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.
Valencia port awards contracts for special plan drafting, technical assistance
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) February 19, 2018 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) has awarded a contract for technical assistance...
Spain’s Adif launches 2nd phase of Valencia-Castellón railway upgrade
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) February 19, 2018 – Spanish state-run railway operator Administrador de Infraestructuras Ferroviarias (Adif) has started the...
Castellón port starts 2018 with record-high traffic figures
Castellón, Spain (Ports Europe) February 19, 2018 – Castellón port has started 2018 with record data. During the month of January, a total of 1,825,652...
OOCL to launch weekly service connecting Mediterranean to Middle East, Pakistan, India
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) February 19, 2018 – OOCL plans to launch in March a regular weekly maritime service that will link the Mediterranean with the...
Baleària orders two ferries from Cantiere Navale Visentini
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) February 18, 2018 – Baleària Eurolínias Marítimas S.A. has reached an agreement with the Italian shipyard Cantiere...
COSCO Spain’s cargo traffic rises 3% in 2017
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) February 16, 2018 – COSCO Shipping Lines (Spain) closed 2017 with an approximate increase of 3% of cargo traffic, deputy...
Spain’s Pérez y Cía takes part in Breakbulk Middle East
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) February 16, 2018 – Spanish company Pérez y Cía Group had an active presence in the third edition of the Breakbulk Middle...
Bergé Marítima starts 2018 with three port terminal expansion projects
Cartagena, Spain (Ports Europe) February 16, 2018 – Spanish company Bergé Marítima S.L. has started 2018 with three port terminal expansion projects. The...
Spain’s Cotnsa leaves Huelva port shipyards
Huelva, Spain (Ports Europe) February 16, 2018 – Spanish company Astilleros Cotnsa Huelva SA, which resumed activity in the shipyards of Huelva in 2011, will...
Huelva port calls tender for road access to logistics zone
Huelva, Spain (Ports Europe) February 16, 2018 – Huelva port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Huelva) has called a €3.6 million ($4.4 million) tender the...
Las Palmas port violates Spain’s gender equality law
Las Palmas, Spain (Ports Europe) February 15, 2018 – Las Palmas port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Las Palmas) and the Consortium of the Free Trade Zone...
Ceuta port to handle 30,000 cruise passengers in 2018
Ceuta, Spain (Ports Europe) February 15, 2018 – Ceuta port expects to receive more than 30,000 cruise passengers aboard 13 cruise ships this season, which...
Galician court rules in favour of Vigo port in dispute with Audasa
Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) February 15, 2018 – Vigo port won the first phase of the litigation undertaken by Spanish toll-road operator Audasa against the...
Tenerife port boosts container transhipment activity
Tenerife, Spain (Ports Europe) February 14, 2018 – In September, Danish shipping group Maersk included Tenerife port in its list of transhipment harbours,...
Grimaldi Group promotes Barcelona-Sardinia services at Fruit Logistica 2018
Cagliari, Italy (Ports Europe) February 14, 2018 – Grimaldi Group, through Grimaldi Lines and Finnlines, presented a complete logistic offer for fresh...
Transitex to continue expansion on reefer market
Badajoz, Spain (Ports Europe) February 14, 2018 – Spanish company Transitex, founded in 2002 in Badajoz to expand the hinterland of Lisbon port, has...
Tarragona port participates in 5th Platts European Petrochemicals Conference
Tarragona, Spain (Ports Europe) February 14, 2018 – Tarragona port participated last week in the 5th Platts European Petrochemicals Conference, the most...
Cartagena port discusses sea contamination
Cartagena, Spain (Ports Europe) February 14, 2018 – Cartagena port (Autoridad Portuaria de Cartagena), together with the Hippocampus association within the...
Sines port’s container terminal generates 42% of cargo traffic in 2017
Sines, Portugal (Ports Europe) February 13, 2018 – Sines port’s container terminal generated 42% of the total cargo traffic of the harbour in 2017....
Vigo port committed to reduce truck traffic in nearby towns
Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) February 13, 2018 – The local government of Redondela has transferred the problems that exist in the urban centre of the Chapela...