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.
Las Palmas port’s container traffic declines in November
Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain (PortSEurope) December 27, 2018 Container traffic at Las Palmas port turned negative in November with a fall of 15.53% on the...
Tarragona handles export of CCR system units to USA
Tarragona, Spain (PortSEurope) December 27, 2018 – Tarragona port handled last week the export to the USA of six independent modules of a complete unit of...
Cartagena port expects record-high 165 cruise calls in 2019
Cartagena, Spain (PortSEurope) December 27, 2018 – Cartagena port received on December 26 the last cruise of the year, the ship Aidamar, belonging to the...
Las Palmas port opens probe into contaminated water spill accident
Las Palmas, Spain (PortSEurope) December 26, 2018 – Las Palmas port has opened an investigation to clarify the causes of a...
Castellón port to invest €20.3 million in 2019
Castellón, Spain (PortSEurope) December 26, 2018 – Castellón port’s board of directors has ratified the business plan for 2019, which includes...
Gijón port awards €42,000 insurance services contract to Aon Gil y Carvajal
Gijón, Spain (PortSEurope) December 26, 2018 – Autoridad Portuaria de Gijón (APG – Port Authority of Gijón) has awarded a €42,000 ($47,800)...
Cádiz port attracts winter season cruise calls
Cádiz, Spain (PortSEurope) December 26, 2018 – Cádiz port has booked record-high cruise figures in 2018, with 322 registered calls, making the industry...
Avilés port to invest €57 million in overhaul of Raíces dock
Avilés, Spain (PortSEurope) December 24, 2018 – Avilés port has said it plans to invest €57 million ($64.9 million) in a project for the overhaul of...
Cartagena port to join MEDPorts association
Cartagena, Spain (PortSEurope) December 25, 2018 The MEDPorts association, which brings together twenty of the main ports and state port agencies of the...
Santander port in talks to terminate contract with builder FCC
Santander, Spain (PortSEurope) December 25, 2018 – Santander port has started negotiations with civil engineering company Fomento de Construcciones y...
Amazon gets plot concession at Seville port’s logistics zone
Seville, Spain (PortSEurope) December 21, 2018 – Seville port authority has approved the concession of a land plot at its logistics zone to US e-commerce...
Spain’s SATO to build outer harbour wall at Arrecife port
Arrecife, Canary Islands, Spain (PortSEurope) December 21, 2018 – Spanish company SATO has won a €8.1 million ($9.2 million) contract for the...
A Coruña port postpones launch of Punta Langosteira railway project
A Coruña, Spain (PortSEurope) December 21, 2018 – A Coruña port has postponed by more than a year the works for the construction of a railway line in...
Vopak Terquimsa starts liquid bulk operations at Barcelona port terminal
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) December 21, 2018 – Spanish company Vopak Terquimsa, a specialist in the storage, processing and transport...
Volkswagen to keep exports via Vigo despite end of Setúbal port strike
Vigo, Spain (PortSEurope) December 21, 2018 – German carmaker Volkswagen AG has said it plans to continue the export of cars produced at its Palmela factory...
Spain’s Gmetal gets 30-year plot concession at Seville port
Seville, Spain (PortSEurope) December 21, 2018 – Spanish company General de Metalistería, Maquetas y Diseños (Gmetal) has signed a 30-year concession for...
ExxonMobil to use Valencia port as main base in Mediterranean
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) December 21, 2018 – US oil company ExxonMobil plans to make Valencia port one of its bases in the Mediterranean in the first...
Air quality is the top priority of European ports – ESPO
Brussels, Belgium (PortSEurope) December 21, 2018 – Air quality has remained the top priority of the European ports since 2013, according to the annual...
Valenciaport see improved overall traffic in November 2018
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) December 20, 2018 – Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia (APV – Valenciaport, Port Authority of Valencia) handled...
Almería port to bestow recognition to Cosentino Group’s president
Almería, Spain (PortSEurope) December 20, 2018 – Autoridad Portuaria de Almería (APA – Port Authority of Almería) has approved the bestowing of...