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.
Ports de la Generalitat to invest in dredging Vilanova port access channel
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) July 10, 2017 – Catalonia regional ports agency Ports de la Generalitat plans to invest €168,000 ($191,331) in the dredging...
Castellón carries out largest ever clay operation
Castellón, Spain (PortSEurope) July 10, 2017 – Castellón port received the ship loaded with the largest quantity of clay that has anchored in the harbour...
UniportBilbao to invest €100 million this year
Bilbao, Spain (PortSEurope) July 10, 2017 – The companies members of UniportBilbao, the association promoting the development of Bilbao port, plan to invest...
Barcelona port to boost decarbonisation of supply chain
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) July 10, 2017 – Barcelona port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Barcelona) strategy director Jordi Torrent has presented...
Spain’s Puertos del Estado takes part in conference on future of ports
Bilbao, Spain (PortSEurope) July 10, 2017 – The president of Spanish national ports agency Puertos del Estado, José Llorca, was the guest at the recent...
Marín port receives Angolan government delegation
Marín, Spain (PortSEurope) July 7, 2017 – The president of Marín port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Marín), José Benito Suárez Costa, has...
Spanish ship consignment firms to set up association of companies outside ANESCO
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) July 7, 2017 – The Spanish ship consignment sector has begun to work intensively in a short space of time to create a new...
Spanish docking strike had mixed implications – government offical
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) July 7, 2017 – The stowage strike carried out during three weeks last June was more harmful for some ports than for...
CMA CGM launches service connecting Algeciras port to Africa
Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) July 7, 2017 – CMA CGM has announced the launch of its new Wazzan II service connecting the port of Algeciras with Morocco in...
Motril port launches largest Wi-Fi zone in Granada province
Motril, Spain (PortSEurope) July 7, 2017 – Motril port has enabled the largest free Wi-Fi zone in the province of Granada through an internet access platform...
Puertos del Estado hopes for lowest possible fine for Spain
Bilbao, Spain (PortSEurope) July 7, 2017 – Spanish national port agency Puertos del Estado’s president José Llorca has said that he hopes that the...
Cádiz port to handle four cruise ships of 300 m in length for first time on July 26
Cádiz, Spain (PortSEurope) July 7, 2017 – Cádiz port will receive for the first time on July 26 four cruise ships of almost 300 metres of length in a...
Bilbao port to profit from Variante Sur railway project
Bilbao, Spain (PortSEurope) July 7, 2017 – Spanish national port agency Puertos del Estado’s president José Llorca has said that the construction...
Vilagarcía port cargo traffic flat y/y in H1 2017
Vilagarcía, Spain (PortSEurope) July 7, 2017 – Vilagarcía port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Vilagarcía) has said that cargo traffic in the first...
Las Palmas port discusses project for transforming into cargo hub with Morocco’s Mass
Las Palmas, Spain (PortSEurope) July 7, 2017 – Las Palmas port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Las Palmas) has met representatives of Moroccan company...
Balearic Islands port authority starts La Savina harbour project
Ibiza, Spain (PortSEurope) July 7, 2017 – Balearic Islands port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Baleares) has begun the drafting of the project of...
Algeciras port generates 28,000 jobs
Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) July 7, 2017 – Algeciras port generates more than 28,000 direct, indirect and induced jobs and €2.010 billion ($2.291...
Noatum sends two cranes to Málaga port from Valencia
Málaga, Spain (PortSEurope) July 7, 2017 – The Bigroll Bering vessel, owned by company Bigroll Shipping, which specialises in the loading and transport...
Ferrol port cargo traffic rises 11.3% y/y in H1 2017
Ferrol, Spain (PortSEurope) July 7, 2017 – Ferrol port handled 6.646 million tonnes of cargo in the first half of 2017, up 11.32% on the year, the port...
More than 29,000 passengers arrive in Oran in Q1, 2017
Oran, Algeria (PortSEurope) July 7, 2017 –29,146 passengers arrived in the Algerian port of Oran from Spanish and French ports and further 21,069 passengers...