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.
President of Puertos del Estado receives the president of the Port Authority of Cartagena
Cartagena, Spain (Ports Europe) April 9, 2018 – The president of Puertos del Estado, José Llorca, has held the first institutional meeting, as managing...
Ranking: leading Mediterranean and Black Sea TEU ports for the period 2005-2017
Rome, Italy (Ports Europe) April 8, 2018 – Assoporti, the Italian ports association, has published full statistics for TEU traffic at leading Mediterranean...
Baleària launches the ship ‘Hypatia de Alejandría’, the first ferry powered by LNG from the Mediterranean
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) April 7, 2018 – Baleària Eurolínias Marítimas S.A. has completed the floating of the ship Hypatia de Alejandría ,...
Boluda Lomé handles 1.2 million TEUs in 2017
Lomé, Togo (Ports Europe) April 6, 2018 – Boluda Lomé, concessionaire of the towing and mooring service in the port of Lomé, Togo, and a subsidiary of...
Valencia’s SAGEP adopts transformation into port employment agency
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) April 6, 2018 – Valencia port’s Sociedad Anónima de Gestión de Trabajadores Portuarios (SAGEP), active in the supply...
Valencia port participates in Hispano-Algerian Business Meeting
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) April 6, 2018 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia), represented by Francesc Sánchez, took part in the...
Avilés port records third largest traffic growth in Spain in Jan-Feb 2018
Avilés, Spain (Ports Europe) April 6, 2018 – Avilés recorded an increase in cargo traffic of 31.4% in the first two months of the year, to 889,998 tonnes,...
Cartagena port to handle 30,000 cruise passengers in April
Cartagena, Spain (Ports Europe) April 6, 2018 – April is one of the most prosperous months for cruise traffic and this year, more than 30,000 tourists from...
Container, land transport operators stage protest against slow handling at APM Terminals Barcelona
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) April 6, 2018 – The container and land transport operators of Barcelona port staged a protest on April 4 against the...
Valencia port to host conference on export opportunities to Mexico, Colombia
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) April 6, 2018 – Valencia port will host on April 18 a conference organised by the Valenciaport Foundation and law firm...
Bilbao port for first time handles LNG arriving from Siberia
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) April 5, 2018 – An ice-breaking methane tanker arrived to in the port of Bilbao with gas from one of the largest deposits in the...
CMA CGM carries out oversized cargo operation at Bilbao port
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) April 5, 2018 – French company CMA CGM, one of the world leaders in maritime transport, has recently demonstrated its ability...
Melilla port president expects environmental impact assessment to be ready in Q3 2018
Melilla, Spain (Ports Europe) April 5, 2018 – Melilla port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Melilla) president Miguel Marín has said that the file for...
Spanish ports’ cargo traffic rises in Jan-Feb 2018, backed by solid bulk, containers
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) April 5, 2018 – At the end of the second month of 2018, Spanish ports accumulated a 6.86% growth in the total cargo traffic,...
Málaga port to handle 170,000 cruise passengers this spring
Málaga, Spain (Ports Europe) April 5, 2018 – Málaga port expects to handle 170,000 passengers aboard 108 cruise ships from March 20 to June 30,...
Algeciras port starts trade mission to Costa Rica
Algeciras, Spain (Ports Europe) April 5, 2018 – Algeciras port has started in Costa Rica its first commercial action for the second quarter of 2018. The...
Spain’s Bikote Solar completes construction of PV plant at Bilbao port
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) April 4, 2018 – Spanish company Bikote Solar has recently launched a 100 kW photovoltaic plant for refrigerated storage...
ONE Spain starts operations
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) April 4, 2018 – ONE Spain, a subsidiary of Ocean Network Express (ONE), the new shipping company established after the merger...
Cartagena port president meets operators
Cartagena, Spain (Ports Europe) April 4, 2018 – Joaquín Segado, president of Cartagena port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Cartagena), has met at a...
Valencia port updates land transport app
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) April 4, 2018 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) has made available to land transport service...