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.
Barcelona Port welcomed more than 2.7m cruise passengers in 2017
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) January 22, 2018 – Barcelona port welcomed 2.7 million passengers from cruise ships in 2017, slightly higher than the 2.68...
Baleària presents its first ferries powered by natural gas
Madrid, Spain (PortSEurope) January 21, 2018 – Baleària Eurolínias Marítimas S.A., one of the pioneer shipping companies in the use of liquefied...
Almería port to remove dangerous parts from mineral loading bay
Almería, Spain (PortSEurope) January 19, 2018 – Almería port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Almería) has said it will start the removal of parts at...
A Coruña reports second highest fresh fish traffic since 2000
A Coruña, Spain (PortSEurope) January 19, 2018 – Fresh fish traffic in the port of A Coruña has reached the second highest figure of the century in 2017...
Barcelona port to improve city integration in next years
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) January 19, 2018 – The mayor of Barcelona, Ada Colau, and the president of the port of Barcelona, Sixte Cambra, have signed...
Algeciras port calls tender for southern access project
Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) January 19, 2018 – Algeciras port authority (Autoridad Portuaria Bahía de Algeciras) has called a tender for the first phase...
Huelva port authority to terminate Astilleros Cotnsa concession deal
Huelva, Spain (PortSEurope) January 19, 2018 – Huelva port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Huelva) has said it plans to terminate the concession contract...
Gas Natural to supply LNG to two Baleària eco ferries
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) January 19, 2018 – Spanish company Baleària Eurolínias Marítimas S.A. and energy group Gas Natural Fenosa S.A. have signed...
Valencia port to handle 197 cruise calls in 2018
Valencia (Spain) January 18, 2018 – Valencia port will handle 197 cruise calls this year and expects the number of cruise passengers to increase by 3%....
Castellón port books record-high cargo traffic in 2017
Castellón (Spain) January 18, 2018 – Castellón port closed 2017 with a record-high traffic of 17.9 million tonnes, up 4.9%, or 833,951 tonnes more than in...
Launch of Santander-Cork ferry line to lead to job openings
Santander (Spain) January 18, 2018 – Spanish Public Works Minister Íñigo De la Serna, accompanied by the director of Brittany Ferries in Spain, Manuel...
Baleària presents eco fast ferry model
Ibiza (Spain) January 18, 2018 – Spanish company Baleária Eurolíneas Marítimas S.A. presented in Madrid its new “eco fast ferries” model ship...
Cartagena port president presents digital transformation strategy
Cartagena (Spain) January 18, 2018 – Cartagena port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Cartagena) president Antonio Sevilla has presented to the port...
Motril port officially opens passenger terminal
Motril (Spain) January 18, 2018 – Motril port has taken advantage of the launch of Fitur fair in Madrid on January 17 to deliver symbolically to the...
UK-based Segro to build warehouses in Madrid, Barcelona
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) January 17, 2018 – UK investment fund Segro continues its commitment to increase its presence in Spain with the acquisition of...
Andalusian ports boost fresh fish cargo traffic in Jan-Nov 2017
Seville, Spain (PortSEurope) January 17, 2018 – The Andalusian ports owned by the central Spanish government handled 23,539 tonnes of fresh fish in the first...
Cruise industry generates €15 million income in A Coruña
A Coruña, Spain (PortSEurope) January 17, 2018 – Cruise tourism in A Coruña experienced in 2017 a historic year that brought 250,000 people to the city,...
Cádiz port cargo traffic rises in 2017
Cádiz, Spain (PortSEurope) January 17, 2018 – Cádiz port handled 4.1 million tonnes of cargo in 2017, up 12.25%. The largest growth was in the movement...
Portos Canarios handles 1,377 digital services requests in only three months
Las Palmas, Spain (PortSEurope) January 17, 2018 – Portos Canarios, the institution in charge of the management of regional ports in the Canary Islands,...
Spain’s Iberdrola wins contract for power supply to Vilagarcía port
A Coruña, Spain (PortSEurope) January 17, 2018 – Spanish company Iberdrola SA signed an agreement for the supply of electricity to Vilagarcía port, after...