeting
Huelva, Spain (Ports Europe) March 6, 2019 – Huelva port participated this week as a new member in the Working Group of Ports and Multimodal...
Marín port triples container traffic in just five years
Marín, Spain (Ports Europe) March 6, 2019 – The arrival of shipping company Maersk Line to Marín, in May 2016, has meant a turning point in the activity of...
Sagunto port is Spain’s leader in logistics services
Sagunto, Spain (Ports Europe) March 6, 2019 – Sagunto port was named the best-valued port in terms of logistics services, along with Santander and Pasaia in...
Davila Reefer Terminal plans Marin port facility expansion
Marín, Spain (Ports Europe) March 5, 2019 – Autoridad Portuaria de Marín y Ría de Pontevedra (APMRP – Port Authority of Marin) has approved a...
Valenciaport Foundation trains ports managers from Brazil and Angola
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) March 5, 2019 – Valenciaport Foundation has trained 22 Brazilian and Angolan managers of ports and private companies...
The European INTER-IoT project ends successfully with the pilot of Valencia
Valencia, Spain, March 4, 2019 – The final meeting of the “INTER-IoT – Interoperability of Heterogeneous Platforms with Internet of...