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.
Spanish ports can book record-high cargo traffic in 2017 despite strikes of dockers
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) August 4, 2017 – The selective stoppages of stevedores have been felt in the traffic of the main Spanish ports although very...
Costa Cruises to use Tarragona as home port next year
Tarragona, Spain (Ports Europe) August 7, 2017 – Costa Cruises has reaffirmed its commitment to Tarragona port which will become a home port for the...
A Coruña, Ferrol, Vilagarcía ports cargo traffic rises in H1 2017
A Coruña, Spain (Ports Europe) August 4, 2017 – In the northern Spanish region of Galicia, the ports of A Coruña, Ferrol-San Cibrao and Vilagarcía have...
Andalusia ports cargo traffic falls 4.3% y/y in H1 2017
Algeciras, Spain (Ports Europe) August 4, 2017 – Traffic in Andalusian ports has fallen 4.3% to 73.39 million tonnes in the first half of the year. Algeciras...
Grupo Sesé to manage logistics at Volkswagen’s plant in Algeria
Algiers, Algeria (Ports Europe) August 4, 2017 – Grupo Sesé has been chosen to manage, in its different phases, all the logistics operation in the assembly...
Baleària handles 53,000 passengers on Valencia-Mostaganem line in H1 2017
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) August 4, 2017 – The ferry line of Spanish company Baleària Eurolínias Marítimas S.A. between the ports of Valencia and...
A Coruña’s outer harbour to launch area for citizens
A Coruña, Spain (Ports Europe) August 4, 2017 – The outer harbour of A Coruña port will count as of next year with an area that includes a pedestrian and...
Avilés port grants concession to Fertiberia
Avilés, Spain (Ports Europe) August 4, 2017 – Avilés port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Avilés) has granted an administrative concession to...
Asturiana del Zinc awaits license to construct second warehouse at Avilés port
Avilés, Spain (Ports Europe) August 4, 2017 – Spanish mining company Asturiana del Zinc S.A. is awaiting a license from Castrillón municipality for the...
Noatum extends Pla-Za railway terminal concession
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) August 4, 2017 – Spanish state-run railway operator Administrador de Infraestructuras Ferroviarias (Adif) has extended the...
Santander port works on expanding harbour to interior area
Santander, Spain (Ports Europe) August 7, 2017 – Santander port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Santander) is working on the expansion to the interior of...
Maersk keeps reducing cargo traffic at Vigo port
Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) August 7, 2017 – The president of the port of Vigo, Enrique López Veiga, attributes the negligible cargo traffic by Maersk in...
Hapag-Lloyd to carry out call of luxury cruise ship at Marín port
Marín, Spain (Ports Europe) August 7, 2017 – The decision of Hapag-Lloyd to make a call of a luxury cruise in Marín port “is without a doubt great...
Vigo port to expand Bouzas ro-ro terminal capacity
Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) August 7, 2017 – Vigo port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Vigo) has decided to launch an ambitious plan, the construction of a...
Pontevedra businessmen hail Hapag-Lloyd’s cruise call at Marín port
Marín, Spain (Ports Europe) August 7, 2017 – The first call of a cruise ship in the port of Marín is “a positive news for the area, but what is...
Spanish government calls tender for dock extension at A Coruña port
A Coruña, Spain (Ports Europe) August 7, 2017 – Spanish Public Works Ministry has announced the launch of a tender for the extension of one of the docks at...
Spain’s Dragados to build parts for Aberdeen outer harbour at A Coruña port
A Coruña, Spain (Ports Europe) August 7, 2017 – The experience gained in the construction of Punta Langosteira, the outer harbour of A Coruña port, and the...
Seville port cargo traffic declines in H1 2017
Seville, Spain (Ports Europe) August 7, 2017 – Seville port cargo traffic has suffered a tremendous setback during the first half of the year. The fall...
Spain considers subsidies for relaunching Gijón-Saint Nazaire MoS
Gijón, Spain (Ports Europe) August 7, 2017 – The president of Spanish ports agency Puertos del Estado, José Llorca, has said that the costs for operators...
Tarragona port breaks paper traffic records
Tarragona, Spain (Ports Europe) August 3, 2017 – Tarragona port has broken records in paper traffic. The Chinese-flagged vessel Saga Jandaia, which docked...