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.
Algeciras port president expresses worries about losing traffic due to strike
Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) June 5, 2017 – Algeciras port authority (Autoridad Portuaria Bahía de Algeciras) president, Manuel Morón, has expressed his...
Barcelona and Melilla ports receive PERS certification
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) June 5, 2017 – The Port of Barcelona and the Autoridad Portuaria de Melilla (Port Authority) have been awarded PERS...
Las Palmas port president says dockworkers to meet minimum services during strike
Las Palmas, Spain (PortSEurope), June 2, 2017 – The president of Las Palmas port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Las Palmas), Luis Ibarra, expressed...
EC urges trade unions, employers to negotiate and avoid strikes at Spanish ports
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope), June 2, 2017 – European Transport Commissioner Violeta Bulc has urged the operators and stevedores’ trade unions at...
Tenerife installs electric vehicles recharge point at cruise terminal
Tenerife, Spain (PortSEurope), June 2, 2017 – Tenerife port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Tenerife) has installed the first quick recharge point for...
Castellón port authority openly criticises Mediterranean Corridor design
Castellón, Spain (PortSEurope), June 3, 2017 – Castellón port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Castellón) has openly criticised the intention of the...
Tenerife says 20% of world cruise fleet passes through port every year
Tenerife, Spain (PortSEurope), June 2, 2017 – A total of 20% of the world’s cruise fleet, currently consisting of 458 vessels, passes through Tenerife...
Costa Crociere starts operating line from Tarragona
Tarragona, Spain (PortSEurope), June 3, 2017 – Italy-based Costa Crociere S.p.A. has started to operate from Tarragona port as a base port for a route that...
Las Palmas port authority asks Puertos del Estado to pronounce on future of Arrecife port
Las Palmas, Spain (PortSEurope), June 3, 2017 – Las Palmas port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Las Palmas) has asked the national port agency Puertos del...
Spanish trade unions call port strikes on five more days
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope), June 2, 2017 – Spanish stevedoring trade unions have called strikes for five more days in June, adding to the three planned...
Spanish government sets up commission to ensure minimum services during port strikes
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope), June 2, 2017 – The Spanish Public Works Ministry has set up a commission to monitor the strike at ports called by the...
Valencia port aims to become Mediterranean hub for China’s New Silk Road project
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope), June 2, 2017 – Valencia port brings together all the assets and conditions to be a strategic hub of the Mediterranean part of...
Ferrol port grants commercial ship consignment services authorisation to Incargo Galicia
Ferrol, Spain (PortSEurope) June 1, 2017 – Ferrol port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Ferrol-San Cibrao) has granted an authorisation to Incargo Galicia...
Algeciras port, HMM meet to discuss TTI Algeciras acquisition
Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) June 1, 2017 – Algeciras port authority (Autoridad Portuaria Bahía de Algeciras) and Hyundai Merchant Marine (HMM) met to...
Puertos del Estado president calls for decarbonisation of ports
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) June 1, 2017 – The president of Spanish ports agency Puertos del Estado, José Llorca, called for the reduction of logistical...
Valencia port in talks with logistic operators interested in Parc Sagunt
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) June 1, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) is in talks with at least two large logistic operators...
Valencia port authority to open BIP at Sagunto port in stages
Sagunto, Spain (PortSEurope) June 1, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) plans to open in the Border Inspection Post (BIP) at...
Two new signatories to the Malta MedFish4Ever Declaration
Brussels, Belgium (PortSEurope) June 1, 2017 – On 16 and 31 May respectively the Ambassadors to the European Union of the People’s Democratic...
Spain’s Docks Logistics launches container storage complex in Algeciras
Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) June 1, 2017 – Spanish company Docks Logistics Spain, S.A. said it has launched a complex for the storage of containers at the...
Spanish trade unions to stage strikes at ports on June 5, 7, 9
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) June 1, 2017 – Spanish trade union of dockworkers Cetm (Coordinadora Estatal de Trabajadores del Mar) said it plans to carry...