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 take part in ‘Fruit Attraction’ fair
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) October 16, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) plans to deploy a team of professionals from its...
Barcelona port records best Q3 in its history
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) October 16, 2017 – Barcelona port has registered its best third quarter of the year ever. Total traffic grew by 31.2% on...
Valencia port expands trade with the Netherlands
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) October 16, 2017 – Commercial relations between Valencia port and Dutch ports have increased by more than 50% in the last two...
Gijón port’s container traffic hike stems from project cargo rise
Gijón, Spain (Ports Europe) October 16, 2017 – The increase in containerised traffic at Gijón port seems to be a consequence of the fact that the harbour...
Spain’s Adif to overhaul railway link to Bilbao port
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) October 16, 2017 – Spanish state-run railway operator Adif plans to carry out works to improve the railway infrastructure in...
A Coruña see increased traffic in January-August 2017
A Coruña, Spain (Ports Europe) October 16, 2017 – In August 2017, the port of A Coruña saw an upward trend in volume of traffic, with a new increase...
Javier Climent to become president of Fedeport
Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain (Ports Europe) October 16, 2017 – Javier Climent, director of Boluda Corporación Marítima, is set to be appointed...
ANFAC publishes report on automotive traffic at Spanish ports
Tarragona, Spain (Ports Europe) october 16, 2017 – According to the annual report on “Valuation of Maritime-Port Logistics” prepared by...
Carlos del Corral joins iContainers in Barcelona
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) October 16, 2017 – iContainers, the online freight forwarder, has appointed Carlos del Corral as director of sales and...
Qatar invests in Barcelona superyacht facility
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) October 16, 2017 – QINVEST, a leading private Qatari investment group, has announced that its subsidiary BOH LLC has...
Valencia port tenders technical assistance for special plan drafting
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) October 13, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) has tendered the technical assistance for...
Covestro launches logistics centre in Tarragona
Tarragona, Spain (Ports Europe) October 13, 2017 – Covestro, a subsidiary of German pharma giant Bayer AG, specialising in the production of high-performance...
Cádiz port cargo traffic rises 8.5% y/y in Jan-Sep 2017
Cádiz, Spain (Ports Europe) October 13, 2017 – Cádiz port cargo traffic rose by 8.48% on the year in the first nine months of 2017 to 3.1 million tonnes....
Zaragoza-Sagunto rail freight traffic to soar at end-October
Sagunto, Spain (Ports Europe) October 13, 2017 – At the end of October, freight traffic on the Zaragoza-Teruel-Sagunto railway corridor will quintuply on the...
Cartagena port bestows environmental award to Enagás
Cartagena, Spain (Ports Europe) October 12, 2017 – Cartagena port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Cartagena) has awarded the energy efficiency plan of the...
Valencia companies to attract container transhipment from Barcelona
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) October 12, 2017 – The tensions and instabilities that the Catalan independence process caused are not only causing changes...
Puertos Canarios launches digital system for port services
Las Palmas, Spain (Ports Europe) October 12, 2017 – Canary Islands port operator Puertos Canarios has officially put into operation a new procedure for...
Valenciaport Foundation to develop master plan for port construction in Peru
Lambayeque, Peru (Ports Europe) October 11, 2017 – The Valenciaport Foundation, in consortium with companies Empresa Multimodal de Colombia and Strategic...
Gijón port to install equipment reducing air pollution
Gijón, Spain (Ports Europe) October 11, 2017 – Gijón port plans to put into operation in December equipment that will reduce by 99% the emission of...
Gijón port leaves difficult years behind
Gijón, Spain (Ports Europe) October 11, 2017 – The president of Gijón port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Gijón), Laureano Lourido, said that the...