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.
Castellón port to receive €17.4 million of state funding in 2019
Castellón, Spain (Ports Europe) January 15, 2019 – Castellón port expects to receive this year a total of €17.4 million ($19.9 million) of...
Las Palmas port entrepreneurs to strengthen ties with Cape Verde
Las Palmas, Spain (Ports Europe) January 15, 2019 – Spanish business organisation Oneport has agreed with the municipality of Mindelo, located north of the...
Ceuta port’s president resigns
Ceuta, Spain (PortSEurope) January 15, 2019 – Autoridad Portuaria de Ceuta (APC – Port Authority of Ceuta) president Rafael Rodríguez...
VPI Logística awards Tempe the plot Z1 of Parc Sagunt property of Port Authority of Valencia
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) January 15, 2019 – The Board of Directors of Valencia Intermodal Platform and Logistics (VPI Logística) has agreed,...
Presidents of Barcelona and Tarragona ports meet
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) January 15, 2019 – The president of the Port of Tarragona, Josep Maria Cruset, has met with the president of the Port of...
Santander will receive 24 cruises and more than 33,000 cruise passengers in 2019
Santander, Spain (PortSEurope) January 15, 2019 – The Port of Santander will receive 24 vessels in 2019 dedicated to the leisure sector, unprecedented...
Tarragona port presents strategic projects to president of Puertos del Estado
Tarragona, Spain (PortSEurope) January 15, 2019 – The President of Puertos del Estado, Ornella Chacón, has visited the Port of Tarragona accompanied by...
Puertos del Estado president visits Tenerife port
Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain (PortSEurope) January 15, 2019 – The president of Puertos del Estado, Ornella Chacón has visited the port...
Marin port sees 2018 cargo traffic rise 1%
Marín, Spain (PortSEurope) January 15, 2019 – Provisional figures for 2018 show that in 2018 Marin port handled 2,543,694 tons of goods, up 1% on 2017....
Port Authority of Cartagena freezes commercial services costs
Cartagena, Spain (PortSEurope) January 15, 2019 – Autoridad Portuaria de Cartagena (APC – Port Authority of Cartagena) has decided once again to...
Ferrol port reports cargo growth in 2018
Ferrol, Spain (PortSEurope) January 15, 2019 – Autoridad Portuaria de Ferrol-San Cibrao (APF – Port Authority of Ferrol) has reported that the...
Cartagena port signs agreement for Adif to develop rail capacity
Castellón, Spain (PortSEurope) January 15, 2019 – Joaquín Segado, president of Autoridad Portuaria de Cartagena (APC – Port Authority of...
PortCastelló ends 2018 with accumulated growth of 18%
Castellón, Spain (PortSEurope) January 15, 2019 – In December the Port of Castellón handled 1.729 million tons of goods, up 54.9% on the same month of...
Balearic port authority calls tender for passenger station at Ibiza port
Ibiza, Spain (PortSEurope) January 14, 2019 – Autoridad Portuaria de Balears (APB – Port Authority of the Balearic Islands) has called a tender for the...
InvaSave shipped to Las Palmas for demonstrations under INTERREG programme “Atlantic Blue Port Services”
Press release – European Network of Maritime Clusters (ENMC) – January 9, 2018 On Thursday 27 December, an InvaSave 300 Mobile Ballast Water Treatment...
Ranking – Vigo top Spanish fishing port in November 2018
Madrid, Spain (PortSEurope) January 13, 2019 – Puertos del Estado, the state-run ports system, reports November 2018 fish landed (tonnes) statistics by...
Integra2 opens new facility in the logistics area of Córdoba
Málaga, Spain (PortSEurope) January 13, 2019 – The Ministry of Development and Housing has delivered the first space in the Logistics Area of...
Ranking – Algeciras top Spanish port by cargo handled in November 2018
Madrid, Spain (PortSEurope) January 13, 2019 – Puertos del Estado, the state-run ports system, reports November 2018 cargo traffic (tonnes) statistics by...
PortMiami delegation visits Madrid to discuss port issues
Madrid, Spain (PortSEurope) January 13, 2019 – A delegation from “PortMiami” has visited Madrid and held talks with Puertos del Estado...
Spanish port agency maintains dialogue with European Commission to reach solution to tax exemption
Madrid, January 9, 2019 – Puertos del Estado maintains dialogue with European Commission to reach solution to tax exemption Puertos del Estado (PE) was...