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 government sets Holy Week as deadline for adoption of stowage sector reform
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) April 6, 2017 – Spanish government has set the Holy Week as the deadline for the approval of the reform in the stowage...
MacAndrews starts door-to-door service connecting Bilbao, Poole ports
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) April 6, 2017 – MacAndrews, a specialist in multimodal transport, has announced the launch of a door-to-door product through a...
Puertos del Estado participates at Intermodal South America
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) February 23, 2017 – The stand of Spanish national ports agency Puertos del Estado at Intermodal South America in Brazil,...
Bilbao port receives health certification of Aenor
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) April 6, 2017 – Bilbao port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Bilbao) has obtained the Healthy Company certificate granted by...
OPDR starts regular line connecting Setubal to Spain
Setubal, Portugal (Ports Europe) April 6, 2017 – Setubal port sees its connections to southern Spain, the UK and northern continental Europe improved by OPDR...
Canary Islands cruise traffic declines 6% in Jan-Feb 2017
Las Palmas, Spain (Ports Europe) April 6, 2017 – The cruise traffic to the ports of the Canary Islands stood at 452,519 passengers in the first two months of...
Cantabrian-Mediterranean Railway Corridor has annual potential of 1.1 million TEUs
Sagunto, Spain (Ports Europe) April 5, 2017 – The Cantabrian-Mediterranean Railway Corridor, linking Zaragoza to Sagunto port, has a potential demand of...
Bilbao port to take part in Multimodal fair in Birmingham
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) April 5, 2017 – Bilbao port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Bilbao) will again take part in Multimodal, the largest...
Valencia port participates in short sea shipping conference
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) April 5, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) participated last week in the conference “The...
Baleària acquires ferry ship to operate Valencia-Mostaganem line
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) April 5, 2017 – Spanish shipping company Baleària Eurolínias Marítimas S.A. has expanded its fleet with the acquisition of...
Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics exports rail cars from Santander port
Santander, Spain (Ports Europe) April 5, 2017 – On March 25, the “Toledo” car-carrier of shipping company Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics (WWL)...
Event – Intermodal South America – April 4-6, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Sao Paulo, Brazil (Ports Europe) April 5, 2017 – Intermodal South America is considered by executives of the industry as a strategic platform to do...
Spain: Barcelona – Information technology services – Contract notice – utilities
Spain-Barcelona: Information technology services 2017/S 067-127000 Contract notice – utilities Services Directive 2014/25/EU Section I: Contracting entity...
Peninsula Petroleum carries out bunkering by barge at Malaga port
Malaga, Spain (Ports Europe) April 4, 2017 – Spanish company Peninsula Petroleum has supplied fuel by barge to the cruise ship “Horizon”,...
Greece’s Neptune Lines starts operating at Santander port
Santander, Spain (Ports Europe) April 4, 2017 – Greek shipping company Neptune Lines started operating at Santander port on April 3. The Greek company offers...
Spain’s Puertos del Estado to book 20% decline in 2017 profit
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) April 4, 2017 – State-owned Spanish port agency Puertos del Estado expects its profit for 2017 to stand at €184.4 million...
Spain’s Anesco accepts mediator’s proposal in stowage reform dispute
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) April 4, 2017 – Spanish stevedoring companies association Anesco has accepted the proposal of agreement on the reform of the...
MedCruise names Huelva “port of the week”
Huelva, Spain (Ports Europe) April 4, 2017 – The Mediterranean cruise ports association MedCruise has named Huelva harbour “port of the week”,...
Spanish stevedores’ trade unions reject mediation in labour dispute
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) April 4, 2017 – Spanish stevedores’ trade unions have indicated that no mediation is necessary to resolve conflict in...
Tenerife port authority calls tender for rainwater channel construction works
Tenerife, Spain (Ports Europe) April 4, 2017 – Tenerife port authority (Autoridad Portuaria Santa Cruz de Tenerife) has called a €4.8 million tender for...