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 to continue rapprochement effort with China
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) January 17, 2018 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) has set the continuation of its efforts to...
Telefónica gets €2.59 million contract for works in Algeciras port
Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) January 16, 2018 – Spanish telecoms giant Telefónica S.A. has been awarded a contract with the Spanish Ministry of Public...
Castellón port to open 300 jobs via infrastructure works in 2018
Castellón, Spain (PortSEurope) January 16, 2018 – Castellón port plans to make investments worth €16.7 million ($20.4 million) in 2018. This is the...
Brittany Ferries to launch Cork-Santander service in April
Santander, Spain (PortSEurope) January 16, 2018 – Brittany Ferries plans to launch a service connecting Spain’s Santander port to Ireland’s Cork...
Pasaia port still unable to overcome the economic crisis of 2013
Pasaia, Spain (PortSEurope) January 16, 2018 – Pasaia port has not left behind the crisis. Quite the opposite. The movement of cargo in 2017 was at the...
Valencia port handles 7% of land cargo by rail
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) January 16, 2018 – Valencia port has set as one of its priority objectives to develop railway connectivity as it is an element...
Cartagena port gets sustainable development award
Cartagena, Spain (PortSEurope) January 16, 2018 – The Official Gazette of the Region of Murcia (Boletín Oficial de la Región de Murcia) has published the...
Noatum Port Holdings – December 2017 container terminal statistics
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) January 15, 2018 – Noatum Port Holdings, operated by China’s COSCO Shipping Ports Limited, has reported December 2017...
Castellón port loses only freight rail line to Bilbao
Castellón, Spain (PortSEurope) January 15, 2018 – Castellón port no longer has the rail service that allowed the transfer of goods to Bilbao. The only...
Vigo port to dredge seabed of Bouzas dock
Vigo, Spain (PortSEurope) January 15, 2018 – The shipyard dock of Bouzas will overcome the obstacles that have caused so many troubles for operators so far...
Las Palmas port leads for fourth consecutive years the Canary cruise sector ranking
Tenerife, Spain (PortSEurope) January 15, 2018 – For a long period of time, the ports of Tenerife and Arrecife were located above Las Palmas in the cruise...
Alicante port to handle 96,000 cruise passengers in 2018
Alicante, Spain (PortSEurope) January 15, 2018 – The relaunch of the cruise calls of the Britannia ship (part of P & O Cruises) starting in June will be...
MSC Eloane ship suffers accident, Tanger port refuses its handling
Cádiz, Spain (PortSEurope) January 15, 2018 – The MSC Eloane ship, which with its 400 metres of length by almost 60 metres of beam, is one of the largest...
Barcelona port stevedores sign collective labour agreement
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) January 15, 2018 – Barcelona port stevedores have announced the signing of a collective labour agreement signed with docking...
Noatum Maritime Services moves corporate address from Barcelona to Madrid
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) January 14, 2018 – Noatum Maritime Services has moved its corporate address from Barcelona to Coslada, Madrid, Noatum is...
GEFCO acquires Spanish company GLT, a transport specialist
Paris, France (PortSEurope) January 12, 2018 – GEFCO Group, a global player in industrial logistics and automotive logistics, has acquired Spanish...
Spain’s Hermes Logística gets IFS certificate for warehouses in Las Palmas, Valencia
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) January 12, 2018 – Hermes Logística, S.A., a subsidiary of Trasmediterránea S.A., has received the IFS Logística...
Málaga port, City Council join forces in underground railway project
Málaga, Spain (PortSEurope) January 12, 2018 – Málaga City Council and Málaga port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Málaga) will go hand in hand to...
Valencia port handles 190,000 tonnes of cargo with Cuba
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) January 12, 2018 – Valencia port handled nearly 190,000 tonnes of cargo with the Cuban ports of Havana, Mariel and Santiago in...
Vilagarcía port breaks cargo traffic record in 2017
Vilagarcía, Spain (PortSEurope) January 12, 2018 – At the end of November, the managers of Vilagarcía port already had more than enough reasons to be...