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.
Ceuta port seeks attract cruise traffic at Seatrade fair
Ceuta, Spain (Ports Europe) March 6, 2018 – Ceuta port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Ceuta), is attending this week the Seatrade Cruise Global fair,...
Vilagarcía port cargo traffic rises in Jan-Feb 2018
Vilagarcía, Spain (Ports Europe) March 6, 2018 – Vilagarcía port’s cargo traffic exceeded the figure of 190,000 tonnes in the first two months of the...
Tarragona port cargo traffic rises in Jan 2018
Tarragona, Spain (Ports Europe) March 6, 2018 – Tarragona port has recorded cargo traffic growth of 9.1% in the month of January, exceeding three million...
Las Palmas port completes paving works of Plaza Poema del Mar square
Las Palmas, Spain (Ports Europe) March 6, 2018 – Las Palmas port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Las Palmas) has taken another step in its urbanisation...
Cartagena port to cooperate with China’s Qingdao
Cartagena, Spain (Ports Europe) March 6, 2018 – Murcia region plans to intensify maritime traffic with China thanks to a collaboration agreement with the...
Spain’s Boluda Lines resumes calls at Santa Cruz de La Palma port
Tenerife, Spain (Ports Europe) March 6, 2018 – Boluda Lines, the shipping company of Boluda Corporación Marítima, has resumed the calls at the port of...
Six organizations obtain the Efficiency Network certification at Barcelona port
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) March 6, 2018 – Six organizations of the Port Community will obtain certification of the Quality Mark Efficiency Network...
Rajoy announces a 10% drop in port fees at the inauguration of Granadilla port
Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain (Ports Europe) March 6, 2018 – The President of the Government, Mariano Rajoy, accompanied by the Minister of...
Gijón port again fails to sell its former headquarters
Gijón, Spain (Ports Europe) March 5, 2018 – Gijón port has decided to open “a period of analysis” to see what it does with the two annexed...
Palma de Mallorca port’s cruise traffic to reach record-high in 2018
Palma de Mallorca, Spain (Ports Europe) March 5, 2018 – This year the port of Palma de Mallorca will register a record-high number of cruise ships, as their...
Valencia port detects radioactive cargo
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) March 5, 2018 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) is keeping a container and three full trucks...
Marín enters list of Spanish cruise ports
Marín, Spain (Ports Europe) March 5, 2018 – Marín port entered the ranking of cruise ports in Spain with a total of 143 passengers in 2017. They were the...
Spain’s Partido Popular proposes port digitalisation plan
Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) March 2, 2018 – Spanish ruling political party Partido Popular (PP) has proposed to the Congress a plan to promote the...
Spain’s Oryx to unload 75,000 tonnes of fuel at Las Palmas port
Las Palmas, Spain (Ports Europe) March 5, 2018 – The British Tradition tanker, 274 metres long, will unload next week 75,000 tonnes of fuel and marine diesel...
Marbella city government applies with Málaga port for lighthouse concession
Málaga, Spain (Ports Europe) March 5, 2018 – The City Council of Marbella municipality has applied with Málaga port authority (Autoridad Portuaria...
Puertos del Estado continues to invest in the local cruise industry
Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) March 5, 2018 – In 2017 Spanish ports exceed 9.2 million cruise passengers, a result of a long-standing commitment by the...
Castellón port to improve meteorological, oceanographic information service
Castellón, Spain (Ports Europe) March 2, 2018 – Castellón port will have improved meteorological and oceanographic information on its website with systems...
TransNatur carries out logistics works to expand its facilities in Valencia
Castellón, Spain (Ports Europe) March 2, 2018 – Spanish company TransNatur S.A. has confirmed that it is carrying out logistics works to expand its...
Vilagarcía port awards concessions of two lighthouses
Vilagarcía, Spain (Ports Europe) March 2, 2018 – Vilagarcía port has awarded contracts for the operation of the lighthouses of Corrubedo and Punta Insua....
A Coruña port cargo traffic rises 23% y/y in January 2018
A Coruña, Spain (Ports Europe) March 2, 2018 – After closing 2017 with historical figures, the port of A Coruña continues to show a positive trend in the...