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.
Catalan exports rise 9.2% y/y in Jan-Apr 2017
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) June 26, 2017 – Catalan exports rose by 9.2% on the year in the first four months of 2017 to record-high €23.157 billion...
Valencia port to analyse sale of land plot in Parc Sagunt
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) June 26, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) is analyzing offers of two logistics operators, one...
Cartagena hosts TankBank 2017 Congress
Cartagena, Spain (PortSEurope) June 26, 2017 – Cartagena hosted the TankBank 2017 Congress last week, an event that brought together more than 100 delegates...
Algeciras, Tarifa ports are ready for OPE 2017
Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) June 26, 2017 – The ports of Algeciras and Tarifa activated on Friday the special regime for Operación Paso del Estrecho 2017...
Tenerife port to call tender for power supply to ships
Tenerife, Spain (PortSEurope) June 26, 2017 – Tenerife port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Santa Cruz de Tenerife) is to call a tender for the supply of...
Spain’s Renfe Mercancías to lift traction capacity at Santander port
Santander, Spain (PortSEurope) June 26, 2017 – Santander port will see the traction capacity of state-run freight rail operator Renfe Mercancías in its...
Spanish Environment Ministry okays A Coruna port’s outer harbour rail project
A Coruña, Spain (PortSEurope) June 26, 2017 – Spanish Ministry of Environment has given the green light to the study of rail access to outer harbour Punta...
Las Palmas port implements measures to improve BIP procedures
Las Palmas, Spain (PortSEurope) June 26, 2017 – Las Palmas port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Las Palmas) has recently implemented initiatives aimed at...
Spanish ports’ labour dispute suspended
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) June 26, 2017 – The labour dispute has taken a breather after trade unions suspended three of the nine days of the strike...
EU Court of Justice to announce second sentence against Spain on July 13
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) June 22, 2017 – The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) said it plans to announce the second sentence against Spain...
Solution of Spanish dockers conflict depends on consolidation of Anesco
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) June 23, 2017 – It looks like the labour conflict in the stowage sector has also created an internal division in dockworker...
Cádiz port promotion association, employers union CEC join forces
Cádiz, Spain (PortSEurope) June 22, 2017 – The association for the promotion of Cádiz port, Gades-Port, and the confederation of employers in Cádiz...
Cádiz port mulls over acquisition of land plot in Puerto Real
Cádiz, Spain (PortSEurope) June 23, 2017 – Cádiz port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Cádiz) is studying the possibility of acquiring a land plot of...
Barcelona port hosts presentation of CORE LNGas hive results
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) June 23, 2017 – Barcelona port hosted June 22 the presentation of the first results of the European project CORE LNGas hive...
Spain’s Noatum Ports to invest €9 million in Málaga port
Málaga, Spain (PortSEurope) June 23, 2017 – Noatum Ports plans to invest €9 million ($10.1 million) in the reconstruction of its terminal in Málaga,...
Spain’s Acideka launches hydrochloric acid line at Bilbao port
Bilbao, Spain (PortSEurope) June 22, 2017 – Spanish company Acideka S.A. has recently completed investment in a new project at its Zierbena facility in the...
Noatum refurbishment of its Malaga terminal expected to conclude in two years.
Malaga, Spain (PortSEurope) June 20, 2017 – Noatum Maritime has announced that refurbishment works of its Malaga terminal is expected to be completed...
Valencia urges government to provide better port links to Mediterranean Corridor
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) June 22, 2017 – Valencia regional government public works councillor María José Salvador recommended that the central...
Portos de Galicia’s investments boost cargo traffic in regional ports
Vigo, Spain (PortSEurope) June 22, 2017 – The cargo traffic of Galician regional ports, i.e. the harbours that are not controlled by the Spanish state, but...
Cartagena port authority to host Congress Tankbank 2017
Cartagena, Spain (PortSEurope) June 22, 2017 – Cartagena port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Cartagena) will host Congress Tankbank 2017, an international...